St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-05-17
Correspondents
KELLEY INSTITUTE.
The Home of the Kelley Cure at
Dwight, III.

home institute mere at dwight IL
world wide, and at present there are
over 200 patients in line, represent
ing nearly every state in the Union.
At one time there were 114O IN line,
but that was in the good old repub-
lican times. All kinds of business
feel the financial depression and this
business is no exception. We see
here a motley crowd of patients, men
coming from every state IN the
Union and from every walk in life.
The doctor, lawyer, judge, army Of
fcer and bank president are OF no
more Importance here than the coal
digger, the farmer or most men1aI
laborer. They are all inebrlates and
all treated firmly but courteously.
Dwight is such a dull place to
spend four weeks in that the patients
are continually racking their brains
for some joke to 'spring" upon their
fellows. One day resident OF St.
Louis, named Powell, discovered a
mineral spring and so informed the
other patients The next new
patient was cordially invited to
visit the mineral spring. He accep-
ted and walked off, arm in arm with
Powell, while forty or more of the
boys followed on to see the fun.
Powell walked him up one street,
down the next, crossed and re-cross-
ed, and finally stopped down by the
round house in front Of the mineral
spring, which was nothing but an
! T he lob Of
disgust on the victims face was the
signal for cheers and yells from the
following crowd. Six or seven new
patients arrived each day and they
were taken, one at time, to the
mineral spring, much to the amuse-
ment of the older ones.
1t was my lot to fall an easy vic
tim to this man Powell. Tapping
me on the shoulder, he said, DO
you see that old gray-haired man
leaning on the counter ~ l saw him
plainly enough. "Do you know"
said Powell, "he kept his wife three
weeks without burying her just be-
fore coming down here?" mo"
said l, in amazement. is that so!
What after she was dead!' NO."
saws Powell, she wasn't dead" and
the laugh was on me.
One man is now here for the
opium habit, who has lost both legs
just below the hip joint. The hotel
porter carries him to and from his
meals and in other ways serves him
in the place of his legs. He was a
switchman on a railroad and caught
his foot in defective track and was
held there while train passed over
him. He is now suing the road for
5000, and in the magnanimlty OF
their hearts they offered him S1O,-
900 to settle. There was a man
here for treatment some time ago
who was the exact counterpart OF
the caricature of Uncle Sam, and
each time the hypodermic needle
entered his arm his chin would flop
up until it nearly touched his beak-
like nose, and his pointed chin
whiskers nearly blended with his
shaggy eyebrows, a comlcal picture
indeed.
One of the staff of regular ply
sicians here is DR.. Allen Burdick, a
one time a St. Tohnsbury boy. He
had a little unpleasantness with
President Bartlett of Dartmouth, so
uS says, WlilCu HI I1S SDSh0-
ing few months in our scale town,
pending an amicable adjustment of
his difficulty. His recollections OF
our people are only pleasant ones,
for he was received by them with
open arms, having that mysterious
romance to recommend him which
every suspended college student
possesses.
DR.. Kelley is a large, stately APP
pearing man. with silver hair and
mustache and is pleasant man to
meet. He was first to demonstrate
that drunkenness is a disease, and |
the results of more recent study by
the medical profession have only
confirmed his early Investigations. |
Having discovered the disease, he set |
himself to the discovery of a remedy |
which would cure it. and with 4 sue |
cess to which one hundred and fifty |
thousand cured men in this country |
will testify. This is the only practi- |
cal temperance work in existence
and does more to Danish the rum
curse than all other agents COM
bined. The crucial test of the cure of |
any habit is the placing of the ap- |
petite in easy subsection to the will, |
and this the Kelley treatment sure
~ does.
Ny duties here have been pleasant
and consisted in listening to three |
lectures each day on some depart
ment of the science, and attending the |
four hypodermic treatments each |
day in the treatment hall, where | |
observed the methods and practical |
points. Leaving this Mecca of a
drinking world, seven O'Clock P. m,
found me in Chicago, and after max
ing a few calls, was off for New
York. What a great city Chicago
is On we roll past brick walls, !
Oh; ar,S nd S1,h.1rha |