Connecticut western news., 1871-11-03

The Country Store.

Away from the cities the whole range of lesser everyday wants turns the fulfil ment to the, country store. And so it becomes clustering point for all of village life.
 Thereis is no limit to it's possibilities. If Aunt Ennice wants anything, from a washtub to an ounce of paregoric, she knows where to get it but when she broke her only pair of spectacles, the other day, she came to us in doubt. S" You keep most everything she said, hopefully.
 {" Yes, know; but we don't sell spec tacles. People are so different you see. But there are pair or two about here somewhere, if they will do you any good"
 These had come to us from some auc- tion or other, where were congregated the quaint and useless relics of many a spfevious sale-relics that are still des- tined, I doubt not, for further kicks adown the vales of time by auctioneers yet unborn. I have them before me now-stout-rimmed, cumbrous, brassy staring owl-like at me, as if from out the deepening twilight of the past the glasses so scratched and dim with use and age that it is easy to imagine that within their misty lenses fingers the re- membrance of many vanished scene, and that they feebly attempt, as l placed familiar things at which I look into an unique picture which shall be in keep ing with their own venerable aspect.
 But they are spectacles. A rare. spec tacle, too, was the good woman's face as 1oo1I off hot ch 1ohf better inspect them with her crippled eyes.
 "Goodness Did you ever How could hope you don't ever expect to sell them. ,
 But thus happily were the resources of our ss establishment vindicated though less ready were we than other shopkeep- CTS of these parts, who laid a wager that he, could fill any single demand, and tri- umphantly produced second hand pulpit which was called for.
 Such enterprising spirits are not har- rowed by any study of the known laws of supply and demand. Within the pre- exercise temporary charge, have gathered many things that have long failed to excite the appreciation of our plaln cOuutfy IOlkS-Pdtcut meu1C1neo, powders and onguents, of happiest eff eacy and illimitable range of cure ;spol- ishing powders, enough to burnish, the world until it should shine like another sun preparations and contrivances need I ing q second inventor to discover use for them or to tell their efficiency-and which,are here waiting in sdingy and fly speeked state! that happy millenial time which shall find for all inexplicable and sighted things full and legitimate use.
 The country storekeeper is in some sort public character He finds him. self used in dozen different ways-as banker, oracle referee, newspaper, directory, intelligence man, etc, almost before he is aware. Gossip and small talk he should retail with the same grace full alacrity with which he d1spenses maceboy and peppermint drops. Thor oughly democratic as an institution, s' the store" recognizes no caste, and its door swings freely open to all who come, whatever be their errands. An inviting haunt for all the idle ones among us, its little circle, that is ever shifting its char acter and it's subjects as different charac- ters come andgo.ri..a figi....