The Newtown bee., 1896-07-10
A. 6. BAKERS AID

Did you never think of Ii how much like ancient Rome Hawleyville is? At least the old saying that ''all roads lead to Rome," is equally Applicable to Hawleyville. Julius CusaT lost his life ill a conspiracy or revolu- ton among few old Roman wheel horses" | so to speak, and our last years faithful Ofnce l eat met similar tragic ia e within 60 feet of our front door while striving 10 check an or i gHnjHed revolution among the drive wheels Of ! a New England freight engine, and at the 1 close of the minor revolutions that followed 1 in train the whole nine lives of that devoted l companion were crushed out and he was l gathered up here and there in pieces, every 1 piece deud-dead as Julius C8sar.-We use l this expression as comparative and not as q quotation of slang.
 i Rone's popuIace were wont to feast their | eyes upon the tragic and blood curdIlng acts i Ot the arena, gladiatOrial combats to the death, and the Crunching Of mems bones by l halt starved and terocious wild beasts amid | the plaudlts of the brave and the fair.
 ! IIaWleyVillC exhibits every now and then | gladiatOriaI combat to the death between two | monster engines, and the crunChtng of mems i bones by the blood thirsty, untamed and nev- l CT satiated car bumper. Had some of the | tragedies here enacted been suddenly sprung l upon old Roman audience, 80 per cent ot ! those vaiOrOus Romans would have been 1 found under the hay stacks and in the tall ! trees instead of applaudinB from the crimson cushioned boxes.
 ] Rome had her great aquatic reservoirs and 1 waterways, but she had nothing to compare | with our great north frog ponds ana polly l WOg hatcheIieS, where-untI they are drain l cd and abOlished-we can produce more mi asmatiC breGzes, twin pOllywogS and double | EOlkCd eggs to the square foot than Rome could to the yard. That can beat old Rome on this point we are positive. (Only our extreme mOdesty checked us from add ing that could almost do it on cOmpeu- tive display Ot artistic turniture) but what if we do OutnumbeT Rome in some things and resemble her in others, we shall strive to do 20 no longer, UaWleyvtlle is no tmitator. What care we for arenas and COllOseums, and sculpturcd walls and chariots Of gold, and gates of bronze, and tribute to Cesar? We prefer our own romantic and rural simplicity, natures handiwork, to Roman grandeur. Our unsideWalked walks and trails. Our grassy
 hills and stately forests. Gl Ound made hal.
 lowed and dear by TecOllecttOns of the past
 and the prices Ot the present. The same hills
 6ot1a where Our f0rofathers fought and bled
 for freedom, and where the mOccasined feet
 of our predecessors the noble red men" trod-
 Where he shot down the bison and the bear
 and the gleam from his evening camp fires
 uuged the forest leaves and illu mined hll
 and dale. Where he camped his teepees, kin died his fires and smoked his skins and yent- son in the morning, sWapped 1ack knlVesy skinned the luscious muskrat and played mumDle.te-peg during the matinee hours Of the afternoon while the gentle sQuaW dexter Ously roasted QuahangS and chestnuts and tortured the pale-faced captive to the beat of tha tom tom in the central foreground, and l black signal smokes pufted HeaVenward on the distant hills, revealing the fortunes Ot the l d4v and telling of the plans tor the morrow. l W know not what HawleyviIle's future may l be, but " hata past to look back upon What ! stimulating food for thOu9ht! What scenes i mind to dwell upon! How the dim outlines ] oi the past loom up and pass before us in | panoramic pantOmlm6, while the cenIfal l figures become-becOme. We can see plainly
 that the subject Is too exhaustive for any
 l thing short Oi book. We started out to Say 1 something in regard to furniture and carpets 1 and mattings and retrigerators and baby car
 i riages, but you can see for yourself there has
 not been 8 ghost of & chance to get 8 word In
 1 edgewise; no more chance than there would
 be to attempt introduction of the Venezu-
 elm boundary question at a sewing society,
 l so we must reter you to the exhaustive ads
 Ot other furniture dealers to be found else
 l 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 will have to
 come to Hawleyvill6. While waiting tor
 trains don't forget to stroll into our waiting
 and reading room where you can sit ih the
 front windows and"see the wheels go round.'