The Newtown bee., 1896-05-22
A. 6. BAKERS AID

Did you never think of 1t how much like 1 old spying thut ''ull roads lead to ROme," is 1 equally applicable to Hawleyvile. Julius 1 Caesar lost his lite in a conspiracy revOu- 1 tI0u among a few old Roman "wheeI horses" | SO to speak, and our last years faithful office | cal met similar tragic ta c within 60 feet of | our front door while striving 10 check an or | EHn1IHd revolution among the drive wheels Ot " New England freight engine, and at the l clos" Ui the minor rcNOlulOnS That followed 1 III tAin the whole nine lives of that devoted l companion were crushed out and he was l gathered up here and there in pieces, every l p]~Cr dead dead as Julius CrSar.-Wo use l lhio oApres5lun as comparative and not as l quotation of slang.
 i Romc's pupulacC were wont to feast their | eyes upon the tragic and blood curdling acts ! of inc arena gladiatOrIal cOmbats to the | death, and the crunChing of mems bones by | halt starved and forOciOus wild beasts amid | the plnu'iits of the brave and the tAir.
 i IIlWlUYVllIC exhibits every now and then 8 ] @lHiHj Uriai combat to the death between two i monster engines, and the crunChing of mems 1 bones l'y the blood thirsty, untamed and nev- | CT SHliiieu car bumper. Had some of the 1 tragedies here enacted been suddenly sprung | upon Au old Roman audience, 50 per cent OI thnso valurOus Romans would have been found under the hay stacks and in the tall trees instead of applauding from the crimson cushioned bONeS-
 Rome had her great aquatic reservoirs and waterways, but she had nothing to compare with our great north frog ponds and polly wOg hatCheries, whcre-until they are drain d and ADOlishCd-we can produce more mi. asmntic breczes, twin pOllywOgs and double
 
 could tO the yard. That we can beat old Rome on this point we are positive. (Only Our extreme mOdesty checked from add Ing that we could almost do 1t on a competi- tive display of artistic furniture) but what if we do Outnumber Rome in some things and FeSehble her Ill others, we snail strive to do so no longer. HaWlCyVile is no imitatOr. What care we for arenas and COIlOseums, and 9cuIplurGo walls ana Charlots Of gold, and gates Of bronze, and tribute to CNSar? We prefer our own romantic and rural simplicity, natures handiWOrk, to Roman grandeur. Our
  hills and stately forests. GIOund made hal lowed and dear by rocOll 2ctiOns of the past and ;he prices of the present. The same hills and tue same forests under the same blue dome where our fOTefathers fought and bled Ot Onr prGdnCCsS SOrs the noble red men" trOd. Where he shot down the bison and the bear Ib8"i lhg forest leaves aud lilu mined hill and dale Where he Camped his teepees kin dled his fires and smoked his skins and Veni- son Tn Lhe morning, sWapped lack knives, skinned the luscious muskrat and played mumble.te,pcg during the matinee hours of the afternoon while the gentle sQuaw dexter tortured the pRlG-facGd captive to the beat of the tom tom in the central tOrepround and black signal smokes put1cd HeaVenward on day and telling of the pla9s for the morrow, We know not what Uawleyville's future may be, but " hat past to look back upon What stimulating food for thought! What scenes are these for the imaginative and soaring mind to dwell upon! How the dim outlines of the past loom up and pass before us in paHofhlhlc phhJonlme, while the central figures becOme-becOme. We can see plainly l 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 mattiugs and retrigerators and baby car riageS, but you can see tor yourself there has not been ghost of a chance to get word in cdgewisc; 10 more chance than there would be to attempt an introduction of the Venezu- elan boundary question at a sewing society, 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 all of them and true, but if they don't keep what you want then you win have to come to HnwleyviIle. While waiting tor 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."