The Marshal’s Thinking.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XIII, 28 September 1901, Page 616

The Marshal’s Thinking.

“I thought, Sire,” said one of Napoleon’s Marshals to him during a private interview at which the Emperor was giving the military man certain important instructions, “I thought, Sire—.” Quick as a wink the small Corsican went into one of his fits of cold rage and flew. 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 full of malignant devilry. “What have you to do with thinking? Obey your orders, Sir, and leave the thinking to me. Go, now, before I strike you with my riding whip; go, go!” Yet in the Tenth Hussars there w’as a better thinker than Napoleon, for on the latter’s return from Elba the Hussar (once a Parisian cobber) predicted Waterloo. Shoemakers and tailors are commonly intellectual men, and most of them dyspeptics. Too much cogitation and too little exercise does if.

Air F. P, Le Breton, of 128, Kingstreet, Sydenham, Christchurch, N. ew Zealand, is a tailor, and, judging from a clear-headed letter of his,

dated December 15th, 1890, be is a good deal of a thinker. Away back in his younger day's he lived at Seafield, Ashburton, where his father had a large farm and employed a number of men. When any of these men became IH, an often happened, Le Breton’s mother and he used to cure them with Alother Seigel’s Syrup. They had heard of it through a pamphlet received from London. “When I was a mere youth,” says Mr Le Breton, “I underwent great pain and anxiety from kidney trouble. No treatment mitigated it, and I suffered thus until I reached my yt>ung manhood. It was then we read of Mother Seigel’s Syrup, and I first used it. “The effect of the medicine surprised us all. Within 3 months 1 was quite well, my kidneys acting perfectly and the pain completely gone. “It will show how deep the cure went down, and how real and genu- ■ ine it was, when I mention that I felt not even a suspicion of my former complaint for eleven years. “We then removed here to Christchurch, where I began ‘business as a tailor and cutter. After a time I had a slight renewal of the kidney disorder, caused, no doubt, by my sedentary mode of life. It troubled me but little, yet why should I endure it at all when the remedy which delivered me once before was within easy reach? “I found immediately that its natural efficacy had not departed from Mother Seigel’s Syrup. A few small doses—only ten drops each — went straight to the affected parts and made them sound and whole , once more. “My mother is 82 years old, enjoys excellent health, and has the skin and complexion of a young woman. This she attributes to her having used Mother Seigel’s Syrup; off and on for many years. ’ “I have lived in this locality for eleven years, and most of the people here can vouch for the truth of what I tell you.” We all do some trifle of thinking for ourselves; and among the things we agree upon —as proved by abundant evidence —is this: That if there is a remedy' which, above all others, , can be trusted to ewe most of our ’ complaints, the name of it is Mother , Seigel’s Syrup.