Smyrna times., 1871-04-05
The Town Of Aver.

Mass, at the request of the citizens, has had !
its name changed to Aver, after DIR. j. e.
Aver, the Cherry Pectoral' man, by unani
mou. vote Of the Legislature. The citizens
had great ioiificatiOn over it recently, when
the great medicine man made the following
speech:
LadieS and Gent}cmen:
On the western coast of Scotland where it
slopes into the Irish Sea, a river, rising on the
mountains Of the inner land, winds down
among the hills and emptes into the Firth Of
Clyde. From remote time it has been called /
Ayr from an old Scotch word &" "Ayry, mean /
ing an eagles nest-the river of the eagles |
nest. Near its mouth and a contiguous har I
Dor, long stood a hamlet which became a royal !
burg or town named from the river, and now
about third as large as LOWei-thc city Of
Ayr. For more than thousand years it has
been noted in the history of Scotland During |
the wars Of Robert Bruce it was one Of his
resorts, and was especially favored by him be-
cause he was there cured Of leproSy. Oliver
Cromwell made it one of the deposits and
headquarters Of his army in his attack upon
Scotland, and one Of his old forts is now the
Citde Of Ayr.
But above all its distinctions. Ayr was the
birth place Of the poet Burns. And what a
poet! What voice has he given to all the
cndearmcnts of home! How has he allowed
/
patches and poverty, beans, barley, ale, hard
ship and the poor mans's toll. How he wraps
! with tenderness whatever he names, even his
| bleak leagues of pasture, the stubble field, ice,
snow, sleet, and rain brooks, birds mice, this.
ties and heather His Bonny Doom, John
| Anderson, my 10 John, Auld Lang Syne, and
! Highland Mary roll round the world in ever
ringing symphony with what is purest and best
in human nature. His songs WOO and melt
the hearts OF youth and maiiens, bring solace
to the >orrowng and courage to the overburd-
ened by their lot. His inspiration has set the
affections to music III strains that immOr-
TIL
No other one man ever made a language
classic but he has rendered that lOwland
Scotch Doric dialect of fame. The name of
his home and his beloved river Ayr was lifted
on the wings Of his patho>, and now the APP
preaching traveller yearns to reach the spot his
genius has sanctlhed.
Along the borders of the sea in par alleiO-
gram and surrounding the town is county Of
the same nqme--AyTshlrc.
1t would weary your patience to hear the
history of my ancestors from one ancient John
of Ayr, then John Ayr, down through the
centuries to this Aver now before you through
their vcis>itudcS of poverty and pleuty-Of
} fortune and misfortune; how they have inter
| married with England, ireland and Scotland,
: and later with the Americans, who are an ex-
cecEt mixture Of them all.
: Ny frieHdS,-you have chosen the name l
Inherited for your town with an extraordinary
' unanmity. and have thereby conferred an
y honor upon me, the proper acknowledgment
/ of which | do not feel fully able to express
) But | beg you to be assured that it Is appre-
= ciated and that it will be gratefully remember
. ed with living interest in your prOsperlt!
&; while life remains to me- and, | trust, beyonC
/ that by my children after me-
If this name has become noted among tht
/. many that are worther around you, that i
t greatly due to its publicity. May be permit
d ed to state whence that came? Until within
: a few centuries all the civilized nations OF tht
| globe were pent up on the Eastern continent
d Two or three hundred years ago they ieaket
e over into this few and feartuy at first, thel
a more and more but always in their settlement
timidly hugging the Atlantic coast. WItblI
< the last two or three generations they hav
burst out, as it were, aud Over-run these vas
e continents, of the West. Now they are scat
d tered here and possess these meaSureles
!, stretches OF mountains and valleys, hills, plains
! forests and prairies with the boundIess pampa
y and mountain ranges of South America. For
IS mer generations lived in villages and towns
ID thickly settled together where physicians wer
plenty and near at hand. Now, the peOpl
i, are widely scattered, in many sections OF theS
" treatment of physicians cannot be had owe
y large tracts Of country good or competent ply
d. sicians cannot be had at all. They cannot Wis
patients enough many miles apart to live b
a. their profession nor can they carry medicine
enough with them on horseback for their r,
a, quirements. Hence has arisen IN these moo
he ern times, necessity for remedies ready {
y hand, with directions for their use-a preseI
recourse for relief in the exigcncies OF sickness
! i1pbo otb.,r oil iS Z 81 neCei
/. sity consequent upon the changed condition
of human lite-a want | have spent my veal
s. in supply ing, and | will tell you something
its extent Our Laboratory makes every da
ry some $50, 900 pOtions or doses OF our prepar'
tions. These are all taken by somebod!
y, Here is a number equal to the population
fifteen cities as large as Lowell, taking theI
i'll every day (ior sickness keeps no Sabbaths) NJ
for once only, but again and again year aitt
a year, through nearly one third OF a centur!
We all Join in the jokes about medicines as "
do about the Doctor mission to kill, the Gle
gyman's insncerty and the lawyer scheatlnt
Yet each of these labOrs among the most ST
er rious realities of life. Sickness and Its atten'
to ant suffering are no joke, neither is the trea
ment of them. This system of transported
OK relief, to be made available to the people, mu
e, keep its remedies fresh in their memories. In
nd is done by advertising. Mark its extent. "A
advertisement, taking the run OF the newSp'
pers with which we contract (some 1900 ann'
'It aly)is struck off in such numbers, that whe
d. piled upon each other hatwise, like the leave
is, of a book, the thickness through them is sil
rd teen miles. In addition, it takes some seve
millions of pamphlets and twelve millions
circulars to meet the public demand ior tn
nd kind of information. Our annual issue
re- pamphlets alone, laid solid upon each othe
d. make pile eight and one quarter miles higl
Id The circulars measured endwlse reach lSs
miles, and these assertions are matters {
mathematical certainty. What ever the est
ss nation in which these publications may.
p held here, they reach the fresides of million
ell upon millions of men who do treasure and r.
on gard them, and who in their trials do heed tn
counsel they bring.
Not only over these great We'tern cont
- Lnnun tn vnn- under our feet, the Australia