Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-05-17
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How an Old Veteran Escaped Annihilation
and Lived to Impart q Warning to
Others.

and Lived to Impsrt q Warning 10
Others.
National Tribune of Washington.
A pleasing occurrence which has just
come to our notice in connection with
the New York state meeting ofthe
Grand Army of the Republic is so unu-
sual in many respects that we venture
to reproduce it for the benefit OF our
readers.
Captain Alfred Rensom, of New York,
while pacing in the lobby of the armory,
previous to one of the meetings, sud-
denly stopped and scanned the face OF
gentleman who was in earnest converse
ton with one of the Grand Army OF.
ficers. 1t seemed to him that he had
seen that face before, partially obscured
by the smoke of battle, and yet tins
bright and pleasant countenance could
not be the same pale, and death-like
visage which he so dimly remembered.
But the recollection, like Banquo's
ghost, would not "down" at command
and haunted him the entire day. On
the day following he again saw the same
countenance, and ventured to speak to
its owner. 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 Rensom had
recognized was Mr.. w. K. Sage, of st.
Johns, Mich, a veteran of the 23rd n. Y.
Light Artillery and both members OF
Burnside's famous expedition to North
Carolina. After the nrst greetings were
over, Captain Rensom said:
at hardly seems possible, Sage, to see
you in this condition, for thought you
must have been dead long ago."
"Yes, do not doubt it, for if l am not
mistaken, when we last met / was oc.
cupying coucn in the hospital, a vic
tim of yellow jack in its worst forn."
II remember. The war seems to
have caused more misery since its close
than when it was in progress" replied
the captain. 81 meet old comrades fire.
quentiy who are suffering terribly, not
so much from, old wounds as from the
malarial poisons which ruined their con-
situations"
81 think 30 myself When the war
closed / returned home and at times l
would feel well, but every few weeks
that COMPOUNDED '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 had no ap-
petite; then again 1 would become raw
enously hungry, but the minute / sat
down to eat I loathed food. My skin was
dry and parchy, my flesh loose and
flabby. could hold nothing on my
stomach for days at time, and what
little I did eat failed to assimilate. /
was easily fatigued; my mind was de-
pressed; was cross and irritable and
many night my heart would pain me
so could not sleep, and when / did l
had horrid dreams and frightful night
mares. Ofcoufse, these things came on
one by one, each worse than the other.
My breath was foul, my tongue was
coated, my teeth deoayed. 1 had terrific
headaches which would leave my nerv-
Gus system completely shattered. In
fact my existence, since the war, has
been a living death, from which have
often prayed for release" '. .
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
good?r .-'.' - '
~ wrote him and he treated me, but
like every other doctor, failed. They
all said my nerve was gone and without
that to build upon could not get well.
When was at my worst, piles of the
severest nature came upon me- Then
my liver gave out and without the use of
cathartics i could not move my bowls at
all. My blood got like a stream of fire
and seemed literally to burn me alive
"Weil you might better have died in
battle, quick and without ceremony"
"How many times l have wished !
had died the day we captured New
bernew
"And yet you are now the picture Of
health" '.-
"And the picture is taken from life.
am il perfect condition. Ny nerve
tone is restored; my stomach reinvigor-
ated; my flesh is hard and healthy; in
fact 1 have new blood, new energy and
a new lease of life wholly as the result
of using Warmers Tippecanoe. This re-
markable preparation, which l consider
the finest tonic and sto mach restorer in
the world has overcome all the evil in
fuences of malaria, all the poisons of
the army, all traces of dyspepsia, all mall
assimilation of food, and indeed made a
new man of me-"
The Captain remained silent for
while evidently musing over his recol-
lections fthe past. When heagain rails
ed his head he said:
at would be godsend if all the vet
Grams who are suffering 80 intensely and
also all others in the land who are en-
during 80 much misery could know of
your experience, Sage, and the way by
which you have been restored"
And that is why the above converse
ton is reeounted.