THE MARSHAL'S THINKING.
" 1 thought, Sir," said one of Napoleen's Marshals to mm during a private interview at which ths Euipeior was giving the military man certain important instructions " I thought, Sir—." Quick aa a wink the small Corsican went into one of his tita ot cold rage aiift Hew at the Marshal like a jungle tiger at an elephant. " You thought ! you ! you !" he shrieked in a voice raucous as the cry of a peacock and malignant devilry, "What have you to do with thinking 1 Obey your orders sir, and leave the tmnkiug to me, Go now> before I strike you with my nding»whip > go, go !" Ytt in the Tenth Hussars there was a better thinker thau Napoleon for on the tatter's reiurn from Elba the Hussar (once a Pansian coubler; predicted Waterloo.
Shoemakers aud tailors are commonly intellectual men, and most of them dyspeptics. Joo much cognation and too little exercise does it;
" When 1 was a mere youth," says Mr Le Bieton, "I uuuerwent great painand anxiety Horn kidney trouble. No treat* merit mitigated it, and i suffered thus until 1 reached my young manhood, It was then we nad of Mother Seigel'B Syrup, and 1 first used it. " The effect ot the medicine surprised us all. Within three months 1 was quite well, my kidneys acting perfectly and the pain completely gone. *• It will show now dei-p the cure went down, and how real and genuine it was, when I mtinion that ltelt not even a suspicion of my former complaint for eleven j ears. " We then removed here to Christchurch, where 1 began business as a tailor aud cutter. After a time 1, had a slight renewal of the kidney disorder, caused, no doubt, by my sedentary mode ot life, It troubled me nut liitle, yet why »homu 1 endure it all when the remedy which delivered me once belore was within easy reach ? "I found immediately that its natural efficacy had not depaited from Mother Seigel's Myrup A few more doses—only ten drops each—went straight to the at* fected parts and made .them sound am whole once more " My mother is S2 years old, enjoys excellent health and has the skin and complexion ot a yoimg woman This she attnbutea to her having used Mother Seigel's Syrup ' I have lived in this locality for eleven yetrs, and most tf the people here tan vouch for the truth of what I tell you We all do some trifle of thinking for ourselves ; and among the things we agiee upon, as proved by aluudant eviuence, ib thii ; That if there is a remedy which, above ail others, can be trusted to cure most of our complaints the name ot it is Mother Syrup.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2087, 30 July 1901, Page 5
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458THE MARSHAL'S THINKING. Dunstan Times, Issue 2087, 30 July 1901, Page 5
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