The National tribune., 1885-11-19
III 10
UNDER THE GALLOWSI !
Frightfrl Condemnation OF a, Neither by Her Son
What Does Ii Mesni

Not long ago weeping mother called to bic
ecuted 9h' 's'H
| "Woman," he exclaimed in momentary
| frenzy, woman, you'd never have beer
here had You done Your duty by me when
| This was a terrible parting! It Mortified
the spectators, it nearly crazed the conscience
! stricken mother.
One can scarcely ,overestimate the mother:
influence in the molding of the character o.
Der offspring. But how often, oh, how often
| DC mothers seem to ignore this responsibility
During recent trip on the rail the writer
made the acquaintance of Dr. A. J. Benedict
OF Sacketts Harbor, n. Y, person who has
made study of human development. Refer
ring to the murderous tendency of the times
we asked that eminent man if the outlook was
not discouraging?
" 1t looks So, he said, "but fancy we have
cause and the remedy for such evils. In my
professional career / have found by hard study
that we have emerged from savagery by devel-
opment OF the nervous system and intellectual
llfe and we return to savagery rs we 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 only respectfully glorious inStru-
ment to secure fame. Women read trashy lit
erature. and straightway try to murder their
husbands and friends by poison Business
men yield to the tempter and forge and steal
ana 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?"
More especially as the result of disease !;
which, however, may he prevented"
Please define how"
L cannot now enter into details. Our peo-
pie can see their bodies their blood, their bones
They nerer see their nerreS, and consequently ntany
do not suppose they hare any. The farmers wife
reIolces III big, physical frame, and yet she
dies prematurely The nerves 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 faints in
the presence of the court and is soon a wreck or
corpse, and yet the work is nerve work. The
man OF affairs is overcome with apoplexy; the
politician and publicist. with Brights disease.
Ihe mind OF the uututored man is 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 demoral-
ICES them"
eff all this be so, how would you rectify it,
then?"
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 imagined she was cursed of God.
She was farmers wife, and worked early and
late. l never saw finer specimen of physical
womanhood than she, but she was nervous
wreck! She became blOodiess, had the very
worst of female disorders and was in the last
stages of albuminura, or Bright's disease. This
latter disease works particular havoc with the
nervous system and produces insanity and de-
spair. She was insane and desperate and fear
tainted the blood of her offspring with these ter
rible tendencies. l treated her for several
years. One by one the standard remedies of
the schools failed butt finally cured her with
Warmers safe cure, and she is to-day strong
and WELL Yet thousands'of women like her.
every year bring Informed and criminally-in-
clined children into the world. Is it any
wonder that nervous diseases 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 So
ciety be more secure"
Such candid opinions are surely worth con-
sidering. a1