Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-30
Dr.J. C. Aver.


The following address was delivered by
DIR. ]. c. Aver, the great medicine man, 2
at the Inauguration of the village of Aver
a few days ago: sss
| Ladies and Gentlemen. On the western coast
| Of Scotland, where it slopes into the Irish Sea,
a river, rising on the mountains Of the inner
| into the Firth Of Clyde. From remote time il
has been called Ayr, from an old Scotch word
| "Ayry," meaning an eagles nest-the river OF
| the eagles nest. Near its mouth and q continu-
GUS harbor, long stood hamlet which became q
royal burg or town named from the river, and
| now about one-third as large as Lowell-the
| city of Ayr. For more than q 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
| Cromwell made it one of the depots and head
| quarters Of his army IN his attack upon Scot
land, and one of his old forts is now the Citadel
of Ayr.
But above all its distinctions, Ayr was the
| birth place of the poet Burns. And what q
poet! What voice has he given to all the en-
dearments of homel How has he hallowed the
| cottage sand all it covers-weans and wife,
patches and poverty, beans, barley, ale, hard
| ship and the poor mans 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 thistles
and heather. His Bonny Doom, John Ander-
son, my 10 John, Aud Lang Syne, and High
! land Mary, roll round the world in ever ringing
symphony with what is purest and best in hui
| man nature. His songs WOO and melt the hearts
of youth and maidens, bring solace to the sor-
rowing, and courage to the overburdened by
their lot His inspiration has set the affections
| to music in strains that are immortal.
| No other one man. ever made 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 pathos, and now the approaching
| traveller yearns to reach the spot his genius has
sanctifed
Along the borders of the sea in parallelo-
gram and surrounding the town is . county of
the same name-Ayrshire. q " JJil Jlis5l1
It would weary your patience to hear the
| history of my ancestors from one ancient John
of Ayr, then John Ayr, down through the CEN
turies to this Aver now before you; through
their vieissitudes of poverty and plenty-of for
tune and misfortune; how they have intermar-
ried with England Ireland and Scotland and
later with the Americans, who are an excellent
mixture of them all. ~
2 My fric,ids,-you have chosen the name in
herited for your town with an extraordinary
unanimity, and have thereby conferred an hon.
or upon me, the proper acknowledgment Of
which I do not feel fully able to express But
beg you to be assured that it is appreciated
and that it will be gratefully remembered with
q living interest in your prosperity while life
remains to me, and, trust, beyond that by my
children after me.
many that are worthicr around you, shat is
greatly due to its publicity. May I be permit
ted to state whence that came? Until within a
few centuries all the civilized nations of the
globe were pent up on the Eastern. continent.
Two or three hundred years ago they leaked
more and more, but always in their settlements
timidly hugging the Atlantic cost. Within the
last two or three generations, they have burst
out as it were and over-run these vast continents
possess these messureless stretches of noun
tains and valleys, hills, plains, forests and
prairies with the boundless pampas and noun
tain ranges Of South America Former gene
rations lived in villages and towns, thiekly set
tied together where physicians were plenty and
scattered, in many sections of these many coun-
tries. For great numbers the timely treatment
of physicians cannot be had over large tracts
of country good or competent physicians cannot
be had at all They can not visit patients
enough many miles apart to live by their profess
sion, nor can they carry medicins enough with
them on horseback for their requirements.
Hence has arisen in these modern times,
q necessity for remedies ready at hand,
with directions for their use-a present recourse
for relief in the exigencies of sickness, when no
other aid is near. It is new necessity eonse-
quent upon the changed condition of human
life-a want have spent my years in supply
ing, and will tell you something Of its ex-
$50 900 portions or doses ofour preparations.
These are all taken by somebody, Here is q
number equal to the population of fifteen cities
as large as Lowell, taking them every day (for
sickness keeps no Sabbath) nor for once only,
but ,e again and again, year after year, through
the jokes about medicines as we do about the
Doctors mission to kill, the clergymans insin-
cerity and the lawyers cheating. Yet each of
these labors among the most serious realities Of
joke, neither is the treatment of them. This
system of transportablc relief to be made availa-
BILE to the people, must keep its remedies fresh
in their memories. This is done by advertis-
ing Mark its extent An advertisement, tax
ing the run Of the newspapers with which we
contract (some Is, 600 annually is struck off in
such numbers, that when piled upon each other
fatwise, like the leaves of q book, the thick
ness through them is sixteen miles In addi-
ton, 1t takes some seven millions of pamphlets
public demand for this kind of information.
Our annual issue of pamphlets alone, laid solid
upon each other, make a pile eight and one
quarter miles high. The circulars measured
endwise reach 1894 miles, and these assertions
are matters of mathematical certainty. What
ever the estimation in which these publications
may be held here, they reach the fresides 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
but throughout that other land little known
to you, under our feet, the Australian conti-
nent, there are few villages as large as this
which are not familiar with the name you have
chosen, and employing the remedies that bear
it, vxr-,- = =. - rser- : ~
Thus, gentlemen, have striyen in my hum
bic sphere to render some service to my fellow
men, and to deserve among the afflicted and un-
kind partiality hangs on these walls around me.
We may look forward with confident hope to
the renown you viii gather under it, and the
prosperity which there is reason to trust the
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 exchanges and thrive with them. Soon
these channels will be opened wide and pouring
through your precincts streams of men and
merchandise that will mead vour fDrtherance