The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-04-13
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Secretary, Col. Taylor and other depart
ments Of state, literature and law by able
representative men, including Hon. Tap
pan Wentworth, our late honored Repre-
sentative in Congress. Judge Gowley, the
historian Of Lowell, and Ex-senator Need
ham Of Groton, who ably and eloquently
gave away the bride, and congratulated
her on taking name already 80 favorably
and widely known. Senator Clark moved
the visibility Of the crowd by his inimit-
able humor for the ladies, in which. he so
much eXeels.l lThezs speakers paid their
fellow citizen a handsome trIbut ofthanks
for the high compliment in the adoption
of his name, and their assurance that II
was worthy Of the honor. ---
At length the great medicine man"
was introduced by President Prescott with
high eneomiums based on his personal
and life long acquaintance. After thank
ing the audience for the cordiahty of their
greeting, DR.. Aver spoke as follows
Ladies and Ge4Aen,ea:
On the western coast of Scotland where
itslopes into the Irish Sea, q river, rising
on the mountains Of the inner land, winds
down among the hills and empties into
the Firth Of Clyde. From remote time It
has been called Ayr from an old Scotch
word AyrY,'i meaning an eagles nest
the river Of the eagles nest. Near its
mouth and acontIguOus harbor, long stood
q hamlet which became q royal burg or
town named from the river, and now about
one third as large-as -Loweli-the city of
Ayr. For more than q thousand years it
has been noted IN. the history of Scott
land. During the wars of Robert Bruce
It was one Of his resorts, and was. espeei-
ally favored by HIM because he was there
cured Of leprosy.- Oliver Cromwell made
1t one of the depOts and headquarters of
hls army III his attack upon Scotland, and
one ot-hls Old forts Is now tho Citadel of
AYR " .e. a- --,-.. ~
But above all It's distinctions, Ayr was
the birthplace of the poet Burns. And
what q peetl What voice, has he given
to agfs the endeaFn1en of homei How
has be hQaoSid thee ottage and an it COW
ers=Geans and WIFE patches and poverty,
beans, barley. ale hardship and the poor
mans toll How he wraps with tender
ness Whatever he names, even his bleak
leagues ofpasture, the stuDble field, ice,
snow, sieet, and rain, brooks, birds, mice,
thisties and heather. His Bonny Doom,
John Anderson, my Jo John, Aud Iarig
S5ne, ard Highland Mary roii round the
world IN ever ringing symphony with
what IS purest and best. an human nature
HIS songs WOO andmeltthe hearts Of youth
and maidens, bring solace- to the sorrow
ing and courage TO the overburdened bY
dIelr Tot Ills inspiration has set the at
fections to music in strains that are i'm
mortal ,5
No other one man, eyer made alanguage
classic, but he has rendered that loWIand
Scotch q ,Dorie DIALECT OF fSlae, The name
OF his home and his beloved riiVerAyr was
lifted on the wings of his. pathos, and now
the approaching traveller Yearns TO reach
the spot lis genius has sanctifed.
Along the borders ofthe the sea in a
paraiielograrn and surrounding the town
is q country Of the same naineLAyrghifre.
1t would weary your patience to hear
the history of my ancesters from one an
cient John Of Ayr, then John Ayr, down
through the centuries TO this Aver now
before yeu5- through their yieissitudes of
poverty -Plla pisnty-of fortune and mis-
fortune; how they have intermarrIed with
England, ireland and Scotland, ana later
with the Americans, who are an excellent
mixture ef them all
MyfrieyldS,-you have chosen the name
I inherited tor your town with an extra
ordinary unanimity, and have thereby
conferred an hoEor upon me, the proper
Acknowledgement Of which I do not feel
fully able to express. But l beg YOU to
be assured that 1t is appreciated and that
It wit be gratefully remembered with O
living interest N Your prosperity while
life remains to me, and, IetrJist, beyond
that by mychlidren. after me-
If this name has become noted among
the many that are worthier around You,
that IS greatly due to its publicity. Nav
l be permitted to state whence that came
Until within a few centuries all the civil
lzed nations OF the globe were pent up on
the Eastern continent Two or three hun
dred years ago they leaked over into. this ;
few and fearlully. at first, then more and
more but always in settlements tim
ldly hugging the Atlantic coast Within
the last TWO or three generations, they
have burst out, as it were, and over-run
these vast continents Of the West. Now
they are scattered here and possess these
measureless stretches of mountains and
valleys hills, plains, forests and praines
with the boundless panlpas and mountain
! ranges of South America. Former gener
atioAs lived IN villages and towns, thickly
settled together where physicians were
plenty and near at hand Now, the peo-
pie are widely scattered, r many sections
of these many countries. FOR great num-
bers the timely treatment of physicians
cannot be had !. over large tracts Of oeun-
try goed or competent Physicians cannot
be had at all. They can not visit patients
enough many miles apart TO live By their
profession, nor can they carry medicines
Eenough with them, on horseback for their
requirements Hence has ar5sen in this
modern times, a necessity for remedies
ready at ahand ,owith directions for their
use-a present recourse for relief in the
exigencies of sickness, when no ether aid
is near 1t is a new necessity consequent
upon the changed condition of human life
--ayant i have spent my years in. sup
plying, aRa | wall tell you somethingl oi
its extend.- 0qr. laboratory makes every
day some Q90OlpoTtlpns or doses Of our
preparatons These are al taken BY
somebody Here is number equal 10
! the population of fifteen cities as large rs
Lowell, taking them every day ffor sick
ness keeps no Sabbath )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
I as We do about the Doctors mission to
kill the elergyman's insincerity and the
laWyeEs cheating. Yet each of these lab
ors are among themost serious realities of
life. Sickness and its attendant sufEering g
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
extend. An advertisement, taking the
run of the newspap pers with which we con-
tract (some 1903 annually is struck off in
such numbers, that when piled upon each
other flatwise, like the leaves of q book,
the thickness through them is sixteen
miles In addition, 1t takes some seven
millions of pamphlets and twelve millions
of circulars to meet the public demand for
this kind of information Our annual is-
sue Of pamphlets alone, laid solid upon
each other, make a pile eight and one
quarter miles high. The circulars mea-
sured endwise reach 1894 miles, and these
assertions are matters of mathematical
certainty. What ever the estimation- in
which these publieatioEs may be held
here, they reach the freside Of millions
upon millions Of men who do treasure and
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