Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-13
UNDER THE GALLOWS.
EriShtful Condemnation of a Mother by
Her Son-yVhat Does IL Mean9


Not long ago weeping mother called to
bid good-by to her only son who was soon
TO be executed.
Woman, he exclaimed in a momen-
tary frenzy, - Woman, l would never have
been here had you done your duty by me
when | was youngr
This was terrible partingl 1t Mortified
the spectators, it nearly crazed the consci-
ence-stricken mother.
One can scarcely overestimate the moth
er's influence in the molding of the char
acter OF her offspring. But how often, OH
now often, do mothers seem to ignore this
responsibility!
During recent trip on the rail the wri-
ter made the acquaintance of DR.. A J. Ben
edlct, OF Sackett'S Harbor, n. Y, a person
who has made study of human develop
ment. Referring to the murderous tend
ency OF the times, We asked that eminent
man II the outlook was not discouraging?
:" 1t looks So" he said, &" but fancy we
nave 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-
TEN and the intellectual life, and We return
to savagery as we ignore the fact that with
out 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 instrument to Sc
cure fame. Women read trashy literature
and streightway 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
beauty, forget the behests of conscience.
On every side we see the weakness of per-
Sonal integrity"
I" Do you regard it as a disease? ?"
More especially as the result of disease
which, however, may be prevented"
Please define how
cannot now enter into details. Our
people can see their bodies, their blood,
their bones. They aereT see their nerres and
consequently many do not suppose they hare
any. The farmers wife rejoices in big,
physical frame, and yet she dies prema-
turely. The nerve cannot stand the strain
of continual work The minister falls dead
i'll his pulpit, but he never did DAVIS phys-
ical 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 over
come with apoplexy; the politician and
publicist, with Brights disease The mind
OF the untutored man is fired by the ex-
PLOTS of crime AMI he longs for such fame
These persons overwork or over-excite the
nervous system, and this fact kills or de-
moralizeS them"
6 If all this be so how would YOU rectify
ii, then ?"
" Let me tell you. A few wears ago l
had q 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. 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 latter disease works particular havoc
with the nervous system and produces in
sanity and despair. She was insane and
desperate, and fear tainted the blood of her
ASPIRING with these terrible tendencies. I
treated her for several years. One bv one
the standard remedies of the schools failed.
but | 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 anv
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 society be more
secure"
Such candid opinions are surely worth
considering.