REMINDED OF HIS DEAD MOTHER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4442, 13 June 1893, Page 3

REMINDED OF HIS DEAD MOTHER.

(Fxmur from a Private toran.) It. was in the latter part of Aujust, 1891. A friend and I had come down from Kainsgate to Mir.stor to see tho venerable church there, which is a thousand yean old. I entered the churchyard and seated myself upon a nameless grave while ho went in searoh of somobudy to unlock the doors of the editicu and show its wonders. In a few minutes ho returned in company with an e'derly lady to whom he introduced me, sarins she was tho custodian and guide of the place, 1 gazed at her face for some moments without a word. It my own mothor, dead and tjono 15 years, had coino back to speak to her only son, I should scarlely have been more astonished, For this woman ivas almost my mother's louble; the same size, the same face, »nd the sanin way of porting the hail ind combing it in smooth bauds from the forehead. I told her so, and we irere friends before eithor fairly knew tho other's name. What a queer world it is. She then conducted us through the mcient frame, and spoko of the lone van iehed past, (if the monks and nuns who )nce Bam; and prayed within its walls, }f the quaint carvings on the hard oak icats in the chancel, of that precious relic the Cranmer Bible, which reposes in| ) glass box against a pillar, and of many matters boiides, drawn from the npparsntly exhaustless well of her detailed and iccurate information, Finally tho talk vcerod round to th ivholesomenpss of the vicinity, the bracing nature of its sea bree7.es and so on. rhen our guide, Mr 9 Sarah Herd, said: —"I have lived here in Minsler fift fears, and aeen many ups and down: Uno of my sons is now in America, wher he is doing well. He wants me to leav England and make my home with hin but 1 doubt if I ever shall. lam some ivhat like that old yew tree out in th yard, deeply rooted to this soil, am might be the worse for pulling up. Thet [ am getting on in life, and ills grow ipace with age. In the spriog of 1878* had a serious sttack.' At first I acarcel; <new what to make of it. There was m disease that I recognised in particular I felt tired in body and weary in mind Ihero was much pain at my chest ant back, and a kind of tightness at the sides is though physical force were applied there to restrain me from moving. My ippetito, which was usually good, fel away j and whenever I ate or drank gav< tue pain, and I lived almost entirely ot bread and water. I was always in paii ind couldn't sleep so as to feel refreshes by it. After a time I grew so weak as t< be unable to go about my werk. & bitter and sickening fluid arose into mj mouth, and I perspired to such an extent that tho sweat sometimes rolled off inj [ace to the floor." I (the writor) break in upon Mrs H erd's story at this point morely to say that this tendency to sweat without the provocation of labour or of exercise is always a sign of debilitated condition of thu system. It moans that tho blood is impure and impoverished,the kidneys working badly, and that the body lacks nourishment and is living feobly on what was previously stored in it. In other words, the stomach has refused its duty and the other organs are in sympathy with it, Now we will let the lady proceed, begging pardon for the interruption. She went on to say:—"For a time I tried te uure mysolf with various gomes tie remedies which sometimes answer, But they failed, ann 1 consulted a physician, With all respect to the doctors, thoy occasionally failed to. This ono did. You know there comes a time in oil long illnesses when we get in some way used to pain and misery and make no further effort to get rid of it. In fact, we don't know how, and bo don't try. For about three yoars I remained wretched and ailing, and dull unhappy years they were. My sufferings wero beyond all 1 had ovor known before, yot there seemed nothing to do but to bear them ae patiently as I could. At this date, 1881, certain friends of mine spoke to me of tho great benfit they bad received from the use of Mother Beigel's Syrup, for indigestion and dyspepsia. Tin's threw light on my mind, although I cannot say it made me at once a believer m Seigol's Syrup. At length, howevor, in July, 1881, 1 began to take it. In all 1 used bk bottles, and found my health fully restored. Ten years havo elapsed, and I have had no attack since. But if Ido in future 1 Bhajl know whero to put my hand on the remedy/' Our visit being yirtually over, we called for a few moments at j\lrs Herd's home, 2, High Street, Minster, Kent, and then wended our way back to Rams* gate, O.M.E. New York, October, 1891.