The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-03-28

has he hallowed the cottage and all it
covers-weans and wife, patches and
poverty, beans, barley, 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, slcet, and rain, brooks,
birds, mice, thistles and heather. His
Bonny Doom, John Anderson, my 10
John, Aud Lang Sype, and Highland
Mary roll round the world in ever ring
ing symphony with what is purest and best
in human nature. His songs WOO and
melt the hearts of youth and maidens,
bring solace to the sorrowing and cour-
age to the overburdened by their lot.
His inspiration has set the affections to
music in strains that are immortal.
No other 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 pa
thos, and now the approaching traveller
yearns to reach the spot his genius has
sanctifed.
Along the borders of the sea in a par
allelogram and surrounding the town is
a county of the same name-Ayrshire.
1t would weary your patience to hear
the history ofmy ancestors from one an
cient John of Ayr, then John Ayr, down
through the centuries to this Aver now
before you; through their vicissitudes of
poverty and plenty-of fortune and mis-
fortune; how they have intermarried
with England, Ireland and Scotland, and
later with the Americans, who are an
excellent mixture of them all.
My triends,-you have chosen the name
| 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. And 1 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.
If this name has become noted among
the many that are worthier around you,
that is greatly due to its publicity. May
| be permitted to state whence that came ?
Until within few centuries all the civil
lied nations Of the globe were pent up
on the Eastern continent. Two or three
hundred years ago they leaked over into
this few and fearfully at first, then more
and more but always in their settlements
timidly huggidg 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 prai-
ries with the boundless pampas and noun
tain ranges of South America. Former
generations lived in villages and towns,
thickly settled 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 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,
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 new necessity consequent upon the
changed conditions of human life-a
want l have spent my years in supplying,
and 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 number equal to
the population of fifteen cities as large as
Lowell, taking them every day (for sick.
uess 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 clergyman's iusincerity and the
lawyers cheating.
Yet each Of these labors among the
most serious realities of life. Sickness and
its attendant suffering are no joke neither
is the treatment of them. This system ol
transportable relief, to be made available
to the people, must keep its memories
This is done by advertising. Mark its
extent. An advertisement, taking the run
of the newspapers with which we contract
(some 1900 annually is struck off in such
numbers, that when piled upon each other
Aatwise, like the leaves of book, the
thickness through them is sixteen miles
In addition, it takes some seven millions
of pamphlets and twelve millions of cir.
culars 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 measured end.
wise reach 1894 miles, and the 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 coun-
sci they bring
Not only over these great Western con-
tinents but through that other land SO
little known to you, under our feet, the
Australian continent, there are few villa
ges 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 l striven in my
humble sphere to render some service to
my fellow men, and to deserve among the
afflicted and unfortunate some regard for
the name which your kind partiality hangs
on these walls around me. We may look
forward with confident hope to the renown
you will gather under it, and the pros