WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS?

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 28, 8 November 1895, Page 29

WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS?

He was one of the greatest monarchs that ever ruled in Europe. He was always at war, yet— but wait ; let us take one thing at a time. He was an enormous eater. He breakfasted at five on a fowl seethed in milk and drecsed with sugar and spices. After this he went to sleep again . He dined at twelve, always partaking of twenty di9he s . He supped twice ; first cirly in the evening and again about one o'clock — the latter the most solid meal of the four. After meat he ate a great quantity of pastry and sweets, washing them down with vaßt draughts of beer and wine. Then he would gorge himself on sardine omelettes, fried sausages, eel pies, pickled partridges, fat capons, etc, etc.

Finally he abdicated, did this omnivorous Emperor, and a friendly courtier thus described the power that compelled him to do it. " Tis a most truculent executioner," sad the orator j "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 nut until it has exhausted the body and conquered the mind by immense torture."

He was crippled in the neck, arms, kneee, and hands, and covered with chronic skin ernptions ; whilj his stomach occasioned him constant suffering He was a wreck at an age when he should still have been active and vigorous.

This is not fiction, it ia history ; without a syllable of exaggeration. How many of our readers will wii'eand tell us what man this was ? A thousand, uo doubt,

Speaking of an expeuence of her own, a woman says : " My hands became stiff! and numb. There seemed to be no feeling in them. I w-iB so crippled that I could cot even cut a n und of bread. A little later it at'acked my legs ucd feet, the soles of the latter being soft and sore. The pain was so severe that I of'en sat down and cried on account of my aufferr ga and my helplessness. I used rubbing oils ai<d tmbrocHtiotiß, but, got no relief. In this way I went on month after month, never expecting to be well again. I felt the first signs of illness in February, 1889. At first I had merely a bad Usto in the mouth, no appetite, and was low, tired and languid. Following this came the agonies of rheumatie-m, as I have said. I owe my recovery to a suggestion of my husband'e. He advised me to try Motner Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle from Mr W. Simpson's, in North street. Atter taking it for a fortnight my hands got their right feeling, and I suffered no more from rheumatism nor fromindiges ion and dyspepsia, which I now unders'and to be the cause of rheumatism. From that time to this I have beea in the best of health. (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Southwell lane, North street, Hornrastle, Lincolnshire, February Ist, 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 who it the doctor's medicines doing no good. In 1881 I read in a little book that rheumatism was caused by indigestion and dyspepsia, and that thu true cure for it was Mother Seigel's Syrup. This proved to be 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, Schofield, 10 West Hill, Southampton street, ReadiDg, October 26, 1892."

The great Emperor was driven to abdication by rheumatism and gout, caused by his ruined digestive powers. His outraged stomach filled him with poison from top to toe. Yet ha never lost his appetite, which was all the worse for him. Not long afterwards he died, having as hma and gravel, with the other consequences of dyspepsia. But one needs not to be a gourmand to have djspepsia, 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 Sjrup. It stops the mischief on the spot Where it begios, and then purifi s tbe bloud

By the aid of comm >n sense and Mother Seigel lha Emperor might have staycl nn his throne, might he not ? Yes, bat unluckily she wasn't born in time to help him.