The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-11
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How an Old Veteran Escaped Annihi.
lati0n and Lived to Impart a
Warning to others.

| "A pleasing occurrence WHICH mas
just come to our notice in connec,
ton it'll the New York state meet.
ing Of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public is 80 unusual in many res
poets that we venture to reproduce
is for the benefit of our re aders.
Captain Alfred R.nsom. of New
York, while pacing in the lobby of
the armOry, previous to one of the
meetings, suddenly stopped and
scanned the face OF a gentleman 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
the smoke of battle, and yet this
bright and pleasant countenance
could not be the same pale,
and death like visage which he
so dimIy remembered. But the
recollection, like Banquo's ghost.
would not "down" at command and
haunted him tbs entire day. On
the day folio wing he again saw the
came countenauce 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. rhelt
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, Michigan, a veteran of
the 23d n. Y. Light Artillery and
both members of Burnside's famous
expedition to North Carolina. After
the first greetings were over, Cap
tain Rensom said:
'It hardly seems possible, Sage,
to see you in this condition, for
thought you must have been dead
long ago"
"Yes, [ do not doubt II, for il am
DOT mis- taken, when We last met [
was occupying couch in The hog
pital, a victim OF yellow Jack in
its worst form"
81 remember. The war seems to
have caused more misery since its
close than when it was in progress"
replied the captain. Il meet old
comrades frequently who are suffer
ing terribly, not 80 much from old
wounds as from the malsrial poisons
which ruined their constitutions"
81 think so myself. When the
war closed I returned home and at
dimes 1 would feel well, but every
Jew weeks that COMPOUNDED all gone
feeling would come upon me again.
My nervous system, which VS.
shattered in the service, failed me
entirely and produced one of the
worst possible cases of nervous dysI
pepsia. Most of the time had no
appetite; then again L would be come
ravenously hungry, but the minute
[ sat down to eat losthed food. My
skin was dry and parched, my flesh
loose and flabby. could hold noth-
ing on my stomach for days at
time, and what little I did eat failed
to assimilate. was easily fatigued;
my mind was depressed; I was cross
and irritable, and many a night my
heart would pain me so 1 could not
sleep, and when [ did l had horrid |
dreams and frightful nightmares.
Of course. these things came on one
by one, each worse than the other.
My breath was foul, my tongue was
coated, my teeth decayed. [ had
terrific headaches which would leave
my nervous system completely shat
tered. In fact my existence, since
the war, has been q living death,
from which l have often prayed for |
"Coulda't the old surgeon do you
any good?"
=. 81 wrote him and he treated me,
out like every OTHER doctor, failed. |
They all said my nerve was gone |
and without that to build upon l |
could not get we'll. When was at |
my worst, piles Of the severest ma
jure came upon me, Then my liver
gave out and without the use of |
1 could not move my
bowels at all. My blood got like a |
stream of fire and seemed literally |
to burn me alive"
"Well, you might better have |
died in battle, quick and without |
SHOW many times have wished |
had died the day We captured |
"And yet you are now the picture
Of health"
"And the picture is taken from |
life. [ am in perfect condition.
My nerve tone ia restored ; my sto-
mach is Refrigerated; my flesh is |
hard and healthy; in fact I have
new blood, new energy and new
lease of life wholly as the result of |
using Warmers Tippecanoe. This
preparation, which II
consider the finest tonic and stomach |
restorer in the world, has overcome
all the evil influences Of malaria, all |
the poison of the army, all traces of |
dyspepsia, all maI-assimilation OF
food, and indeed made a new man
Of me-"
The Captain remained silent for a
while, evidently musing over his re-
2 elections Of ths past. When he
again raised his head and said:
sit would be godsend ii all the
veterans who haYe suffered so in
and also sll others in the
and who are enduring so much
misery could know OF your