Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-08-26
KELLEY NOT FIRST.
A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS RE-
PORTED FROM THE LONG AGO.

The Remarkable Eject of the 'Indian
Doctors" Simple Remedies-How the
''aIedicine" Cured Joe Robinson With
out Asking the Doctor"
1t was about the medicated whisky
cure which we proposed to speak. To
DR.. Kelley, who, living down at
Dwight, is almost neighbor, credit is
generally given for being the first per
son who employed the pharmacopeia
for the purpose of killing drunkard's
appetite. But DIR. Keeley is by no
means entitled to this credit The first
physician whose medicine ever cured a
drinking man of his thirst was long
haired, spectacled old tourist who called
himself 1.-THE Indian DOCTOR" and who
operated down in the neighborhood Of
Belpre, o.
The doctor did not tell the secret
of his medicament, but three or four
boys who lived near the farmhouse
where he boarded had an inkling, be-
cause the boys had the contract for
catching the toads for which the doctor
paid them 10 cents dozen.
While the Doctors abode has been
spoken of as farmhouse it was more
than that, for, being near stockyard,
where trains "lay over, it was also a
boarding house, or tavern, whittier the
drovers came for entertainment
Among the stockmen whose duties
brought them frequently to the yards,
and therefore to the farmhouse board
ing place, was man named Joe Robin
son, who had drunk whisky all the way
from st. Louis to Baltimore, with spe-
clal reference to Piedmont and the
country along the II mile grade of the
Baltimore and Ohio. Robinson was
firm, vigorous and vigiIant drinker, one
who allowed no guilty dramshop to es-
cape He was such a shining light that
at least 10 temperance societies were
working upon him at once, for 1t was
known that the credit for his reforma-
tion would mean much. But he resisted
all their entreating efforts
This brings things up to one May
evening. Robinson had arrived at
Belpre with seven cars of hogs and
large, commodious and farreaching jag.
He took the hogs into the stockyards
and the jag to the city of Parkersburg,
W. Va, Just across the river, for be
wanted to trim and ornament it little
before retiring Now it so occurred that
it was damp night, and Harry Stone
and Hughey Drain, the boys who had
the contract for supplying hoptoads to
the salve making Indian doctor. set out
ON their own hook and without consul
tation with their employer to get -four
bag full of toads They were eminently
successful, and at O'Clock they ap-
peared at the boarding house with
peck of kicking, piping, shrieking spoil.
For good measure they had ON this CO.
casion added three belated garter snakes,
two lizards and hoot owl. The family
was not happy.
Mrs. Bruce directed the boys to carry
their burden, of the character of which
she had no idea, up to the Doctors
room, he being out. The boys did So
or at least they thought they did-but
they turned the wrong corner at the
head of the stairs and deposited the
sack in tho room to be occupied by Joe
Robinson.
Mr. Robinson came home from Par
kersburg about midnight. The evening
had been most successful one. He had
found 10 new saloons he entered the
room In the boarding house with the
pyesumption that he was etther the czar