The N.C. Republican, and civil rights advocate., 1884-05-22
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How an Old Yefcrnn ESCAPED AEnihilati
mud Lived tn InlnarI a NNnHninu tn alfhlers

AN a4AM G~AA AhAb4NOAS
How an Old Yetornn Escaped Arnlhilation
and Lived to ImparL Warning to others.
A pleasing occurrence which has jut coma
to our notice in connection with the New
York State meeting o. the Grand Army OF
the RepIblic is so unus Ial in many respects
that we venture to reproduce it for the bene-
at of our readers.
Captain Alfred Rensom, of New York while
pacing in the lobby of the armory previous to
1Fe of the meetings, suddenly stopped and
nnne1 the face of gentl7man who was Id
earnest conversation with one OF the Grand
Army officers 1t seemed to him that he
had seen that face before, partial y OBJ
G Ted by th3 smoke of tatJ4e, and yet
tais bright and peasant counter ance
vi age viii h he so dim y rem mbered. u
th" II ecclIe, on, Ii g Ban luos .ghoss, wo Id
nVt "down" at command and u ted hlm
the entire day. On the day following ne
again saw tie same couutenance, ana ven
tIred to sp-ak to its owner. The lnsUinI tae
two veterans heard each ether S vol eS' tnat
instant they c-gni ed a-d called each otn +
by name. their ia es and forms had changed,
bus their vol es we're the same. The mln
whom Captail Renson bad rec 29nHed was
Mr.. w. X. Sage, OF st. 10 n, Mi n, vet,
Pr of thu 23l N. Y. Light Artillery am
10 h members OF Burnsides FAM u exp dl-
ton to North Carolina Ait + the nrst SreeC'
ings were over, Cap ain R-n:om said:
az hardly ms pt ssiole, Sa e, to sec you
in this condi ion, for thou hit you must have
been dead long ago.
eyes. I do not doubt it, for if am not mis-
taken, when we last met was occuPy1I9
couch in the hospital, a victim OF 1t.-S"
Jack in its worst form"
81 remember. The war seem8 TO nave
Saused more misery since It's close tnan pan WIFI e2I
ia was in progress, replied the captain. L
Eaeet old comrades frequently who are sailer-
ing terribly, not so much from old WOUNDS as
from the malarial poisons which ruined ther
constitutions
''I think so myself. When the war closed
returned home and at times would 1eei
well but every few weeks that Contounded
all-gone' feeling would com upon me again.
My nervous system, which was shattered III
the service, failed ma entirely and producco
one of the worst possible cases OF ner-
vous dyspepsia. Most of the time l
had no app~t tite then again Woul o come
| ravenously hungry but the minute sat down
to eat loa he'd food; My skin was dfy IA anu \
| parched, my flesh loose and tabby. coud
! hold nothing on my stO nach for days at tG
| a time. and what little did cat failed to as
milate. | was easily fatigued; my num-
| was depresseli | as GRO and irritable ana
many a night my heart would ram me SO |
| could not S eep, and when did L Lad hoIrd
dreams and frig .tful night rares. Ot course,
worse than th3 other. My breath was 10 Il !
my tongue was coated, my teeth de: ayed L
had terr .fic beada 4 @; which would leave my
nervous SYST m compile e;y shattered IN
| fac nv exi tence, sine tn war, has been a
living death, from which Lave often prayed
| for re ease."
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
goods" ~.
Il wrote him Oil d he tre.., I'd me, but like
| every other doctor, failed. They all sail my
| nerve was gone and without that to builu
upon could MT get we |. When l was at
| my wo St, piles Of the .eyerest nature came
| uTon me- Then my Ii er gave out and with
! ont the Use o. cathartics ] could rot move
the bowes at all My cd got il le a stream
! Of fire and seemed li.erllly to burn me a I've "
"WeI. YOU might better have died IN
| battle, quick and without ceremony.
How many times [ wish II had died the
! day we captured Newberne"
"And Yet you are now the picture OF
| health
| "And the picture is tax IN from life. [ am
| in per ect condit on. Ny nerve tone IS re-
| ored; my storach re'nyigorated; my flesh
| is hard and healthy; in o haE new blood,
| new energy and new lease OF life wholly as
| the result of using Warmers 1lppecano3.
| This remarkable preparation, VIII ch L CON
si1er the Gnest tonic and stomach Testortr In
the world haS oEer4 ONE all the evil lnt1uenc eS
/ OF malaria, al the poison OF the ar NY, all
races of dyspe' sja, a a a.-asslmlla Ion OF
| food and indeed ma Q a ne " man OF II e.
1he captain remained siel5 for while,
| evidently musing over rs reCOT ections of
the past. VIXEN he again raisedhis head he
| said
at wou d lie godsenl if all the veterans
who have suffered So intensely and also all
others in tie land who ere enduring SO much
misery could know o. YOUR expert nee, Sage,
and tie way by which you have ten re
stored"
AMI that is wi y the above conversation is
recounted. National Tribune, Of Washing
ton.