The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-11
An ARMY EXPFRIENnF.
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aud Lived to Impari n Warning TO others.
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 reproduce il for the bene-
nc of our readers
Captain Alfred Rensom, of New York, while
racing in the lobby of the armory previous TO
one OF the meetings suddenly stopped and
scanned the face of n gentleman who was in
earnest conversation with one of the Grand
Army officers. IL seemed 10 him that he
mad seen that face before, partially OBJ
scared by the smoke of battle, and yet
TINS bright and pleasant countenance
vlSage, which he so dimfS remambered, Put
the recollection, Ike Ban1uos ghost, would
not down at command and haunted him
the entire day. On the day following he
again saw the same countenancs, and Ven-
tured to speak to its owner Tbs instant the
two veterans heard each others vol es, that
instant they recognized and called each Other
10y yname. Their faces and forms had changed,
but their voices were the same. The man
whom Captain Rensom had recognized was
MIR. w. X. Sage, of 81 Johns, Mich, vet
eran of the 23i ~ y. Light Artillery and
10th members of Burnsides famous eXpedi-
ton to North Carolina. After the first greet
ings were over, Captain Rensom said:
at hardly seems possible, Sage, to see you
in this condition, for thought you must have
been dead long ago.
"Yes, LIDO not doubt it. for if am not mis-
taken, when we last met / was occupying n
couch in the hospital, u victim of yellow
Jack in its worst FORM
II remember. The war seems TO have
caused more misery since its close than when
1t was in progress, replied the captain, II
meet old comrades frequently who are suffer
ing terribly, not SO much from old wounds as
from the malaIial poisons which ruined their
constitutions.
81 think so myself When the war closed
l returned home and at times l would feel
well, but every few weeks that confounded
all-gone' feeling would come upon me again
My nervous system. which was shattered in
the service, failed me entirely and produced
one of the worst possible cases of ner-
vous dyspepsia. Most of the time |
had no appetite; then again would become
ravenously hungry, but the minute sat down
to eat loathed food. My skin was dry and
parched, my flesh loose and 'tiabby. | could
hold nothing on my stomach for days at at
a time, and what little did eat failed to as
simulate, l was easily fatigued my mind
was depressed; | was cross and irritable and
many n night my heart would pain me so
could not sleep, and when | did | had hoTrid
dreams and frightful Nightmares. OF course,
tho sc things came on me one by one, each
worse than the other My breath was foul,
my tongue was coated, my teeth decayed.
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 have often prayed
for release"
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
goodn
- 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 | could not get we'll When | was at
my ST, piles of the severest nature came
upon me. Then my liver gave out and with
out the use OF cathartics l could not move
the bowels at all. My blood got like n stream
of fire and seemed literally to burn me alive
Well, you might better have died in
battle, quick and without ceremony"
How many times wished had died the
day we captured NewberneN
And yet you are now the picture of
health.n
And the picture is taken from life. am
in perfect condition. My nerve tone is re-
stored; my stomach reinvigorated; my flesh
is hard and healthy; in TACT have new blood,
new energy and a new lease of life wholly as
the result of using Warmers Tippecanoe.
This remarkable preparation, which | con-
slider the finest tonic and stomach restorer in
the world has overcome all the evil influences
of malaria, all the poison of the army, all
traces of dyspepsia. al ma-assimilation of
food, and indeed made new man of me-
The captain remained silent for n while
evidently musing over his reCollections of
the past. When he again raisedhis head he
said:
'It would be a godsend if all the veterans
who have suffered so intensely and also all
others in the land who are enduring so much
misery could know OF your experience, Sage
and the way by which you have been re
stored.n
And that is why the above conversation is
recounted. .-NattOnaL Tribune, of Washing
ton.