Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-19
UNDER THE GALLOWsl
Ff1ghtfu1 Condemnation of Mother b
Her Son-What Does it Mean?

Not long Ego weeping mother called to
bid goodbye to her only son who was soon
to be executed.
woman" he exclaimed, in momentary
frenzy, "Woman, would never have
| been here had you done your duty by me
when was young!"
This was a terrible parting! It Mortified
science striker mother.
One can scarcely overestimate the moth
er'S influence in the molding Of the charac-
ter of her offspring. But how often, oh,
how often, do mothers seem to ignore this
responsibility
made the acquaintance of DR.. A. j. Bene-
dict, of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y, a person
who has made study of human develop
ment. Referring to the murderous tendency
of the times, we asked that eminent man il
the outlook was not discouragingl
have cause and the remedy for such evils.
In my professional career have found by
hard study that we have emerged from saw
agery by development of the nervous sys-
tenn and the Intellectual life, and We return
to savagery as we ignore the fact that with
out the solid, trustworthy nervous system,
we can not hope to save the race. Boys
stuff dime novels, and the pistol is to them the
only respectfully glorious instrument to Sc
cure fame. Women read trashy literature
and straightway try to murder their hus-
bands and friends by poison: Business
men yield to the tempter, and forge and
steal and default. Ministers, charmed by
On every side we see the weakness Of per-
sonal integrity"
do you regard it as diseased"
"More especially as the result Of disease
which, however, may be prevented"
Please define how"
81 can not now enter into details. Our
people can see their bodies, their blood,
their bones. They never see their nerves and
consequently many do not supp0ss they hare any.
The farmers wife rejoices 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 presence
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 dis
fired 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.'
eff all this be SO how would you rectify it
then!'
Lou ul0 Uell you. "A rev years ago naO
a lady patient who was en- utter wreck. She
was the mother of several children. she
lost her mind and imagined she was cursed
of God. She was a farmers wife, and
worked early and late. Inever saw finer
specimen of physical womanhood than she,
but she was a nervous wreck She became
bloodless, had the very worst Of female dis
orders and was in the last stages of albumi-
nuIia OF Bright's disease. This latter dis
ease works particular havoc with the nerv-
Gus system and produces insanity and de-
spair. She was insane and desperate and I
fear tainted the blood of her offspring with these
terrible tendencies. I treated her for sew
eral years. One by one the standard RENE
dies of the schools failed, butI finally cured
her with Warmers safe cure, and she is to-
day strong and well. Yet thousands OF
women like her, every year bring i'll formed
and criminalE-inclined children into the
world. Is it any wonder that nervous dis
eases prevail and that the whole moral
sense is demoralizeds If 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.