Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1885-11-17
UNDER THE GALLowsi
FRIdmIFrL C0>DEuNAIIoS % A hOtnEn
~ IiFR SON-w wHsr DOES or hrsNf

M IIKR soN-wn.r DOES fr MAN
Not long ago q weeping mother called %
bid good-by 70 her only son who was soou
10 be executed.
Woman. he exclaimed In a nom iniary
frenzy. woman. I would never have been
here had you done your duiy BY me when
| Was young
This was q terrible parting IL horrinei
the spectators, u nearly craged the con
scisnce-slrlcken mother.
Ooe can hardly oyer-estlmate the moth
er's irfaence In the moulding Of the char
actsr Of her offspring. Bat how often, Oh,
how often, do mothers seem 10 ignore ihis
responsibility
Daring a recent trip on The rsil, The
writer made the acqlalniance " Df A. J.
Benedict. OF Sacketrs llarbor. y. \, a
person Who has madi a stady Of human
development. Referring 10 the muficrous
tendency % the times. Ne askei that cnl.
nent man u TIE ouilook was no. dise)affg'
logf
~. looks -. he said, "Out fancy Ne
have a cause and TIE remedy f0r such evils.
In my professional career have found by
hard study that We have emerged from
savtgeTy BY development of the nervous
system AMI the Intellectual ufr. ani we
return 10 savagery A. We Ignore the itct
that without the solli. tfustNoftlY nerF.
ous system, wc cAinot hope % save The
race. Boys stuf dime novels, aui the pts.
tol l. 20 them the Only respectfully glorious
lnstrumsnt % secure fame. Womtn real
trashy literature a1t straighiNtY ~ a.
murder their husbands aud friends by po'.
sou. Ba.incss men yield 20 the tsmptef'
and forge ant steal and default Minis
ters, charmed by betiy, forget ihr brhc,t'
OF conscience. Ga every siio W &C. ine
weakness of personal integrity
"Do you regard u a. disctsef
More especially a. the result of disease
which. however, maT he prevented
please define how
n canno, nov ettsr Into details oar
people can see Their bodies, their h.o'f,
their bones. Ttsg seer 90 hfi Hrr.'s,
1Hf clasfl HfnNy mriy IT. nDi fnIIlsf .iff
hars aay. Tho farmers wife rtI I,lces in
Dig, physical frame, and yet she ties pc.
matufeiy. The nerves cannot stand the
straln OF continual WORK The minister
fall. dead Ia his pulpit, but he never 90
days work In Bis he The asycr iainis
10 the presenoe % The cogfi. and i soon
wreck OF a corpse. and yst the work d.
nerve work The man or STARS l. Over.
cone with apopleKy, The politician AMI
publlclsi, with Bf.ghts disease. The mind
Of the untutofei man l. lred BY thc sk'
plolt. ~ crime And he loogs f'r such fame
These persons oyerw0fk or oyef'etc.te me
nervous system aui thls fact khis or dc'
mOrallfes them.
III all thls be 20 how woad yoa recilfy
lt them"
"I.et me tel y0n. A few years ago ]
hal laiy patient Nho Wa an utter
wreck. She was the mother OF s'fefal
children She lost hrf mind ant im'gined
she Wa cursed % Got She Nt- iafm.
ers wlfr. abd worked early and iaie. !
never ss~ a facr specimen oi physical 20
manh0oi than shc, bat she Wa nefFoas
wreck She bcesme blootless' bal tns
very worst OF female disorders anl va ln
the at stages 0f al1umluuIia or brghts
disease Thl. latter disease works pafile.
ular havoc with The ncfyoas system an
prodaces Insanity Gnd despair she N,s
iasane AMI desperate snd I lear '1Ia'ei t,f
Mood ofhfr clipping vita these terrip'e
tsniencle. / ir,ated her ior sever Wears
one by one the siandari remedies of TIE
schools failed. bat I hnsi'y cured her Win
warmers safe cure, aui she j. to'.ay strong
and well Yet thousands ~ women iike
her, every year bring Informed AM erimi'
naliy.ncilnei children into the NoFii /,
IL any wonder that nervous disease prefall
and that the whole moral sense ls fcmoral-
lfedi Ifthat remedy we're generally us'i'
We would have stronger mothers, stronger
children, stronger men ani Nomsn' aui
with perfect physical and mental heaiia'
crime would decrease sui society oe more
secure"
sach candid opiolou. ore sarely worth
considering.