REMINDED OF HIS DEAD MOTHER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9682, 26 April 1893, Page 4

REMINDED OF HIS DEAD MOTHER.

[EXTRACT FROM A PKIVATB LKTTER.]

It was tho latter part of Au .nst 1891. A friend and I had come down from Ramsgate to Minßter, fo sic the vtnerablo church thcr->, which is a tnovunnd ytarß old. I entered tho churchyard and seated myself upon a nameless gravo «lii!o he went in search of Bomobody to unlock the dcora of tho odifico and show n wonders. In a few minut s ho returned in crmpiny with an elderly lady, (o whom ho intioduced me, easing she wbb the custodian and guic? e of the place. I guzed at her face for some monieats without a word. If my own mother, dead end tone 15 years, had corno back to speak to her enly on, I should scarcely bavo been more astonished. For thiß woman was a' most my molher'B donble ; the sanio size, the same face, and the same way of parting tho hair and combing it in smooth bands from the forehead. I told her bo, and we were friendß before either fairly knew the othe-r's name. What a qtuer world it is. She then conducted us through the ancient fane, and spoke o£ the long vanished pat, of the monks and nuns who once sang and prayed within its walls, of the quaint carvings on the hard oak seats in the chancel, of that previous relic, tho franmer Bible, whioh reposes ia a glass box ugainst a pillar, and of many matters besidep, drawn from lln apparently exhaoetless well of her detailed and accurate information. Finally the talk veered aroun 1 to the wholeßomoneßß of the vicinity, the bracing nature of its aoa breezes and so on. Then our guide, Krs Sarah Herd, Baid :: — (i I Lave livel here in Minßter 50 years, tnd seen many ops and do>vnp. One of my sods is now in America, where he is doing well. He wantß mo to leave England and make my homo with him, bai I doubt if I ever shall. I am some what like that old yew tree out in the yard, deeply rooted t? this soil, and mijht bo tho worse for pulling up. Then I am getting on in life, and ills grow npaoe with ngo. In the spring of 1878 I had a Etiious attack. At first 1 scarcely knew wlnt to make of it. There was no disaase that I recognised in particular. I felt tired in body and weary in mind. There was much pain at my cl est and back, and a kind of tightness at tho tides, as though physical force woro applied there to restrain uae from moving. My appetit*, wbkh wes nsnally good, fell away ; and whatever I nto or drank gave me paiD, and I lived a'most entirely on bread and water. I was always in pain and cculdn't Bleep co an to foel refreshed by it. After a time I grew co weak as to be unablo to go about my work. A bitter and sickening fluid aroEO into my month, -and I perspired to such an extent that the sweat sometimes rolled off my face to the flooi." I (tho writer) break in UDon Mrs Herd's story at this point merely to say that this tendency to sweat without the provocation of labour or of exercise is always a sign of a debilitated condition of the system. ■ "' It meaDß that the blood is impure and impoverished, the Hdneys workiDg badly, and that the bo jy lacks nourishment and is living feebly on what was previonsly stored in it in other words, the stomach has refused its duty und the other organs nro in sympathy with it. Now we will let tli9 lady proceed, begging pardon for tho nterrnptioii. ' She went on to Hay :— For a time I tried to cure myself with various domestic remedies which sornctiones answer. But they failed, and 1 consulted a physician. With all respect to the doctors, thoy occasionally failed too. This one did. You know there comes a time in all long illnesses wLen we gtt in eo:ne way nsod to pain nr.d misery 1 , and muke ho further effort to get rid of it. In fact, wo don't know how, and so dnn't try. For about three years I remained wretched and Ailing, and dull unhappy years they were My sufferings were beyond all I had ev\ r knowu before, yet there seemed nothing to do but to bear them us patiently as 1 could. At this date, 1881, certain friend of mioe 6pake to me of tho great benefit they had renewed from the uao of Mother Sailers Syrup, for indication and djapet-sia. This throw lisjbt on my mind although J cannot Bay it made mo a T , once n believer in SjigePa Syrup. At bngtb, however, in July 1881, 1 began to take it. In all I ased blx bottles, and found my health fully it stored. Ton years havo clasped, and I have had m altick since. But if I do in fntnre I shall know where to put my hand on 'he remedy." Our visit lo : n* virtually over, we called | For a few moments at Mrs. litrJ's home, 2, High Streot, Alins'.er, Kent, and then wendod our way back to Rampgato. C. M. R. New York, October, 1861.