The Newtown bee., 1896-06-26
A. {. BAKERS AID

Did you never think of Ii how much like ancient Rome HaWleyVille is? At least the old saying that "atI roads lead to Rome, Is equally applicable to flaw leyV1LIe. JulluS CtUSar lost his life in conspiracy or reVOlu- ton among q few old Roman "wheeI horses"
 so to speak, and our last years faithful office eat met a similar tragic tHte within 60 feet of our front door while striving 10 check an or ganiZed revolution among the drive wheels of
 a New England freight engine, and at the close of the minor revolutions that followed in train the whole nine lives Ot that devoted companion were crushed out ana ne was gathered up here and there in pieces. every piece dGad-dead as Julius CBsar.-We use this expression as comparative and not as 8 quotation Of slang.
 R0me's populace were wont to feast their eyes upon the tragic and blood Curdllng acts of the arena, gladiatorial combats to the death, and the crunChing of mems bones by half starved and terOciOus wild beasts amid the plhudits of the brave and the fair.
 UaWIeyVillG exhibits every now and then & glaQiatOrial combat to the death between two monster engines, and the crunchtng ot mems bones by the blood thirsty, untamed and neV- CT satiated car bumper. Had some Of the tragedies here enacted been suddenly sprung upon an old Roman audience. 30 per cent Of those valOrOus Romans would have been found under the hay stacks and in the tall trees instead of applauuing from the crimson cushioned boxes.
 waterways, but she had nothing to compare with our great north frog ponds and polly wOg hatcheries, Where-until they are drain q and abOlished-we can produce more mi a8matiC Dreczes, twin pOllyWOg5 and double yOlked eggs to the square foot than Rome could to the yard. That we can peat olu Rome on this point we are positive. (Only our extreme mOdesty checked us from add
 ing that we could almost do it on & compet- tive display of artistic turniture) but what Ii we do Outnumber Rome in some things and resemble her in others, we shall strive to do so no longer. LawleyVlue no lmttator. What care we for arenas and Col 0Seums, and sculptured walls and char1OtS Of gold, and gates of bronze, and frlbute 10 I;csar W Q prefer our own romantic andruTa slmpllclty, natures handiWOTk, to Roman grandeur. Our unsidGwaIked walks and trails Our gras sy hills and stately forests. GA Ound made hal, lowed and dear by recOllectlOns Of the past and the prices of the present. The same hills and the same forests under the same blue for freedom, and where the mOcCaslned feet of our predecessors the noble red men LrOd'
 Where he shot down the bison and the bear and the gleam from his evening camp hfGs
 tiDged the forest leaves and 1llu umlned nlIl and dale. Where he camped his teepees'Kln- dled his fires and smoked ms SklnS ana Venl- son ill the morning, sWapped JACK KnlVGSl skinned the luscious muskrat and played DumDle- peg during the matinee hours Ot the afternoon while the gentle sQuaw dexter, OuslY roasted Quahangs and Ch6stnuIs ana l tortured the pale-taced captive to the peat Ol | the tom tom in the central foreground, ana | black signal smokes pulled HeaNenward oL the distant hills, revealing the fortunes or the day and telling ot the plans t0r the morrow 1 We know not what HaWleyV1lle's tuture may l be, but " hat past to look back upon Wha' l stimulating 1OOd tor thOught! What scenes mind to dwell upon! How the dim outlines 0f the past loom up and pass before us il figures become-become. We can see plainly
 that the subject Is too @xhaustiye 3 for t any 5c
 something in regard to furniture and carpet
 and mattings and retrigeratOrs and baby ca1
 riages, but you can see for yourself there ha not been ghost Ot a chance to get word T 1 edgewise; no more chance than there WOul
 be to attempt an introduction ot the genie4tq niatq
 | so we must reter you to the exhaustiv ad
 of other furniture dealers to be found else
 where in the columns of this paper. GOO
 men all of them and true, but if they don
 keep what you want then you will have t
 come to Hawleyville. While waiting 10
 trains don't forget to stroll into our Waltln
 and reading room where you can sit in tn , front windows and"see the wheels go round