Year: 1871

ton OF human Ilfe-a want nave spent my
years in supplying, and l will tell you some


thing of it's extent Our laboratory makes
every day some 100000 potions or doses of
our preparations. These are all taken by
somebody. Here is 3 number equal to the


population Of fifteen cities as large as Lowell,
taking them every day lfor sickness keeps no
Sabbaths) nor for once only. but again and
again year after year. through nearly one
third of century We all join in the j,kes
about medicines as we do about the Doctors
mission to kill, the cIergymans insincerity
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 of transportable relief, to be made a.
vaiable to the people, must keep its remedies
fresh in their memories. This is done by
advertising. Mark it's extent. An advertise
ment, 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 fatwise, like the leaves of a
book, the thickness through them is sixteen
miles. In addition, it takes some seven mil
lions of pamphlets and twelve millions Of
circulars 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 endwise reach 1894
miles, and these assertions are matters of ma
thematical certainty. Whatever the estima-
ton in which these publications may be held
here, they reach the 6resides Of millions upon
millions of men who do treasure and regard
them, aud who in their trials do heed the
counsel they bring.


Not only over these great Western conti-
nents 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 remedies that
bear it. j


Thus, gentlemen, haze I striven in my
humble sphere to render some service to my
fellow men, and to deserve among the aff1ict-
ed 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 prosperity, which
there is reason to trust the future has in store
for you Situated as you are here on one of
the main arteries between the west and east,
o0tWccu LuC Stcot iouuStiCo VI ouC p"uSu
and the spindle you must aid in their ex-
changes and thrive with them. Soon these
channels will be opened wide and pouring
through your precincts streams Of men and
merchandise that will need your furtherance
and must contribute taeyour growth


Located here in the centre of New England
to what dearer spot can you turn that men
inhabit? Beginning life rich with the hon.
ors Of your mother town whose influence
through her schools and her scholars is Of it.
self an inheritance, with such examples as
/ Lawrence, Boutwell,, Hoar, what may you not
hope for of usefulness in the councils of the
State and nation?


Contrast our condition with that of the Eu-
ropean nations, alternately torn and impover-
ished 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
Groton has set you, so worthy of your ambi-
ton to follow. Build schools for your chill
dren and fnd talent to teach them, then in
telligence and integrity in prosperous and


happy homes will be your sure reward.
Associated as you have made me with your


veal and wo, wish might be allowed to
contribute from my means such as they are.
something towards this first foundation of the
public good.


Gentlemen, have detained you too long.
Oppressed with the fear, that do not deserve
the distinction you bestow, pray God to
make me worthier, and to smile upon you


with His perpetual blessings.