A MOTHER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2284, 9 December 1897, Page 45

A MOTHER.

And must I fiame in woras, at your behest, A picture of my mother, faithful, true ? Oh, gladsome task—to bring clear into view The many virtuej of that kiod and best Of mothers born— look north, south, east, or

west — Look where you will — that they may shine

before , This thoughtless world, and good fruit yield. Of

yore— .Time, -when for God-made wives men' went jn

quest — , A mother was a mother true io all Of Nature's instincts,, acd obryed the call ■Of duly, day and night, ypar iv, year'out — A mother like to mine— whose noble life, Jd/xam pie holy, made a perfect wife. As fair withiu, as beautiful without. Amother such as mine but few can know ; So gentle, loving, faithful, true, and mile), T'lffufciug love the livelong clay. A child No nioie could check the impulse there to go Where she her kindly presence deigned to show lhan steel resist the power of magnet strong. Withal, too, she was just ; airt would not wrong, By shielding wrong, her Eeuse of right ; was slow To wrath, and, Godlike, meiciful. Sad fate V/as mine one day (it conieth soon or late r i.'o f.ll) when deith my ructher summoned hence. No matin prayer agaiu at her dear knee, Nor orisens at eventide ; for she Had left me lone, and crossed the last great

fence. Her last long sleep the sleeps ; while angels ever

bright All hover near to guide her to the realms of light.

— K. W. Davis.

— Well Supplied. — " Have you any old clothes 1 ' asked the man at the door. " Have I ! " she exclaimed bitterly. He needed no further elucidation, and as he ambled towards the next villa residence he wondered why husbands were so mean.

It often happens thab the doctor is oub of town when mosb needed. The two-year-old daughter of J. Y. Schenck, of Caddo, Ind. Ter., was threatened with croup. He writes : •• My wife insisted that I go for the doctor at once, but as he was oub of town I purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved the child immediately." A bottle of that remedy in the house will often save the expense of a doctor's bill, besides the anxiety always occasioned by serious sicknesß. When ib is given as soon as the croupy cough appears, it will prevent the attack. Thousands of mothers always keep it in their homes. For cale b/ all leading chemist**