Sword and shield., 1885-11-21
UNDER THE GALLONS.
FrightTuI Condemnation Of Mother
by Her Son What Does II Meant

mentary frenzy, w oman 1 would
never have been here had you done
your duty by me when | was
young!''
This was a terrible psrting 1t
Mortified the spectators, it nearly
crazed the conscience striken
mother.
One can scarcely overestimate the
mothers influence in the mouldiog
Of the chsrtcter of her ofspri ng.
But how often, oh, how often, do
mothers seem to ignore this respon-
sibility.
During a recent trip on the rail
the writer made the acquaintance Of
DR.. A. J. Benedict, of Sackett's
Harbor, N. Y, a person who has
made a study of human develop
ment. Referring to the murderous
tendency of the times, we asked that
eminent man if the outlook was not
discouraging?
cit looks so" he said "but | fancy
we have cause and the remedy for
such evils. In my professio naI ca
reer / have found by hald study
that we have emerged from saragery
by development of the nervous sys
tenn. We cannot hope to save the
race. Boys stuff dime novels and
the pistol Is t. them the only respec-
tably glorious instrument to secure
fame. Women read trashy literature
and straightway try to murder their
husbands and friends by poison.
Business men yield to the temper,
and forge and steal and default.
Ministers, charmed by beauty, for
get the behests of conscience. On
every side we see the weakness OF
personal integrity"
"Do you regard it as a disease?"
"More especially as the result Of
disease which, however, may be
prevented"
''Please define how"
II cannot now enter into details.
Our people can see their bodies,
their blood, their bones. They neUer
see their neTves and consequently
many do not suppose they hare any.
The farmers wife rejoices in big
physical frame, and yet she dies pre-
maturely. The nerve cannot 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 fuints 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 disease. The mind Of the
untutored man is fired by the exploits
of crime and he longs for such fame.
These persons overwork or over-ex-
cite the nervous system and this fact
kills or demoralizes them"
eff all this be so how would you
rectify it then?"
''Let me tell you. A few We lrs
ago had lady patient who was an
utter wreck. She lost her mind and
imagined she was cursed Of God.
She was farmers wife, an | worked
early and late. | never saw finer
specimen Of womanhood than she,
but she was a nervous wreck She
became bloodlesss, had the very
worst of female disorders and was in
the last stages of albuminuria or
Bright's disease This latter dis
ease works particular havoc with the
nervous system and produces insan-
ity and despair. She was insane and
desperate and I fear tainted the
blood Of her ofspring with these
terrible tendencies. | treated her
for several years. One by one the
standard remedies Of the schools
failed, but / finally cured her with
Warmers safe cure, and she is to-day
strong and we'll. Yet thousands of
women like her, every year bring
Informed and criminally-inclined
children into the world. Is it any
wonder that nervous disease prevail
and that the whole moral sense is
demoralized? 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
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