White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-04-13
A FESTIVE OcCASION.
Speech Of DR.. j. C. Aver, Of Lowell.
Massachusetts.

The Legislature of Massachusetts, recent
" changed the name of Groton Junction
to that Of Aver, in honor Of DR.. j. C.
Aver OF Lowell, the great medicine n IN Of
the world. On the 9th of last month the
people of that town met to celebrate the
event. and after remarks from several
citizens Of the old Bay State,
DR.. Aver was introduced and spoke as
follows:
Ladies' and Gentlemen:
On the western coast Of Scotland, where
it slopes into the Irish Sea, a river, rising
in the mountains Of the inner land, winds
down among the hills and empties inso the
Firth Of CLYDE. From remote time is has
been called AYR, from an old Scotch word
"Ayry,, meaning an eagles nest-the riv-
or Of the eagles nest Near its mouth and
a contiguoas harbor, long stood hamlet
which became royal burg or town named
from the river, and now about one third
as larg as Lowell-the city Of AYR. For
more than q thousand years it has been no.
ted in the history of Scotland. During the
wars of Robert Bruce it was one of his
resorts, and was especially favored by him
because he was there cured Of !eprosy.
Oliver Cromwell made it ore o.. the depots
and headquarters of his army in his at.
tack upon Scotland, and one Of his old
forts is now the Citadel Of AYR.
Bat above all its distinctions, Ayr was
the birth. place of the poet Burns. And
what poet! What voice has he given
to all the en.iea-m ants of home! How
tas be hallowcd the cottage and all it COW
ers-weans and wife, patches and poverty,
beans, barley. ale, hardsbips and the poor
mans toll. How he wraps with tenderness
whatever he names, even his blsnk leagues
of pasture, the stubbl. field, ice. snow, and
rain, brooks, birds, mice, thistles and
heather. His Bonny Doom, John, Ander-
son. nv 10. John, Auld Lang Syne, and
Highland Wary, roll round, the world in
ever ringing symphony with what is pur-
est and best in human nature. His songs
WOO and mel: the hearts of youth and maid
en-. and bring solace to the sorrowing and
courage to the orerburiened bv their lot
! His inspiration has set the affections to
music in strains that are imm ortal.
No other man ever made n language
classic. but be has rendered that lOwland
Scotch Doric dialec, of fame. The namt
of his home and his beloved river Ayr wa,
lifted ON the wings of is pathos, and nov
the approaching traveller yesrns to react
the spot his genius has sanctifed.
Along the borders Of the sea in a par.
alleloaram and surrounding the town is q
county of the same name-Aryshire.
1t would weary your patience to heal
the history Of my ancestors, from one an
cient John of Ayr, then John Ayr, dowr
through the centuries to this Aver nov
before you; through their vicissitudes ol
| poverty and pientv-of fortune and mis-.
fortune how they have intermarriel witt
England, Ireland and Scotland, and latel
| with the Americans, who a:e an excellent
mixture of them all.
NV friends, you have chosen the name
Inherited, for your town with an extraor-
dinary unanimity, and have thereby con.
ferred an honor upon me, the proper
acknowledgment of which | do not fee
fully able to express. But beg you to b.
assured that it is appreciated, and that i,
will be gratefully remembered with liy-
ing interest in your prosperity while life
remains to me, and, trust, beyond that
BY nv children after me.
If this n me has become noted among
the many that, are worthier around you.
that is greatly due to its publicity. NJ y
! he permitted to state whence that came
Until within a few centuries all the civil
ized nations of the globe where p"nt up on
the Eastern continent. Two or three hun.
dred years ago they leaked over into this
few and fearfully at first, then more and
more, but always in their own settlements
timidly hugging the Atlantic coast. With.
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have burst ont, as it were, and overrun
these vast continents of the West. Now
they are scattered here and there and possess
these measureless stretches Of mountains
valleys hills, claims, forests and prairics with
boundless psmpas and mountain ranges Of
South America. Former generations lived
in villages and towns, thickly settled to.
gether, where physicians were plenty and
near at hand. Now, the people are widely
scattered, in many sections of these many
countries. For great numbers the timel J
treatment of physicians cannot he had ;
over large tracts of country good or com
petent physicians cannot be had Mt all
They can not visit patients enough many
miles apart to live by their profession, MOI
can they carry medicines enough with them
on horseback for their Requirements. Hence
has arisen in these modern times, ne
cessity for remedies ready at hand, with
directions for their use-a preeent re-
course for belief in the exigencies of sick
ness, when NO other aid is near. Ii is q
new necessitv consequent upon the chan.
| ged conditions of human life-a want
have spent many years in supplying, and
will tell you something of its extent
Our laboratory makes every day some
| 630, 900 potions or doses OF our prepara-
tiuns. These are all taken by somebody
Here is number equal to the population
of fifteen cities as large as Lowell, taking
them every day, (fer sickness keeps no Sab
baths, not for once only, but again and
again year after year, through nearly one
third of century. We all join in the
Jokes about medicines, ms we do about the
Doctors mission TO kill. the clergyman's
insincerity and the lawyers cheating
Yet each of these labors among the most
serious realities Of life. Sickness and its
attendant suffering are no JOKE, neither il
the treatment of them. This eystem Of
transportable relief, to be made available
to the people, must keep its remedies frest
| in their memories.
This is done by advertising. Mark it,
extent. An advertisement, taking the run
of the newspapers with which We contrac,
(some 1000 annually, is struck of IN suct
numbers, that when piled upon each othe'
Aatwise, like the leaves Of hook, ths
thickness through them is sixteen miles
In addition, it takes some seven millions
of pamphlets and twelve millions of cir
culars to meet the public demand for thi.
kind of information. Our annual issue oi
pamphlets alone, laid solid upon each 9th
er. make pile eight and one quarter miles
high. The circulars measured endwiss
reach l, 1894 miles, and these assertions are
matters of mathematical certainty. What
ever the estimation in which the publica-
tions may be held here, they reach the fire