The Republican journal., 1892-07-21
The Maine Press Excursion.
OUR GEORGE GOES 10 THE RANGELEY.

leys. OF course / don't mean always, but
for the last fifty or seventy-hve years have,
and when the association decided to go there
l metaphorically wept for joy. / never weep
any other way, unless l stand in the close
presence of good looking girl. who is slic-
ing raw onions and the wind is blowing my
way.
The party, numbering thirty-three, met at
Pennington, arriving there on different
trains from different directions. Our party
of seven from Belfast got there before dinner
and proceeded to "The Willows" to await
the coming of the rest. Here we We're met
by McLearey, who took the party III the
afternoon, and drove them about the beauti-
full village of Pennington. Lest some
body from Boston should criticise the
above paragraph. and think Mac drove us
about town like flock of sheep, L will state
that he procured vehicles to which We're at
tached horses, which hauled the vehicles con-
tanning the party through the roads, streets,
avenues and by-ways of the settlement.
Among the other notable places there is
a branch of the much talked of keeley cure,
and | must say that for once in my life got
interested in a practical temperance lecture.
| defy any one to 60 to Pennington and stay
there half a day, and not come away favorahy
impressed with the Kelley cure. Up to the
time We're there, 115 patients had been
treated, and ia had been cured of a desire
for liquor up to date, and that one was dis
charged, because he did not obey the rules.
| talked with several of the patients and
they all told the same story. Had all been
| confirmed drunkards, We're brought, or came
there full as a goat. One had the Jim jams,
and said he did not know for three days
whether he was in Pennington or New York.
He had been there five weeks and was GO
ing home the next day. Said he had no more
desire for liquor than if he had never usedit.
Another patient was a New Yorker about 40
years old. Said he to me, give seen it all.
I've been as hard as they make EN- for Is
years | have lost money, lost friends, lost
position, and came near losing as good a
wife as a man ever had, by my brutal treat
ment of her Through a friend who was
cured, | came here. When | arrived | had
to be carried to my room. My legs, from
above my knees We're para wed. rum par
alyss-I was drinking 10 ounces OF wills
key every day CHAT quart and quarterly
They gate me at the cure % ounces a day,
which | took for about four days Then |
stopped, and have had no desire for it since.
Have taken the treatment i've weeks. and
my legs are almost as good as new, and
feel like new man. shall stay till Sep
temller about here and shall 60 into the
/.
York. When you lear talk like this on al
sides from men who have each been Cone of
the boys YOU cannot help being favorahly
impressed. 1t is not revival excitement,
for the patient has nothing in the world to
do, but get full if he wants to A near as |
could find out. the treatment is about like
this. When the patient applies to the cure
he registers his name and pays $4,000 down,
which entities him TO three we ks treatment
which is the average time needed. This
does not include board, which he can obtain
anywhere, -Four times a day, at appointed
hours, the patients There IS there now
form a line, with the left arm ont of the
sleeve of the coat, and a slit cut in the Sleeve
OF the shirt, and the coat pulled up over the
shoulder the arm hanging by the side As
they pass by where the attending doctor
stands each one throws his coat from his
shoulder extends his arm and the doctor. |
with hyperdermic syringe, niertS some
thing into his arm. and he puts on Ills coat
and goes out. This tl.ey call taking the |
shot" and the institution they dub the
shooting gallery. Every two hours DUR |
ing the day they take small dose Of liquid |
medicine. This is all there is to it and /.
think that it speaks volumes tol tile institute
ti"n When is drunkarts with nothing to do
all day. and barrel ri wliislley right where
they can have all they want of it, after three
or four days have nv desire fur ILL., 1t may
he a htlmhug. and if may be fad but either
II Is eitecting some wonderful results or it
is very successfully manufacturing a large
number Of first class liars. At each branch
OF the cure. there is All alphabetical list of
every patient that has been treated, and if a
patient goes to drinking again lie will
not be admitted the Sc cond time
There is none Of this forg;ving ninetv-
nine times at the Kelley. One ticket is all
you get. DIR. Kelley says that lie can cure
nnety-tve per cent. of the cases brought to
him, but he cannot make brains, and man
who will acquire a taste for liquor after he
has lost it, he considers branless Some
how that remark seems TO Indicate that
keelev possesses quite quantity of the ar
ticle himself. If | were addicted to the hab-
it of being sober only one day in the
month, and could get hold of ninety dollars
[ should certainly take a three weeks OUT
ing to Pennington in close proximity to the
Kelley cure. One man told me that he had
been in every inebriate YUM in the country
and they did him good in fact nothing
had till he came there. l did not intend
this letter for temperance lecture, but |
got so interested in the cure, that thought
possibly the readers of the Journal, who
We're as ignorant as | had been about it,
would be interested too. | Shall not be Of
Tended if any one skips this part of my let
ter
About four in the afternoon the party met
at the depot of the Sandy River r. r. Here
| saw ''Gid" Foss, who used to be station
master in Belfast. He has charge Of the sta
ton at Pennington where he has BEEN [
think, since the s. r. R. R was opened for
business. This road is narrow glIage and
next to litter of new pigs, narrow guage