The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-05-29
A WAR "REMINISCENCES.
SCENES AT HATcHER.S CREEK
AND PETERSBURG RECALLED.
John A. Scace Speaks to a Reporter of
Stirring scenes-Escaped With a Slight
Wound, But, Like Other Veterans. Has
Suffered Since-A Story that Reads Like
q Page from History.
From the Albany IN. " Journal.

oNS W \ =
bany, N. Y, has had an unusually in
teresting life, and when seen by a re-
porter recently at his home, No. Is
Bradford street, told of his many ex-
periences and adventures while serv-
ing under the old flag in the late
war. Although having endured all the
hardshlps and p%rivations of life in the
ranks, Mr.. Scace bears his more than
half 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. +. He enlisted
in the army in 1862, in Company A,
Forty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteer
infantry, serving under Col. w. F..
Bartlett, First Brigade, First Division,
Nineteenth Corps, with which he par
tlclpated in some Of the hottest battles
of the war, including Port Hudson,
Donaldsonville and Plain Store, where
he was wounded. His time being out, he
was discharged, bu soon re-enlisted as
sergeant in Company A, Sixty-frst
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer In
1antry. He was in the battle Of Hatch
ers Run, the fight about Petersburg,
and the battle Of Sailors Creek.
After his honorable discharge, June
4, 1868, Mr.. Scace returned to Albany
and settled down once again to his
business n social interests. He has
resided in the city ever since. 1t would
seem that now, of all times, his peace
and happiness would have been unin-
terrupted. Such was not to be the case,
for four years ago., while engaged in
experimenting the raising Of an i'm
nense smolkestack Of the Albany Elec-
trio poWer-house, the lever of a
loosened Wlndlass struck him a heavy
blow across the back. The effect Of
the blow was not at first apparent,
fa holm Or hi TO 1No1yo 1;- l>-I - - g..
days. But the worst was to follow,
tor without warning he was seized
with sciatic rheumatism in all it's viru-
lence. Untold agony followed.
SAID Mr.. Scace: Il could not sleep
for 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 in
it. Cures? I tried every so-called rheu-
matte cure that was ever invented. I
gave all of them a good trial before
I stopped taking them. My friends
and neighbors recommended remedy
after remedy that they heard Of, but
my rheumatism went on just the same.
Well, after I had almost had the life
tortured out of me, I came across a.
newspaper account of DR.. Williams.
Pink Pills, n I thought I might as
"SAA ~ "AAoS11CA 44olllC w liz llSI dS
not, SO I ordered some of my druggist.
Il tell you, I was glad in those days
to hear Of anything that could give me
any hope at all. Yes, I got them, and
before I had taken two boxes that pain
began to leave me. Why, [ couldn't
self being cured. But before I had
taken a h~alf-dozen Of those boxes I
was cured. The suffering which had
made my life almost u~nbearable for SO
long had disappeared. I was a new
man.
7 began to get strong: I picked up
in flesh, n 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-
mendation will do it any good I want
you to use 1t. I hope others will near
of it and be benefited as I nave been.
Everyone should hear 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
almost 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 un-
stinted and unceasing. And from his
own statement one may easily see that
when he does cease to sing it's virtues
1t will be to answer the last muster
ing in.
DR.. Williams Pr 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 $3.50, and
LAY be had of all druggists, or direct
by mail from DR.. Williams Med. Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
The Bacillus o.. tho 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. 1t is a c%uriously
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 magnifying power of
eyer 1000 diametcrs.
A Successful Doctor.