Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-01
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How an Old Veteran Escaped AnnihiIatIOn
and Lived to Impart a Warning to

HOW an Ola veteran Escaped AnnlnItaElOn
and Lived to ImPart Warning to
Others.
Washington National Tribune
! 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 IN
usual In many respects that we venture
to reproduce it for the benefit of our
readers.
Capt. Alfred Rensom, of New York,
while pacing in the lobby of the armory,
previous to one of the meetings, sud
denly stopped and scanned the features
of gentleman who was in earnest con-
Versation with one of the Grand Army
officers. It 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, deathlike 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 counte-
nance, and ventured 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 were the same.
The man whom Capt. Rensom had recog-
pized was Mr.. w. K. Sage, of st. Johns,
Mich, a veteran of the 23d n. Y. Light
Artillery, and both members of Burn
sides famous expedition to North Caro-
lima. After the first greetings were over,
Capt. RensOm said:
at hardly seems possible, Sage, to see
you in this condition, for thought you
must have been dead long ago."
7 do not 7 ON not
mistaken when we last met I was occu-
plying a couch in the hospital, a victim
of yellow jack in it's worst FORM"
81 remember. The war seems to have
caused more misery since its close than
when it was in progress" replied the
Captain. AZ meet old comrades frequent
ly who are suffering terribly, not so
much from old wounds as from the ma
larial poisons which ruined their consti-
tutions"
81 think so myself When the war
closed returned home and at times l
would feel well, but every few weeks
that COMPOUNDED "all-gone" feeling would
come upon me again. My nervous sys-
tenn, which had been shattered in the
service, failed me entirely and produced
one of the worst possible cases of nerv-
GUS dyspepsia. Most of the time I 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
f1abby. I could hold nothing on my
stomach for days at time, and what
little did eat failed to assimilate. /
, was easily fatigued; my mind was de-
pressed; | was cross and irritable, and
many night my heart would pain me
so | could not sleep, and when | did l
| had horrible 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 deCayed. I
| had terrific headaches which would
, leave my nervous system completely
= shattered. In fact, my existence since
the war has been a living death, from
; which l have often prayed for re-
Fl lease.
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
} good"
Z" 1 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
[ was at my worst, piles of the severest
nature came upon me. Then my liver
gave out and without the use of cathar-
tics I could not move my bowels at all.
= My blood got like stream of fire, and
seemed literally to burn me alive"
"Weu, you might better have died in
battle, quick and without ceremony"
, "How many times l have wished I
z had died the day we captured Newberne."
"And yet you are now the picture of
} health"
"And the picture is taken from life. 1
: am in perfect condition. My nerve tone is
2 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 War
/ ner's Tippecanoe. This remarkable prep
aration, which I consider the finest tonic
and stomach restorer in the world has
, overcome all the evil influences of ma
laria, all the poison of the army, all ira
ces of dyspepsia, all mal-assimilation of
! food, and indeed made new man Ofme.
The Captain remained silent for a
while, evidently musing over his recol-
| lections of the past When he again
raised his head he said:
at would be god-send if all the vet
Grams who have suffered sointensely and
also all others in the land who are en-
. 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
, ton is recounted.
Mr.. I. Carpenter, 463 Fourth avenue,
New York, after running gauntlet of