The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-22
THE DRINK CURE.
What Is Said About the Kelley Institute
at Greensboro, This State.

at Greensboro, This State.
We announced yesterday that Judge
Eller and family had arrived in the city,
and that at an early day-as soon as DR..
Palmer arriyed-would open an insti-
tute at this place.
Below We give few extracts from the
Blair Courier, paper published at Blair,
Nebraska, where an institute has been
in successful operation for some time
One of the patients in that institute thus
describes his case. with the result of the
treatment and how he has been after
wards:
For twelve years | had been addicted
to the use of alcohol, starting out as
boy with thoughtless companions for the
fun of it, and because was curious to
know of what stuff the world was made,
and to see that mysterious and fascina-
| ting thing called life" saw "life" and
got used to it, but did not stop drinking
| then for the reason that | thought as
many men do to-day that there was no
necessity for stopping, and that / could
stop when [ wanted to. Life came COM
paratiVely easy to me, I had no RESPONSE.
bilities beyond caring for myself, and if
did not make money and rise in my
profession like my fellows, considered
it no ones but my own, and scoffed the
thought that my drinking habits had any
thing to do with it. Then what | called
'hard luck" visited me few times and
tried to stop drinking to see if that would
help matters, and it always did. But re-
turning prosperity brought back friends
and conyiyiality and for a number of
years it was a e-saw. This was the
first stages of drunkenness, but did not
know it. Then l awoke one day to the
realization that without whiskey life was
not worth much, and it alarmed me. I
tried to stop drinking and could do so
for short time, but only at the sacrifice
Of constant battle with my appetite to
the exclusion of everything that made
life worth living, and then | would slip
back to drinking. 1t had got so far with
me that it required the greatest mental
effort to suppress the fact being known
that | was constantly more or less under
the influence of liquor, There was moth
ing to hope for in the future; nothing
to look forward to but a dishonest
grave. Ambition, energy anda morals
were under the complete subjugation OF
alcohol. All my faculties were centred
upon one thing alcohol. The seriou:
problem of each day was how to get it
Whiskey was the last thing I thought OF
at night and the first thing in the morn
ing | ate almost nothing, one meal 6
day and that at night when [ had be
come almost exhausted from fasting.
"This truly states the condition of a
man who is truly suffering dire malady
whose dreams are frightful battles with
will bulls, assaulted by fiery serpents and
grinning cats, and whose efforts to rest
and refresh the mind and body are al
fruitless of the object sought.
"The cure removes these uncanny
things from the Imagination, and in the
short space of three days perfect quiet
and rest is secured, sweet as the breezes
of a summer evening, quiet and Tranquil
as the babe in it's cradle, and as refresh
ing as Eden to the soul of the worn ou
inebriate. The appetite next becomes
normal, and abundance of wholesome
victuals refresh the body, which again
assumes its natural functions. This cure
is complete reversal of the tide of appe
tite in much less than.three weeks time.