The Newtown bee., 1893-11-17
One Day Last Week

we snw a car ot gunpowder standing right in front of the depot at Hawleyville and we thought what il H thunder shower should hap pen to come up and lightning should happen to strike that car and il should happen to strike it right in the middle so that it burnt both ways at the same time, it would very likely tear the depot all t0 pieces before the car could be shunted in on the siding and then we'd have a brand new one built, and in that ing at flaw 1eyvilie of all the prominent rail road men connected with the Consolidated, the N. Y. X N. E., the Berkshire division, the D. N., the Bethel branch and the S, l.. x N. railroads, and we would adjourn to the banks Ot the Little Jordan" and have clam roast with champagne sauce, 8 la pOllyWOg, and af ter dinner we'd have tOasts and speech mak- ing and Ar Clark would sit on Mr McLeOds knee and they'd sing old college songs and drink Mrs WinslOw's soothing syrup, and tell how they uSed 10 go to school in the same lit tle red school house. and roast chcstnuts over the same fire, and would remind each other how much better it is for "brethren to dwell together in peace and unity" and mutual tears ot repentance would roll down and make record on MT McLeod's immaculate shirt front, and then they'd smoke the pipe Oi peace and fill it up "mOt only seven times, but seventy times SeVen," and let by-gOneS be by zones and agree to join hands in building a fine, large union depot and vie with each oth CT in each striving to pay more than his share and the new depot would have both a ladies' and gents waiting room and a stove with a real fire in it, and they'd have toilet rooms, and light, pleasant freight offices, and a cana " bird and a parrot hung in the ladies' wait ing room, and the whole thing would be GOV cred WlLn iEeSn pant all over LDt OllISltie they'd do everything to make it real home | like and pleasant, and while they were in this | frame or mind and full Ot smoke and syrup and good thoughts, Baker would step across ant suggest more friendly interchange Oi freight rates, so that furniture could be trans 1 ferred from one road to the other without breaking the ten commandments and perhaps | suggest a comparison and revision Of passen-
 ger timetables and connections. This latter, | however, would work untold injury to Baker,
 as now everybody expects 8 long wait at Flaw. | leyVtle and they go prepared to pass away l the time buying furniture. We thought what | a wonderful change for the better all this | would make, but come to look around there
 wasn't thunder cloud in sight. We had in safety matches but never having had Occa | sion before to fire of a Ot gunpowder we didn't know just how to do ii, not even with l safety match, and felt little afraid, al l though when a resident of Colorado we used
 to hunt with and occasionally fire off a Sharp's
 about the same thing so far general near | by results are concerned, but we have grown
 timid since then and we let the opportunity
 and the car pass, 90, dear friends, you vii
 have to put up with the old depot while lon
 ger. It makes no difference to us personally
 we are only kicking on general principles just because others do and because we like tC
 go with the popular crowd. We can sell jus
 as much furniture with the old depot in iron
 Ot us with it's one dingy waiting room, bnt i
 you don't like it you must step across and kll
 time, while waiting tor trains, in our Waiting
 and reading room, where you will find tho
 daily papers, illustrated weeklies, magazines
 writing materials, etc etc., all Of which yOU
 are invited to make free use of, or if you don
 care to read you sit in nice, comtOrta
 ble easy chair in our front window and "Set
 the wheels go round.'