WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS!

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10019, 4 January 1896, Page 3

WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS!

0 He was one of the greatest monurchs that ; ever ruled in Europe. He was always at j' war, yet—but wait; let as take one tiling at ' a time.

He was an enormous eater. He breakfasted at five on a fowl seethed in milk, and dressed with sugar and spices. After this he went to sleep again. Ho dined at twelve, always partakiug of twenty dishes. Ho supped twice; first early in the evening, ! and again about one o'clock—the latter the , most solid meal of the four. After meat ho - ate a great quantity of pastry and sweets, washing them dowu 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 ho abdicated, did this omnivorous. Emperor, and a friendly courtier thus de- • scribed the power that compelled him to do it. " 'Tis a most truculent executioner," said ■ the orator ; "it invades the whole body from head to foot. It contracts the nerves with anguish, it freezes the marrow, it converts the fluids of the joints into chalk, and' pauses not until it lias exhausted the body and conquered the mind by iminenso torture."

He was crippled in the neck, arms, knees, anil hands, and covered with chronic skin eruptions ; while his stomach occasioned him constant suffering. He was a wreck at an age when he should still hare been active and ' vigorous, This is not fiction. It is history ; without a syllabi.* of exaggeration. How many of our readers will write and tell us what man this was ? A thousand, no doubt.

Alack-a-day I however. Not kings and emperors alone are thus afflicted. Great hosts of us travel tho same road. We are not usually gluttons as this royal gentleman was, but people who cat sparingly often have ' the same malady. Commonly they inherit a tendency to it. On the level of this dreadful diseaso the rich and the poor, the great and the small, meet together. Speaking of an experience of her own, a woman 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 tenderand Bore. The pain was so severe that 1 often sat down and cried on account of iny sufferings and my helplessness. I used rubbing oils and embrocations, but got no relief; In this way I went on mouth after mouth, never expecting to be well again. 1 felt the first signs of illness in February, 1889. At first 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. I owe my recovery to a suggestion of my-husband's. He advised', me to try Mother Seigcl's Curative Syrup,, and got me a bottle, from Mr. W. Simpson's,; in North-street. After taking it for a fort- ' night my hands got their right-feeling, and I suffered no more from rheumatism nor from, indigestion and dyspepsia, which I now . understand to be the cause of rheumatism. • - From that time to this I have been in (he' best of health. (Signed) (Mrs.) Elizabeth . Ann Cook, Southwell Lane, North-street,, Homoastle, Lincolnshire, Ist February, ' 1893." " En the year 1879," writes another, "rheumatism attacked me, one joint after another. Tho pains were all over mo, although the • worst was in one knee. For two years X suffered with it— the doctor's medicines doing no good. In 18811 read in a little book that rheumatism was caused by indigestion and - dyspepsia, and that the true cure for it was Mother Seigel's Syrup. This proved to be true, as after taking three bottles I knew no I more of stomach disorder nor rheumatism, ' I have since recommended this wonderful •'• remedy to hundreds of persons. (Signed) > (Mrs.) E. Schofield, 10, West Hill, South--ampton-street, Reading, October 26,1592." .; ''* The great Emperor was driven to abdica- j" tion by rheumatism and gout, caused. by bis ruined digestive powers. His outraged § stomach filled him with poison from- top toY toe. Yet he never lost his appetite, which -'.;- was all the worse for hiin. Not long after- '■•' nards he died, having asthma and gravel, I with the other consequences of dyspepsia. But one needs not to be a gourmand to have dj-rpepsia, with its trailing troubles):•" Any • one of' fifty causes may provoke it. ' Watch • out for the' earliest symptoms, ami • arrest '-' : them at -once by using the Syrup. It stops this mischief on the spot where it ' begins, and ? '■ then purifies the blood. •„ " '■ "•By the aid of; common sense and Mother. Seigel the Emperor might have stayed on his "'i throne, might he not ? . ' . > >.; :"■; ft Yes; but unluckily she wasn't bomb tim« j tonolp ninn ' - : : • : ■ ■ ■■■-, ■,', .. ; : :-. ; r : * .'*'-~i; *■■:■?;:•■?,%