The Newtown bee., 1896-05-29
A. (. BAKERS AD

Did you never think of 1t how much Iikt aHGient Rome IIawleyville is? At least tn, old saying that "all roads lead to Rome," i ] t4uaIIy apphcable to Hawloy vile. Juliu
 C.csur lost his lite in a conspiracy or revoIu uon among few old Roman "wheeI hOrs cs' SO To speak, and our last years faithful office cat met a similar tragic ta within 50 feet O our front door while striving to check an or, ganiHed revolution among the drive wheels Q 1 a New England freight engine, and at the close Uf the minor revolutions that followed 1 Tn train the whole nine lives Of that devoted | gathered up here and there in pieces, every ] lI, ce dead dead as Julius CHsar.-We use ihl5 expression as comparative and not as q | quotation of slang.
 kome's populace were wont to feast their l eyes upon the tragic and blood curdling acts | of the arena, gIadiatorlal cOmbats to the l death, and the crunching of mems bones by | AaIt starved and terOciOus wild beasts amid | Tue plauiIts Of the brave and the fair.
 1 Hawleyville exhibits every now and then a i ElHdlatOrial combat to the death between two l monster engines, and the cIunching of mems 1 bones by the blood thirsty, untamed and neV- | CT satiAt"d car bumper. Had some of the ] tragedies here enacted been suddenly sprung l upon an old Roman audience, S0 per cent or those Faioro4s Romans would have been found under the hay stacks and in the tall | trees instead of appIau'lng from the crimson cushioned boxes.
 Rome had her great aquatic reservoirs and waterways, but sne had nothing to compare
 with our great north frog ponds and polly
 WOg hatCherie5, where-until they are drain.
 q and abOliShed-we can produce more mi.
 asmatic breezes, twin pOllywOgs and double
 yoiked eggs to the square foot than Rome
 could to the yard. That we can beat old
 Rome on this point we are positive. (Only
 our extreme lnOdesty checked from add
 ing that we could almost do il on a competi-
 tive display Of artistic turniture) but what if
 we 1O outnunber Rome in some things and
 resemble her in others we shall strive to do 0 nc longer. HawleyVille is no imitatOr.
 " nat care we for arenas and COllOseums, and sculptnred walls and chaTiOts of gold, and gates of bronze, and trlbuLe to Cesar? We prefer our own romantic and rural simplicity natures hantuW Ork, to Roman grandeur Our un7 n7lhcWhlkou walks and trails. Our gras sy hills and stately forests. G. Ound made hal lowed and dear by recOIectiOns of the past hhI n" prices OI the present, The same hills And the same forests under the same blue dolne W here our foretathers fought and bled for freedom, md where the noccasined feet t,i o"F l,redt cessors the noble red men" trOd W here he shot down the bison and the bear and the gleau from his evening camp fir S llhS'u tli& forest leaves anu llIu mined hill Anu dale Where he campcd his teepees, kin 'lfd his fires and smoked his skins and veni- son III the morning, sWapped jack knives, skinned the luscious muskrat and played unble-te-peg during the matinee hours Ot the afternoon while the gentle squaw dexter ously roasted quahangs and chestnuts amt tortured the pal -taCGd captive to the beat of he tom tom in the cert tral foreground, and black signal smokes puffed HeaVenward on the stant hills, revealing the fortunes Of the day and telling of the plans for the morrow. w know not what HaWleyville's future may be- but what past to look back upon What stimulating food tor thOughti What scenes are these for the imaginative and soaring mind to dw ell upon! How the dim outlines Of the past loom up and pass before us in panoramic pantOmime, while the central figures becOme-DecOune. We can see plainly that the subject is too exhaustive for any thing short Of book. We started out to Say something in regard to furniture and carpets and mattings and retrigerators and baby car riages, but you can see tor yourself there has not been ghost of 8 chance to get a word in edgewise; no more chan ce than there would be to attempt an introduction of the Venezu- elan boundary question at a sewing s0eietv so we must refer you to the exhaustive ads of other furniture dealers to be found else where in the columns of this paper. Good men al! of them and true, but if they don't keep hat you want then you will have to come to Huwleyville. While waiting for trains don't forget to stroll into our waiting and reading room where you can sit in the front windows and''see the wheels go rOund."