The Republican journal., 1892-12-29
The Kelley Institute at North Conway

A correspondent of the Portland Press
recently visited Forest Glen, the Kelley
Institute at North Conway, N. H., and
patients. We quote as follows:
In one way it seem pitiable to see so
many very young men there to be cured
of intemperance, when at their time of
life they should always have been fresh of
heart and hopeful and never have known
Encouragement, much less the inebrate's
despair; but on second thought there is
the feeling that the world can not be
grateful enough for the blessed discovery
of this open door of escape for poor cap
tives from a prison in which they are tor
tured by the most memorable tyrant the
world ever knew, an appetite for strong
drink.
And freedom is given to these young
men while there is yet time to make
amends, while they may comfort the hearts
that have ached for them before they
must look back on a long path of wasted
years, the path of life that no one treads
but once whose course is irrevocable,
and missteps irretrievable. let optimists
tlatter and try to flatter as they may.
There is a pleasant home atmosphere at
/ the Forest Glen, that is most grateful to
the wounded self-respect and sensitive
/ pride of the patients. The very presence
there of the sweet and gracious woman
on whose shoulders the mantle of her ven
Grated father seems to have fallen, (for
she is helping on his life work in differ
ent way her gentle presence and tender
charity are like healing to them that come
4 to be cured.
You can not think what revelation
/ IL, Ia;
/ these men have been to me- she said to
the writer, lately. Il grow all the time
more interested in the work, and have
more and more sym pathy for the men
who come here. | am Il convert to the be
lief that physical rather than moral or
spiritual remedies are needed to cure in
temperance.
Many of the Kelley patients stay at
houses in the village rather than at Forest
Glen during their time of treatment, and the
| people who make homes for them invari-
( ably become deeply Interested in 1.-THE
Kelley cure.
| At the Womans Club the other after
noon an enthusiastic young woman read
! inspiring articles from 1.-The Woman $
League, telling of cases in which she had
become especially interested from having
SO we'll known the sufferers in her own
home land lovely Willow Glen is surely a
veritable Beulah Land in the memory of
many a one) and said she believed the
/ keeley movements to be the only temper
ance work that has brought reward. She is
the niece and adopted daughter of a saint
cd clergyman, now entered into his rest
who labored faithfully in every good cause
| here. and listening to her earnest voice and
advocacy, probably more than one present
| thought gratefully that good deeds and a
righteous influence are indeed hereditary
no less than evil inclinations and weak
wills
Every afternoon in the wintry twilight
a great mountain wagon rolls down the
hard frozen road. taking load of men to
the keeley Institute for the afternoon
treatment.
! 1t makes me positively unhappy"
said a young girl to an older friend. rs
( the wagon passed them. 'There is some
thin tragical about it, and do You know
what it makes me think of? 1t is OF Il
tumbril loaded with prisoners being car
led to the gnillotne
alfred \ ork had happier fancy
said her friend. 1t is letter To believe
they 90 to drink from Ponce de Leon $
fountain of YOUTH. And she thought of
a man she mad known Ton many years. a
man who had great talents. mental Guilt
walton and manly beauty. but who in spite
OF all these gifts-perhaps all the faster be
cause Of tiem-Went the downward road
until it became painful to meet him, for
the thought OF what lie once was, of what
I he might have been. In the very depths
of despair. in very desperation. he drank
from the fountain Of youth. and any who
might be skeptical, have only now to see