The Newtown bee., 1895-04-26
A G. Bak CTS Adv't.

Isn't it sad and deplorable, the ignorance that crops out and comes to the surface now est Africa" to find it either Why only one evening last week, we stood on the Opera House corner in the enlightened and cultured town of Danbury when a middle aged man, a real bright looking man, with crease in his
 trouser legs 4 too, stepped pc M up and says, Say, squirted a double dose ot"knocker-o out drops" right squarely in our face and eyes our paral- stood and looked al that man until one sus bender button burst from it's socket and then we looked at him again to make sure that he was in real earnest and not joker. Could it l be possible that this question could be asked in all seriousness and in straight English in this day Of enlightenment when every school
 boy in the land can tell you where the baboon sprang from and can locate the source and
 mouth of the Columbia river, and repeat in all it's detail the story where truth and verac Ity and George Washington's little hatchet
 and certain cherry tree got mixed up to- gether, etc., etc, and this to happen right here in the streets of Danbury. Proud old Danbury with her magnificent public library and unparalleled system of public, private and high schools, and sewing societies and othsf. kindred bureaus of information. The town ot
 all towns where every man, women and child is supposed to be chOck tall of knowledge, and all the latest ideas on hats, and able to solve everything from the knotty problems of Euclid, of Sociology, Theology, Geology, and the intricate mysteries ot the plan etary system down to the common place easier questions of just how much more care and
 motherly solicitude hen is taught by in stinct to exercise during che matching period over "Western lmed' than over "fresh laid
 pig and becomes a hog. We all know just
 when this transformation takes place in
 man, but it is much more difficult to deter
 mine its date in 8 pig. And this question to be put straight at US, of all others who have
 for the past three years been repeatedly and
 most persistently calling attention to HawIey-
 vile and parting back the tall grass with our
 own hands that you might be able to see her.
 Do you wonder that we were staggered and
 paralyzed and had to grasp the corner ot the
 Opera House for support. and let bystander answer for us, and what do you think he said why he simply looked aghast and said sdam- phino," or some similar sounding foreign
 word, and passed on, and do yop wonder that at this juncture everything turIfed black and we saw stars and passed into a kind Of semi conscious state, and the electric lights flick cred and burned green, and the trolley cars stopped, and the opera house seemed totter- ing upon its base and about ready (except for our firm hold upon it) to crash down upon City Hall, and the night lunch wagon, and
 the soldiers monument stood at a "charge bayonet" position or like the leaning tower
 Of Pisa, and Fartwell's clothing house ap
 peared in the frmament upside down be- tween the stars oi the Great Dipper and the | town clock struck hurriedly and ominously five minutes ahead of time, instead ot five ! minutes behind, as is its custom, and the West street side walks were rent in twain Gas l is their custom) and rythipg betokened | the crack ot doom. When we came to, the electric lights were burning brightly and the | up in the sidewalk, and we were glad for his second question would undoubtedly have l been "Who is president now?" and if "we knew anything about Bakers furniture estab lishment or where it was to be tound," and l then we should undoubtedly have dropped l dead in our tracks. Now we started out with i the idea of calling attention to some things at Hawleyville but we struck the Gulf Stream and drifted from our course, when you come to Hawleyville as we know you will be fore you decide to buy much furniture, we shall take all the more pains to show you l through our very complete line of furniture, | mattings, carpets, baby carriages and retrig- orators and our low prices. We have no "snap" bargains or Headers" as they are in nocently called, but we have good, square, consistent, uniform prices, from top to base ment, and all based on the smallast expenses we believe of any furniture concern of our size in the state.
 A. G. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms,
 Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-