McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
AN ARMY EXPERIENCE.
How IN Old Veteran Escaped Aunihila.
ton and Lived to Inn part n Warn
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ton and Lived to I'm part n Warn.
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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 SC
unusual in many respects that we VEN
ture to reproduce 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 meet
ings, suddenly stopped and scanned 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 before, partially
obscured by the smoke of battle, and
yet this bright and pleasant counte-
nance could not be the same pale and
death-like 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 fol-
lowing he again saw the same counte-
nance, and ventured to speak to it's
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 Rem
som had recognized was Mr.. w. X.
Sage, of St. Johns, Mich, a veteran of
the 23d N. 7. Light Artillery, and both
members of Burnside's famous expedi-
ton to North Carolina. After the first
greetings were over, Captain Rensom
said:
cit hardly seems possible, Sage, to
see you in this condition, for l thought
you must have been dead long ago."
''Yes, do not doubt it, for if 1 am
not mistaken, when we last met 1 was
occupying couch in the hospital, VIC
tim of yellow jack in its worst
form.''
81 remember. The war seems to
have caused more misery since it's close
than when it was IN progress" re-
piled the Captain. 81 meet old COM
rades frequently who are suffering ter
ribly, 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
would feel well, but every few weeks
that confounded 'all-gone' feeling
would come upon me again. My nerv-
GUS system, which was shattered in the
service, failed me entirely and pro-
duced one of the worst possible cases
of nervous 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 ard fabby. could hold nothing
on my stomach for days at a time, and
what little did eat failed te assimilate.
[ was easily fatigued; my mind was
depressed; | was cross and irritable
and manya night my heart would pain
me so l could not sleep, and when I did
| had horrid 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.
[ had terrific headaches 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 goodp"
81 wrote him and he treated me, but
like every other doctor, failed. They
all said my nerve was gone, and with
out that to build upon could not get
well. When was at my worst, piles
OF the severest nature came upon me.
Then my liver gave out, and without
the use of cathartics I could not move
my bowels at all. My blood got like
stream of fire and seemed literally to
burn me alive.''
'Well you might better have died in
battle, quick and without ceremony"
elbow many times I have wished I
had died the day we captured New
bernei"
health.n
"And the picture is taken from life.
l am in perfect condition. My nerve
tone is restored; my stomach rein
vigorated my flesh is hard and healthy;
in fact l have new blood,
new energy and a new lease of
life wholly as the result of using
Warmers Tippecanoe. This remarka-
BILE preparation, which I consider the
finest tonic and stomach restorer in the
world, has overcome all the evil influ-
ences of malaria, all the poison of the
army, all traces of dyspepsia, all mall
assimilation of food, and indeed made
a new man of me.''
The Captain remained silent for a
while, evidently musing over his recol-
lections of the past. When he again
raised his head he said:
cit would be a godsend if all the
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