Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-03-10
UNDER THE GALLOWS
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Not long ago . weeping mother called to bid goodbye to her only son, who was soon to be executed.
 Woman" he exclaimed in momen- tary frenzy, Woman, would never have been here had you done your duty by me when was youngl
 This was terrible parting! It horri. fled the spectators; it nearly craxed the conscience-stricken mother.
 One can scarcely overestimate the mothers influence in the moulding of the character of her offspring. But how often, oh, how often, do mothers seem to ignore this responsibility
 During . recent trip on the rail, the writer made the acquaintance of Dr. A. J. Benedict, of Sackett's Ha-bor, N. Y., person who has made . study of human development. Referring to the murder ous tendency of the times, we asked that eminent man if the outlook was not dis couragin9.
 "It 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 development of the nervous system and the intellectual life, and we return to savagery a We ignore the fact that without the solid, trustworthy, nervous system, we cannot hope to save the race. Boys stuf dime novels, and the pistol is to them the only respectfully glorious instrument to secure fame. Women read trashy liter ature and straightwey 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 every side we zee tho weakness of personal integrity"
 "Do you regard it as . disease?"
 "More especially as the result of dis ease, which, however, may be Fre- vented"
 "Pleaee define how"
 "I cannot now enter into details. Our people can see their bodies, their blood, their bones. They never see their nerves and consequently many do not suppose they have any. The farmers wife re- joices in . big, physical frame, and yet she dies prematurely. The nerve can not 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 pres ence of the court and is soon . wreck or . corpse, and yet the work is nerve work. The man of affairs is overcome with spoplexy; the politician and publicisf, with Bright's disease. The mind of the untutored 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 OF demoralizes them"
 ssH oil thfa ho hn~ Wnuld voU rectify it, then?"
 "Let me tell you. A few years ago [ had a 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. never saw 6 finer specimen of physical womanhood than she, but she was . nervous wreck! She became bloodless, had the very worst cf female disorders, and was in the last stages of albuminuria or Bright's disease. This last disease works particular havoc with the nervous system and produces in- sanity and despair. She was insane and desperate and 1 fear tainted the blood of her offspring with these terrible ten dencies. treated her for several year. One by one the standard remedies of the schools failed, bu, finally cured her with Warmers Safe Cure, and she is to- day strong and we'll. Yet thousands of women, like her, every year bring ill., formed and criminslly-inclined children into the world. Is it any wonder that nervous diseases prevail and that the whole moral sense is demoralixedf If that remedy were generally used, we would have stronger mothers, stronger children, stronger men ard women, and with perfect physical and mental health, crime would decrease and society he more secure"
 Such candid opinions ars surely worth eonsiderins.