The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15

How an Old Veteran Escaped Annihilation
and Lived to Impart Warning "a 9th

How nm Old vot0ron ped Annihiiatiou
and Lived to Impart u Warning "a 9th
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National Tribune Of Washington.l
A pleasing occurrence which has just come
10 our notice I'm connection with the New
York State meeting of the Grand Army of
the Republic is 50 unusual In many respects
that we venture to reproduce IL for the bene-
ht of our readers.
Capt. Alfred Renssm, OF New York, while
pacing In the lobby OF the armory, previous
10 one OF the meetings, suddenly stopped and
scanned the face Of gentleman who was in
earnest conversation with one of the Grand
Army officers. Ii seemed 10 him that he had
seen that face before. partially obscured by
the smoke Of battle, and yet his bright and
pleasant countenance could not be the
same pale and death-like visaRe which
he sosdimly remembered. But the recollec-
ton, like Banquo's ghost, would not .'down"
at command, and haunted him the entire
day. On the day following he again saw the
same countenance, and ventured to speak 70
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 Capt.
Rensom had recognized was w. X. Sage of
st. Johns, Mich, veteran of the Twenty
third New York Light Artillery, and both
ucubcTs VI famous X petition 10
North Carolina. After the first greetings
were over, Capt Rensom said:
ut hardly seems possible, Sage, to see you
In this condition, for thought you must
have been dead long ago.
"ies, do not doubt II, for il i am not mis-
taken, when we last met was occupying q
couch in the hospital, victim of 'Yellow
Jack in its worst FORM"
~ remember. The war seems to have
caused more misery since its close than when
II was In progress" replied the Captain. ~
meet old comrades frequently who are suffer
ing terribly, not 80 much from old wounds
as from the malarial poisons which ruined
their constitutions"
~ think SO myself. When the war closed
l returned home, and Mt times would feel
well, but every few weeks that COMPOUNDED
'ali-gone' feeling would come upon me
again. My nervous system, which was shat
tered in the service, failed me entirely, and
produced one of the worst possible cases of
nervous dyspepsia. Most of the time had
no appetite: then again l would become
ravenously hungry, but the minute l sat
down TO eat l loathed food Nv skin was
dry and parched, my flesh loose and flabby.
could hold nothing on my stomach for days
at time, and what little | d eat failed TO
assimlate. was easily fatgued, and my mind
was depressed; wascross and irritable, and
many night my heart would pain me so |
could not sleep. and when did L had horrid
dreams and irightful 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. had
terrific headaches which would leave my
nervous system completely shattered. In
lace. my existence, since the war; has been
living death. from which have often prayed
for release"
Couldn't the old surgeon do you any
goodr'
81 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 well. When was at my
worst, piles OF the severcst nature came uEon
me. Then my liver gave ont, and without the
use Of cathartics could not move my bowels
at all. My blood got like II stream of fire
and seemed literally to burn me alive"
"Well, you might better have died I'm battle,
quick and without ceremony"
How many times have wished had died
the day we captured NewbeTne."
And yet you are now the picture of
health"
"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 new lease of life
wholly as the result of using Warmers Tip
pecanoe. This remarkable preparation, which
l consider the finest tonic and stomach re-
storer i'm the world, has overcome all the evil
influences of malaria, all the poison of the
urlHy, All trdccS VI ulsptpSId MI HldfuSsliI-
ilation OF food, and indeed made new man
OF me-"
The Captain remained silent for while,
evidently musing over his recolections of
the past. When he again raised his head he
said:
1T would be a godsend if all the veterans
who have suffered 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
racOunfal