The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-05-03
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How an Old Veteran Escaped Aunthila-
ton and Lived to I'm p art n Warn
ing to Others.
National Tribune of Washington.

National Tribune of Washington.
A pleasing occurrence which h
Just come to our notice in connect,
with the New York state meeting
the Grand Army of the Republic is
unusual in many respects that we We
ture to reproduce it for the benefit
u readers.
Captain Alfred Rensom, of Ne
York, while pacing in the lobby of IL
armory, previous to one of the NEE
ings, suddenly stopped and scanned II
face of a gentleman who was in earnel
conversation with one of the Gran
Army officers. 1t seemed to him tn,
he had seen that face before, PARTIAL
obscured by the smoke of battle, an
yet this bright and pleasant counte
nance could not be the same pale an
death-like visage, which he so diml
remembered. But the recollection
like Banquo's ghost, would no
"down" at command and haunted
him the entire day. On the day fol
lowing he again saw the same counte
nance, and ventured to speak to it.
owner. The instant the two veteran.
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 mar whom Captain Rem
som had recognized 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 expedi-
ton to North Carolina. After the first
greetings were over, Captain Rensom
said:
SIT hardly seems possible, Sage, to
see you in this condition, for ! thought
you must have been dead long ago."
eyes,, l do not doubt it, for if | am
not mistaken, when we last met l was
occupying a couch in the hospital, a vic
tim of yellow jack in is worst
FORM"
81 remember. The war seems to
have caused more misery since its close
than when i was IN progress" re-
piled the Captain. "I meet old COM
rades frequently who are suffering ter
not so much from old wounds as
from the mahrial poisons which ruined
their constitutions"
81 think go myself. When the war
l returned home and at times 1
would feel veil, but every few weeks
that confonded 'all-gone' feeling
come upon me again. Nv nerv-
Gus system, which was shattered in the
service, 1aied me entirely and pro-
duced n # the worst possible cases
Of nervous dyspepsia. Most of the time
| had no appetite; then again l would
become raenously hungry, but the
minute l sal down to eat l loathed food.
skin wa dry and parched, my flesh
DOSE and flbby. 1 could hold nothing
IN my stomach for days at a time, and
What little did eat failed te assimilate.
was easiE fatigued; my mind was
depressed | was cross and irritable
Ind many anight my heart would pain
SO l coud not sleep, and when 1 did
had horid dreams and frightful
Nightmares Of course, these things
,ame on ole by one, each worse than
he other. My breath was foul, my
ongue waf coated, my teeth decayed.
had terrific headaches which would
cave my lervous system completely
battered. In fact my existence, since
war, ht been a living death, from
Which l hap often prayed for release
"CouldnI the old surgeon do you
goodP1
81 wrotehim and he treated me, but
Ike every cher doctor, failed. They
Ii a myherve was gone, and with !
ut that topuild upon 1 could not get
1ell. VINO L was at my worst, piles
the seveest nature came upon me. 1
hen my lfer gave out, and without
use oftathartics / could not move I
~ bowelat all. My blood got like a 2
,ream offre and seemed literally to l
urn me dive" a
swell bu might better have died in {
attic, quck and without ceremonv.m c
slow Aany times l have wished l .
died the day we captured New |"
"And yd you are now the picture of s
L
"And tn picture is taken from life. a
In prfect condition. My nerve
ne is rttored; my stomach rein Y,
gorated ;hylesh is hard and healthy;
fact have new blood.
wv enert and a new lease of 81
70 who'll as the result of USING =,
arner's i%ppecanoe. This remarka- RI
e preparation, which l consider the H,
lest ~toniclnd stomach r~estorer in the tn
orld, has eercome all the evil influ- fe'
Ices OF maria, all the poison of the
my, all tices of dyspepsia, all NAL hu
similaiioDf food, and indeed made lal
man + me.n
The Cap'in remained silent for a scs
nlie, eVdetly musing over his recol- Ur
,tions ot 'e past. When he again So
Used his htd he said:
ut wouldbe a godsend if all the WI
terans VII have suffered so intense sal
n also others in the land who 6nrr
Q endurii so much misery couId III
ow of yG experience, Sage. and i
way byhich you have been re- inc
nj
And that why the above CONVERSE On
n is recorLed. .