Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-05-01

How an Ola Veteran Escaped AnnahiiAtion
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Others.
National Tribune Of Washington
A pleasing occurrence which has just
come to our notice in connection with til,
New York state meeting Of the Gran,
Army OF the Republic is = o unusual II
many respects that we venture to repro
duce it for The benefit of our readers.
Captain Alfred Rensom, o flew York
while pacing in the lobby Of the armory
previous TO one Of the meetings, sudden
ly stopped and scanned the face ofa gen
tleman who was in earnest conversation
with one Of the grand army officers. l
seemed TO him that he mad seer that fac'
before, partially obscured by the smoke
Of battle, and yet tins bright ant
pleasant eountenanoe could not b,
the same pale and deatl-iike visage
which he SO dimly remembered. Bu'
the recollection, like Banquois ghost
would not down" at command, ant
kauntedhim the entire day. On the da,
following he again saw the same coun
tenance, and yentured to speak to its own
er. The instant the two veterans heard
each others voices, that instant they
reorganized 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 was Mr.. w. X. Sage, Of st
Johns, Mich, aveteran OF the 23d N. Y
Light Artillery and both members O
Burnside's famous expedition TO Nortl
Carolina. After the first greetings were
over, Captain Rensom said
1T hardly seems possible, Sage, 10 sec
you in this condition, for / thought YOU
must have been dead long ago.
"Yes, / do not doubt it, for II L an
not mistaken, when we last met / was
occupying a couch in the hospital, q vic
tim Of yellow Jack in its worst form.
II remember. The war seems to have
caused more misery since it's close thar
when il was in progress" replied the
quently who are suffering terribly, not
so much from old wounds as from the
malarial poisons which ruined their con.
stitutions."
II think so myself. When the war
closed / returned home and at times
would feel well, but every few weeks
that COMPOUNDED 'all-gone' feeling would
come upon me again. Ny nervous sys.
tenn, which was shattered in 1.-THE service,
failed me entirely and produced n Of
the worst possible cases of nervous dys-
pepsiR. Most of the time ! had no ap.
petite; then again ] would become raw.
e~nously hungry, but the minute / sal
down to oat / loathed food. Ny
skin was dry and parehad, my
flesh loose and fabby. / could hold
nothing on my stomach for days at q
time, and what little I did eat failed tc
assimilate. / was easily fatigued; my
mind was depressed; 1 was cross and
irritable and many a night my hear
would pain me so / could not sleep, and
when / did j had horrid dreams anC
frightfuI Nightmares. OF course, these
things came on one by one, each wors,
than the other. Ny breath was foul,
my tongue was coated, my teeth de
cayed. ] had terrific headaches which
would leave my system com
pletely shattered. In fact my existenc'
since the war, has been q living death
from which ! have often prayed for re
| lease
Couldn't the old surgeon do you an,
| goodg"
II wrote him and he treated me, bu
like every other doctor, failed. The,
al sotl -, usa, nsonaanI .fsfkn,s
that to build upon | could not get well
When ! was at my worst, piles Of tn
seyerest nature came upon me. The
my liver gave out and without the use d
cathartics | could not move nv bowel
at all. MY blood got like a stream o
freand seemed literally TO burn m
alive"
well you might better have died il
battle, quick and without ceremony
"How many times ! have wished
had died the day we captured New
bernelV
"And yet you are now the picture o
health
"And the picture is taken from life.
am in perfect condition. MY nerve ton,
is restored; my stomach reinvigorated
my flesh is hard and healthy in fact
have new blood, new energy and a ney
lease Of life wholly as the result Of using
Warmers T~ippecanoe. This remarkabl,
preparation, which / consider the fines
tonic and stomach r~estorer in the worlt
has overcome all the evil Influences o
malaria, all the poison of the army. al
traces Of dyspepsia. all NAL assimilation
Of food, and indeed made a new man o
me-
The captain remained silent for Will
evidently musing over his recollection
of the past. When he again raised hi
head he said:
ut would be . godsend il all the vet
Grams who have suffered so intensely on,
also all others in the land who are en-
during so much misery could know Q
your experience, Sage, and the way b.
which you have been restored"
And that is why the above converse
tsan to ranartnfn1