The Newtown bee., 1895-06-07
A. G. Bakers Adv't.

Isn't it sad and deplorable, the ignorance
 that crops out and comes to the surface now
 and then? And we don't have togo to "Dark 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 middle aged man, a real bright looking man, with 8 crease In hls
 troaser legs too, stepped UP T ana says m 1ay hsd squirted & double dose ot"knocker-o right squarely in our face and eyes our paral- ysis could not have been more complete. We 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 ne was in real earnest and not joker. Could IL 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 ln
 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- 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 other kindred bureaus of information. The town ot all towns where every man, women and child is supposed to be chock tull 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 Of the planetary system down to the common place easier questions of just how much more care and motherly solfcitude 8 hen is taught by in stinct to exercise during che matching period over ''W eStern llm6d'' than over "treSh lalQ l near bys"; or just when a pig ceases to be 8 pig and becomes & hog. We all know just when this transformation takes place in a man, but 1t is much more difficult to deter mine its date in @ pig. And this question to be put straight at US, of all others who have for the past three years been repeatedly and most consistently calling attention to Hawley- vile and parting back the tall grass with our own hands that you might be able to see her. paralyzed and had to grasp the corner ot the Opera House for support. and let bystander why he simply looked aghast and said "dam- phino," or some similar sounding foreign word, and passed on, and do you wonder that al this Juncture everything turned 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 (eKcept for our firm hold upon it) to crash down upon the soldiers' monument stood at a "charge bayonet" position or like the leaning tower peared in the Armament upside down be- tween the stars ot the Great Dipper and the five minutes ahead of time, instead ot five minutes behind, as is it's custom, and the West street side walks were rent in twain (as 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
 been Wh6 IS president r n now and Ii .we lishment or where it was to be tound," and then we should undoubtedly have dropped dead in our tracks. Now we started out with the idea of calling attention to some things at Hawleyyille but we struck the Gulf Stream and drifted from our course, so when you come to Hawleyvflle as we know you will be- | fore you decide to buy much furniture, we shall take all the more pains to show you | through our very complete line of furniture, | mattings, carpets, baby carriages and refrig 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.
 1. G. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms, Opposite Union Depot, Hawley- vile. Conn.