Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-04-07

Anderson, my 10 John, Aud Lang
Syne, and Highland Mary roll round
the world in ever ringing symphony
with what is purest and best in human
4 nature. His songs WOO aud melt the
hearts of youth and maidens, bring
sOlace to tie sorrowing and courage to
the Overburdened by their lot. His in
SEPARATION has set the affections to mu-
sic III strains that are immortal
4 No other one man ever made Ian
guage classic, but he has rendered that
4 lOwIand Scotch a Doric dialect of fame.
| The name of his home and his below
ed river Ayr was lifted on the wings
of his pathOS, and now the approach
ing traveller yearns to reach the spot
His genius has sanctified.
Along the borders of the sea in q
parallelogram and surrounding the
town is a country of the same name
Ayrshire.
1t 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 vicissitudes of poverty and plen-
ty-Of fortune and misfortune; how
they have intermarried with England,
| Ireland and Scotland, and later with
the Americans, who are an excellent
mixture of them all.
| My F,-icRds,-yOu have chosen the
name | inherited for your town with
an extraordinary unanimity, and have
| thereby conferred an honor upon me,
| the proper acknowledgement of which
| do not feel fully able to express. But
L beg you to be assured that it is appre-
ciated and that it will be gratefully re-
membered with living interest i'm
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 L be permitted to state
whence that came? Until within a
| few centuries all the civilized nations
of the globe were pent up on the Eas-
| tern continent. Two or three hundred
years ago they leaked over Into this;
few and fearfully 1T first, then more
| and more but always in their settle
ments timidly hugging the Atlantic
| coast. Within the last two or three
generations, they have burst out, as il
were, and oveT-run the 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 bound!ess pampaS and mountain
| ranges of South America. Former
generations lived in viIlagesa and towns,
thickly settled together where physi-
clans were plenty and near at hand
Now, the people are widely scattered,
in many sections of these many coun-
tries. For great numbers the timely
treatment OF physicians cannot be had;
over large tracts of country good or
competent physicians 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 horse
back 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. II
is a new necessity cons, qIent u iiou the
changed conditions of human life-a
want l have spent my years in supply
ing, and will tell you something of its
| extent. Our labratOry makes every
day some $50, 900 pOtiOns of 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 flor sickness keeps no Sabbathsl
nor for once only, but again and again
year after year, tn ough nearly one
third of a century. We all join in the
| Jokes about medicines as we do about
the Doctors mission to kill, the clergy
mans insincerity and the lawyers
cheating. Yet each of these labOrs
among the most serious realities of life.
| Sickness and its attencent suffering
are no joke, neither is the treatment
| of them. This system of transpOrta-
BILE relief, ito be made available to the
people, must keep its remedies fresh
in their memories. This is done by
advertising. Mark its extent An adj
vertisement, taking the run of news
papers with which We contract (some
1900 annually is struck off in such
numbers, that when piled upon each
other flatWise, like the leaves of book,
the thickness through them is sixteen
miles. In addition, it takes some sew
en- millions of pamphlets and twelve
| millions of circulars to meet the pub
| lie demand for this kind of informa-
| ton. Our annual issue of pamphlets
alone, laid solid upon each other,
make a pile eight and one quarter
miles high The circulars measured
| endwise reach 1894 miles, and these as
sertions are matters of mathematical
certainty. Whatever the estimation
in which these publications may be
held here, they reach the tireSides of
millions upon millions of men Who do
to treasure and regard them, and who
| in their trials do heed tn, 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 / striven in
my humble sphere to render some SER
vice to my fellow men, and to deserve
| among the afflicted and unfortunate
some regard for the name which your
kind partially hangs on these walls
| around me. We may look forward
with confident hope to the renown
YOU will gather under it, and the pros
perity, which there is reason to trust
| the future has in store for you. Situa-
ted as you are here on enc OF the main
arteries between the west and east, be-
tween the great industries of the
plough and the spindle you must aid
| in their exchanges and thrive with
them. Soon these channels will be
opened wide and pouring through
your precincts streams ofmen and mer-
| ehandise that will need your further
ance and must contribute to your
growth.
Located here in the center of New
! England, to what dearer spot can YOU
t I'm 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
inheritance, with such examples as
Lawrence, Boutwell,. Hoar, what may
V not hope for of usefulLess in the
| councils of the state and nation?