Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1891-07-02
SISTERS PLEA.
Irs. Marietta M. Bones Says Turney
wilkins will be Cured OF
the Drink Habit.
Ebe Announces Herself Opposed TO the
System Of Prohibition which
don't Prohibit.
A Teachers i"r-.aSsions of the County
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. o,-on
the Teachers.
DRUNKENNESS CURED,

furney N. wilkins Promises TO Enter
81 the Lecture Field to cure Drunkards
M after he is Cured.
VA Following is an interesting article from
+ khe pen Of Mrs, Marietta NJ. Bones, sister
BIZ Turney wilkins, Hand county's first
erk Of court. The article appeared in
he Yankton Press:
# WEBSTER, S. D.. June 25, 1891 have
lust returned from Des Moines where I
+ Ieit my brother, Turney wilkins, in the
Eeeley institute, being treated for the
dnnk habit. He could not DO dong bet
ker--when left him at Des Moines the
third day after commencing the keeley
lure for drunkenness, which principally
|2eonsists in hypodermic injections of
Chloride Of gold-his appetite tor liquor
zAwas completely DESTROYED and he looked
2ten years younger than when | landed
him there-the efficiency of the Kelley
#uiscoyery is working miracles and no mis-
Make. My unfortunate-but now fortu-
zsnate-brother of whom your paper has
been pleased to say, "is a remarkably fine
z<speaker," will devote the balance of his
liie lecturing upon the Kelley method Of
EprOhibition, which my experience with
Nmy dear brother before leaving the state
*taught me, is the only prohibition that
<5prohiblts. Prohibition in South Dakota
as in Iowa, is farce. one morning at
the break OF day in Aberdeen, followed
my poor wreck Of brother upon the
street determined TO see where he got the
damnsble stuff, when he assured me /
could not do so. saying; SISTER am very
nervous and have not tasted a morsel of
flood for two days and must have drink
\ 4of whisky or will die and If you will
let me 60 quietly and get it will come
back into the house in Is minutes and will
|stay all day" Realizing that he would get
no liquor while followed him, and could
not do so eternally--he went and that
got drink aud flash of whisky, into the
back part OF livery barn got bottle of
beer, and returned to me drunk in less
than 10 minutes time. Had there
abhor the name of but now believe with
Father Ireland, high heonss 10 the only
safe way to regulate the liquor traffic. in
stead Of those blind pigs, / could then
have saved my precious brother from the
curse of drunkenness; but YOU little know
the worry my conscience has experienced
in publicly announcing my new position
upon the prohibition question, but last
night when reading an additional attack
upon me by the Daily Aberdeen News
absolutely making fun of poor woman,
who was struggling with her might to
save her only brother from a drunkdrds
hell and grave-the monster editor even
dragging the probable condition of my
sacred home, providing was ut his sug-
gestion, 1ncarcerated in your insane asy-
lum, determined me to publicly express
my new opinion on prohibition. II is all
too cruel for the editor who has been
nicely entertained at the GOOD home Of
my old soldier husband. to use the col
umns of his employers newspaper to
|scandalize me and mine. besides such
perfidy is beneath ary gentleman, much
less ought to be by loud mouthed pro-
Tossing christian. But none know better
than that editorial hireling, there is a
principle in law that will protect his pusil-
luminous self from paying damages for
the work of his vile pen; ard my only
hope to recover is that the News plan. Is
worth more than exemption covers.