Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-18
WILL VISSCHBR ATDNIGHT
What Keeley Did for the Well
Known Washington
Journalist
He Returns Home Cured of His
Appetite for Alcoholic
Stimulants
He Meets Some Distinguished
lnebriates---The Bi-Chlo-
ride Club

Yesterdays west-bound Northen
Pacific train, says the Spokane Re
view Of the 18th inst, brought back tC
Washington the first distinguished
citizen of this state to take the K-eley
cure at the headquarters at Dwight
When the train pulled in at the sta.
ton, VIII Nisscher, the well-knowu
poet, lecturer, humorist and journalist,
climbed down from his car and greeted
a few friends in waiting. He was on
his way to his home in Tacoma, where
he proposes to take up the duties of
life anew, and to live out the rest or
his days without the assistance of the
cup that cheers and likewise inebriates
81 know that / am cured" =" he said
"and that | shall never drink another
drop Of intoxicating liquor so long as I
live
"Iell us about Dwight and Kelley,
| Nissch."
"Well, | went down to Chicago. on
my way to Alabama, and as | am "A
member of the Chicago Press Club
| fell i'm with "a lot of cunvivial friends
ana ! am afraid went on one of NV
! periodical periods of cOnviviality
Bmcby ! went on down South, and
when ! returned met number of Old
friends who had been cured. and if
struck me if they could bc cured the
treatment could be relied upon To-
bring me out Of the depths. 50 / took
the train for Dwight, staid there three
weeks and a day, and came away
with conviction Of cure that
! had never before possessed When .
] got there the doctors took sharp /.
knife and cut slit i'm my shirt sleeves .
they then injected the bichlOridc of.
gold solution. -Four times "a day they /
old tins, and i'm addition to that cave
me medicine To- take internally every
two hours during the day and evening.
At llI-i the treatment sort of adde's
fellow, but i'm little while he begins to
brace up, hope takes possession of him
his mind brightcus up, and he becomes
relieved Of all doubt and worry abouf
the future. The realization comes to
him that he is being cured Of "a terrible
disease and that in little while ne
will go out into the world and begin
life anew.
"lhe treatment costs s2j "a week and
the other expenses Of living carry the
cost up to about 500 week. Board cam
be had in private houses for sG and s7a
week, but most Of the patients prefer 10
the hotel, where the rates are s. a dav.
The water at Dwight is poor ana our
party drank nothing but Bethesda
water.
"Ihe last two weeks ! was there were
more IN the nature Of pleasant vaca- {
ton than life at a hospital. / met .
there a host Of bright intellects-- law {
yers, doctors, merchants, journalists. {
preachers Of ability and ambi- I
JlOn whose lives had been cloudcd bv {
1rnk. Somehow or another they took {
= great fancy to me, elected me presi
lent oft the Bichloride of Gold Club with 8
4 rush,an when | came away they turn {
lut en- masse to bid me good bve. ]
are expected to make fare s
Well speech, and when arrived at the q
Jld church that has been converted
nto the club house ! found it full To a
,VerloWlng. ! made what / consider c
he best speech Of my life. There was i
to call out the enort-hope. y
eheWed ambition, the pleasant greet \
- 50 VI a il'1N VI illtibS ana InG belief l.
hat my words would carry courage J.
nto the hearts Of hundreds. I spoke
or an hour and the crowd or W so j
'reat that men carried boxes TO the
windows and stood on them outside to
Isten to the Speech
Your faith then in the new cure is y
bsOlute2n o
at has thousands Of living testimon- j
ais. 1t will cure any man who has >
arr degree Of pride and ambition. IT >
as cured Opie =. Read, who is now !,
BILE to do something that he has not u
one before in years-attend a banquet
there wines are flowing without tast-
lg drop. When ! saw what il had y.
one for him ! made up my mind it u
'ould cure me, and now know that u
m cured.n u
Then the train began to move away Il
the west and Nisscler spranV upon u
he platform with the nimblenes5 Of g
outh, his good-natured face beaming
nth joy and affection for all the world,