St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-01-02
UNDER THE GALLOWSi
Frghtfui Condemnation of Mother BY
Her Son-What Does 1t Mean:

Not long ago a weeping mother called to
bid goodbye TO her only son who was soon
20 be executed.
Woman" he exclaimed, in momentary
frenzy. ,"Woman, l would never h. ,
been here had you done your duty by me
when was youngm
This was terrible parting. 1t Mortified
the spectators, it nearly crazed the cen
science striker mother.
One can scarcely overestimate the moth
ers influence in the moiding of the charac-
ter of her offspring. But how often. oh,
how often. do mothers seem to ignore this
responsibility
During a recent trip on the rail the writer
made tue acquaintance of DR.. A. j. Bene-
dict, of Sackett'S Harbor, n. Y, n person
who has made n study of human develop
ment. Referring to the murderous tendency
of the times, we asked that eminent man II
the outlook was not diScOuraginS:
1T looks 500 he said, but | fancy we
have a cause and the remedy for such evils.
In my professional career have found by
hard study that we have emerged from sey-
agcry by development Of the nervous sys-
tenn and the intellectual life, and we return
to savagcry as we ignore the fact that with
out the solid, trustworthy nervous system,
we can not 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 straightway try to murder their nus
bands and friends by poison. business
men yield to the temrter, 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 iGtcgrity.n
DO YOU regard it as disease.'
:" More especially as the result of disease
which. however, may he prevented"
- Please define how
Il can not now enter into details. Our
people can see their bodies, their blood,
their bones. They Iterer see tei,. ncrres and
consequently many do ret SHDr0Se they hare ar.
The farmers wife rcio.ces in n biz, physical
frame. and yet she dies lrcnatureiy. TIE
nerve can not stand tho strain OF continual
work. The minister faiiS,.radi IL his p. it,
but he never did a days physical work in
his life. The lawyer faints III tho presence
of the court and issoon wreck or corpse,
and vet the worl- is nerve work. The man
of affairs is overcome with apopleNy; the
politician and puhlicist, with Bright's dis
ease. The mind OF the untUtorcd 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 demoraliZes them"
If all this be SO how would you rectify it
them.
Let me tell you. 4 few years ago had
lady patient whowas an utter wreck. She
lost her mind and imagined she was cursed
of God. She was a farmers wife, and
worked early and late. never saw a finer
specimen of physical womaphood than she,
but she was a nervous wreck! She became
bloodless, had the very worst of female dis
orders and was in the last STAGES of albumi-
nuria or Bright's disease. This latter dis.
ease works particular havoc with the nerv-
Gus system and produces insanity and de-
spair. Shc was insane and desperate and l
fear tainted the b'oodcf her offspring with these
terrible tendencies. l treated her for sew
eral years. One by one the standard RENE
dies of the schools failed, but / finally cured
her with Warmers safe cure, and she is to-
day strong and well. Yet thousands of
women Ike her, every year bring Informed
and criminally-inclined children into the
world. Is it any wonder that nervous dis
eases prevail and that the whole moral
sense is demoralized. IL that remedy were
generally used, we would have stronger
mothers, stronger children, stronger men
and women, and with perfect physicsl and
mental health, crime would decrease and
society be more secure.'
Such candid opinions are surely worth
considering.