Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-19
A TALK With VISSGHER
The Genial Colonel Submits TO
the Anger of the In
terViewer
His Eventful Trip to the South
and East and What He
Saw and Heard
HIS Distinguished Classmates
at Dwight---W Worlds Fair
and Politics

ful trip to the East and South. He
came down from Tacoma on business
connected with the mandamus pro-
ceedings against the board Of tide land
appraisers and will return to Tacoma
today.
The colonel has kept his eyes and
ears open during his tour, and u re-
porter Of the HERALD who met him
late last evening found him as full of
meat as an egg.
In yeply to questions on the various
subjects touched upon, Colonel Visscher
said:
eyes, had a good time on the two
months trip barring nearly three
weeks illness in Alabama. / was in
Montgomery, however, at my mothers
home, among sisters and brothers and
lot of young ladies and gentlemen,
many Of whom | had never seen before,
though they were my nephews and
nieces. In Montgomery / stood upon
the spot at the capital where JEFF Davis
stood when he took the oath of Office
as president Of the Southern COnfcdcr-
acy, was shown the Bible which he
kissed upon that occasion and was
ChaperOned through the supreme court
chamber and other interesting portions
of the old capital building by the old
gentleman who was the governor of.
Alabama when the war broke out and
who was aiterWard "a maiOrgcucral i'm
the Southern army and later the attOr-
ney-gcneral i'm Jetts cabinet. His
name is Watt and he told me many
good stories concerning the former Ala
bama statesmen, among them William
l.. Nmcy, whose portraits adOm the
walls Of the supreme court rooms and
the library.
"No, Alabama is not i'm what might.
be called a tlOurishiug condition. The
last cotton crop though very large is
being sold at the lowest price that cot
ton has ever brought and that makes it
bad again. Birmingham, the new
city in Northern Alabama, is a -four
ishiug place, but il is "a place of coal
and iron industries and its enterprises
are, for the most part the fruit Of
Northern capital and energy. APP
preaching the place at night on the
cars its numerous blazing stacks, chin
neys, coke ovens and furnaces Of one
kind or another give one a hint Of the
orthodox idea of that calOrifed coun-
try, the existence Of which is denied
by my friend "POpe' lngersoll. Speak
ing of Birmingham, | met there James
Reynolds, who will be remembered i'm
the early and halcyOn days Of Fair
haven as the partner in the real estate
business Of our excellent iellOw-CitiZen
Frank J. Hamilton. Jim is i'm the
whisky business there and keeps a
flOurishing establishment of that kind
called the Dude" saloon. He is fat,
happy and prosperous. He made me
a present of large flask Of Kentucky's
famous liquid staples, of fine quality
the little end of which ! surrendered to
DIR. Keeley's assistants at Dwight a few
days afterward There was some of it
left because there was a great quantity
of like material discovered at other
points along the road.
"Oh, yes! ! was at Dwight both as
an investigator and an object of pro-
fessiOnal sOlicitude to DR.. Kelley and
his staff. So much has already been
said about the matter that | have no
particular sensitiveness on the subject.
All my friends knew exactly what my
habits were as 10 intoxicants, and while
was only at long periods given to the
cultivation Of sympOsiums, ! feel GER
tain that those who like me will not
think less Of me because | have made
what ! think to be a successful effort to
ego it dry" for the future. As to others,
their opinion is immaterial to me. For
/ love my friends and do not consider
my enemies, if have any.
"No, DR.. Keeley doesn't propose to
paralyze peoples arms so that they
cannot lift a glass to the lips. He only
preIends to eliminate intOXiCants from
the system, and place the patient i'm
the condition he was in before he be-
gan TO drink. After going through the
treatment, one is unable to hold down
intoXicants for a few weeks-or even
for few moments, as TO that-after-
ward, however, if he is fool enough, he
can cultivate the drink habit again.
and If the effort doesn't kill him
quickly he will at last succeed i'm rails
ing his capacity for the devil-brOth
back to the standard that he had ac-
quired before. The treatment, how
ever, eradicates, utterly and entirely,
the desire or appetite for alcoholic bev-
erages, and by similar processes DIR.
| keeley's method cures the morphine,
cocaine and tobacco habits.
"Did ! meet any distinguished peo-
! pie there? Well, | should say | did.
| And ! saw ever 50 many graduates Of
the Kelley institute, from those Of two
years to three days standing, who are
/ happy in having been cured at
| Dwight, whose names are almost
household words i'm their states, many
Of them men Of international reputa-
ton. | do not care to give names, but
! will mention a few in a roundabout
way. In my "clasr" there, graduating
the same day with me, and coming
as far as Chicacp with me- was a