The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-06-14
them on horseback for their require

times, necessity for remedies ready
at hand, with directions for their use
present recourse for relief in the ext
gencies of sickness, when no other aid
is near 1t is q new necessity conse-
quent upon the changed conditions of
human iife-a want | have spent nv
years in supplying, and l will tell you
something of its extent. Our labora-
tory makes every day some CSC, 900 po-
tons or doses of our preparations
These are all taken by somebody.
Here is number equal to the popula-
ton of fifteen cities as large as Lowell,
taking them every day, (for sickness
keeps no Sabbaths,) 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 medi-
cines as we do about the Doctors mis-
sion to kill, the clergyman's insincerity
and the lawyers cheating. Yet each
of these labor among the most serious
realities of life. Sickness and its at
tendant suffering are no joke, neither
is the treating of them. This system
of transportable- relief, to be made
available to the people, must keep it's
-
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 tiatwise, 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 circulars to
meet the public demand for this kind
of information. Our annual issue of
pamphlets alone, laid upon each other,
make a pile eight and one-quarter
miles high. The circulars measured
endwise reach 1894 miles, and these
assertions are matters of mathematical
certainty. Whatever the estimation
in which these publications may be
held here, they reach the fireside of
millions upon millions of men who do
cherish aud regard them, and who in
their trials do heed the counsel they
bring. ..
Not only over these great Western
continents, but throughout that other
land so little known to you, under our
feet, the Australian continent, there
are few villages as large as this which
are not familiar with the name you
have chosen, and employing the RENE
dies that bear it.
Thus, gentlemen, have I striven in
my humble sphere to render some SER
vice 10 my fellow-men, and to deserve
among the afflicted aud 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 prospect
ty which there is reason to trust the
future has in store for you. Situated
as you are here on one of the main ar
teries between the West and East, be-
tween the great industries of the pillow
and tue spindle, you must aid i'll their
exchanges and thrive with them. Soon
these channels will be opened wide
and pouring through your precincts
streams of men and merchandise that
need your furtlerance and must con-
tribute to your growth.
Located here in the center of New
England, to what dearer spot can you
turn that men inhabit7 Beginning
life rich with the honors of your moth
err town whose influence through her
schools and her scholars is of itself an
inheritance, with such examples as
Lawrence, Boutwell,, Hoar, what may
you not hope for of usefulness in the
councils of the State and nation7
Contrast our condition with that of
the European nations, alternately torn
and impoverished with wars, credit it
as you may to the better education of
the people, and you will realize the
value of the example old mother Gro
ton has set you, SO worthy OF your am
bition to follow. Build schools for
your children and find talent to teach
| them, then intelligence and integrity
in prosperous and happy homes will be
your sure reward.
Associated as you have made me with
your veal and woe, 1 wish 1 might be
allowed to contribute from my means,
such as they are, something towards
this foundation of the public good.
Gentlemen, / have detained You too
long. Oppressed with the fear that I
do not deserve the distinction you be-
stow, pray God to make me worthier,
and to smile upon you with His per-
petual blessings.
How A SPOOL OF THREAD SAVED A
LADY's LIFE.-A few days ago quite a
little sensation occurred at Stittville.
Information was forwarded to us at
the time, but by some accident we fail
ed to receive it. During the afternoon,
while a very respectable married lady