The Newtown bee., 1893-11-24
One Day Last Week

we saw car of gunpowder standing right in
 front of the depot at Hawleyyille and we
 thought what il a thunder shower should hap
 pen 10 come up and lightning should happen
 to strike that car and lt should happen to
 strike it right in the middle that it burnt
 both ways at the same time, it would very
 likely tear the depot all to pieces before the
 car could be shunted in on the siding and then
 we'd have a brand new one built and in that
 case we should undoubtedly have a big meet
 ing at HaWleyVilie of all the prominent rail
 road men connected with the Consolidated,
 the N. Y. x N. E., the Berkshire division, the
 D. X N, the Bethel branch and the S., l.. X \.
 railroads, and we would adjourn to the banks
 of the "Llttle Jordan" and have a clam roast
 with champagne sauce, la pOllywOg, and at-
 ter dinner we'd have tOaStS and speech mak-
 ing and Mr Clark would sit on Mir McLeOd's
 knee ana they'd sing old college songs and
 drink Mrs WinslOw's soothing syrup, and tell
 how they used to go to school in the same lit
 tie red school house. and roast chestnuts over
 the same fire, and would remind each other
 how much better it is for "brethren to dwell
 together in peace dunity," 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 ot
 peace and fill it up mot only seven times, but
 seventy times seven," and let by-gones be by
 gOhes and agree to join hands in building
 hne, large union depot and vie with each oth
 CT Tn each striVlng to pay more than his share,
 and the new depot would have both ladies'
 and a gents waiting room and stove with
 real fre Ill 1t, and they'd have toilet rooms,
 and light, pleasant freight offices, and cana
 ry bird and parrot hung in the ladies' wait
 ing room, and the whole thing would be GOV
 cred with fresh paint all over the outside and
 they'd do everything to make it real home
 like and pleasant, and while they were in this
 frame Of mind and full Ot smoke and syrup
 and good thoughts, Baker would step across
 ant suggest more friendly interchange Ot
 freight rates, so that furniture could be trans tered from one road to the other without breaking the ten commandments and perhaps suggest a comparison and revision Of pasSen- ger time e-tables and connections. This latter, however would work untold injury to Baker, as now ybOdy expects long wait at Haw- leyville and they go prepared to pass away the time buying tu1 niture. We thought what a wonderful change for the better all this would make, but come to look around there wasn't a thunder cloud in sight. We had in | our vest pocket a box of these patent sWeed | safety matches but never having had Occa- | sion before to fire of a car of gunpOwder we didn't know just how to do it, not even with safety match, and we felt little afraid, al though when resident of Colorado used | to hunt with and occasionally fire off Sharp's | buffalo gun, which, we take it, amounts to about the same thing so far general near i by results are concerned, but we have grown timid since then and we let the opportunity and the car pass, so, dear friends, you will i have to put up with the old depot a while lOn- | ger. It makes no difference to us personally, | just because others do and because we like to | go with the popular crowd. We sell just | as much furniture with the old depot in front | Of us with it's one dingy waiting room, bnt if | you don't like it you must step across and kill | time, while waiting tor trains, in our waiting and reading room, where you will find the daily papers, illustrated weeklies, magazines, writing materials, etc etc., all Of which you | are invited to make free of, or if you don't | care to read you can sit in a nice, cOmtOrta- ble easy chair in our front window and "See l the wheels go round."