Show < < UNDER THE GALLOWS 1 r J 4 Fri htul Condemnation of a 31other by Her Son What I I does It Mean Not lon < i i ago a weeping mother called to bd goodbye to her only son who was POOH to be executed i t Woman he exclaimed in a momentary mo-mentary irenry Woman I would never have been l here had you done 3our duty by reefwhen I was young 1 This was a terrible p acting o It lion rfpd the spectators it nearly crazed the conscjence stricken mother moth-er One can scarcely overestimate the mothers influence in the moulding of the character of her offspring ButC how often oh how often do mothers seem to ignore this responsibility respon-sibility I During a recent trip on the rail the writer made the acquaintance of Dr A J Benedict of Sacketts Harbor K Y a person who has made a study of human development Re erring to the murderous tendency of the times we asked that eminent man if the outlook was not discourag ing It looks so he said but I fancy we have a cause and the remedy for such evils In my professional career I have found by hard study that we have emerged from savagery by development de-velopment of the nervous system and the intellectual life and we return to savagery as we ignore the fact that ithout the solid trustworthy nervous nerv-ous system we cannot hope to save the race Boys stuff dime Moves and the pistol is to them the only respectably glorious instrument to secure fame Women read trashy literature and straightway 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 con-science On every side we see the weakness of personal integrity Do you regard it as a disease It More especially as the result of disease which however may be prevented pre-vented d Please 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 rejoices in a big physical physi-cal frame and yet she die prcma turely The nerve cannot stand the strain of continual work The minister minis-ter 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 issoon n wreck or a corpse and yet the work is nerve work The man of affairs is overcome with apoplexy the politician politi-cian and publicist with Brights disease The mind of the untutored man is fired by the exploits of crimean crime-an he longs for such fame These persons overwork or overexcite the nervous system and this fact kills or demoralizes them If all this be so how would yon rectify it then Let me tell you A few years ago I had a lady patient who was an utter ut-ter wreck She was the mother of several children She lost her mind and imagined she was cursed of God She was a farmers wife and worked early and late I never saw a finer I specimen of physical womanhood r than she but she was a nervous wreck She became bloodies had the very worst of female disorders and was in the last stages of albumi nuria or Brights disease This latter disease works particular havoc with I the nervous system and produces insanity in-sanity and despair She was insane and desperate and I fear tainted the blood of her offspring with these terrible ter-rible tendencies I treated her for several years One by one the standard stand-ard remedies of the schools failed but I finally cured her with Valuers Safe Cure and she is today strong and well Yet thousands of women like her every year bring illformed and criminallyinclined 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 de-crease and society be more secure Such candid opinions are surely worth considering |