THIS BABY ON A BATTLEFIELD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2177, 17 March 1891, Page 1

THIS BABY ON A BATTLEFIELD.

: Oa the night after the battle]of Waterloo, in the blood-stained mire of a ploughed field, 1»7, an English , officer dead where he fell. At hi* aide lay the body of hie wife, who had followed him from England, and perhaps arrived in time to receive his last sigh. Oa hi* breast was their baby, sound asleep, aad smiling amid that dreadful scene as though angels were inspiring its dreams. Ah, Qod! what a thing is childhood—touching Heaven in its innocence and earth in its agony, s While we have the children how large the places they fill I When we lose them how great the vacancies they leave 1 -

Bead the story of an escape, as told by a parent. My daughter Bate, now eleven years old, had always been delicate.; She wai pale and thin, and, it seemed a* though a breadth of cold air would destroy her, She was now better, now worse, but never well. In the summer 1886 she complained of a sense of weight in the chest and tide. Her abdomen was 1 distended as though the had overeaten, when in fact she ate scarcely more thin a bird. She spoke of a bad taste in the mouth, and would always be holding her sides, or placing her hands against her temples, as if to relieve the pressure there. She a'so had pains between the shoulders, and her breath was very offensive. ' She was always tired and languid, and, though naturally a bright, intelligent child, would He for hours in a listless condition. She grew weaker and weaker, until the'could scarcely stand. We thought her to be in a deoline. Then came a sign even more alarming—a abort, dry, deep-sounding cough. My wife and I feared it was consumption. In our anxiety we consulted the doctors, who said, "Tbs, your daughter has consumption,” What a sad prospect for us I

About Christmas, 1885, I removed my family from Huntingdon to Manohester. Poor Kate was too weak to take the journey with us j she remained with her grandmother at Thorp Farm, Norfolk, Still the dear child sank from week Ip week. What was oar surprise, some time afterwards, to receive a letter from grandmother reading like thu ; "Bate is tbry much bbttbb. Bhe is BATING WELL, AND THE ROSES ABB COMING into hub thin ohbeks.” Whit could have happened f In another month we had the happiness of welcoming our daughter into our new home in Manchester. How great was our joy when saw the wonderful ohauge which had taken place in her. She is now a fine, healthy child, and never ails anything more than any girl may.

Now what wnaght this change f What gave up back our daughter, seemingly almost from the brink of the grave P I will answer frankly, lor there is nothing to conceal Seeing her deplorable state, and that none of the medeoinei she had taken proved appro* priate to her kirange malady, her grandmother one day said to herself, 11 1 think I will giro Hate a dose out of my bottle of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup.” Her grandmother had received great benefit from this medicine herself for a ..complicated disease. It was given to Hate, and the good effect was immediate. She at once rested more tranquilly and .had something of ah appetite,, and a little later her grandmother was jnstifiad in writing .to us as 11 have already stated. (Signed) Frederick Butcher, 6 Birch Hoad, Orumpsall, near Manchester, <

Mr and Mrs Butcher are people of the highest respectability, and well educated;. For some years Mr Butcher was an assistant at the great shop of the Messrs Lewis, Mar. ket Street, Manchester, and an impartial sc, quaintance writes that Miss Kate Batcher is one of the brightest young gitl* to be met with anywhere—qniok t preoooioai, and full of vivacity aad wit. Speaking of the daughter’s recovery, her mother says; "I do not care what anyone may say, thire is no medicinal BO good as Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup.” The proprietors of Mother Beigel’s Curative Byrap desire'to make no false impressions, The young girl did not have consumption,: She suffered from indigestion and dyspepsia, and from poverty of her bloody lik* myriads of her sex. The hollow qqugb, which sounded so w%a ftoe of the symptoms, not the fiiqepy. She needed life and strength frqity her food, bat bow could she get it with her stomach torpid and dead? Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup corrected the ailment at its root, and recovery quickly followed. We repeat onoe more the fact that ia taught by this interesting case: When in doubt treat any and all complaints as symptom of in* digestion and dyspepsia, nine instances out of ten you will y eg - agt 4UO h R wonder as narrated Wo wish long life and happy *l*y, to this young lady and Her good parents and friends.