Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — CURED BY SERVICE IN ARMY [ARTICLE]

CURED BY SERVICE IN ARMY

Confederate Veteran, Condemned by ■ Doctor to Die In Six Months, Alive and Hearty at 77. “It is a curious thing how war service has been the making of many a man in a physical sense,” remarked Maj. W. B. Howard of New Orleans, a Confederate veteran. *When I went into the Confederate army my doctor told me that I had tuberculosis and the chances were against my living for six months loWgen I was weak and emaciated to a painful degree, and I had not the remotest doubt but that my doctor had made a true prophecy. “I had made up my mind to join General anyway, and, after the mournful diagnosis of the physician, I was doubly anxious to go to the front. .‘lf I am going to die of disease,’ thought'!, ‘it were just as well to have my existence terminated by a Yankee bullet.’ Lo and behold! here I am now a sprightly old man of seventy-seven and Y’ith no idea of shuffling off the mortal coil for at least another decade. That four years’ service in the Cefhfederate army made me healthy and*robust, and my experience was that of many another weakling. Life in the open air and sunshine beats all the medicine in the world, and you willflnd that the boys who. come back from the battlefields of Europe, if any of them go over there, will return much better specimens of physical manhood than when they went.”