The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-06-12
a WAR "REMINISCENCES
SCENES AT HATcHER'S CREEK
AND PETERSBURG RECALLED.


Suffered Since-A Story that Reads Like
. Page from History.
From the Albany IN. W Journal.
John b. Scace, the widely known
contractor and building mover Of AL
pany, N. Y, has had an unusually in
teresting life, n when seen by a re-
porter recently at his home, No. Is
bradford street, told of his many ex-
perlences and adventures while serv-
ing under h old flag in the late
war: Although having endured all the
hardshlps and privations of life in the
ranks, Mr.. Scace bears his more thar
halI a century of years with an elastic
step and a keen mind, taking an active
interest IN private and public affairs.
Mr.. Scace is a member of Berkshire
Lodge, No. So, I. o. O. F. He enlisted
IN the army in 1852, in Company A,
F'orty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteer
serving Under Col. w. r.
Bartlett, First Brigade, First Division,
Mlneteenth Corps, with which he par
ticipated in some Of the hottest battles
Of the war, including Port Hudson,
Donaldsonville n Plain Store, where
he was wounded. His time being out, he
was discharged, but soon re-enlisted as
sergeant in Company A, sixty-frst
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer In
lantrg. he was in the battle of Hatch
ers Rum, the fight about Petersburg.
n the battle of Sailors Creek.
Alter his honorable discharge, June
T. laeo, Mr.. Scace returned to Albany
and settled down once again to his
business and social interests. He has
resided IN the city eve since. 1t would
seem that now, Of all times, his peace
and happiness would have been min
terrupted. Such was not to be the cage
tor four years ago, while engage In
experimenting the raising of an i'm
mense smokestack Of the Albany Elec-
trio power-house, the lever of a
ioosened windlass struck him a heavy
blow across the back. The effect OF
the blow was not at first apparent
he being able to leave his bed in a few
days. But the worst was to follow.
tor without warning he was seized
with sclatic rheumatism in all it's viru-
renee: Untold agony followed.
SAID Mr.. Scace: Il could not sleep
Tor the pain. No one will know the
fortunes the rheumatism gave me. I
don't know how I lived during those
days. I became little more than skin
and bones, and it seemed like life
didn't have anything but suffering i'm
1t. Cures? l tried every so-called rheu-
matte cure that was ever invented. I
gave all of them a good trial before
L stopped taking them. My friends
n n~eighbors recommended remedy
after remedy that they heard OF, but
my rheumatism went on just the same.
Well, after I a almost had the life
tortured out Of me, I came across a
newspaper account Of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills, and I thought I might as
we'll add another name to the list as
not, so l ordered some Of my druggist.
i tell you, I was glad in those days
to heal Of anything that could give me
any nope at all. Yes, I got them, and
before 1 had taken two boxes that pain
began to leave me. Why, I couldn't
understand it. I couldn't imagine my
self being cured. But before [ had
taken a half-dozen of those boxes I
was cured. The suffering which had
made my life almost unbearable for SO
long had Disappeared. I was a new
man.
Il began to get strong. I picked up
In flesh, and I went back to my bust
ness with all the vigor and vim of a
young man. I think everyone who
knows me will tell you what it did for
me. Pink Pills is the %grandest medi-
cine ever discovered, and if my recon-
~nendation will do it any good I want
you to use it. I hope others will hear
Of it and be benefited as 1 have been.
Everyone should heal of it. I can't say
too much for Them" Mr.. Scace ex-
claimed, enthusiastically, in conclu-
sion.
Mr.. Scace is now enjoying the fruits
Of an unusually large business, man
aged solely by himself, and covering
Utmost the entire eastern portion of the
State. Mr.. Scace is also an ivory
carver of marked ability, which he fol
lows solely for his own pleasure. Many
little trinkets, carved by the light Of
the campfire, attest his skill in this
direction.
Far from being solicited to recon-
mend the curative which had taken
such a load of misery from his life, in
his gratitude his praise for it is I'M
stinted and unceasing. And from his
own statement one may easily see thai
when he does cease to sing its virtues
1t will be to answer the last muster
ing in.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain. in
a condensed form, all the elements nee
essary to give new life and richness
to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. Pink Pills are sold in boxes at
SO cents a box or six boxes for $50, and
may be had of all druggists, or direct
by mai from DR.. Williams Med. Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
The Bacillus OF the influenza.
The microbe of the grip other
wise the ''inhuenza bacillus" was
discovered by DR.. Canon of Vienna,
who first detected it in the blood of
one of his patients. It is a curiously
shaped organism, many times smaller
than the microbe Of any other known
germ disease, and was only revealed
to the human eye by using a micro
scope with a maynifying power of
eve 1000 diamater5.
H
A Successful Doctor.