Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-04-05

sud towns, ihiekly settled together where
physicians were plenty and near At hand.
Now, the penple are widely scattered. inl
masy sections Of ibess many countries
For great nuubers the timely treatment
Of physicians cannot he hal over large
tracts Of country good or competent pys-
ieisns cannot be had At all. They esnno;
visit patieats enough many miles apart 10
live by their profession, nor can they car.
~ medicines enough on horseback for their
requirements. Hence has arisen in these
modern times, a necessity for remedies
ready at baud, with directions for their use
"A presept recourse for relierIn tho ex.
igeueies Of sickness, when no other aid il
near. 1t is new necessity consequent
upon the changed conditions Of human life
"a want | have spent NY years in sup
plying, aud | will tell you something OF
its extent. Our laboratory makes every
day some six hundred and thirty thousand
potions or doses Of our preparations. These
are all taken by somebody. Here ia .
number equal to the population Of 6f'
teen cities as large as Lowell, taking then
every day (for sickness keeps no Sabbatbs'
nsr for once only, but again aud again
year after year, through nearly one-third
of a century. We join in the jokes about
medicines as We do about the Doctor.
mission to kill, the clergyman's insincerty
and the lawyers cheating Yet each o.
these labors among the most serious real
ties of life. Sickness and its attendant
suffering are no joke, neither is the treat
ment of them. This system of transport
able relief, to be made available to tn,
people, must keep its remedies fresh ii
their memories. This is done by adver
tising. Mark its extent. An advertise
ment, taking the run of the newspaper
with which We contract (some 1900 anuu
ally) is struck off in such numbers, tha
when piled upon each other fatwise, ik
the leaves of book, the thickness througI
them is sixteen miles. In addition,
takes some millions of pamphlets an
Twelve millions of circulars to meet tn
public demand for that kind of informa
ton. Our annual issue of pamphlets alon
laid solid upon each other, makes q pill
eight and one quarter miles high. TIL
circulars measured epdwiso reach lS9
miles, and these assertions are matters Q
mathematical certainty. Whatever til
estimation in which these publications ma
be held here, they reach the fresides G
millions upon millions of men who treas
ure and regard them, aud who in thei
trials heed the counsel they bring.
Not only over these great Western cor
continents but throughout that other Ian
so little known to you, under our feet, tn
Australian continent, there are few villa
ges as large as this which are not familia
with the name you have chosen, and en-
ploying the remedies that bear it.
Thus, gentlemen, have | striven in m
, humble sphere to render some service
my fellow men, and to deserve among tn
afflicted and unfortunate some regard ft
) the name which your kind partiality hang
on these walls around me.
. Beginning life rich with the honors I
, your mother town, whose influence throug
her schools and her scholars il of itself a
} inheritance, with such examples as Law
t renee, Boutwell, and Hoar, what may yo
5 not hope for Of usefulness in the oounci
! of the State and nation2
Build schools for your children and fin
D talent to teach them, then intelligen(
and integrity in prosperous and hspI
homes will be your sure reward.
Associated as you have made me vii
Q your veal and woe, wish I might be a
D lowed 10 contribute from my means, sue
: as they are, something towards this fir
r foundation of the public good.
i Gentlemen, | have detained you t.
o long. Oppressive with the fear that {
t not deservs tho distinction you bestow,
a pray God to make me worthier, and
e smile upon you with His perpetual blss
ings.