WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10014, 28 December 1895, Page 3

WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS

He was one of the greatest monarchs that ever ruled in Europe. He was always 'a( war, yet-but wait; let us take one thing at a time.

He wassfln enormous eater. He breakfasted at five on a fowl seethed in milk, and, dressed with sugar and spices. After this ho went to Bleep again. He dined at twelve, always partaking of twenty dishes, • Ho supped twice; lirst early in the evening, and again about one o'clock—the latter tho most solid meal of the four. After meat he ate a great quantity of pastry and sweets, washing them down with vast draughts of beer and wine. Then he would gorge himself on sardine omelettes, fried sausages, eel pies, pickled partridges, fat capons, etc. etc.

Finally lie abdicated, did this omnivorou 1 . Emperor, and a friendly courtier thus described the power that compelled him to do it. " 'Tis a most truculent executioner," said the orator; "it invades the whole body from head to font, It contracts the nerves with .: anguish, it freezes the marrow, it, converts 'the fluids of the joints into chalk, and pauses not until it has exhausted the body and conquered the mind by immense top Hire."

He was crippled in the neck, arms, knees, and hands, and covered with chronic skin eruptions; while his stomach occasioned him constant suffering. lie was a wreck at an age when he should still have been active and vigorous. This is not fiction. It is history; without a syllable of exaggeration. How many of our readeis will write and tell us what mau this was ? A thousand, no doubt. Alack-a-day! however. Not kings and emperors alone are thus afflicted. Great) hosts of us travel the same road. Wearo not usually gluttons as this royal gentleman was, but people who eat sparingly often have the same malady. Commonly they inherit » tendency to it. On the level of this dreadful disease tho rich and the poor, the great aud the small, meet together. Speaking of an experience of her own, a, womau says; "My hands became stiff and numb. There seemed to be no feeling in them. I was so crippled that I could not even cut a round of bread. A little later it attacked my legs and feet, the soles of the latter being very tender and sore. The pain was so severe that 1 often sat down and cried on account of my sufferings and my helplessness. I used rubbing oils and embrocations, but got 110 relief. In this way I went 011 month after mouth, never expecting to be well again. I felt tho first signs of illness in February, 18S9. At) lirsfc I had merely a bad taste in the mouth, no appetite, and was low, tired, and languid. Following this came the agonies of rheumatism, as I have said. 1 owe my recovery to a suggestion of my husband's. He advised me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and cot me a bottle from Mr. W. Simpson's, in North-street,. After taking it for a fortnight my hands got their right feeling, and I suffered no more f'om rheumatism nor from indigestion and dyspepsia, which I now understand to bo the cause of rheumatism. From that time to this 1 have been in th, best of health, (Signed) (Mrs.) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Southwell Lane, North-street Horncastle, Lincolnshire, Ist February, 1893."

" In the year 1879," writes another, "rheumatism attacked me, one joint after another. The pains were all over me, although the worst was in one knee. For two years I suffered with it—the doctor's medicines doing no good. In 18811 read in a little book'thac rheumatism was caused by indigestion and dyspepsia, and that the true cure for it was Mother Seigel's Syrup. This proved to Ih true, as after taking three bottles I knew no more of stomach disorder nor rheumatism, I have since recommended this wonderful remedy to hundreds of persons. (Signed! (Mrs.) E. Sehofield, 10, West Hill, South' ampton-street, Reading, October 20, 1892." The great Emperor was driven to abdica> tion by rheumatism and gout, caused by his ruined digestive powers. His outraged stomach filled him with poison from top to toe. Yet ho never lost his appetite, which was all the worso for him. Not long afterwards ho died, having asthma and gravel, with tho other consequences of dyspepsia, But one needs not to be a gourmand to nave dyspepsia, with its trailing troubles. Any one of fifty causes may provoke it. Watch out for the earliest symptoms, and arrest them at once by using the Syrup. It stops the mischief on the spot where it begins, and then purifies the blood. By tho aid of common sense and Mother Seigol the Emperor might have stayed oniiif throne, might he not? Yes; but unluckily sho wasn't born in time to help him.

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