What Emperor was this P

Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1895, Page 3

What Emperor was this P

; « He was one of .the greatest montirths 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 dn a fowl seethed in milk and dressed with sugar and spi6e9i After this he went to sleep again. He dined at twelve, always partaking of twenty dishes. He supped twice ; first early 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 paßtry and sweets, washing them down with vast draughts of beer and wine. Then he would gorge himself on sardine omelettes, fried sausages, eel pica, pickled partridges, fat capons, Ac, *c. 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 the orator ; xt invades the Whole body from head to foot. It contracts the tie*V6B 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 torture." He was crippled in the neck, arms, knees, and hands, and covered with chronio skin eruptions ; while 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 is history ; without a syllable or exaggeration. How many of our readers will write and tell us Whatman this was ? A thousand, no doubt. Alack-a-day! however. Not kings and emperors alone ate thus afflicted. Great hosts of us travel the same road. We are not usually gluttons as this royal gentleman was, but people who eat sparingly often have the same malady. - Commonly they inherit a tendency to it. On the level of this dreadful disease 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 tender and sore. The pnln wa3 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 •ppetite, and was low, tired, and languid. Following this cam» the agonies of rheumatism, as I have said. I owe my recovery to a suggestion of ray husband's. He advised me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle from W. Simpson's, in North Street. After faking it for a fortnight nay 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 iv the best of health. (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Southwell Lane, North Street, Horncsstle, Lin- ' colnfhire, February Ist, 1893." "In the year 1879," writes another, l< rehmnatism attacked mo, one joint after another. The pains were all over me, although ihe worst was in one knee. For two years I suffered with it— the doctor's medicines doing no good. In 1881 I read in a little book that rheumatism was c used by indigestion and dyspepsia, and that the ! trve cine for it was Mother Seigel's Syrup, j This proved to be true, as after taking I three bottles I knew no more of stomach disorder nor rehumatism. I have sinC3 recommended this wonderful remedy to hundreds of persons. (Signed) (Mrs) E. Schofield, 10, West Hill, Southampton Street, Beading, October 26, 1892." The great Emperoj? was driven to abdication by rheumatism and gout, caused by his ruined digestive powers. His outraged Btomach filled him with poison from top to toe. Yet he never lost his appetite, which was all the worse for him. Nol long afterward? he died, having asthma and gravel, with the other consequences of I dyspepsia. But one needs not to be a . gourmand to havo 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 the aid of common sense and Mother Seig'cl the Emperor might have stayed on bis throne, might he not ? Yes, but unluckily Bhe wasn't born in time to help him. "MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET" is rather a difficult task in life with many, bnt the expense of go3d cooking is rednced to a minimum by using the SUN BAKING POWDER, purer and cheaper than most others. Give, it a trial.

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