The Newtown bee., 1895-07-12
A. G. Bakers Adv't.

Isn't 1t sad and deplorable, the ignorance that crops out and comes to the surface now and then? And we don't have to go to "Dark est Africa" to find it either. Why only one evening last week, stood on the Opera House corner in the enlightened and cultured town of Danbury when middle aged man, 8 real bright looking man, with a crease in his trouser legs too stepped up and says, Say
 where's Hawleyville?" Well now if he had squirted double dose ot"knocker-out-dr drops" right squarely in our face and eyes our paral- ysis could not have been more complete. We stood and looked aI 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
 be possible that this question could be asked in all seriousness and in straight English, iii 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 its detail the story where truth and verac
 lty 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 hlgh schools, and sewing societies and other kindred bureaus of information. The town of all towns where every man, women and child is supposed to be chock tull of knowledge, ana 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 solicitude a hen is taught by in
 stinct to exercise during Ghe matching period over Western lined" than over "fresh laid near bys"; or just when pig ceases to be pig ana becomes 8 hog. We all know just when this transformation takes place in 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 repeate lily 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. Do you wonder that we were staggered and paralyzed and had to grasp the corner ot the 1nf hx,4f answer for us, and what do you think he said why he simply looked aghast and said s'dam- phino," or some similar sounding foreign word, and passed on, and do you wonder that at 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 (except for our firm hold upon it) to crash down upon City Hall, and the night lunch wagon, and the soldiers monument stood at 8 "charge bayonet" position or like the leaning tower of Pisa, and Hartwell's clothing house ap peared in the Armament upside down be- tween the stars of the Great Dipper and the town clock struck hurriedly and ominously five minutes ahead of time, instead Of five minutes behind, as is its custom, and the West street side walks were rent in twain Gas Is their custom) and everything betokened the crack ot doom. When we came to, the electric lights were burning brightly and the | man had passed on, or else been swallowed | up in the sidewalk, and we were glad for his second question would undoubtedly have been "Who is president now?" and ii "we | knew anything about Bakers furniture estab- | lishment or where it was to be tound," and l then we should undoubtedly have dropped | dead in our tracks. Now we started out with | the idea of calling attention to some things | at HawleyVille but we struck the Gulf Stream | and drifted from our course, so 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 | through our very complete line of furniture,
 mattings, carpets, baby carriages and retrig | orators and our low prices. We have no l 'snap" bargains or ''leaders" 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 1 we believe of any furniture concern Of oul size in the state,
 A. G. BAKER, Furniture Warerooms
 Opposite Union Depot, Hawley-
 vile. Conn.