Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — A SOLDIER’S ESCAPE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A SOLDIER’S ESCAPE.

From the Democrat-Message, Mt. Sterling, TIL When Richmond had fallen and the great commanders had met beneath the historic apple tree at Appomatox, the 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers, prematurely

aged, clad in tatters land rags, broken in body but of dauntless spirit, swung into line for the last “grand review” and then quietly marched away to begin life’s fray anew amid the hills and valleys of the Keystone State. .Among the number Asa Robinson came back to the old home in Mt. Sterling, 111., back to the fireside that he had left at the call to arms four years previous. He went away a happy,

healthy farmer boy in the first flush of vigorous manhood; he came back a ghost of the self that answered to President Lincoln’s call for “300,000 more.” To-day he is an alert, active man and tells the story of his recovery as follows: “I was a great sufferer from sciatic rheumatism almost from the time of my discharge from the army. Most of the time I was unfitted for manual labor of any kind, and my sufferings were at all times intense. At times I was bent almost double, and got around only with the greatest difficulty. Nothing seemed to give me permanent relief until three years agp, when my attention was called to some of the wonderful cures effected by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I had not taken more than half a box when I noticed an improvement in my condition, and I kept on improving steadily. I took three boxes of the pills, and at the end of that time was in better condition than at any time since the close of my army service. Since then I have never been bothered with rheumatism. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People is the only remedy that ever did me any good, and to them I owe my restoration to comparative health. They are a grand remedy.”

The Soldier's Return.