The Dickinson press., 1884-05-03
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How an Old Veteran Escaped Annihilatlo
and Lived to 1mpart . Warning I

How an Old Veteran Escaped Annihilatlon
and Lived to 1mpart . Warning to
Others.
National Tribune of Washington.
A pleasing occurrence which has just
come to rnotice in connection with the
New York state meeting of the Grand
Army of the Republic is so unusual in
many respects that we venture to repro
duce it for the benefit of our readers.
Captain Alfred Rensom, of New York,
while pacing in the lobby ofthe armory,
previous to n of the meetings, sudden
ly stopped and scannedth face ola gen
tleman who was in earnest conversation
with one of the grand army. officers. 1t
seemed to him that he had seen that face
before, partially obscured by thesmoke
of battle, and yet tins bright and
pleasant countenance could not be
the same pale and death-iike visage,
which he so dimly remembered. But
the recollection, like Banquo's ghost,
would not down" at command, and
h%auntedhim the entire day. On the day
following he again saw the same coun-
tenance, and to speak to it's own
er. The instant the two veterans heard
each others voices. that instant they
recognized and called each other by
name. Their faces and forms had
changed, but their voices were the same.
The man whom Captain .Renson had re-
cognized vas Mr.. w. X. Sage, of st.
Johns, Mich. aveteran ofthe 23d N. Y.
Light Artillery and both members of
Burnside's famous expedition to North
Carolina. After the first greetings were
over, Captain Rensom said:
ut hardly seems possible, Sage, to see
you in this condition, for I thought you
must have been dead long ago."
"1es, I do not doubt it, for if I am
not mistaken, when we last met I was
OCCUPYING a couch in the hospital, a vic
tim of yellow Jack in its worst form"
II remember. The wal seems to have
caused more misery since it's close than
when it was in progress" replied the
Captain II meet old comrades fire.
quently who are suffering terribly, not
so much from old wounds as from the
malarial poisons which ruined their con
situations"
II think so myself. When the wal
closed l returned homo and at times ]
would feel we'll, but every few weeks
that confounded 'all-gone' feeling would
come upon me again. My nervous sys-
tenn, which was shattered in the service,
failed me entirely and produced one OF
the worst possible cases of nervous dys-
pepsia. Most of the time I had no ap-
petite; then again I would become raw
enously hungry, but the minute 1 sat
down to cat 1 loathed food. NV
skin was dry and parched, my
flesh loose and habby. l could hold
nothing on my stomach for days at a
time, and what little l did eat failed tc
assimilate. [ was easily fatigued; my
mind was depressed; l was cross and
irritable and many a night my heart
would pain me so Ico1lld not sleep, and
when 1 did [ had horrid dreams and
frightful nightmares. OF course, thes,
things came on II by one, each worse
than the other. My breath was foul,
my tongue was coated, my teeth dc.
cayed. 1 had terrific headaches which
would leave my nervous system com
plctely shattered. In fact m ycxistenc,
since the war, has been q living death
from which 1 have often prayed for re
lease"
Couldn't the old surgeon do you an,
goodw
II wrote him and he treated me, but
like every other doctor, failed. The,
all said my nerve was gone and withou
that to build upon 1 could not get we'll
When l was at my worst, piles of til,
%severest nature came upon me. The,
my liver gave out and without the use o
cathartics I could not move my bowels
, at all. My blood got like a stream o
fire and seemed literally to burn m,
alive"
"Well you might better have died il
battle, quick and without ceremony"
"How many times 1 have wished
had died the day we captured New
t berne!"
"And yet you are now the pi cture o
health"
"And the picture is taken from life.
> am in perfect condition. NV nerve ton,
is restored: my stomach reinvigorated
my flesh is hard and healthy; in fact
) have new blood. new energy and a new
lease of life wholly as the result of using
Warmers Tippecanoe. This remarkable
preparation, which I consider the fines
tonic and stomach restorer in the world
has overcome all the evil Influences o
malaria, all the poison of the army, al
| traces of dyspepsia, all characterization
!, Of food, and indeed made q new man O
me-"
The captain remainedsilen fora Will
evidently musing over his recollection.
Of the past. When he again raised hi
head he said:
cit would be a godsend if all the vet
Grams who have suffered so intensely ant
also all others in the land who are ell
f + during SO much misery could know o
,. your experience, Sage, and the way b,
which you have been restored"
And that is why the above converse
, ton is recounted.
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