THE BABY ON A BATTLEFIELD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9087, 20 May 1891, Page 4

THE BABY ON A BATTLEFIELD.

Oh tha night after the battle of Waterloo, .-._ijn the blomi-stained mire of a' ploughed - fields lay nn English officer, dead where he fell.— At his side 1 lay the body of his wife, who had followed Him froiii Eojr land, and -■' perhaps arrived in time to receive hiß last - sigh. On bis brensc was their baby , sound ■ > asleep, and smiling -amid that dreadful ..-scene aa though angels "were inspiring! its dreams. • •••''■ •:••>-!• '■ . Ah, God 1 what a : thing ' is childhood ; touching Heaven in its- innocence, and ■ earth in ita agony. • While we have the children how large the places they fill 1 . When wo loss them how great the ■vacancies they leave ! Kead the story of an escape, as told by - a parent. My daughter Kate, now eleven ..» ytTare old, had always been delicate. She w»a pale and thin, and, nB it seemed, as though a breath of cold air would destroy her.. She was now better, now' worse, but - never well. In the eumm rof 1885, she complained of a sense of weight in the chest and side. Her abdomen was] distended as though' Bbe had over-eaten, when in fact she ate soarcely more than a bird She spoke ~of a bad taste in the mouth, asd would always be holding her sides, or- placing her hands against her temples .as if "to relieve the . pressure there, . ■ ' She also bad pains between her shoulders, and her breath was very offensive.— She . was always -tired and languid, and though na.urally a, bright and intelligent child, . would lie for hours in a listless condition. She grew weaker and weaker, until- she could scarcely stand. We thought ncr to be in a decline. Then came a sign even more alarming — a short, dry, deep-sound-ing' cough. My wife and I feared it was consumption. In our anxiety 'we consulted the doctors, who said, " Tts, your daughter Tias consunipiion" What a sad prospect for us - \ Abont Christmas, 1885; I removed my family from Huntingdon to Manchester. .Poor. -Kate was too weak to take the journey with us ; she remained with her grandmathei at Thorp Farm, ' Norfolk. Still the dear child sank from week to week. What was our surprise, some time afterwards to receive a letter from grandmother reading like this : — 'IKizfe is very much betlcr. She is eating weU and sleeping well; and the rote* are oci.ang into her thin cheeks'^— What could have happened? In another month we had the happiness of welcoming our daughter in our new hove in Manchester. How great was our joy when we saw tbe wonderful change which had taken place in her. She is now a fine, 'Jtoajlhy.. cbjlij^ ani,jnever ,ai]a- anything "more than aqy girl may. ; Now, what-wrougjht, this i change? What gave %a .b3cl£ puHdiaijanterj seemingly almosf fro v m thVbrmksf the'grave ? I will answer frankly, -for there is nothing to conceal : — Seeing her deplofable'state, and ~ that r none of the medicines she had. taken proved appropriate* to^ her^strang^e, npjady, 'Ber'grandolblhe'r &ife! ;day said to'hefselft •' I think I will give Kate ,a dose oat of my bottle of Mother SeigeVs Curative Syrup." 'Her' grandmother .had received, great benefit from this 'medicine herself, for a complicated disease. ' It was gfven , to Kate and tbe gooft effect, wbb immediate; She at once rested more tranquilly and had something of au : appetite, and a little late ; her, grandmother was quite-, justified, in writing-~to 'uVas'l have -already- slated 1 (Signed) Frederick Butcher, 6, Birch Boad^ Crampsall. near Manchester/ ; Mr and Mrs Butcher are, people'of, the highest respectability J and-'well educated.; For.iqme years Mr Butcher was an assist I -ant at r tbefrea't shop 1 of Messrs. Lewis, Market Street, Manchester,! and an in-; partial acquaintance writes liat^MißS Kate Butcher is one of the brightest" ypqng girls to be met with anywhere—quick,precocious, and fulK of vivacity and wit. Speaking of the daughter's rec ove *y h er mother, says? "I'.do^not carplwKa^, anyone may say, there ' is no roediciae so good as Mother Seigel's- Curative Syrup." Tbe proprietors^ -of" 1 Mother Saigel's, Curative Syrup desire to make no false ! impressions. The young girl did not have consumption :; — She tuff tired from indigestion and dyspepsia, and from, poverty of the blood, like myriads of her'eex. Tbe hollow cough, which sounded so consumptive, was one of the symptoms, not the. disease. She -needed life and strength from her. food, but how .could she get it with her stomach torpid and dead ? Mother SeigeLV Curative. Syrup corrected the ailment 'at (its root, and recovery quickly followed. We repeat once more tbe fact that is taught -by this interesting case :—: — When in doubt treat any and all complaints as symptorasof indigestion and djspepsia, and in nine instances- out of ten yea will see just such a wonder as narrated, above. We wish long , life and happy days' to this joungj'lady? "and Her good -: parents' and friends> &£*•.*•* . ; :* >' '*'