The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-05-02
An Army Experience.
HOW AN OLD VETERAN ESCAPED ANNlHI
LATIoN AND LIVED TO IMPART
A WARNING TO OTHERS.

w AhNlNd TO OIHEkS.
National Tribune of Washington.)
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 ven
ture to produce it for the benefit of our
readers.
Captain Alfred Rensom, of New
York, while pacing in the lobby of
the armory, previous to one of the
meetings, suddenly stopped and scan
ned the face of a gentleman who was
IN earnest conversation with one of
the Grand Army officers. 1t seemed
to him that he had seen that face be-
fore, partially obscured by the smoke
of battle, and yet this bright aud
pleasant counteuance could not be the
same pale, and death-like vissge, 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 fol-
lowing he again saw the same counten-
ance, and ventured to speak to its
owner. 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 were the
same. The man whom Captain Ren.
som had recognized was Mr.. w. X.
Sage, of st Johns, Mich, veteran of
the 23d N. Y. Light Artillery and both
members of Burnsde's famous expedi-
tion TO North Carolina After the first
greetings were over, Captain Rensom
said i:
''lt hardly seems possible, Sage, to
see you iu this condition, for thought
you must have been dead long ago."
"Yes, do not doubt it, for if am
not mistaken, when we last met was
occupying a couch in the hospital, a
victim of yellow Jack in its worst
form
II remember. The war seems to
have caused more misery since its close
than when it was in progress, replied
the Captain. 81 meet old comrades
frequently who are suffering terribly,
not so much from old wounds as from
the malarial poisons which ruined their
constitutions"
81 think SO myself. When the war
closed / returned home and at times l
feel well, but every few weeks that
confounded 'all.gone' feeling would
come upon me again. My nervous
system, which was shattered in the SER
vice, failed me entirely and produced
one of the worst possible cases of ner-
vous dyspepsia. Most of the time l
had no appetite then again | would
become ravenously hungry, but the
minute l sat down to eat l loathed
food. My skin was dry and parched,
my flesh loose and flabby. could
hold nothing on my stomach for days
at time, and what little did eat
failed to assimilate l was easily fati
gued my mind was depressed / was
cross and irritable and many night
my heart would pain me so could not
sleep, and when l did / had horrid
dreams and frightful nightmares. Of
course, these things came on one by
one, worse than the other. My breath
was foul, my tongue was coated, my
teeth decayed. l had terrific head
aches which would leave my nervous
system completely shattered In fact
my existence, since the war, has been
living death, from which l have often
prayed for release"
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
good :"
"Iwrote him and he treated me, but
like every other doctor, failed. They
all said my nerve was gone and without
that to build upon / could not get we'll.
When ] was at my worst, piles of the
severest nature came upon me. Then
my liver gave out aud without the u.s.
of catharlics I could not move my
bowels at ALL Ny blood got like a
stream Of fire and seemed literally to
burn me alive"
"Well you might better have died
in battle, quick and without cere
mony."
"How many times have wished ]
had died the day We captured New
berneT} I .l'at CIT
"Aod yet you are now the picture
of health.'
"And the picture is taken from life
/ am in perfect condition. My nerve
tone is restored my stomach reinyi
gorated my flesh is hard aud healthy
in fact have new blood, new energy
and new lease of life wholly as th,
res lit of using Warmers Tippecanoe
This remarkable preparation, which
consider the finest tonic and stomach
restorer ia the world has overcome al
the evil influences of malaria, all th,
poison of the army, all traces Of dys
pepsia, all NAL assimilation of food, anC
indeed made new man of me"
The Captain remained silent for {
while evidently mnsing over his recol
lections of the past When he again
raised his head he said
at would be godsend if all tn,
veterans who have suffered so intense
ly and also all Others in the land wht
are enduring 80 much misery coult
know of your experience, Sage, ant
the way by which you have been re
stored f.'gf f.#
And that is why the above conver
aatinn 10 raoountad