The herald., 1893-10-29
WOLVES IN HEEPsCLoTHING.
a Warning to the Public Against Dam
gerOua ImitatOrs.

a Warning to the Public Against Dan
gerous Imitators.
The following is from Pacific Town
Talk, San Francisco, March 1lth
In the present imperfect state OF ex-
istence an unmixed good seems to be an
impossbility. Every blessing seems to
bring in its train concomitant evil, in
visible, perhaps, at the first, but exist
ing, nevertheless, and awaiting only
certain concatenation of circumstances
to reveal its dread reality. When a
couple of years ago, the world awoke to
O realization of the glad truth that
sure and perfect cure for the drunken
ness and opium habit had been discov-
cred, it was hailed as the greatest bless
ing that had been vouchsafed to weak
and suffering humanity since the dawn
of the Christian era. And go it was and
is. But in its train came the inevitable
evil against which all reputable jour
refer to the army of iakirs, ouacks and
charlatans who, under the time-worn
guse OF something just as good" are
trading on the miserles of their fellow
men, trifing with the holiest atfec-
tions OF humanity, and bringing
into disrepute the benefcent kee-
lev remedies. The endorsement OF
Or. Keeley's treatment by the highest
medical authority, and it's unvarying
success, brought into the field perfect
cloud of ir,aita UUrr who adops +ha tarm
"bi-chloride of gold cure" and by means
of the most plausible and ingenius ad-
vertising succeeded in but too many
cases in hoodwinking uniformed peo-
pie into the belief that they were admin
istering the genuine Keeley remedies.
This is especially 80 in this state, where
there are more than a ecore of these
counterfeit, bogus, bi.chloride of gold
fakes, whose proprietors pretend to cure
drunkenness, the opium, chloral and
cocaine habits by remedies similar to
DIR. Keeley's. They are. without excep-
tiuu, dangerous huia bugs and should be
avoided like pestilence by the friends
of unfortunate persons requiring treat
ment. By thus counterfeiting remedy
that has proven the salvation OF tens OF
thousands, these imposters tend to
cripple its usefulness and retard the
work of tempe rance and reformation,
while the money taken from the famil-
les and friends of the poor inebriate Dy
these alleged cures is worse than wasted.
The foregoing was suggested by the
writer's having met on Pine street, this
city, during the present week, bril-
liant young lawyer who had just affected
his escape from one of these pseudo
gold cures" which he located "across
the bay" He had passed week at the
institution and was in a most de-
plorable condition physically and and
mentally. II vent there" said
he, Shy the advice of friends
who told me it WAS identical with
keeley's institutes, and they have been
pumping their poisons into me for
week. The second day was there they
gave me dose that threw me into con-
vulsions and bit my tongue almost in
two. l met physician from the north
west, who was also under treatment,
and after week we discovered that the
whole thing was fraud and decamped
more dead than alive" Now here WAS
a man who, had he gone to the regular
Kelley branch institute a. Los Gatos,
would today be we'll man, with the ap-
petite that is running his life completely
eradicated. But he fell into the hands
of the imposters, and now his faith in
any cure for the terrible curse of rum
has received fatal shock. We cannot
too strongly warn our readers against
these dangerous imitators - these
Evolves in sheep's clothing" Not one
OF them knows the ingredients of the
Kelley remediee. and there are but two
branches OF the Kelley institute in Cali.
fornia, and these are at Los Gatos and
Riverside,