Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-06
He HAD A RELAPSE.
Colonel Flavel Scott Mines,
IL. D., Dies i'm a New
York W0rkhouse.
HE WAS CURED BY KELLEY
And Wrote a Magazine Article Upon
the Great Discovery.
PICKED UP OUT OF THE GUTTER
Ten Days Ago, and Locked Up Because He
Could Not Pay Fine.
HE WAS CURED BY KELLEY
PICKED UP OUT OF THE GUTTER
HE RECLAIMED HIS FORMER APPETITE
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCg.l

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCgl
NEW YORK, Nov. 6-For nearly month
newspapers all over this country have been
reprinting an article written by Colonel
Flavel Scott Mines, LII. D., for the October
number of the North 4merfcan Recier. 1t
was the most authoritative as well as the
most interesting article that had vet ap-
peared regarding DIR. Leslie F. Keeley's
bi-chloride of gold cure for drunken
ness. 1t was written by a man of
unusual ability, who frankly confessed that
he had for Years been subject to attacks of
drunkenness and who proclaimed the eff
cacy of the cure. He fairly shouted his Joy
al being cured He was newborn, he said,
and all the old passion for drink had gone.
He had tested himself in every possible
way, bun. not drop of intoxicating liquor
had passed his lips since a day in April
last. when his treatment was beginning at
Dwight, ILL.,, and when he had taken rum
and whisky at DE- Keeley's advice.
A Most Notable Example.
Colonol Mines was generally accepted as
the champion of the Kelley cure. He was
so quoted from ocean to ocean, that it is
hardly exaggerated to say that the faith of
nearly every drunkard in the land who
hoped to be reclaimed was pinned upon the
cure of this man, who had been drankard
at intervals for 20 years.
Colonel Mines began a prolonged spree
ten days ago. He was found drunk in the
gutter on Wednesday last was committed
to the workhouse on Blackwells Island and
died there this morning. A crowd of small
boys jeering drunken man who lay only
half conscious of what was going on around
him in the gutter opposite 327 East Twenty
seventh street on Wednesday morn
ing attracted the attention of Policeman
Oppelt
The man was too far gone in liquor to
move on when he was told, and Oppelt
locked him up in the station house. At the
station he said he was John F. Mines He
ftraightened up after drink of bromide
and couple of hours sleep, and at 10
o'clock he was arraigned before Justice Nc
Mahon in the Yorkville Court to plead to
charge of intoxication. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to pay a fine of S. or to
90 to the workhouse for five days. He
said he had no money.
Wanted to Be Locked Up.
He told Deputy Warden Lynch that five
days would dc him good, as he had been
drinking heavily for nearly week. He
asked for a drink of bromide and reminded
Lynch that Lynch had served him with
bromide once before about two years ago.
Mines was taken to Blackwell's Island with
four other prisoners from the Yorkville
prison.
The keeley cure, as it is generally called, :
had been widely known even before Mines
wrote about it. So strong in the faith are
the graduates" of Dwigh: that they have
formed the bi-chloride of gold club.
Mines said of this in his North A,seri-
can Reriep article that up to August
% $50 men had signed the
rolls OF membership, and of these only six
had come under discipline and had their
names striken from the rolls. Less than 1
per cent of patients discharged as cured,
said he, had fallen, and these had been sent
10 Dwight against their wills. No case of
willing patient who had gone back to his
old ways had been reported.
Mines described his first experiences at
Dwight as follows: "When / went to
Dwight there were hardly 100 patients
When l left, at the end of six weeks, there
were 240 under treatment. NV comrades
were lawyers, physicians, ministers, three
judges, the attorney general of one of the
new States at the West, an ex-Congressman
and an assorted lot OF half dozen State
Senators.
Bright Body of Men.
'fWithout exception they were the bright
est body of men l ever met and to say that
they could meet and exchange views daily
without interference or restraint, and vet
be made the victims of fraud, is an insult
10 common sense. There was no conceal
ment, no jugglerv, no suave or deceptive
talk, but the simple medical treatment of
our disease"
Mr.. Mines 16-year-old son accompanied
him to Dwight, and he, too, was convinced
that his father was sound. The boy became
an honorary member Of the Bichloride of
Gold Club.
''Our companions there" Mines wrote,
'were Mr.. Opie Read. editor of the
4rbGBsaw IrJgeler; e1-Congressman Tar
mey, of Michigan; George Wark, of
New York; Judge j. ID. Thayer, of
Warsaw, Ind; State Senator Rust, of Wis
consin; Cat Ayres late of the United States
army, graduate of West Point and vet
eran of the war, and many others, who have
given me permission to use their names and
who are sound and enthusiasts in the faith"
The Press Club will bury Colonel Mines.
There are reports Of relapse by another
New York patient of DR.. Keeley's 1t
should be added to this story that the gold
cure does not profess to insure patient
against relapse, but professes to remove
the appetite for alcohol, leaving it to be ac-