The morning call., 1892-11-09
NEVER GET DRUNK AGAIN
The Keeley-Cured Organize
Into a Club.
CHANCES FOR HARD CASES.
The Members Unite to Promote Social Inter.
course Among Graduates and Aid 9th
ers in Securing tbs Treatment

Graduates of the Kelley Institute at Los
Gatos have recently organized into a BIZ
chloride of gold club.
They have rented rooms az 113 Powell
street and have had them tastefully fur
nished with all that is considered essential
TO fully appointed club.
The last statement admits OF qualiiea-
tion. Many of the commonly accepted in
dispen sabAes of the average Bohemian or
ganization are conspicuously absent
What do you say to a club of young men
of the world where liquors and tobacco are
under ban? Perhaps there are such
bodies who manage to worry along without
the accompaniment Of clinking glasses, but
where is there one that makes any claim to
existence after denying the potency of the
charmed weed?
This is an age OF strange contradictions.
This is also an age of marvellous develop
ment. Who would have dreamed of this a
few years ago?
Times then were different. When drink
mastered the man he would go of by him.
self aud had little thought OF cOngregating
with his fellows unless in the main draw
ing-rOOm at the poorhouse. But now We
have the great DIR. keeleyl In case you
find you are taking a drop too much or the
small change you ought to save for brown
stone front on the avenue Is going over the
tObaccOnists counter instead, or even in
case you have been quietly hitting" the
dreamful opium pipe and are shocked to
find you can't well get on without it. why.
just pack up your griDsack and buy ticket
for Los GatOs.
If you haven't the proper change In your
clothes-and sometimes man gets tritl-
pressed after tnduiging any time In these
frvoities-all you have to do Is to draw on
the new Keeley Club and get the necessary
amount That Is one object OF the organize
alton.
Unless you are particularly tough case.
two weeks of continuous treatment will
cure your tobacco weakness. Three weeks
will satisfy the lien that whisky once had,
and four weeks will knock the opium or
morphine habit into cooked hat," so
they say.
You give the Keeley Club your note for
the amount advanced, with the understand
ing that yOG are 10 take Ii up as soon after
graduating at Los GatOs as circumstances
will permit.
Then of you 60 to DR.. Kelley. He gives
you snug little room, where you can live
and sleep and have an opportunity to mar
vel at your leisure over the strange sensa-
tions passing Ger you" as the wonderful
cure is being effected.
He makes you jump time or two each
day as he injects the habit-knoeking gold
into you, but you soon get used to that.
When your enforced sojOurn is over, back
you come to Frisco, as clipper and frolie-.
some as lamb.
You curl your lip in disgust at the first sa
loon you pass and wonder what it is a sane
man can like in the filthy liquor they are
gulping down.
Poor devil" you say. as dope fend
passes you. at sight of tObacco-stand you
actually break into laugh.
II is great sensation. surely. But you
have 10 meet that note at the Kelley Club,
so you hustle for few days and then you
are on your feet for good. Don't you think
the effort paid?
The dues at the Kelley Club are one dol
lar month. and the initiation fee is two
dollars and fifty cents. After running ex-
penses are met, the balance goes to swell
the fund from which other men can have
sums advanced to help them take the cure.
A discrimination Is made IN favor of mar
ried men. The membership of the club is
amOsti hundred. a series of entertain
ments Will be given during the winter. the
proceeds 10 go into the surplus fund.
The first will be at Pioneer Hall on the
17th of this month. Last week, at an elee-
tion Of officers A. w. Havens. secretary Of
the Bonanza mines, was chosen president;
X. ID. Rice, secretary. and John ID. Lang
hore Jr., treasurer.
James o. Shillcock, d. ). Hill and DR..
Joseph Sand were chosen to constitute
board of trustees.