The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-11-05
A BRIEF TALK.
what the Old Man Saw on a Recent Trip
Down the r. g. d. Railroad

On the train the other day the editor
Of THE GLOBE met a gentleman, and in
q conversation with him, was given a
new phase of the Kelley treatment. The
man in question said that he needed some
sort of help, but that he did not propose
10 20 TO Greensboro because it would
admit a weakness.
We asked him what the weakness
might be.
and with a grim irony he said "Peo-
pie would know l was drinking w~hiskey.'
There had been varnish on the car,
and the window pane at one time mao
evidently been heated. The breath OF
this urbane and genial customer, how
ever. had reduced the glass TO ether, and
where there had been varnish was MOTH
ing bat a charred mass of WOOD, worn
smooth as a billiard ball.
The Old Man of THE GLOBE thought
that he would be facetious. He looked
AT the crows.fee around the eyes OF the
man who was talking to him-he saw
his nerves t~witching and he noticed that
the clothes he wore were Of the cheap,
hand ,me-down variety.
And he said, SO you would really have
some hesitancy in letting people know
that YOU lad been to the Kelley insti-
tute and had been cured of the disease Of
d~runkenpess Without giving him time
to answer the Old Man continued, and
very forcibly asked him this question,
which seemed TO be a climax to the whole
conversation
If you had the smallpox would you be
afraid to call in a doctor?
When q child and you had the humps,
the measles, the chicken-pOx, the whoop-
ing cough, did not your dear mother call
in al, the medical aid that she could pay
fol-? and perhaps more. And was she not
very solicitous as TO your condition: and
the fellows breath curled just here, and
he said
II will tell you, Old Man, | have been
about a good deal in the world and l
know that too much liquor has held me
down. never thought of the thing as
being a disease before, but | see it now,
tell you that 1 have tried time and
again 10 quit, to stop, to swing a red
shirt in front of the aCcursed stuff and
make out like l waved the danger signal,
but some how or other I always found
myself floating gradually back, and | see
now that it is a sort of fever with me
il comes on and l can't help it.
Now, so far as your Kelley cure is
concerned, / am thinking of going over
to Greensboro and letting DR.. Durham
and Mr.. Osborn take hold of me and see
what there is in it. | know very well
that Mr.. Osborn, the president, used to
drink whiskey, and | know that since he
went 10 Dwight, H., over a year ago,
aud took the Kelley treatment, he has
never drank any of the diluted mischief
which has always set me in motion.
Il know that for a long time DR.. Dur
ham, the physician in charge, was under
the influence of that diluted blight, and
that since he has been at Greensboro he
has been a gentleman, he has been more
than his best friends expected, he has
been recalled. He has regained his
health, his strength, his manhood, and
to-day no one would care to talk with a
more well informed gentleman han DR..
w. J. Ii. Durham, the physician in
charge of this institute.'t
All this was a cOnversati N on the
train. The Old Man Of this establish
ment quietly asked the question, Then
why do you not go to Kelley ~ and the
answeT was, 81 am on my way there
now" This was at Burlington. THE
GLOBE pursued the subject a little bit
further and a week after asked the gen
Lleman why it was that he had not gone
there before, and he said:
81 have heard attempts to laugh the
Kelley Cure out Of a community have
heard it said that those who attended
and were treated Immediately fell back
in the old paths, and only until | saw
about twenty different men in Durham,
where ] had lived, who were absolutely
cured Of the drink habit, then it was
that | said it was left for me to take the
treatment and prove that the last sinner
should be saved"
The train whistled. a station was
called, and the gentleman got off the
cars.
But in this connection, The GLOBE
wishes again to reCite what it has before
stated, that over four years ago when
we lived in Omaha, there were a great
number of intellectual inebristes. They
Were of that kind and that character
which called forth admiration. 1t de-
volved upon several associates of sew
egal gentlemen who were inclined 10
resort TO the flowing bowl to see that
they were safely carried over. After
four years of hard work, of honesty, and
Of what the world might call self-denial,