News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How an Old Veteran Escaped Annjbilntion
and Lived TO ImpnrI n Warning TO theirs.
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How an Old Veteran ESCAPED Annihilntion
and Lived TO Impart Il Warning to others
A pleasing O currence viii h has ju come
to our ne tice in come ton with tie New
York State meeting o the Grand Army of
the Peplblic is so unus al in many respec s
that we vent Ire to reproduce 1t for the bene-
fit of our readers.
Ca~tain Alfred Rensom of New Y ork while
racing in the lobby OF the arnory pTeTlo to
bne Of the meetings, suddenly stopped and
scanned the face of a gentl man who was IN
aarne + conyers alton with one OF tie Grand
Army officers. 1t seemed to him that ha
hal seen that face before, partial OBJ
C red by the smoke OF tattle, anu yeU
tits bright and Peasant Go9nte en- "a . .
could not be the same rale, ana deaIn-Il .
vi ace viii h h. o dim y rem mEereI. v
tEe E, c lie ton. Ii e BanIuos .ghosj, wo Id
mt tsdoJynn at command and h u ted nm
the entife- day. On the day 1910" in9 ls
rain saw e same cQunten2nce, anu VEL ~
red to sp ak to its oW neT lhe ,lf9G ~ +tot
two veteran, hear. each ether yoi e5' tnag
Instant they p G ppi ed a q yail ID eacn oGn +
bvname. their la es and for Is had G o; o'''
bI,t their vol e; V ere tn a ne. Inc III Ii
whom Canal Rensom Rad rec l?nAed " %
Mr.. W. K. Sage, Oh st. 10 n, MI n, o t,J
or n of thu % / n. Y. hit AfuLery an u,
10 h members of Burnside fam u fp IL
ION 70 North CaroIina. Ait r he first greet
ings were ov- +, Cap ain. R II ON SAID
6Ft hardly seems d sSi5le, g, TO see you
in tIiS condi ion, for l thou. ht you mus nave
been de I'D 'ong ago" + vic
Yes [ do not doubt it, for II am no. lliio,
taken. when we last met ] was occupying d
couch in the hospital, Vlcllni oh
Jack in its worst form. l. to-,o
II remember The war seems TO nave
caused more misery since its close than "h5l ~
it was in progress, replied the captain. co..
meet old comrades FIRE iuentIy WIZ q &C
ing terribly not so much from Ola Wo'iu ~ GO
go 2 +ba n19IaTial nelson's which ruined their
a think so myself. When the war Closed
returned home and at times Wo lu te1i
well. but every few weeks thai COM II'.D
'al-gone' feeling would com upon NE a.. ~
NV 3ervous system, which was shaUter1eu II
the service fail ID me entirely and prou LI.c
one of The worst pos able cases OF heI
vors (lvspepsia. Most of the Tune
had no app tite; then again WouI GoLrle
generously hungry, but the minute saC uo o',d
to eat l loa he'd food. MY shll ht was con Il
parched, my flesh loose and taboy; C4 ~ -
hold nothing on my stomach for days at 40
a time: and what little did ent failed 10 as
s'milata | was easily fatlgued; uy mn
was depressed; as GRO and 1tTitapIe s't'g
many a night my heart Wou d pam me SO
could not eep and when dld lag az ieolr
d. cams aud frig .tful night ares Ot course,
tn, Sc things cam on me one by on, ca n
worse than tn other. My br attn vas ION,
my tongue was coated, my teeth de aged. L
had terri fic he da hes which W on d cave my
nervous SYST M compile ely shattered. In
FAC nv cXi teqce, sint tn war, has been q
Ii ing death, from which have often prayed
for release"
"Couldnt the old surgeon do You any
good"
;. [ wrote him and he treated me, but like
every other doctor, failed. They all sal my
nerve was gone and without that to build
upon I could MT get well. When L was at
my wo s., piles of the severest nature came
uTon me- 1kel my liver gave 1t and with
OFT the rse O. cathartics | COId Lot move
the bowe at all. NY bic cd got Ii ,e s ream
of fire and seemed orally to burn me a I've: -
''Well. YOU might better have died IN
battle, uui k and wit hout CEREMONY"
/" How many times wish d had died the
day we captured Newb4rne" -.-. e
And 9. you are now tie picture of
health. .
|And the picture is tax IN from life I am
in per It &C ndit on. My nerve tone IS re-
ored: my sto a h rel -igO ated; my re n
IS harl and healthy; in a l ha eneW tiood,
new energy and a ne " lease OF lie wholly as
the result of using Warmers lip Je2anoe.
This remar able PREF aralon, WI en- con
81 er the fi1,s st tonic and stomach reStor r IN
the world has O er o re all the il il fl enc es
O malaria ii the poison of tn ar ny, all
II e. OF Gysoe7 So, a | -as5lmlla on OF
food and indeed ma a ne. ' man OF e.
j he cal tain remained silel5 for while,
evi, emily missing oor h reCo ectiohS OF
the past. Wien he again raisedhis head he
said
at wou lie go1sen1 if all tie veterans
no have suffered 50 intensely and also all
others in tie land who ire enduring 50 much
misery could know our expe ne, Sage,
and Il e way by which you haze lie re
Stored"
knl that is wi Y the above converse ion is
recounted.-NattOIlaET Tribune, Of Washing
ton.