People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — The Proper Spirit. [ARTICLE]

The Proper Spirit.

Among the rather numerous class of graduates from the Keeley Institute, it is Indeed a pleasure to welcome the return of the most recent to go from Rensselaer, Fred Phillips. And the commendable point, most conspicuous in his case, is that he is not ashamed of the fact that he has been to Dwight. He says that he has not only freed himself of the desire of liquor, but has been given an understanding of the effects of alcoholism that no sane man can disregard. He mentions the fact that those who go to the Keeley Institute are generally men in well to-do circumstances, intelligent, educated and refined, and no man need be ashamed of the company he has to keep while there, for they are usually his equal, if not his superior. One man, a rich farmer of Missouri, who was brought to the institute too stupid to know where he was going, upon sobering up and discovering where ne was, remarked: “Before I was brought here I thought the place was filled up with a lot of tramps, but dog my buttons, if I aint the trampiest man in the whole outfit.” Asked if the Pilot might mention his name as having returned from Dwight, Mr. Phillip, replied: “The thing that I most regret in this whole business, is that such a step was necessary. I have taken the gold cure and I don’t care who knows it. My advice is for every man who is in that condition to go there, and those who don’t need the treatment to be careful that they remain- so.” Fred’s many friends will not only rejoice in the step he has taken to correct the mistake he was making, but will be glad to know that he has accepted a position as clothing salesman in “The Model.”