The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-11-10
II KELLEY CURE.
What a Wilmington Patient Thinks Of
the Treatment.

the Treatment.
The ORION" March 81. 1892.
Editor Messenger:
Without his knowledge | take the liberty
of sending you for publication a private let
ter from a well-known citizen of Whining
ton, who Is now taking the treatment for
alcoholism at the Kelley institute at Greens
bOro, y. {. The results are so widely be-
n~efcent, attested by over 100000 sober men
and good citizens wrought out of drunkards.
that / make no further excuse for publish
ing the letter:
GREENSBORO, n. c. March %, 1892.
Dossey Pattle, Esq, Tarboro, \. C:
DEAR FRIESD-I came to the Kelley in
stitute three days ago TO be treated for what
| supposed to be an incurable disease; for
the reason that | had triod every remedy
power to stop drinking, but, instead of get
ting rid of the habit, it became worse, until
l gave up all hope of ever being cured and
expected to die as | had lived for the past
twenty-five or thirty years-a drunkard.
But, thank God, and DR.. Kelley and my
friends, who so earnestly interested them
selves in my behalf, it was decreed other
wise. For nearly five months | was on a
protracted spree, prior to my coming to the
institute and, as l have before mentioned, ]
have now been an inmate of the institute for
only three days and / can honestly and
truthfully say, that even in that short time
my appetite for liquor has gone, and now |
have no more desire for liquor than if had
never tasted a drop in my life.
1t is wonderful; it is unaccountabie to
me. | cannot realize it, when, before, my
whole aim and aspiration was to get all the
liquor l could, drink all I could and get as
drunk as possible.
| am going to adhere strictly to the rules
and regulations of the institute, and then, by
the grace of God, return to my wife and
children and friends a cured man, a free
man-at last freed from the accursed habit
of drink and a happy man.
Very truly yours,
ISAAC N%ORTHROP.
After taking the treatment and returning
home Mr.. NOrthrop wrote a personal letter
to the manager of the institute as follows:
WILMINGTON, n. c., April 26, 1892.
Judge w. II. EIler:
My DEAR FRIEND-I arrived safely last
evening and am happy to inform you that
found my dear wife and family all well, and
anxiously awaiting my coming. There were
a number of my friends at the depot to meet
me, and congratulate me on my safe return.
| feel like a new man. 1t is difficult for me
to satisfy myself of my own identity, the
change has been so great. Four weeks
treatment at the Kelley institute has done
for me what money could not buy-a sober
man, and a happy man, clothed in my right
mind, and restored to manhood, made out of
a drunkard. Oh! what a wonderful discOv-
cry DR.. Keeley's double chloride of gold
cure for drunkenness has been 1t has no
parallel in the nineteenth century. As for
whiskey, I never want it; my appetite has
gone. and | firmly believe | shall never
want it again. My health is better than it
has been for years, and everything is
brighter to me, and I feel as though l had
heen freed from a prison, where | had been
bound in chains for a lifetime, and now, with
the shackles removed, "Bless the Lord"
I am free and happy; and, my dear friend,
if you could but just look in upon us for a
few moments at our little home, and see a
| sober father and husband surrounded with a
dear loving wife and two precious little
daughters, you could but rejoice with Inc,
and say, "Bless the Lord oh, my soul, and
| all that is within me bless his holy name"
for his goodness and mercy to me! Thank
God that a Kelley institute was ever estab-
lished in North Carolina, and l would, if |
had the power, send every inebriate in
| North Carolina to this institute. God bless
DIR. Kelley. Ever your friend,
ISAAC NORTHROP.