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Show AN EXEMPLARY FATHER AND A KIND PHYSICIAN RESCUES Ivins Conk FROM A SUICIDE'S GRAVE. One of the First Three Patients Who Entered the tiardo House Cured Ater Thirty Years of a Drouk-ard's Drouk-ard's Life. I was born in New Jersey, and at the age of 18 years came to Utah. I labored la-bored for a living, at first one thing and then another, until I finally got into the horse business. I always worked hard, but drink would get the better of me in spite of my efforts to stop it. I became enslaved by it, and my periods of drunkenness became shorter, until at last I had no more control over my appetite than a cow has over the moon. I would work for weeks without touching a drop, when all at once that fearful craving would come, and I would drop everything and hunt the nearest saloon. No matter mat-ter if I had money or not I got liquor and I got drunk and very often spent the night in jail. My good mother and father tried every way in their power to help me to get cured. They bought medicine of all kinds, they tried every remedy, but they did me no good. I only grew worse as the years rolled on. I lost everything I had in the world. I . was arrested at least 150 tjrnes for drunkenness never for anything else. I don't believe I ever wilfully wronged anyone in my life. In spite of the advice of others to let me "go to the devil if I wanted to" and all such remarks, my dear good father (God bless him) stuck to me to the last. One day when I was contemplating contem-plating suicide he came to me and told me about the Keeiey institute and offered of-fered to pay for me if I would try it. I thought it over all one night, and when father came next day I had made up my mind to accept his offer to pay for mo once more, and if that did not cure me to cure myself by the short route. This is over seven months ago that we went to Dr. Groves. I was so impressed by the way he spoke to me and encouraged me that I seemed to be inspired with a new hope from that moment. He had my entire confidence, and up to this date it remains the same. He saved me and cured me as he has since done hundreds of others, and I want it understood that through the loving kindness of a much tried and very dear old father, together with the woiulerful and almost brotherly care and attention of Dr. Arthur Groves, I am, today, a man who is able to hold his own with the world, and wrhose heart is brimful of gratitude to those who have done so much for him. In writing this letter my object is to let as many as possible of my friends know what the Keeley cure has done for me, and also to appeal to the hearts of parents par-ents who may be hardened against their own flesh and blood. Unloose your heart-strings, stretch forth your hand once more. Give the unfortunate one more chance, and you will not only gain the everlasting love and reverence rever-ence of a dutiful son whom you have helped in the hour of need, but you will receive a reward from God Almighty for having performed faithfully the duties of a parent to his children. And all I have to say now is that life to me is beautiful. It is worth living, and L would that these few words may be the means of bringing hundreds of others to lead a sober, steady, industrious and God-fearing life. Yours sincerely, IVINS CONK. |