The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-11-19

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Not long ago weeping mother called
to bid good bye to her only son who WIS
soon 70 be executed.
Woman" be exDlaimsd Ia momen.
tsry frenzy. sWoinAs ! would never
have been here bad you done yoar duty
by me when ! was youngl 7"
This was . terrible parting 1t horri-
fed the spectators, it nearly crazed the
conscience stricken mother.
One can scafcely overestimsse ! the
mothers influence in the moulding Of the
character of her offspring. But how of.
ten, oh, how of1eu, do mothers reem 70
ignore this responsibility s
Daring . recent trip on the rail the
writer made the acquaintance of DIR. A.
J. Benedict, Of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y,
q person who has made study Of human
development. Referring 10 the murder
ous tendency Of the times, we asked that
eminent man if the outlook WAS not dis
Icossagingf
at looks so," he said, g bat fancy We
have cause and the remedy for such
evils. In my professional career / have
found by hard study that we have emerg-
ed from savagery by development Of the
nervous system and the intellectual life,
and we return to savagery as we ignore
worthy nervous system, we cannot hope
to save the race. Boys stuff dime novels,
and the pistol is to them the only respect
ably glorious instrument to secure fame.
Women read trashy literature and straight
way try to murder their husbands 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 ev-
cry side we see the weakness of personal
integrity"
"Do you regard it as q disease p
More especially. as the result of dis
ease which, however, may be prevented"
"Please define how f'
81 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 haze any. The farmers wife re-
joices in big, physical frame, and yet
she dies prematurely. The nerve cannot
stand the strain of continual work.
The minister falls dead in his
pulpit, but he never did a 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 af-
fairs is overcome with apoplexy; the pol
itician and publicist, with Bright's dis
ease. The mind of the untutored man is
fired by the exploits of crime and he
longs for such fame. These persons over
work or over-excite the nervous system
and this fact kills or demoralizes them"
If all this be 80 how would you recti-
fy it then ?''
Let me tell you. A few years ago 1
had lady patient who was an utter
wreck. She was the mother of several
children. She lost her mind and imag-
ined 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 q ner-
vous wreck She became bloodless, had
the very worst of female disorders and
was in the last stages of albuminuris or
Bright's disease. This latter disease
system and produces insanity and de-
spair. She was insane and desperate and
l 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 Ike her
every year bring Informed and criminal
ly-inclined children into the world. Is it
any wonder that nervous diseases prevail
and that the whole moral sense is demor-
allied If that remedy were generally
used, we would have stronger mothers.
stronger children, stronger men and wo-
men, and with perfect physical and men,
tai health, crime would decrease, and So
ciety be more secure"
Such candid opinions are surely worth
considering