Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-13

ents of the Wa ct. Now they are SCAT
tered here and posses these measure
less stretches IF mountains and valleys,
hills, plains, forest and zprairies with
the boundless pAmpas ard mountain
ranges of South America. Former gem
erations lived in villages and towns,
thickly settled together where physi-
clans were plenty and near at hand.-I
Now, the people are widely scattered,
in many sections of these Countries
FOrgreat numbers the timely treatment
Of physicians cannot be had; over large
tracts of country good or competent
cannot be had at all. They
cannot visit patients enough many
miles apart to live by their profession,
nor can they carry medicines enough
with them on horseback for their re-
quirementS. Hence has arisen in these
times necessity for remedies
ready at hand, with directions for their
use-a present recourse for relief in the
of sickness, when no other
aid Is near. 1t is new necessity con-
upon the changed conditions
of human iife-a want 1 have spent my
years in supplying, and i will tell you
something of its extent. Our labora-
tory makes every day some 63e, 900 po-
tions or doses of our preparations. These
are all taken.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, though near
ly one third of a century. We all join
about the Doctors mission to kill, the
clergyman's insincerity and the law
yer's cheating. Yet each Of these la
bors among the most serious realities of
life. Sickness and its attendant suffer-
ing are no joke, neither is the treat
ment of them. This system of trans
portable relief, to be made available to
the people, must keep its remedies fresh
in their memories. This is done by adj
vertising. Mark its extent. An adj
vertisement, taking the run of the new
papers with which we contract (some
1900 annually is struck off insuch num-
bers, that when piled upon each other
fiatwise, like the leaves of a book, the
thickness through them is sixteen miles.
In addition, it takes some seven miles
of pamphlets and twelve miliiens OF
circulars to meet the public demand for
this kind of information. Our annual
issue of pamphlets alone, laid solid up
on each other, make pile eight and
One-quarter miles high. The circulars
measured endwise reach 1894 miles, and
these assertions are matters of mathe-
matical certainty. Whatever the esti-
nation in which these publications may
be held here, they reach the firesides OF
millions upon millions of men who dc
treasure and regard them, and. who in
their trials do heed the counsel they
bring.
Not only over these great Western
continents, but throughout that other
land so little known to you, under OuI
feet, the Australian continent, there
are few villages as large as this which
are not familiar with the name you
have chosen, and employing the RENE.
dies that bear it. 80
Thus, gentlemen, have I striven i'm
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 partiality hangs on these walls
around me. We may look forward
with confident hope to the renown you
will gather under it, and the prosperity
which there is reason to trust the future
has in store for you. Situated as you
are here, on one of the main. arteries
between the west and east, between the
great Industries of the plough and the
spindle, you must aid in their exchang-
es and thrive with them. Soon these
channels viii be opened wideand pour.
ing through your precincts streams OF
men and merchandise that will need
your fuftherance and must contribute
to your growth. sss .-sA... 4
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 nshosc influence through hel
schools and her scholars is of itself an
inheritance, with such examples as
Lawrence, Boutwell,, Hoar, what may
you not hope for of usefulness in the
COUNCILS of the State and nation?
Contrast our condition with that OF
the European nations, alternately torn
and impoverished with wars, credit it
as you may to the better education of
THE people, and you will realize the
FduAC VI tHC CAftiu PIC Olu GlOtucr' ~OfO'
| ton has set you, SO worthy of your am
bitiOn to follow. Build schools for your
children and find talent to teach hem,
then intelligence and integrity in pros
porous and happy homes will be your
sure reward. .l19 afe. as'sd 81.
Associated as you have made me with
your veal and woe, / wish / might be
allowed to contribute from my means
such as they are, something towards
this first foundation of public good.
Gentlemen, / have detained You toe
long. Oppressed with the fear that ]
do not deserve the distinction yon be.
stow, pray God to make me worthier,
and tosmile upon you with His per.
petual blessings.
BOyish economy-Nurse. 81 can.
not allow butter and jam, too, ON youl
bread, Master Alfred. 1t is very ex.
travagant.n Master Alfred. cit cam,
be extravagant, Mary, if the same piece
Of bread does for both. %
To Rejuyenate Peach Trees
The following is the substance of 9
communication made by DIR. George B
Wood to the American PHILOSOPHERS