The Newtown bee., 1893-11-10
One Day Last Week

front of the depot at IIawleyville and we thought what il 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 that it burnt both ways at the same time, ii would very likely tear the depot all to pieces before the car could be shunted in on he siding and then we'd have a brand new one built and in that case we should undoubtedly have big meet ing at Flaw lcyvilie of all the prominent rail road men connected with the Consolidated, the \. Y. X \. E., the Berkshire division, the
 D. N, inc Bethel branch and the S, l.. X N. railroads, and we would adjourn to the banks of the Little Jordan' and have n clam roast with champagne sauce, q lH pollywog, and af- ter dinner we'd have tOaStS and speech mak- ing and MT Clark would sit on Mir McLeOds 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 over the same fire, and would remind each other how much better it is tor "brethren to dwell togetherin 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 Of peace and fill it up mot only seven times, but seventy times SGVen," and let by zones be by
 zones and agree to join hands in building line, 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 ladies' and d gents waiting room and stove with real fire in if, and they'd have toilet rooms, and light, pleasant freight offices, and cana ry bird and a parrot hung in the ladies' wait ing room, and the whole thing would be GOV CIet WlIU ITtSH paint tlil over JIe outside ana they'd do everything to make it real home like and pleasant, and while they were in this
 frame Ot mind and full Ot smoke and syrup and good thoughts, Baker would step across amt suggest more friendly interchange Ot freight rates, so that furniture could be trans terrcd from one road to the other without breaking the ten cOmmandmentS,a and perhaps suggest d comparison and revision of passen- ger timetables and connections. This latter however would work untold injury to Baker, as now everybody expects long wait at flaw leyViIle and they go prepared to pass away the time buying tul niture. We thought what d 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 SWGed safety matches but never having had occa- | sion before to fire of a car of gunpO wder we didn't know just how to do it, not even with a safety match, and we felt little afraid, al | though when a resident of Colorado used | to hunt with and occasionally fire off a Sharp's buffalo gun, which, we take it, amounts to | about the same thing so far as general near 1 by results are concerned, but we have grown l timid since then and we let the opportunity
 and the car pass, so, dear friends, you will 1 have to put up with the old depot while lon
 ger. It makes no difference to us personally, l we are only kicking on general principles, 1 just because others do and because we like to
 go with the popular crowd. We can sell just
 as much furniture with the old depot in front
 Ot with its one dingy waiting room, bnt if l you don't like it you must step across and kill | time, while waiting tor trains, in 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 of or if you don't care to read you sit in $t nice, comtOrta- 1 ble easy chair in our front window and ''See | the wheels go round."
 A. c. BAKER,
 | NeU Furnirure 0pnnsita Tuio