The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-05-08
An AnMx ExrEnrE;MuE.

An AR1r1 EXPERIENCE.
Hcw an Old Veteran Escaped Annihi1atton
and Lived TO 1rnpaxt . Warning To-
Others. X q sSt
National Tribune Of Washingto Ri
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 read rs.
Captain Alfred Rensom, Of New York,
while pacing in the lobby Of the armory,
previous to one Of the meetings sud dem.
" stopped and scanned the face ola gen
tleman who was in earnest conversation
with one Of the grand army. officers. tt
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 yisage,:
which he SO dimly remembered. But
the recolle ction, 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 yentured to speak to its own
%er. 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-;
eognizedS was Mr.. w Z. Sage, Of St.:
Johns, Mich, 9 veteran Of the 23d Ny.
Light ARTILLERY and both members Of
Burnside's famous expedition to North
Carolina. After the first greetings were
over, Captain Rensom said II:
IT 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 4 am
not mistaken, when We last met I was
occupying couch in the hospital, q VIC.
tim of Yellow Jack in its worst form. !"
7 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
malarial poisons which ruined their con-
stitutions. +" 81 II
IT think SO myself. When the war
closed returned home and at times Z
would feel well, but every few weeks
that confounded 'all-gone' feeling would
come upon me again. Ny 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 had no APP
petite; then again I would become raw
enously hungry, but the minute I sat
down to eat I loathed food. My
skin was dry and parched, my
flesh loose and fabby. 1 could hold
nothing on my stomach for days at a
time, and what little I did eat failed to
assimilate. I was easily fatigued; my
mind was depressed; I was cross and
irritable and many night my heart
would pain me so I could not sleep, and
when I did I had horrid dreams and
frightful nightmares. OF course, these
things came on one by one, each worse
than the other. Ny 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 existenc
since the war, has been living death
from which have often prayed for re
lease. * 81 5a5
&C Couldn't the old surgeon do you an
\ good?" z = ~. .,!s,.s 20
IT wrote him and he treated me, bu
| like every other doctor, failed. The
| all said my nerve was gone and withou
that to build upon Icould not get well
4 When I was at my worst, piles of th
sseverest nature came upon me. Thel
my liver gave ont and without the use o
cathartics I could not move my bowels
at all. My blood got Like stream o
fire and seemed literally to burn nj
alive" ~ Il sfs5 55.3s5 "a
ssWell you might better have died il
battle, quick and without ceremony"
| "How many times T have wished
had died the day we captured New
bernew
"And yet you are now the pi cture 0
health. !"
aAnd the picture is taken from life.
am in perfect condition. Ny nerve tom
is restored; my stomach reinvigorated
my flesh is hard and healthy in fact
have new blood, new energy and new
lease of life wholly as the result of using
1 Warmers Tippecanoe. This remarkable
| preparation, which consider the fines
tonic and stomach restorer in the worl6
has overcome all the evil influences O
malaria, all the poison of the army, al
traces of dyspepsia, all NAL assimilation
Of food, and indeed made new man o
me-"
The captain renamed silent for Will
evidently musing over his recollection
of the past. When he again raised hi
head he said: .s....ss5.
"It would be godsend if all the vet
Grams who have suffered SO intensely a9t
| also all others in the land who are en-
during so much misery could know o
your experience, Sage, and the way b.
which you have been restored"
1 And that is why the above converse
ton is recounted. -
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Parties having cattle for sale Of any class
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