The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-03-31

were, ana 0Vef-fun THESE VAST coll'i-
nents of the West. Now they are
scattered here. and possess these
measureless stretches of mountains
and valleys, hills, plains, forests and
praries with the boundless pampas
and mountain ranges Of South
America, Former generations liy-
ed in villages and towns, thiekly set
tied together 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 timely treat
ment of physicians cannot be had;
over large tracts of country good or
physicians cannot be had
at all. They can not visit patients
enough many miles apart to live by
their profession, nor can they carry
enough with them on
for their requirements
Hence has arisen in these modern
times, a necessity for remedies ready
at hand, with directions for their use
"A present rec curse for relief in the
exigencics of sickness, when no
other aid is near. 1t is a new. ne
cessity consequent upon the chang
ed conditions of human life-a want
| have spent my years in supplying,
| will tell you something of its ex-
tent. Our laboratory makes every
day some 100000 potions or doses
of our preparations. These are all
taken by somebody, Here is a
equal to the population of
fifteen cities as large as Bowel, TAX
ing them every day (for sickness
keeps no Sabbaths) nor for once on
ly, 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 insincerity and the lawyer's
cheating. Yet each of these labors
among the most serious realities Of
life. Sickness and its attendant suf-
fering 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 intheir memories,
This is done by advertising. Mark
its extent. An advertisement, talk
ing the run Of the newspapers with
which we contract (some 1900 an
nually) is struck off in such numbers,
that when piled upon each other flat
wise like the leaves of a book, the
through them is sixteen
miles. In addition, it takes some
seven millions of pamphlets and
twelve millions of circulars to meet
the public demand for this kind of
information. Our annual issue Of
pamphlets alone, laid solid upon each
other, make pile eight and one
quarter miles high. The circulars
endwise reach 1894 miles,
and these assertions are matters OF
mathematical certainty. Whatever
the estimation in which these pub
LEGATIONS may be held here, they
reach the fireside 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 West
ern continents but throughout that
other land SO 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 en-
ploying the remedies that bear it.
Thus, gentlemen, have | striver
in my humble sphere to render some
service to my fellow men, and to de
serve among the afflicted and unfor.
tunate some regard for the name
which your kind partially hangs on
these walls around me. We may
look forward with confident hope tc
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 ex-
changes and thrive with them
Soon these channels will be opened
wide and pouring through your pre-.
cincts streams of men and merchant
disc that viii need your furtherance
and must contribute to your growth,