The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-26
THE KELLEY INSTITUTE.
MR.. THIGPEN's TESTIMONY.

submit this for your considers- /
ton, and should you deem IL worthy |
Of publication you have my consent
TO PRINT it.
Unsolicited | ind myself writing
these lines, which have feltincllned
to do ever since | finished NJ course
of treatment al the keel,y institute
at Greensboro. \. &. 1t affords me
much pleasure TO be able to i.ut be-
fore tie reading public ny experience
az a whiskey drinker, because | feel
that | AN now delivered forever from
the letters that had me so completely
bound IN love for that which was
sapping my life away, and destroy
ing all manliness and self respect, as
vel! a. respect 10 ny fellow MAJ,
thereby losing the respect ALL friend
ship of those who desired to be my
friends. For the |, asst twenty years
| have been more or less & partaker
Of that beverage called whiekey;
some times to an excess, and At
others not so much, and like a good
many others, felt that | could at
any time quit off at will. | found
my self promising that | would never
get drunk anymore, but would take
my dram whenever [ felt like It.
One after smother I found my
promises broken, and my dram had
Increased to drinks, drinks had
made ne drunk. What a state for a
man to be ID, not even aware Of his
own existence 1t makes me shud-
der to think of the past. What is il
that might not happen to mao. and
what Is 1t that man might not do
t when so completely blinded with
7 whiskey, that he is not aware Of his
3 own existence? Friends, brothers
t and sisters, this has been my ex
r perience, and to my sorrow, ever
:, more times than one-never however
g without promising myself that i
should never be 80 again. But alas
? its evil Influence has such wonder
ful power and effect on the mind anC
S BODY SO diseased, that it becomes al
S lmpossibility for one so unfo1tunat
u to resist the thirst and desire whicl
Il IS so strong. Those who have neve
y experienced it, can rarely syppa
d thize with one so unfortunate, an,
r, right here | will say, at Greensbor
s Kelley institute, where hundreds ar
going to get relieved from th
o dreadful curse, you will find them re
Il lating experiences all of whic
b are pretty much the same; and there
o after being brought out from unde
e the banefnl influence of whiskev b
" the Kelley treatment, you will fin
t. the most sympethizing and brotherl
n feeling existing by as noble, int
t. lectual and generous hearted men 8
e. can be found in any cline or countr,
Ks The last three years of my III
II there were but few days that 70
q breath was not tainted with the SINE
Is Of whiskeV. It seemed to me tbl
whiskey had become to be one OF tt
"a essentials of life, and it was ia
lr destroying in me all that it took
It. be man, and dragging me down c
10 a level with the brute creation; az
lr how | fought hard against 1t, with
myself, no one can ever know b.
~ my self. Yet found myself co
le tinually giving way, and it SCENE
10 as if there was 90 hope. But c.
de In his allwise providence, and al
10 seeing eyes has seen fit to reve
~ unto man a remedy, which cures
VI properly taken, as administered
W two as fine specimens of Gods Gre
H. tion of humanity, Judge ". H. Ell
lis and DR. Durham Of Greensboro, n {
discovered and prepared by DR.. L.
Kelley, Dwight, III man who
m Ive never seen, but Que whom
shall ever love and respect, for VIII
on he has done for me, and what be
n. doing for thousands of others, wi
or Gold and Dope.
% On the 18th Of April | started f
us Greensboro /" %" cured, they sal
49, of d hiking walske:. lett hor
ifs carl. in the mocnj g, n cotafa.
t." wltE the deare-t OF sisters VINO :
es compared me to the Institute, ST.
ro- pose to insure ny safe arrival at til
place, for | think it very doubtf,
IRE bat for her that [ should ever ha
he landed there, having no eonfdent
lid whatever IN being cured. hei
ok blinded and persuaded by whisk
influence. | began the treatment t
ur- next morning after M arrival on t
bo nju mt of the l3tn taizinu tho On