Telegram-herald., 1890-08-24
THE SOLDIERS HOME
An Old Veteran IN an Interview
Relates HIS Experience
SEyEs HOMES II LIBBY PRISON
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Inmate


Home is Samuel DoRleys Ists q Com
paay !. Forty fifth Regiment Pennsyl-
wanna Veteran Noluntaers. lie = not a
pensloner, although be for years has
been great sufferer from physical and
nervous debility, bToaght Ga during
active service, ana an incarceration OF
seyea months IA Libby Prison Nj.
Donley wss IN the city yesterday alter
noon, looking up the new pension lA".
lie explained that nc tad not reserved
q pension. and ala not apply Tor i n
time, because, although ne was not N
good health when he left he army, he
thought be would be perfectly well as
soon as he got out OF army life.
He said that las trouble consisted OF
cough, dyspepsia, Indigestion, rheumA-
tism and neuralgisc pains, and oizzi-
ness OF the head, tie would apply 10
doctor. get some medicine, and think
he was well for the time beng. but ~ q
short time the trouble would come
back IN a more serious form than be-
cover IN time, lust as many others do
until il il TOO late, and did not apply
for his pension. Then, when he olo
apply, the examiners thought that has
| disease had been CONTRACTED after b.s
term of service had EXPIRED and this Is
the case of good many deserving old
veterans. After being under tue care
OF one OF the most noted specialists OF
Buffalo, y. y, for twelve months, and
taking treatment in New York City,
| Philadelphia and other cities, he de-
cided 20 see what the lumber regions Of
| the West would do for him, aud came
| 70 Michigan. His condition did not i'm
prove, and he was finally obliged 10
| seek admission 10 the soldiers Home.
| He hopes 10 secure pension under the
| new law.
7 When asked about the condition of
| things generally at the Home, Mr..
! Doniey expressed himself as pleased
| with that excellent institution, Gen.
!, Pierce is Just the man for the place he
| occupies" he said. land no one could
| do more for the comfort OF the old
| veterans than he does. We al like
| him, and We all think that Col. Hins-
dill, Maj. Long and DR.. Stevens are
| doing all IN their power 10 make the
lives OF the inmates pleasant. We have
good food ana plenty OF II, our cloth
ing and beds are clean and comfort
able. and, IN fact, the place IS real
home for the old boys. OF course,
| there are some klckers, but they don
count.
~ suffered for seven months IN Libby
prison, but / have suffered more for
over - years since then. 10 starye ioi
lack of food is no worse than 10 starvf
! because your stomach is IN such flx
that YOU dare not eat. To be sutfOcated
by foul air is not so bad as 10 have your
lung in such u condition that you can't
take full long breath. To be reached
with pain, and 10 be IN such state OF
health that YOU can't eat, breath OF
sleep is worse than Libby prison"
"You think Pm a jolly old fellow
now" be said, "but you wouldn't have
thought so If you mad seen me few
months ago. j was IN hard shap,
then"
"Well, you're looking al right now,
sain the interviewer.
That's all right" ssId Mr.. Donly
"Pm afraid am looking SO wei thai
they will turn rae out before my mus
cles get hard IN the spring, so ! car
earn my own living, as want 10 do
You think look well-that is due en-
tirsly 10 the electro-o5one treatment
Perhaps you have heard that electro
oze kills; IT don't look as though Il wa
killing me, docs it If you had talked
with me a few months ago, you would
have seen a mighty SICK man; so yoi
can see what electro-oZone has done TO
me. I have spent a small for tune 70
medicine, but electro-oZone has done
me more good IN three months than o.
the medicine aud doctors combined
You can say right there IN you
paper that | would like TO zee al m
ailing friends taking this treatment. j
had not come 10 Grand Rapids am
become acquainted with It, | shoul'
have been dead now" And the oil
veteran walked away with bright ey'
and an elastic step that did not looi
. much ike the general debility OF lonl
l army service and months Of suffering
III Libby prison.