WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS?

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 29, 15 November 1895, Page 29

WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS?

Has was one of the greatest monarchs that ever ruled in Europe. He was always at war, yet— but wait ; let ua take one thing at a time. He was an enormous eater. He breakfasted at five on a fowl seethed in milk aud dressed with sugar and spices. After tbis he went to sleep again . He dined at twelve, always partaking of twenty dishes. He suppid twice ; firit tarly in the evening and again about one o'clock— the latter the moßt 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, fritd 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," said tbe orator ; "it invades the whole body from head to foot: It contracts tbt nerves with anguish, it freezes the marrow, it converts the fluids of tbe joints into chalk, and pauses not until it has exhausted the body aad conquered the mind by immense torture."

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

Tbis ia not fiction, it is history ; without a syllable of exaggeration. How many of onr readers will write and tell us what man tbis waß ? A thousand, do doubt,

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 cot even cut a round of bread. A little later it attacked my legs and feet, the soles of the latter being soft and Bore. The pain was so severe that I often sat down and cried on account of my sufferings and my helplessness. I used rubbing oils and embrocations, 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 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 advis d me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle from Mr W. Simpson's, ia North street. After taking it for a fortnight my hands got their right feeling, and I suffered no more from rheumatism nor from indiges lion and dyspepsia, which I now understand to be the cause of rheumatism. From that time to tbis I have been in the best of health, (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Sonthwell lane, North street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, February Ist, 1893." " In the year 1879," writes another, " rheumatism attacked me, one joint after another. The painß were all over me, although the worst was in one knee. For two years I suffered wi b it the doctor's medicines doing no good. In 1881 I read in a little book that rheumatism waß 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 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, Beading, October 26, 1892." The gteat 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 ho never lost his appetite, which was all the worse for him. Not long afterwards he died, having asthma and gravel, with the other consequences of dyspepsia. But one needs not to be a gourmand to have 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 Syrnp. It stops the mischief on the spot Where it begins, and then purifies the blood.

By the aid of common sense and Mother Beigel tbe Emperor might have stayed on his throne, might he not 1 Yes, but unluckily she wasn't bora in time to help him.