The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-19
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How an Old Veteran Escaped Annahi
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National Tribune CT WashingtOn.l
A pleasing occurrence which has Just
come 10 our notice in connection With
the New York. state meeting of the
Grand Army of the Republic is so un-
usual in many respects that we venture
to reproduce it ter the bentfiI of ouI
readers:
Capt. Alfred REASON, Of New York,
while pacing in the lobby of the armorY,
previous TO one OF the meetings, sudden
ly stopped and scanned the face OF &
gentleman who was in earnest c0Gyersa-
ton with one Of the Grand Army OIL
GERS. Il seemed TO him that he had
sem that lace before, partially OBJ
scured by the smoke of battle, and
yet this bright and pleasant counter
ance could not be the same pale and
death like visage which he 50 dimly re-
membered. 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 70
speak 70 its owner. The instant the two
Feterans 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 Rem
som had recognized was Mr. w. <. Sage,
OF St. Johns, Michigan, q veteran of the
23d New York Light Artillery, and both
members o. Burnslde's famous expedi-
ton To North Carolina. After the first
greetings We're over, Captain Ransom
said:
1T 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 am
not mistaken. when We last met I was
occupying q couch in the hospital, q
victim OF yellow Jack in its worst
FORMS"
II 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 fire.
quently who are suffering terribly, NOT
SO much from old wounds as from the
! malsrial poisions which ruined their
| constitutions
II think SO myself. When the wal
closed / returned home and at times
would feel well, but every few weeks
| that confoupded all gone feeling would
come upon me again. My nervous 81
tenn, which was shattered in the service
failed me entirely and produced one Of
the worst ! ossible cases of nervous dYs-
| pepsiA Most OF the time had no sp
petite; then again / would become raw
| enously hungry, but the minute sal
| down 10 eat losthed food. My Skin
was dry and parched, my a. SD loose and
fabby. l could hold nothing on my
stomach for days at time, and what
little did eat failed TO assImIlate.
was easily f4tigutd; my mini was dc
pressed l was cross and irritable aRC
many a night my heart would pain mt
so could not sleep, and when did
had horrId dreams and frightful night
| mares. OF course, these things came
on one by one, each worse than the other
| Ny breath was foul, my tongue was coat
ed. my teeth decsyed. l had ter
rife headaches which would leave my
nervous system completely shattered
In fact, my existence, since the war, hai
been a living death, from which 1 have
often prayed for release"
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
good ?"
Il wrote him and he trC ated me, bu
| like every other doctor, failed. They al
said my nerve was gone aid without
that to build upon l could not get we'll
| When ] MAS at my worst, piles of the
severest na'ure came upon me. ThcL
my liver gave Ou' and without the use Of
cathsr,ics could not move my bowel:
at all. My blood cot like stream o.
fire and seemed lit rally to bum me
| 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.
bernen
"And yet you arc now the picture OF
| health"
"The picture is taken from life. l am
| in perfect condition My nerve tone is
restored my stomach reinVigorated my
flesh is hard and healthy; in fact have
new blood, new energy and new lease
f life wholly as the result of using
Warmers TIppecanoe. This remarka-
BILE preparation, which | consider the
finest tonic and stomach restoFer in the
world has overcome all the evil in
fluences OF malaria, all the poison of the
army, ali traces of dyspepsia. all NAL
assimilation OF food, and indeed made q
new man of me-"
The captain renamed silent for 8
while, evidently musiOg over his recol
lecliOns of the past. When he again
raised his bead he said:
ut would be a gO1seTd If all the vet
Grams who have suffered so in enselY
and also all others in the land who are
| enduring so much misery, could know
ot your experience, Sage. and the way
| by VIII ch you have: been restored
And that is why the above converse
ton is r. counted.