The National tribune., 1884-09-25
AN OLD HUNTER.

AN OLD HUNTER
handed me his needle-gun saying as he did
so: Here, Zim, take my gun and go and try
your luck i had not yet shot buffalo.
and, of course, was eager to do SO, and, takinga
gun apiece, L and a companion sauntered forth.
We were then in sight of buffalo all the time and.
of course, didn't have to go far to find one Alter
our knees, we had seen the others do, and
crawled through grassy ravine toward group
which We're grazing nearly half i-mlie away;
When we had crawled about half the distance l
grew impatient, and thought would try one just
forluck. So rose slowly from my hands and knees,
aud picking out big fat fellow, who was standing
broadside toward me, took careful aim and fired.
The buffalo started as If surprised staggered few
feet and fell. My companion quickly followed my
example, but his buffalo, instead of falling, stuck
his tail heavenward and started like creased light
ming the hill. His flight caused general
stampede and soon the whole herd was out of
sight. We walked up to the buffalo had shot; he
stone-dead. We then started to hunt the one
my companion had shot and found it a mile away,
also dead. We went back to camp and brought
out wagon to draw meat in. We started
home after this, and did not get to kil any
more buffalo, though j wounded one. That was
my first and last buffalo hunt. And thus ends nay
story.
WHO WILL TELL ONE IN TURNf
Would the members of the Conversation Club
send me their autographs postal cards and, to
the one sending me the prettiest card, viii send
cabinet photo of myself, which can assure you
viii be beauty. Wake up! thou that sleepest IN
the dark corner-Clement nj. Shaver, Bashan, Lin
coin Co., Kan.
BORN ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF ANTIETAM.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: don blame the girls
for going for Mr. Noble. / would if / We're one.
There some who wont work, admit, but are
there not plenty of boys who never work. / for
one believe the girls work just much as the boys,
considering everything. agree with Miss Nancy
j. ChatmGn-just give most of the boys cigar,
then they satisfied. There thousands OF
brave, working girls, well as boys OF which this
country is proud i wish the boys would rally and
write more letters. intended long ago to write,
but did not on account of not being a soldiers
how. htlt hon he will pfitl
just the same, as was born and raised on the bat
tiefield of Antietam, after the i visited that
part of the country last Winter and will be glad TO
| hear from any member OF this club-Gnuoy Allen.
Bingham Falls, Minn.
A GETTYSBURG sCHooL-BoY.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: l should like to hear
| through THE TRIBUNE from some of the boys or
| girls who attended the National Soldiers Orphans
| Homestead at Gettysburg, Pa The scholars who
| went to the school could tell some tales which
| would sound very much like those told by ex-
| prisoners of Libby or Andersonville prisons do
not think many people knew how that school was
| managed. 1t certainly was not managed Ike the
| McAlllsterviiie Soldiers Orphans School, which
! went to afterward We owe our thanks to N. G
/ Wilson, Superintendent of the National Soldiers
Cemetery, and other Grand Army men of Gettys-
burg for the way in which they settled matters fol
US. Every one who takes THE TRIBUNE here is
greatly pleased with it.-John r. Davis, p. .. Boz
230, Rosedale, Kan.
PLEA FOR GIRLS WORK.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: L have been reading
|
ters of the soldiers, and feel like asking, May
join, too?" My father was also a soldier and II
at present member of Lincoln Post, Topeka
| Kan. Could f. b. Noble see some of the kind o
work that do and that lots of other girls doing
all this bread American country, he woult
not be quite SO sweeping in his assertions ane
would acknowledge that the fact that we girl
does not prevent filling positions quite a
well the boys. Minnie B. Dee, shake hands
/ move also for new topic for discussion Vii
somebody start it? Jennie Genung, if you viii
write me whether it is the song or the poem yoi
wish will be happy to supply you, as have both
VIII some of the Conversation Club write rnef
am Is.-Minnie Knight, Delphi, Ind.
CLUB WHISPERS.
My father was soldier in the Tooth Ohio; en-
listed in 1862, served three years, and was taken
prisoner the sth of September 1868; was conductes
to Libby Prison, Va. thence to Belle Isle, being il
prison over six months in all; came out of tia
war without a scratch, but has never had goo,
health since He is member of Princeton Post
No. Ill. had five uncles in the war one had
leg shot off; another wounded in the back Will
sleeping in his tent before Atlanta.-Annie Z
Fawney, Princeton Kan.
The TRIBUNE is the best paper of six we take
! My faiher served three years in the Army of th
Potomac; was in all the heavy battles and in Libb
Prison two weeks. Boys. we will have to rally, o
the girls viii get ahead of US. / am H. and hop
some of the Club will write me.-Ira Y. overmyei
Burr Oak, /.
would like to ask Al H Uln, if there is a rail
road running through Santa Anna and what tn
name of il is If Rosa NJ Randall has not vet re
} ceived The Drunkard's Dream viii send it :
her If she will let me know Father, whose nam
Is Peter Hoffman, served three years in Co. e, 1T
!, Pa. Reserves.-Rosa L. Hoffman, Beech Creek, Pa
Father draws pension for injuries receive
: while serving in Co. II, 2ist mich. He is a mem
Der of Shields Post and took part in the soldiers
; Reunion that took place 10 miles from our home
l There were about Z 600 people on the grounds
must have been grand sight to see the soidie,
together that fought brayely so many year
ago. They must have enjoyed the meeting greatly
so many met that acquainted in the Old ws
oays.-JennIe Currier, Ocean, Mich