What Emperor was this?

Manawatu Herald, 19 November 1895, Page 3

What Emperor was this?

fie was o&e of the greatest moriarchs 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 eaten He breakfasted at five on a fowl seethed in milk and dressed with sugar and spices. After this he went to sleep again. He dined at twelve, always pan along 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 pastry and sweets, washing them down with vast draughts of b^er and wine. Tlipn he would gorge himself on sardine onv lettes» fried sausages, eel pies, pickled partridges, fat capons, &c, &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 ovaior ; it invades the whole body from head to foot. It contracts the nerves with argui h, it freezes the marrow, it converts th • fluids of the joints into chalk, and pau: es not until it has exhausted the body and ouquered the mind by immense torture." He waff crippled in the neck, arms, knees, a< i. hands, and covered with chronic skit) eriptions; while his somach occasioned him constant suffering. He was a wreck at an age when he should still have been active and vigorous. This is no fiction, it is history ; without a syllable of exaggeration. How many of our readers will write and tell us Whatman was ? A thousand, no doubt. Alack-a-day ! however. Not kings and emperors alone are 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 »ln samo malady. Commonly they inherit a tendency to it. On the level : of this dreadful di ease 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 s-tiff and numb. There neemed 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 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 weni 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 advised me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle from W. Simpson's, in North Street. After taking it for a fortnight 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 the best of health. (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Southwell Lane, North Street, Horncastle, Lincolnfbire, February Ist, 1893." "In the year 1879," writes another, " rehumatism attacked me, one joint after another. The pains were all over me, tlthough the 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 lit lebpok that rheumatism was o used by indigestion and dyspepsia, and that the trve cure for it was Mother Seigel'a Syrup. This proved to be true, as after taking three bottles I knew no more of stomach I disorder nor rehumatism. I have since recommended this wonderful remedy to hundreds of persons. (Signed) (Mrs) E. Schofield, 10, West Hill, Southampton Sreet, Reading, 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 he 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 tr i ing 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 etops the 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 bis throne., might he not ? Tea, but unluckily she wasn't born in time to help him.