Show THE MORPHllTE i CURSE The Struggles of a Victim to the Deadly Habit After Being Twelve Years n Fiend He finds t Belief in the Salt Lake Eeeley Institute The Rio Grande train to Tintlo yesterday afternoon bore as a passenger the happiest man tbat ever shook Salt Lakes soil from 1 his feet His came is W T Ferguson and ho is a man known all over tho west and northwest north-west coast particularly in Oregon and Montana His fame was of a somewhat melancholy character for it was as Us morphine liend that he was mostgener aly regarded Yesterday completed his sixth week in the Salt LaVa Keeley institute and he walked forth so different a being from tho man who bad entered it that his oldtimo friends would have stared had they been told it was Ferguson A few minutes before be-fore ho took the train for his homo in i Eureka Mr Ferguson gave a HERALD representative rep-resentative a brief account of his twelve years struggle with the fiend morphine Tho talk was full of interest of a most t r peculiar kind and it would take the pen of Ian I-an E P Roewho has never been excelled in his delineation of a morphine victim to t fittingly describe all the horroro to which the narrator had been subjected Ferguson said he was fortytwo years of age He bad just turned thirty when he i fell a victim to the morphine habit inmost a in-most peculiar way He was in Helena f ana fell ill with a severe attack of pneumonia pneu-monia His physician Dr Clark gave him morphine powders and he took that medicine for six weeks Ho says he never knew what the medicine was at that time and he first learned it in a most peculiar I way When ho recovered of his illness ho went to Missoula Where he was suddenly eiezed with the most terrible nausea yi bined with fearful pains in ad his joints as 1 fi if 1hnnnnhhr his limbs wero being n n pulled asunder Vw e nu u UItULLCU a ncctor J who examined him and bluntly told him ho was a Hen Ferguson WM insulted and ordered the coder out of his room The next physician simply went and bought him a morphine guna hypodermic syringe He put one injection into my arm said Ferguson and I leaped out of t bed a well man Then for the first timo I knew I had been undor the control of thu s habit The doctor warned him that bo I must gradually diminish his doses and break it off altogether as soon as possible But it was the samo old utory how many I morphine victims entrusted with their guno ever succeeded in breaking away from the habit He tried be says God alono knows how hard to do without tho drug but he could as soon have done without with-out air or water For twelve years ho struggled fought gave up struggled and I gave up again It was no use and ho became be-came a confirmed lend to whom sixty grains day was Ilk i nothing He told how in desperation he once had himself takeaway take-away on a long trip to the mountains where it was impossible to obtain morphine I At the end of that timo he was lit for an insane in-sane asylum and his companions had to get him back with all speed to where the drug could be obtained or his life would have paid for it After the horror of that experience ho says he nevtr allowed himself him-self to be without morphine and tho i thought that his supply was running short used to set him all in a tremble Whenever When-ever he was on the coasthe said he always sent to a well known drug house in Salt Lake for his bottles oneeighth of an ounce in each Ho always bought by the cases and was in a panic until it arrived for fear something should happen to detain it A yea and a half ago ho come to Tintic t and engaged in various enterprises ho was a barber a contractor a mine owner i and a sporting man He always made r money and was well to do But ho had been twelve years a victim to morphine and he felt his mind beginning to go Her J I He-r knew what was the matter but was power loss to drop the drug One day hand his wife came to Salt Lake Hs dosed up RS usual he couldnt be without his gun but a few hours at a time and took his wife to the theatre While there he saw the advertisement of the iteeley institute in a programme His sight had failed to such an extent that bo could barely read and he asked his wife to read him what the notice said That night ho told his wife she could go home but that ho was going to stay and givo the Keeley cure a trial She assented eagerly and went back home Ho walked up to the Gardo House next morning interviewed Dr i Groves and took up his abode there For six weeks ho took the treatment and yes terday he was pronounced by the doctor as prepared to leave the institute He was ready to shout hosanna and to fall down on his knees and worship when Dr Groves told him that he hadnt had anything like morphine injected into his arm for fifteen days past The poor fellow knew all along that he was being gradually weaned but he had no idea that for more than two weeks past he had been without a trace of drug As he stepped into a Gurney and drove to the train yesterday the twenty or more patlpnts whom he left behind watched him from tho door and windows with eager intent and waved him a god speed on his joyful journey to his home Dr Groves bore him company to the depot and Fergusons parting with him was like I a sons leaving an idolized i parent Fergu son said to THE HEIIALD man that no one would ever know what the doctor had done for him and the enthusiastic way he spoke of the doctors conduct of the institute told unmistakably that ho was tbo right man in the right place Dr Groves said last evening when asked about Ferguson that ho felt more pride in having effected his cure than in any other case he had turned out for years His was the first morphine case which the institute had treated and a most terrible one it had been in the start There were several other morphine pa tients two of them serious cases and though it would take a littlq longer time to cure them than had been required for For guson the doctor said he had no doubts as to the final results Mr H H McCartney secretary and treasurer of the Salt Luke institute last o lninrr u < > n h 4nHnmf I V V vnu us Jt LtJ Jrom Dwight which confirms the article in THE I HEUALD a short time ago that the govern ment bad recognized the efficacy of the I Keeley cure DWIGHT Ill March 12 1S92 The Keeley Institute Gardo House Salt Lake City Utah GENTLEMEN We herewith enclose yon a copy of a contract entered Into by the Keeley company with the government of the United States ihrousjhits board of managers supply twentyone state and seven national homes for I disabled volunteer soldiers and sailors with our remedy at agents prices they to furnish n phy I sician educated at the home institute and him at the rate of fifteen hundred Jl5iX pay per year AVo look upon this as an endorsement for the remedies and treatment of Inestimable value our work throughout the union It will bo the to best means of quieting forever the fradulent in stitutions that arc da ly springing Into life all rl fn ffe1 r over the country and advertising themselves as Inchloride of gold sanitariums lustitutionp I In si word advertising in such a way as to m s I load the public and make them believe that they are branches of the Keeley institute at Dwight You are at liberty to use this government en dorsetnentonyour cards In these words Jihe Keelny treatment for the liquor opium and tobacco habits have received the epdorsement of the United States and will now he used in all their state and military homes for disabled volunteer tpldiers and sailors Truly l yours THE LESLIE E KKer Y Co CURTIS J JUDD Socy and Treas |