THE BABY ON A BATTLEFIELD.,

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9088, 21 May 1891, Page 4

THE BABY ON A BATTLEFIELD.,

OS. the night after the, battle of Waterloo, in the.blood-Btained mire of>a ploughed field, lay an English, officer, dead where be fell.-T-At.bis side lay the body of his wife, * who had followed. him from England, and perhaps arrived in time to receive bis laßt sigb. On his breast was their baby, Bound asleop, and smiling amid that dreadful scene as though angels were inspiring its dreams. Ab, God! what a thing is "childhood ; - tonchiag Heaven ia its innocence and - earth in its .agony. Wbil© we have the children how large.. the places they fill! When we lose them how great the vacancies they leave ! Koad th 6 story of an escape, as told ,by a parent. My duughtcr Kate, now eleven ■ 'years old, had always been delicate.- She was pale and thin, and, as it' 6eemed, as though a breath of cold air would destroy Bcr.^She- was'now better, now worse, but never well. In the summ-r of 1885, she complained of a sense of weight in the chest and side. Her abdomen wasj dis tended as though she had over-eaten, - whea in fact she ate scarcely more than a bird She spoke of a bad taste in the month, aid would always be holding her sidos, or pteoing her bands against her temples as if to relieve the pressure there. "•' /, ". -~v ' ' 1,.; - • She also bad pains between ber shoulders, and her breath was very offensive. — She was .always tired and languid, and though ' nalurallya bright- and intelligent child, would He for hours iv a listless condition. She grew weaker and weaker, until she could ecarcqly stand. We thought her to " be in a decline. Then came a Bign even more alarming — (Tsbort, dry, deep-sound-ing cough. My wife and I feared it was consumption. In our snxiety we consulted the doctors, who said, " Yes, your daughter has consumption." 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 ns ; she remained with ber grandmother at Thorp Farm, Norfolk. Still the dear child sank from week to week. What wss our surprise, some time afterwards to receive v letter from grandmother reading like this : — "Kate is very much letter. She is eating weU and sleeping well; and the rotes are coming into her thin "cheeks." What could have happened? In another month we bad the happiness of welcoming our daughter in our new borne in Manchester. How great was our joy when weenw the wonderful change which bad taken place in ber. She is now a fioe, healthy child, snd never ails anything more than any girl may. Now, whal wrought this change ? What gave us b.ick bur daughter, seemingly almost from the brink of tbe grave? J will answer frankly, 15 for there is nothing to conceal : — -Seeing her deplorable state, and that none of the medicines she had taken proved appropriate to ber strange malady, her grandmother one» day said to herself, " '' I think I will give Kate a dose out of my bottle of Mother Seigel^r Curative ' B.} rap." Her grandmother had received ' great benefit from this medisine. herself for a complicated disease. It was, given - to Kate and the good;effect wss immediate. She at once rested more tranquiDy and. had something of an app|etite,.and a Ht^lejlale ■ her grandmother was J ;4«ut« v Jostified in writing to us as I have already , stated I (Signed) Frederick Butcher, 6, Birch Road, .- Crnrnpeall, near. Manchester. Mr and Mrs Butcher are people'of tbe highest respectability and well educated. For some years Mr Butcher was an assistant at the great shop of Messrs. Lewis, • Street, Manchester, and an impartial acquaintance writes that^Miss -Kate . Butcher is one of the brightest young , girls to be met witb anywhere — quick, precocious, and full of vivacity and wit. . Speaking of the daughter's reoovery her I mother says ; "I do not-.care what anyone may say, there is no medicine so good.as MotberiSeigel'a Curative Sjrnp." The proprietors of Mother . Saigel's Curative Syrup desire to make n° false -•. impressions. The young girl did not have consumption :— 'She suffered from indigestion and dyspepsia,, and from poverty of the blood, like myriads of hex Eex. Tbe , ■ hcUo\v cough, which sounded so coneump(;vp. vrna out 1 of the symptoms, not the „(•' ik-< . Sir- needed Jife and strength ' from tier tuod , but bow could eh« get it with nt>r- stomach torpid and dead ? Mother , SeigePe Curutive Syrup corrected the ailment at I its root, and recovery quickly followed. We repeat once more tho fact that is taupht by this interesting case :—: — When in donbt treat any übd all complaints as eyaiptoms of indigeßtion aud d>speppi», and in nine instances out of ten >CU will see, just.sucb:ajeond^r : , as. narrated above. We wish Jongjlife and happy days to this young lady and her good parents and friends. .-_ . •--,-. '