The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-03
STILL THEY COME
Testimonials Pourin From Happy
Thankful Graduates.
Great Rejoicing in the Homes of
the Cured.
Letter From g. L. Adams Oft George, Utah,
% Years Experience In the Drinking Line
cured at the Salt Lake KesIey Institute.
DR.. Arthur /. Groves:


Dear Friend--It is with q feeling Of
thankfuIness and great pleasure that l
write you this letter. l write it more as
q testimonial than letter, for my heart is
so filed with gratitude that feel relieved
in the though. that perhaps my experience
may be profitable to others.
From the age of sixteen have INDUCED
largely in alcohol in all its forms, and to-
bacco has been nearer to me than brother.
For the past eight years the fact Of my
slavery to drink has been known to the
world. considered a cigarette necessary
to my style Of etiquette and the most i'm
portant phase in the language of my peo-
pie was take drink!" My daily COM
fort was assisted with brandy and soda
on the side.
when Icould not obtain brandy, l soaked
my hide with "Dixie wine," and l was
always happy when l could, in the company
Of others indulge in the delicious white
eye." Perhaps you do not know what
white eyer Is, well will tell you. 1t is
made of fermented rotten peaches and
molasses skimmings and which would
turn the too sensitive y stomach of hog
but its nice on the principal that there ia
no bad wine only some is better than
others-"white eyer is made in some filthy
old dug out, and of course on the sly and is
purchased and drank in the same manner.
If | ever failed to get on g first-class
drunk any other way was always sure to
succeed when | tried white eye. Such was
my sad fix. and am sorry to say was not
alone, scores of others here today are so
diseased that unless they take the remedy
that / took-the Kelley cure-they are
doomed to drag out few mora years
OF disgrace and debsuchery and finally
perish in ignominy, poverty and despair.
1t was not without repeated struggles TO
free myself from this demon that reached
this degraded condition. 1 swear to you
that have tried as many times to quit it
as have been drunk but every time l
broke my pledge in the same old way.
My home was wretched and my family
suffered from neglect. Chills and fever
were my regular visitors-so regular were
they that could always tell when to ex-
pect them vet was powerless to stop them.
Home-that most sacred Of plsces-was no
place for me. Friends and relatives had
lost all hope in my ever reforming. I was
bringing my good old father slowly with
gray hairs to the grave. My familiar
haunts were many. But all these things
were nothing to me In comparison to my in
satlable thirst for liquor.
One day my father brought me paper
with letter in it written by Kelley
graduate, and after having read it asked
him what l should do. He said, go my son,
take this gold cure, even If it takes the
roof from over your familys head to get
there take it. This may seem hard, but it
was good advice, as itnow proved. | made
struggle and assisted by friends made
the necessary raise and started for Salt
Lake city. met manyo Of my friends (?)
and we had rip roaring old time. drank
heavy, antied up at bean poker, but finally
landed at the Kelley Institute, dead broke,
and was soon installed as frst-class
drunk of the deepest dye. felt that l was
too far gone to be redeemed, but thought /
would try 1t anrhow. The result is that l
am free from all desire for
either liquor or tobacco and can
stand before the world with words
Of soberness and truth for my fellow crea-
lures that cannot be gainsaid. l was sick
and am healed. l was a drunkard, but
thanks to God and the Kelley cure I am
now sober man. In the past l sought
pleasure in the wine cup; now 1 rejoice in
the happy circle of my family. l used to
rob my wife and children by depriving
them of the necessities of life in order to
obtain liquor for myself. Today they get
all my earnings and ] am rewarded by
bright and happy faces and kind and low
ing words. My dear old father reioices
with them aud 1 am fully satisfied that my
good mother ia gladened in her heavenly
home, for she suffered when on earth
through the knowledge of my sad condi-
ton. My genuine friends now give me
the warm shoulder They, like Thomas,
were hard Of belief at first but are fully
convinced now and numbers of my
old associates who still pursue the
demon have made up their minds to take
the treatment as soon as possible. am