The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How IN Old vetera1 1ssapsd Annihtlation
and Lived to ImDart = Warning to

An ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How IN OLD vetsraa nssapsd Annihtlation
ana Lived to I1n1art : Warning to
3 Others. J. 1890: q: ~, .tsaE{' 49,
National Tribune Of Washington. -, .,s.y an
A pleasing occurrence which has just
come to our notice in connection with the
New York state meeting of the Grand
Army of the Republic is so unusual in
many respects that we venture to repro
duce it for the benefit of our readers. y
Captain Alfred Rensom, of New York
while pacing in the lobby Of the armnory,
previous to one Of the meetings, sudden
ly stopped and scanned the face of a gen-
tleman who vas 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 dimly remembered. 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 coun .
tenance, and vent1lred to speak to it's own
Ell. The instant the two veterans heard
each others voices, that instant they
recognized and called each other by
name. Their faces and forms had
changed, but their voices We're the same.
The man whom Captain Renson had re-
cognizeds was Mr.. W. X. Sage, of St.
Johns, Mich. "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, Captain Rensom said:
ut hardly seems possible, Sage, to see
you in this condition, for I thought you
must have been dead long ago."
"Yes, I do not doubt it, for if I am
not mistaken, when we last met I was
OCCUPYING couch in the hospital, VIC
tim of yellow Jack in it's worst form. y
II remember. The war seems to have
caused more misery since it's close than
when it was in progress" replied the
Captain. II meet old comrades fire.
quontly 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 I
would feel we'll, but every few weeks
that COMPOUNDED 'all-gone' feeling would
come upon me again. My nervous sys-
tenn, which was shattered in the service,
failed ME entirely and produced one Of
the worst possible cases of nervous dys-
pepsia. Most of the time I Lad no APP
petite; then again would become raw
enously hungry, but the minute sat
down to eat [ loathed food Ny
skin was dry and parched, my
flesh loose and Aabby. could hold
nothing on my stomach for days at a
time, and what little I did cat failed to
assimilate. was easily fatigued; my
mind was depressed; l was cross and
irritable and many q night my heart
would pain ME 50 ] could not sleep, and
when did [ 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 de-
cayed. / had terrific headaches which
would leave my nervous system COM
pletely shattered. In fact my existence
since the war. has been a living death,
from which I have often prayed for re-
lease"
"Couldn't the old surgeon do YOU any
good?"
II wrote him and he treated me, but
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 l was at my worst, piles of the
severest nature came upon me. Then
my liver gave out and without the use Of
cathartics I could not move my bowels
at all. Ny blood got like stream of
fire and seemed literally to burn he
alive"
:'Well you might better have died in
battle, quick and without ceremony
elbow many times I have wished l
had died the day we captured New
berne!"
"And yet you arc now the picture of
health"
and the picture is taken from life I
am in perfect condition. NV nerve tone
is restored; my stomach reinvigorated.;
my flesh is hard and healthy; in fact I
have new blood. new energy and a new
lease Of life wholly as tho result of using
Warmers Tippecanoe. This remarkable
preparation, which l consider the finest
tonic and stomach restorcr in the world
has overcome all the evil Influences of
malaria, all the poison of the army, all
traces Of dyspepsia, all mal;assimilation
OF food, and indeed made a new man of
me-"
The captain remained silent for while
evidently musing over his recollections
of the past. When he again raised his
head he said
1T would he godsend if all the vet
Grams who have suffered so intensely and
also all others in the land who are CHI
during SO much misery could know of
your experience, Sage, and the way by
which you have been restored"
And that is why the above CONVERSE
tiOn is recO1lnted.