The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-02
A DEAD CINCH.
A Keeley Institute Graduate Gives In HIS
Experience With Chloride Of Gold.

sas, and the day being the first OF the year
the conversation naturally drifted towards
the swearing-off habit, which is practlced
more or less all over the English speaking
world on New Years day.
Swearing of, said the gentleman in
question, "is a good thing if fellow
sticks to it. but the safest plan for lover
of whiskey to adopt is to take the bi-chlo-
ride of gold treatment and be done with
il"
''Do you think it is a success"
''Yes, sir: it is a dead cinch. l have
drank as much whisky in my life time
as any white man, and now since have
graduated at the Kelley institute whisky
has no temptation for me. L wouldn't
touch drop of it for the best farm N
Sedgwick county"
But, are you sure you Will not COM
mence again?'
Il am quite sure I will not Appetite
for whisky is not natural; 1t is acquired.
l was not born with an appetite for
whisky, and when l took the Kelley
treatment was born again, so to speak.
So far as my love for whisky
is concerned, 1t is precisely
fore taking my first drink A boy takes TO
drinking whisky because he has no concep-
ton of its effects; if he had he would never
cultivate tast for it. lam, therefore, less
liable to return to the drinking habit than
the most innocent boy in Wichita; for,
while L have no more appetite for it than
he has, 1 know its injurious effects and
viii never again cultivate a taste for it.
The great difference between swearing
off" and taking the chloride of gold treat
ment is this: II you take the chloride of
gold treatment the desire is completely
killed, and your will power has nothing to
do with your future conduct, while if you
swear off the desire is still with you and
nothing will prevent your returning to the
tipping bowl but a will force such as but
few men are endowed with.
why, my dear friend, have sworn off
hundred times, and l meant well, but
there were so many opportunities
offered when the flesh was weak
that | never succeeded in remaining sober
more than three months at time. When
the day was hot 1 longed for cool drink
of beer; when the day was cold thought
drink of whisky would he just the thing.
When had the blues prayed for an OPP
portunity in which l could find an excuse
to take a gin fiz and when 1 felt jubilant
and hilarious over the result OF an election
or some like pleasing event | would think
to myself what a nice thing it would be
if l could go out with the boys, bowl up
with them and share in their enthusiasm.
You see the desire and the APPETITE were
still there and l was continually in
danger of falling. AT the end of few
months of soberiety l would perhaps feel
that l was sick and if l wasn't
really sick / would try and
make myself believe that l was. With
this self imposed belief 1 would go to the
drug store, shrug my shoulders, tell the
druggist that l was sick and wanted a
good dose OF quinine. How will you take
it?' the druggist would ask, and would
very innocently ask him how quinine is
usually taken, knowing full well that he
would recommend it to be taken with a
good slug OF whisky. People generally
take it in whisky the druggist would say,
and then l would reply, We'll, l don't
drink myself, but of course if that is the
way they take it, guess l will take it
that way too This would break
the ice for me and by night l
would be bowling. There is a big
difference, 1 tell you, between the
cloride of gold graduate and the New Year
reformer. To illustrate. Let two fellows
swear off on New Years day and meet two
weeks afterwards. They will be very
glad, of course, that they kept their
! pledges and will congratulate one another
very heartily, but John will remark:
well, jim, temperance is great virtue,
amt itf but honestly now, Jim. wouldn't
| a good horn Of 10.year-old McBryer taste
good?' Eyes, you bet" Jim would reply.
1T would just touch the right spot in
me" and both would smack their lips and
each would wish in his heart that the
other would say, 'Iet us come and take
one more com aud then quit" And may be
both of them would break their resolution
right then and there, simply because the
New Years resolution didn't kill the APP
petite it is different with the Kelley
graduates. The appetite is killed in them,
aud two or more of them can meet at any
time and never express a desire for drink.
Don't you ever feel tempted to drink
when you meet your old drinking associ-
ates?"
'No. The fact is every time l think of
the taste of whisky my whole frame shud-
ders, and would ten times sooner take a
drink of vinegar than a drink of it. The
secret of the chloride of gold treatment is
not only that it kills the appetite, but it
absolutely makes you hate the very taste
of liquor.
"What is the method of treatment at the
| instituted
well, sir, it is funny. When l went
into the institute 1 learned there that
! could have all the good whisky l could
drink. for absolutely nothing. tasted it
and tell you it was fine. 1 didn't have
/ any faith whatever in the treatment and
! | congratulated myself on the fact that
where whisky was so good, so free and so
| plentiful could have a fine three weeks
! drunk, including board and lodgings as
well as free access to the billiard ROOM
etc, for the small sum of SIS. Why, said
! to myself, this is a picnic and l viii al
once proceed to bowl up. In the evening
| came down with the other fellows TO take
my shot, and"
! "Whst do you mean by shot"
! why that is what they call the injection
! because it is shot into a mans arm. Well
as said before, l came down in the even
/ ing to get my shot" and after taking it,
/ the physician gave me a fine bottle OF
whisky TO use during the night / had a
grand time with it all night, and the next
night it WAS repeated. In the morning OF
/ the third day after had taken my shot"
/ the physician handed me another quart
/ bottle Of whisky and then began to play