Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-04-01


tion, Mass, having voted to organize another township
under the name Of tSv, AFTER the great medicine man.
Or, j. c. AYER, OF HOWELL An enactment Of the Leg.
islature having been secured, the inauguration
had, aud tue occasion was made ono Of considerable
interest ea ocat various magnatee OF the state we're
present, banquet toasts speeches. booming Of canon
aud dance were features OF the occasion The intel
leetual repast OF the occasion was the speech OF the
sponsor In baptism, DIT. AVER Although OF local
character, there s much about IL that will interest the
general reader. II is as follows:
LADIES' and Genteimen:
On the western coast of Scotland where 1t
slopes into the Irish Sea, river rising on the
mountains of the inner land, winds down
among the hills and empties into The FIRTH of
Clyde. From remote time 1t has been called
Ayr from an Old Scotch word Ayrv," meaning
an eagles nest-the river of the eagels nest.
Near Its mouth and contiguous harbDr, long
stood hamlet which became a royal burg or
town named from the river, and now about
third as large as Lowell-the city of Ayr
For more than thousand years ii has been
noted in the history of Scotland. During the
wars OF Robert Bruce it wns one of his resorts
and was especially favored by him because he
was there cured of leprosy. Oliver Cromwell
made it one of the dcpota and headquarters of
his army in his attack upon Scotland and one
OF his old forts is now the Citadel OF Ayr.
But above all its distinctions, Ayr was the
birthplace of the poet Burns. And what a
poet What voice has he given 10 all the en-
cottage and all 1t covers-weans and wife i,
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. Ills Bonny Doom, John
Anderson, my 10 John, Auld Lang Syne and
Highland Mary roll round the world in ever
| ringing symphony with what is purest and
| best in human nature, His songs WOO and
melt the hearts of youth and maidens bring
| solacs to the sorrOwing and courage to the
overburiened by their lot. His inspiration
has set the affections to music in strains that
are immortal.
| NO other one man ever made n 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 ap-
| preaching traveller yearns to reach the spot
his genius has sancifcd.
Along the borders OF tho sea in pnralleo-
gram aud surrounding the town is n county OF
| the same name-Ayrshire
II woulu weary your patience TO hear the
history of my ancestors from one ancient
John Of Ayr, then John Ayr, down through
| the centuries 10 this Aver now before you
through their vicissitudes of poverty and
pleniy-of fortune and misfortune how they
have intermarried with England, Ireland and
Scotland and later with the Americans, whe
are an excellent mixture OF them all.
My friends, you have chosen the name in
helited Tor your town with an extraordinary
unapimty, and have thereby conferred an
honor upon me, the proper 0wedgment
of which do not feel fully able to express.
But beg you to be assured that it is appre-
ciated and that it will be gratefully remem-
bered with living interest in your prosperity
while life remains to me, and, trust beyond
that by NY children after me.
If this name has brcOme noted among thc
many that are wOrthicr around you, that is
greatly due TO its publicity. May | be per-
mltted to state whence that came Until
within few centuries all the civilized nations
OF the Globe were pent up on the Eastern con
tinent. Two or three hundred years ago they
| leaked over into this few and iearfuly at
! first, then more and pIore but always in their
| settlements timidlv hugginy the Atlantic coast
| Within the last two or three generations, they
have burst out, as ii 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 praires with the bnundless pampas
and mountain ranges of South Amerc:.
Former generations lived in villages and
towns, thickly settled together where ply
sicians were plenty and near at hand. Now,
the people are widely scattered, in many sec
tons of these many countries. For great
numbers the timely treatment OF physicians
cannot be had at all. They can not visit
patients enough many miles apart to live by
their profession, nor Can they carry mdicnes
enough with them on horseback IOr their re-
quiremcnts. Hence has arisen in these modern
times, necessity for remedies ready at hand
with directions for their use--a present re-
sourse for relief in the exiSencies OF sickness
when no other aid is near. 1t is Il new neccssi-
ty consequent upon the changed conditions OF
human lile--a want | have spent my years in
supplying, and Will tell you something of its
a. tAr NAL II ,r,,te
100000 potons or doses Of our preparations
These are all taken by somebody. Here is @
number equal to the population OF fifteen
cities as large as Lowell, taking them every
, day Uor sickness keeps no Subbaihs) nor foI
once only, but again aud again year niepyear
through nearly one third of century. w,
} nl join in The Jokes about medicines as we dc
about the Dactors mission to kill, the clergy
mans insinccrliy and the lawyers cheating
Yet each of these Lbors among the most
serious realiiies Of life. Sickness and its at
tendant suffering are no Joke, neither is the
treatment of them. This system OF transport.
able relief, to be made available to the people
must keep its remedies fresh in heir memories
This Is done by advertising. Mark its extent
An advertisement, taking the run of the news
papers with which we contract (somc 1900
annually is struck off in such numbers, that
when piled upon each other ilatwse, like the
leaves Of book, the thickness through them
is sixteen miles. In addition, it takes some
seven millions Of pamphlets and twelve. mil
lions OF circulars to meet the public denlnnd
for this kind of information. Our annual
issue of pamphlets alone laid solid upon each
other, make Il pile eight aud one quarter miles
high. The circulars measured endwise reach
1874 miles, and these assertions are matters OF
mathematical certainty. What ever the esti-
nation III which these publications may be
held here they reach the hresides of millions
upon millions of men who do treasure and re-
gard 'hem and who in their trials do heed the
counsel they bring.
Not only over these great Western continents
but throughout thar ether land 81 little known
to you, under our feet, the Australian CONT
nent, there are few villages MS large as this
which are not familiar with the name YOU
have chosen, and employing the remedies. thai
bear II.
Thus, gentleman. have sriyen in my hum
bic sphere 10 render some service 10 my fellow
men, ana To deserve amoDg the afflicted anL
unfortunate some regard for the name whicl
your kind parlality hangs on these wall.
around me. We may look forward with con
tdent hope tO tho renown you will gather
under it, and the prosperity, which there Il
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