Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-16
AN ARMY PXPFRIFECF.
nd Iir oG 10 , FIFTH MarsInE 70 Grisrs.


and Lived TO Impart a Warning TO Others.
A pleasing o -ourrence viii h has ju come
TO our nltice in come ton with Tie New
York State meeting o the Grand Army of
the Replblic is so unus al in many respec's
that we vent IRE to reproduce 1t Tor the bene-
it of our readers.
CAPTAIN Alfred Rensom, of New York, while
Facing in the lobby of the armory previous 70
bns of the meetings, suddenly stopped and
cannel the face Of a gentlfman who was IN
eaIne { conversation with one OF the Grand
Army oalcers 1t seemed to him that nc
had seen that face before, partially oD-
C red by the smoke of battle, and YET
tbs bright and peasant ee9nte sh me
could not be the same Iale, and death-lAe
vi age viii IN hs so dim'y rem mberet u
the re lie on, Ii Ban Iuos ghesl, wo Id
rot "downn at command and heu ted MN
the entire day On the day following he
again saw tie same Couutenance, ana ven
tired TO spa ak to its owl er. The instant the
two veterans heard each ether vol es, that
instant they + c9gni ed a d called eaSn ON
lyman their IA es and forms had changed,
but their voices we're the same. Inc mah
whom Captain Rensom had rec lgnzed YVES
Mr. w. X. Sage, of st. JOHNS, Mich, a VetI
CT. of the 23I N. Y. LIGHT Artillery am
10 members of Burnsides famcui expld l-
ton 10 North Caroline? AIT + the tiTst greet
ings were over, Cap ain Rensom sad;
! laTuiN 10 Ills liSolblCi u - W
In this condi ion, for | thou 5ht you must nave
been dead long ago.
eyes, I do not doubt it, for if am not mis-
taken, when we last met was occupying
! couch in the hospital, a victim OF 'IeuoW
Jack in It's worst form"
II remember. The war seems to have
caused more misery since its close than whe en-
it was in progress" replied the captain. Il
meet old comrades frequently who are suiIer-
! ing terribly not so much from old wounds as
from the malarial poisons which ruined their
constitutions"
81 think SO myself. When the war closed
/ returned home and at times l would Ieei
well, but every few weeks that conIoundea
all-gone' feeling would come upon me again.
Ny nervous system, which was shattered IN
the service failed me entirely and produced
one of the worst possible cases OF ner-
vous dyspepsia Most of the tlme L
had no app lite: then again [ woull b come
ravenously hungry, but the minute sat down
TO eat loathed food. My skin was dry ana =
parched, my flesh loose and fiabby; couId
hold nothing on my stomach for days at al
a time, and what little did eat failed to as
smilate. | was easily fatigued; my mimi
was depressed; / " as cross and irritable ana
| MANY night my heart would pain me SO l
could not sleep, and when did had horrid
dreams and frgatful Nightmares. VI course,
these things came on me one by one, ca II
worse than tho other. My breath was iolll
nv tongue was coated, my teeth Delayed.
had terrific headaches which would leave my
nervous system completely shattered. In
fac NV ext 5tence, since the war, has been q
living death, from which 1 have often prayed
for release
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
good" ~
"I wrote him and he treated me, but like
every other doctor, failed. They all sad my
nd with
upon could not get well. When was al
nv wo-st, piles of the severest nature came
uron me- Then my liver gave out and with
out the Use OF cathartics | could rot move
the bowes at all. Ny blood got ike stream
of fire and seemed j orally to burn me i've:
"Well, you might better have died II
battle, qui k and without ceremony"
elbow many times | wish ed had died thu
day we captured NewbsrneP
Z" And YET you are now the picture O.
health,
"And the picture is taken from life, I an
in pei. EFT condition. My nerve tone is re
ored; my stomach Tenyigogated my teSl
is hard and healthy; in a hay enew blood
new energy and a new lease of life wholly a
the result of using Warmers Iippecanoa
This remarkable preparation, VIII CHI l con
slider the finest tonic and stomach restor6r II
the world has overl one all the evil Influence
o. malaria, al the poison of thu army, oil
traces of dyspepsia, a l a.-assimila on o
food and indeed ma o ne man OF ne.
The captain remained silent for q while
evic emily musing over his recolections o
the past. When he again raisedhis head b
said:
'Tt won d lie godsen1 if all the veteran
who have suffered 50 intensely and also al
others in the land who are enduring so muc
MISERY could know OF YOUR expert nee Sage
and tie way by which you have BEN re
stCrsd.n
An | that is WI y the above conversation
recounted. National Tribune, Of Washing
ton.