The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-03-29
among The many ,ha{fafea8Q,sBier

rs, publicity. May be per-. itted to
state wheneez that oamc,2 U6tl
within few centnries7 qlf1st6e2ciSilss
lzed nations oflhe globe Mere pesht
up on the Eastern continent.@ Ywo3or
three hundred years ago the ygleske2
over into1this few nd%fearfully yAat
| hrst, then more and more but always
IN their settlements timidlyl hugging
the Atlantic coast Within the HAST
TWO or thrcc generations, they have
Durst out, as it were, and ,oyer-run
these vast continents of tho VEST.
Now they are scattered here and
possess these measurccss stretches Of
mountains and valleys, hills, plains,
forests and prairies3 with the bound
less pampas and mountain ranges Of
South America. Former generations
lived i'll villages and towns, th.ekly
settled together where physicians
wore plenty and near at hand. Now,
the people nrc widely scattered, in
many sections of these many coun-
tries. For great numbers the
timery treatment of physicians can
mot be had ; over largo tracts of country
good or competent physicians cannot
tn had at all. They cannot visit
| patients enough many miles apart to
live by their profession, nor eau 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
cxigcncics Of sickness, when 10 other
aid Is near. 1t is new necessity con.
scqucnt uron the changed conditions
OF human lite--a want I have spent
my years in supplying, and I will tell
you FomctEling of its extent. Our
laboratory makes every day some
G3o, 900 potions or doses Of our pre-
paratioDs. These arc all taken BY
somebody. Here is a number equal
to the population of fifteen cities as
large as Lowell, taking them every
day (fVr sickness keeps no Sabbaths)
not for once only, but again and again
year after year, through nearly one
third Of century. We all join in
the i,kcs about medicines as we d.
about the DociCl's mission to kill tho
clergyman's msinccrity and the Law
yer's cheating. Yet each of these
labors among the most scrious realities
of life. Sickness and its attendant
suffering arc no joke, neither is the
treatment of them. This system of
transportablc relief, to be made avail
able to the people, must keep its
le ncdies fresh in their memories.
This is done by advertising Mark
its extent. An advertisement, tax
ing The run of the newspapers with
which We contract (somc 10000 an
nually) is struck off in such numbers,
that when piled upon each other fat
wise, like the leaves Of a book, the
thickness through them is sixteen
miles. In addition. it takes some
seven ri i, of !. ~ h!cts and
twelve II n Of rrtr'ars to meet
the public demand for this kind Of in
formation. Oar annual issue of
pamphlets alone laid solid upon each
other, make pile eight and one
quarter miles high. The circulars
measured cndwisc reach 1894 miles,
and these assertions arc matters of
mathematical certainty. What over
the estimation in which these publca.
tions may be held here, they reach the
iircsidcs Of millions upon millions OF
men who do treasure and regard them
and who do in their trials heed
the counsel they bring.
Not only over this great Western
continents but throughout that other
land so little known to you, under our
feet, the hustralian continent, there
arc few villages as large as this which
arc not familiar with the name gu
have chosen, and employ ing the rene.
dies that bear IL.
Thus, gentlemen, have 7 strivcn in
my humble sphere to render some ser.
vice to my fellow men, and to de-
serve among the afflicted and unfuptu,
nate some regard for the nam. which
your kind partiality hangs on these
walls around nc. We may look for
ward with confident hope to the re-
nown you will gather under it,, aud
the prosperity, which there is reason
you. Situated as you are here on
one Of the main arteries between the
west and east, between the great in.
dustrios of the plough and the spindle
you must aid III their exchanges and
thrive with them. Soon these chan
nels will be opened wide AMI pouring
through your precincts streams of
men ard merchandise that will need
your furthcrancc and must contribute
to your growth.
Located here in the contre of New
England to what dearer spot can you
turn that men inhabit Beginning
life rich with the honors Of your moth.
er town whose influence through her
schools and her scholars is of itself
an lnhcritlncc, with such exam pies as
Lawrence, Boutwell,, Hoar, what nav