The Newtown bee., 1893-12-22
One Day Last Week

a ear of gunpOwdcr standing right in front of the depot at Hawleyville and we thought what ii a 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 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 \. '. X N. E., the Berkshire division, the D. N., the Bethel branch and the s., L. & N. railroads and we would adjourn to the banks Or the Little Jordan" and have clam roast with chanpagne sauce, a la pollyWOg, and af
 ter dinner we'd have tOasts and speech mak- ing and Mir Clark would sit Mir McLeOd's knee and 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 OVeI
 the same fire, and would remind each other
 how much better it is for "brethren to dwell togetheri in peace and unity" and mutual tears
 of repentance would roll down and make
 record on Mir 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
 zones and agree to join hands in building
 fine, large union depot and vie with each oth-
 CT Tn each StllVlng to pay more than his share,
 and the new depot would have both a ladies'
 and a gents waiting room and stove with
 real fire in it, and they'd have toilet rooms,
 and light, pleasant freight offices, and cana
 " bird and a 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 Ot mind and full of smoke and syrup and good thoughts, Baker would step across and suggest a more friendly interchange Ot freight rates, that furniture could be trans terred from one road to the other without breaking the ten cOmmandmentSandpe perhaps i suggest a comparison and revision Ot paSSen- ger timetables and connections. This latter, however, would work untold injury to Baker, as now everybody expects a long wait at Haw- | leyville and they go prepared to pass away | a wonderful change for the better all this l would make, but come to look around there wasn't thunder cloud in sight. We had in
 our vest pocket a box of these patent Sweed | sion before to fire of q car of gunpowder we
 didn't know just how to do it, not even with a | safety match, and we felt a little afraid, al | though when a resident of Colorado we used | to hunt with and occasionally fire off @ Sharps buffalo gun, which, we take it, amounts to 1 about the same thing so far as general near | by results are concerned but we have grown timid since then and we let the opportunity and the pass, so, dear friends, you will have to put up with the old depot while lon ger. It makes no difference to us personally, we only kicking general principles go with the popular crowd. We can sell just as much furniture with the old depot in front | of us with it's one dingy waiting room, bnt il 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 use ot, or Ii you don1 care to read you can sit in nice, cOmforta ble easy chair in our front window and "see the wheels go round."