The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-03
CURED AND UNCURED.
A San Francisco Journalist Who Has
Tested the Kelley Cure All Round.

A San Francisco Journalist Who Has
Tested the Kelley Cure All Round.
[Brooklyn Times.]
Nothing is more strikingly characters
tic of the age in which we live than the
tendency to dispassionate investigation.
The modern man and the modern woman
like to acquire knowledge without the
intervention of emotion or excitement.
We have jubilantly enthroned the judic-
ial faculty, and when the court knows
itself there is neither smoker nor a
SWIVEL.
A recent illustration of this species OF
mastery is furnished by the case of Rob-
ert Duncan Milne, the well known San
Francisco journalist. Mr.. Milne is a
man of very exceptional talents. He is
a brilliant writer whose services are al
ways in demand, He is particularly
brilliant when he is not entirely sober,
,lnd a realization of this fact may have
Influenced him in acquiring the habit OF
being something less than sober during
the greater part of the time. In fact, If
Nj. Milne himself is to be believed, he
came to prefer being drunk. He claimed
to find the state of drunkenness not only
profitable on the literary side since it
was the state in which he was most fer
tile and effective, but distinctly agreea-
BILE in itself At any rate the condition
of intoxication became MI. Mines nor
NAL condition.
When the Kelley treatment for drunk
enness came to be advertised, Mr.. Milne
turned his attention to the discovery in
the spirit of scientific interest that inva-
riably actuates an enlightened mind.
For himself Milne preferred inebriety; to
him it represented an ideal state; but
recognizing the fact that all people were
not of his way Of thinking, and that the
objects sought by the Kelley cure were
dear to a great number of his fellow
creatures, he bethought him that his
own person might afford the severest
individual test of an invention widely
hailed for its potency.
This was how Milne came to take the
Kelley treatment. And Milne was COM
pletely cured Scientifically the test
was an entire success. The former ine-
briate retained no physical inclination to
imbibe whiskey. But he was conscious
through the agency of his memory and
reasoning faculties of distinct inferiori-
ty in the changed condition of his crea-
tive forces. Not only was the sober
Milne less happy than the inebriated
Milne, but he was less brilliant By his
own statement his faculties were obvi-
ously inferior.
For four weeks the Keeley-cured Milne
demonstrated the scientific soundness of
the Kelley claim. Having done this
much Milne, soherly, with the same dis
passionate and judicial intellectually
which he had exercised in the preceding
instance, bethought himself of ascertain
ing whether whiskey, in it's turn, had
any power over biehloride of gold. With
no craving for liquor and every social in
ducement to remain sober, Milne deter
mined, in the interests of science, to
make the experiment. Again he was
successful. Today he is the old Milne,
as drunk and as brilliant as ever.
The moral of Mines case is perhaps
somewhat obscured. But it is there.
To the world in general, delighted as it
must be with the felicity of Mines logic
the moral will doubtless seem to be this.
Don't try to prove too much.