The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-05-16
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.

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A pleasing .currenee viii h has ju come
% our notice in come .tion with tie New
York State meeting o the Grand Army of
tho Republic is SO unus lai in many respects
that We venture to reproduce 1t for the bene'
it of our readers,
Captain Alfred Rensom, OF New York, while
Pacing in tho lobby OF the armory preyiousto
one OF the m 'etings, suddenly stopped AMI
canne the face of gentlt man who was in
earnest CONVEX alton with one OF the Grand
Army officers 1t seemed to him that he
had seen that face before, partially OBJ.
@ lred by thu smoke OF battle, ana YET
this bright and pleasant eountenan;e
tould not he the same pale, and dealh'nSe
vi age which he so dim y rem mteret' u
the /, cole ton, Ike Banluos .ghos., wo ID
not down" at command and untea nun
the entire day. On the day following he
again saw tie same countenance, and veh-
tered to speak to its owner, The instant tne
two W terans heart each ether vol o., that
Instant they gni ed q d all ID each otn
lyname, Their ia es and iorns had cnans eu,
but their vol les were thu me Inc III Il
whom Captain Renson lad rec ,onIeu WIS
MIR. w, X. Sage, OF st. Jo, n, MI n, vst
Gran Of tn, 2Sl N; y. Light Arl cry an ali;
ton to North Caroline. AIT he first greet
ines Were over, Cap ain Ron ON sad
at hardly seams p ssihle, sac, to soc you
in this condi ion, for tAous hit you mus have
been dead long ago
Eyes I do not doubt it, for IL am not mis-
taken, when we last met was occupying
couch in the hospital, a victim OF yellow
Jack in its worst form"
II remember The war seems TO nave
caused more misery since its close than when
it was in progress replied the captain. Il
meet old comrades frequently who are saher-
ing terribly, not so much from old WOUNDS rs
from the malarial poisons which ruined tnel
constitutions :,
81 think SO myself When the wor closed
returned home and at timos | woald feel
WELL but every few weeks that conionnded
all-gone' feeling would CONF upon me again.
My nervous system, which was shattered IN
the service, failed me entirely and produced
one of tbs worst possible cases OF ner-
vous dyspepsia. Most Of the time l
had no app tite then again woul b come
ravenously hungry, but the minute sat down
to eat loat he'd food. My skin was dry and
parohed, my tiC sh loose and flabby. could
hold nothing on my stomach for days at ut
a time, and what little did eat failed 10 as
simulate. | was easily fatigued; my mini
was depressed; was GRO and irritable ana
many a night my heart would pain me so |
could not sieep, and when did I rad holrd
cams and frigatful night nares. vi course,
tht SO things came en- me one by on, ca II
worse than tho other. Ny breath was ioll,
my tongue vas coated, my teeth de aged.
had teri fic le1da ;he3 which ouid cave my
nervous syst m completely shattered. In
fac my ext tence, sinCe tho war, has been a
living death, from " hich have often prayed
for release"
"Couldn't the old surgeon do You any
goodw -,
II wrote him and he treated me, but like
every other doctor failed. They oil sal my
nerve was gone and without that to build
upon could not get we'll When l was at
my wo ST, Iiles of the severest nature came
uron me- lien my liver gave OFT and with
out the use o. cathartics | coI.d rot move
the bowe's at ALL Ny blood got il ie stream
OF fire and seemed orally TO burn me o i've: !"
"Well, YOU might better have died in
battle, qui k and without ceremony"
Chow many times wished had died the
day we captured Newberne"
"And yet you are now the picture OF
health"
"And the picture i. tax N from life. ! am
in per Q It cCndit on. My nerve tone is re-
ored; my stomach rein7igoGated; my flesh
is hard and healthy; in a tt hay new flood,
new energy and new lease OF life wholly as
the result OF using Warmers 1ippecanoe.
| This remarkable preparation, VIII CHI ! con-
| slider the fl lest tonic and stomach restor in
the world has overC one all the ell inf ZEN es
| OF malaria, oil the poison Of tn army, all
| traces of dysper sic, a n assimila on OF
| food, and indeed ma g a new man OF ne.
The captain remained silent for while
evic emily musing over his REQ ectlons OF
the past. Wlel he again raisednis head he
said:
at won Re golsend if all tie veterans
who have suffered 50 intensely and slso al
others in TIE land who are enduring so much
misery could know O. your expei me-, Sage
and tie way by which you ha e 10 n re
stored"
recounted. National tribune, Of Washing
| ton.