The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-12-25
UNDER THE GALLOWS
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By Her son W Mt Docs IG lEeuuf

Not long ago a weeping mother called
to bid good bye to her only son, who was
soon tu he executed.
Woman" lie exclaimed in momen-
tary frenzy, Woman, | would never
have been here had you done your duty
by me when / WIS young!"
This was a terrible parting! 1t horri-
fed the spectators; it nearly crazed the
conscience-strcken mother.
One can scarcely overesiimate the
mothers influence in the moulding of
the character of her offspring. But how
often, oh, how often, do mothers seem
to ignore this responsibility
During recent trip on the rail, the
writer made the acquaintance of DIR. A.
J. Penedict, Of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y,
a pc son who has made a study OF human
development. Referring to the murder-
GUS tendency OF the times, we asked that
eminent NAH If the outlook was not dis
coura"ing.
at looks So" he said, "but fancy
We have a cause and the remedy for such
evils. In my professional career have
found by hard study that we have
emerged from savagery by development
OF the nervous system and the intellectual
ignore the fact that without the solid.
trustworthy, nervous system, we cannot
hope TO save the race. Boys stuff dime
novels, and the pistol is to them the
onl " respectfully glorious instrument to
secure fame. Women read trashy liter
ature and straightway try to murder
their husbands and friends by poison.
Business men yield 10 the tempter, and
forge and steal and default. Ministers,
charmed by beauty, forget the behests
of conscience. On every side we see the
weakness OF personal integrity"
DO you regard it as a disease?"
"MoIe especially as the result of dis
ease, which, however, may be pre-
vented"
please define how"
81 cannot now enter into details. Our
people can see their bodies, their blood,
their bones. They never see their nerves
and consequently many do not suppose
they have any The farmers wife re-
joices in big, physical frame, and yet
she dies prematurely. The nerve can
not stand the strain of continual work.
The minister falls dead in his pulpit, but
he never did days physical work in
his life. The lawyer faints in the pres
ence of the court and is soon wreck or
a corpse, and yet the work is nerve work.
The man of affairs is overcome with
apoplexy; the politician and publicist,
with Bright's disease. The mind of the
untutored man is fred by the exploits OF
crime, and he longs for such fame. These
persons overwork or over-excite the
nervous system, and this fact kills or
demoralizes them"
If all this be so, how would you
rectify it, them"
Let me tell you. A few years ago
had lady patient who was an utter
wreck. She was the mother of several
children. She lost her mind and imag-
ined she was cursed Of God. She was a
farmers wife, and worked early and
late. | never saw a finer specimen of
physical womanhood than she, but she
was a nervous wreck! She became
bloodless, had the very worst of female
disorders, and was in the last stages of
albuminuria or Bright's disease. This
last disease works particular havoc with
the nervous system and produces in
sanity and despair. She was insane and
desperate and l fear tainted the blood
of her offspring with these terrible ten
denotes. Treated her for several years.
One by one the standard remedies of the
ecioolS Ialleu, DuI hhaliy CuIeu Her
with Warmers Safe Cure, and she is to-
day strong and well. Yet thousands of
women, like her, every year bring ILL
formed and criminally-inclined children
into the world. Is it any wonder that
nervous diseases prevail and that the
whole moral sense ia demcralized? II
that remedy were generally used, we
would have stronger mothers, stronger
children, stronger men and women, and
with perfect physical and mental health,
crime would decrease and society be
more secure"
Such candid opinions are surely worth
considering.