Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-03-30

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tracts of country good or competent ply
sicians cannot be had at all. They car
not visit patients enough many mile
apart to live by their profession, no
can they carry medicines enough will
them on horseback for their require
ments. Hence has arisen in these mod
ern times, necessity for remedies nea
at hand, with directions for their use--t
present recourse for relief ia the cXigen
cies Of sickness, when no other aid i.
near. 1t is Il new necessity consequent
upon the changed conditions of human
lite-a want ] have spent my years in
supplying, and | will tell you something
Of its extent Our abratory makes ey-
cry day some 100000 potiuns or doses
of our preparations. These are all tax,
EN- by somebody. Here is a number
equal to the population Of fifteen cities
as large as Lowell, taking them every
day (for sickness keeps no Sabbaths)
nor for once only, but again and again
year after year, through nearly one
third Of a century. We all Join in the
jokes about medicines as we do about
the Doctors mission to kill, the clergy.
mans iusinccrity and the lawyers cheat
ing. Yet each of these labors among
the most serious realities Of life. Sick
ness and its attendant suffering are no
joke, neither is the treatment Of them.
This system of transportable relief, to
be made available to the people, must
keep its remedies fresh in their memories.
This is done by advertising. Mark its
extent. An advertisement, taking the
run Of the newspapers with which we
contract (some 1900 annually is struck
off in such numbers, that when piled
upon each other fatwisc, like the leaves
Of book, the thickness through them
is sixteen miles In addition, it takes
some seven million OF pamphlets and
twelve millions Of circulars to meet the
public demand for this kind OF inGorma.
ton. Our annual issue of pamphlets
alone, laid solid upon each other, make
pile eight aud one quarter miles high.
The circulars measured cGdwise reach
1914 miles, ana the assertions are mat
ters of mathematical certainty. What
ever the estimation IN winch these pub
lications may be held here, they reach
the 1lresldes OF millions upon millions
OF men who do treasure and regard
them, and who IN their trials do heed
the counsel they bring.
Not only over these great Western
continents bnt throughout that other
land so little known to you, under our
feet, the Australian continent, there are
lew villages as large as TINS which are
not familiar with the name you have
chosen, and employing the remedies that
bear it.
Thus, gentlemen, have | striven in
my humble sphere to render some SER
vice TO my fellow men, and to deserve
among the afflicted and unfortunate
some regard for the name which your
kind partlality hangs on these walls
around me. We may look forward with
confident hope to the renoWn you will
gather under 1t, and the prosperity,
which there is reason TO trust the future
has in store for YOU Situated as yon
are here on one OF the main arteries be-
tween the west and east, between the
great industries OF the plough and the
spindle you must aid in THAR exchanges
and thrive with them. Soon these chan
nels will be opened wide and pouring
through your precincts streams of men
and merchandise that will need your
furtherance and must contribute to your
growth,
Located here in the centre of New
England to what dearer spot can you
turn that men inhabit? Beginning life
rich with the honors of your mother
town whose Influence through her schools
and her scholars is OF itself an inherit
ance, with such examples as Lawrence,
Boutwell,, Hoar, what may you not hope