Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
The Great Medicine Man Makes 9
Speech.

seItS. WIN elee So ueSefFeS tue epPe
lation?.. The citizens Of Groton June
ton, fourishing railway station nc
far from Lowell, have. by Act of th
Legislature, changed the name of thei
town to AVER, in honor of tbe grea
medicine man. And assembled en- mass
a few days ago, to celebrate the event
The occasion was an interesting and
splendid one, and the world-renowne'
physician and philanthropist spoke a
follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
On the western coast Of Scotland
where it slopes into the Irish Sea, {
river, rising on the mountains Of th'
inner land, winds down among the hill.
and empties into the Firth of Clyde
From remote time it has been calico
Ayr. from an old Scotch word "Ayry,'
meaning an eagles nest-the river o.
the eagles nest. Near it's mouth and
a contiguous harbor, long stood ham.
let which became royal burg or town
named from the river, and now about
one-third as large as Lowell-the city
of Ayr. For more than thousand
years it has been noted in the history
of Scotland, During the wars of Rob-
ert Bruce it was one of hjs resorts, and
was especially favored by him because
he was there cured of leprosy. Oliver
Cromwell made it one of the depots
and headquarters of his army in his
attack upon Scotland, and one of his
old forts is now. che Citadel of Ayr.
But above all its distinctions, Ayr
was the birthplace of the poet Burns.
And what poet What voice has
he given to all the endearments of
home How has he hallowed the
cottage and all it covers-weans and
wife, patches and poverty, beans, bar
ley, ale, hardship 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 Anderson, my Jo John,
Aud 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 mai
dens, bring solace to the sorrowing and
courage to the overburdened by their
lot. His inspiration has set the afec-
tions to music in strains thatare immor-
tai.
No other one man ever made a Ian
cuagv olaosio, but he has rendered that
Iowland 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 sanctifed.
Along the borders of the seain par
allelogram and surrounding the town
is county. Of the same name-Ayr-
shire.
II would weary your patience to hear
the history of my ancestors from one
ancient John Of Ayr, then John Ayr,
down through the centuries to this Aver
now before you; through their vicissi-
tudes Of poverty and pIenty-of fortune
and misfortune; how they have inter-
married with England, Ireland and
Scotland, and later with the Americans,
who are an excellent mixture of them
all.
Myf4ends,-youh have chosen the name
I inherited for your town with an extra
ordinary unanimity, and have thereby
conferred an honor upon me, the proper
acknowledgment of which I do not feel
fully able to express. But I beg ycu to
be assured that it ia appreciated and
that it will be gratefully remembered
with living interest in your prosperity
while life remains to me, and thrust, be-
yond that by my children after me.
If this name has become noted among
the many that are wortbier around you,
that is greatly due to its publicity.
May 1 be permitted to state whence
that came? Until within q few cantu-
ries all the civi ilizsd nations of the
glooe were pent up on the Eastern
continent. Two orthree hundred years
ago they leaked over into this few and
fearlully at first, then more aid more
but always in their settlements timidly
huggirg 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 prairies
with the beundless pampas and noun
tain ranges of South America. Former
generations lived in villages and towns,
thicI,ly settled together where ply
siclans were plenty and near at hand.
Now, the people are widely scattered, in
many sections Of these many countries.
For great numbers the timely treatment
of physicians cannot be had; over large
tracts of country good or competent ply
sicians cannot be had at all. They can
not visit patients enough many miles
apart to live by their profession, nor can
they carry medicines enough with them
on horseback. for their requirements.
Hence has arisen in these modern times,
a 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. 1t
is a new necessity consequent upon the
changed conditions of human life-a
want 1 have spent my years in supply
ing, and I will tel! you something Of it's
extent. Our laboratory makes every
day some 100000 potions or doses Of
our preparations. These are all taken
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