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a Boon to Humanity.
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n Boon to Humanity.
[Webster's Weekly
One of the greatest medical discoveries
of the age is the Kelley cure for drunk
ness and opium habit. Applying to it
the good old test of Judging a tree by its
fruit, we feel constrained to pay it this
tribute.
With the controversy between the dis
coverer and the medical fraternity we
have nothing to do. We know nothing
as to the ingredients of the celebrated
remedy. 1t may or may not contain
gold, so far as we know. But we know
something as to its effects, as do thou
sands of others. We know good fruit
when we see and taste it, though we may
not be able to analyze it. We do not
know the proceeds by which fruit be.
comes fruit, scientifically speaking. nor
do we let our lack of knowledge lead US
into the error Of rejecting a good thing
because we do not understand it.
We are glad that DR.. Kelley had the
pluck to stick to his discovery and would
not down at ridicule or detraction. His
faith in his remedy is great and has in
spired faith on the part of the public
For years and years he fought against
prejudice and bigotry, but he had back
bone and won the fight. He no doubt
all the great inventors were at first ON
sidered cranks and humbugs. He knew
that the first steamer that crossed the
Atlantic had on board a lot of tracts
which argued very %learnedly that steam
ship navigation was impracticable and a
trip across the great deep by means of
steam power was an i~mpossibility. He
doubtless recalled also that when it was
proposed to cut and bind grain in the
field by means of machinery, some good
people said, at can't be done" The
man who dares to think new thoughts,
to strike out in new fields, always meets
with strong and determined opposition.
1t has always been so.
What would the world be to-day but
for the 'craDks of old times? All honor
to the men who bave had the courage
to think and act for themselves in every
department Of life. Are they not the
men who have blessed the race? Who
is not glad that they defied the rabble and
blazed the way for the progress of hu
mainly?
When DR.. Kelley said he could cure
the liquor and opium habit the little
Solomons instantly popped up and said ::
at cant be done" The doctor con-
sidered he knew what he was talking
about. He let the brethren hug the
pleasant delusion to their breasts while
he went ahead and gave a practical de-
monstration of his theory. He did not
satisfy them as to his process and proba-
bly, meyer will but he did better-took
the drunkard from the gutter and sent
him home cured, clothed and in his
right mind"
But the Kelley cure is no longer an
experiment. Thousands have been cured
of the liquor and opium habits by it and
are living epistles of its efficacy, known
and read of all men. The remedy's best
advertisement is the cures it has effected.
The institute at Greensboro has done a
great work. Thousands have peel treated
successfully there. Many of the cures
have come under our personal observa-
ton. We have seen men go there who
were apparently beyond all hope and
after taking the treatment return 10 their
friends entirely free from the liquor and
morphine habits. The people of Reds
vile are thoroughly familiar with several
cases. One gentleman took the treat
ment for the morphine habit, which he
contracted by using the drug to relieve
rheumatism, from which he suffered
greatly. The following interview with
Mr.. Decatur Barnes, a prominent citizen
of Reidsyille. by a representative of The
Weekly, speaks for itself:
| Question. Have you been to the Kelley
institute?
Answer. Yes.
q. What caused you to go?
: A. An aggravated case of "the NOR.