The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-04-24
Toledo, Ohio, and learn something to his inter-


Young Housekeeper: To keep the srup from
fruit pies escaping observe the following: Do not
have your under crust rolled thin III spots Put
your sugar in first before tie fruit and do not add
water. Then, before you put over the upper crust
dip your fingers in water and run them all around
the edge. Your pies will be simply delicious. For
very juicy fruit you might sprinkle little flour
over the top of the fruit-0id iiousek eeper.
Soldiers Daughter: Carbonate of soda and
common baking soda are the same subs tanti-
ally, though there is super carbonate, that is
supposed to be little finer, for medicinal pur-
poses.
Our Weekly Experience Meeting.
HOW TO MAKE sCRAP-BooK--"T THE GIRLS
AT HOME "-LINcoLN's LETTER TO MIS-
SOURI, CNIoNIsT-LoYAL LADIES LEAGUE.
GILBERT, Men, April 7, 1884.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBuNE:
Seeing so many soldiers boys and girls writing
TO your most excellest paper, | soldiers
daughter, thought might write too. will tell
the boys and girls of the plan that have taken for
making scrap-book. ann going TO cut out and
tln poetry that Is in The TRIBUNE. To make
cheap scrap-book, first get heavy paper common
brown paper will do). cut many leaves as you
want eight by ten inches then eut just twice as
many strips ten inches long and one-haif inch
wide as you have of leaves Then take needle
ana coarse thread, take one leaf aid baste two
strips of the lsaper side, and then lay on
another leaf and two strips and base; keep
on this way until You get it thick as you want
your book. Then, for tue cover, take heavy paste-
board and cut it ten and one-ha' by eight and one
half incnes and il with some kind of cloth.
You must have the cloth long enough 10 go clear
around the book and lap over little on the inside
OF the cover. Decorate the front of the book any
way to suit your fancy. Ii this is not plain will
VIII some please send directions for making
card album2
am sixteen, and my fathers name is D. G. Col
Iler adjutant of o. p Morton Post, No. 81. Manton,
Mich. JESSIE ID. COLLIER.
ONE or HENRY C. WORKS SONGS.
WEST BLOOMFIELD N ", April 4
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Seeing request your last issue, April Sd, for
the words of the song entitled The Girls at home.
! hunted through Il pile of old music, and here 1t
IS. quite agree with Airs. A X French that
Saving the Nation is alone worth the price of
The TRIBUNE.--Jenny l.. Wall
THE GIRLS HOME.
When the daylight fades on the tented field,
And the campfire clieerfully burns
Then the soldiers thought, like u carrier dove,
To his own loved home returns.
Like carrier dove IA carrier dove,
And CLEANS beyond the foam.
SO light springs up in the soldiers heart,
as he thinks of the girls at home
When the shadows dance tho canvas walls,
And The camp with melody rings,
f1is the good old song of the stripes and stars
That the fire-side circle sings.
or the stripes and stars. the stripes and stars,
| For love of which they roatl.
| Bot the inai song and the sweetest one
Are the girls they let at home.
/ Now the silver rays of the setting moon
Tiiro' the lofty sycamores creep.
And the fires burn low, and the sentries watch
Ger the armed host asleep;
And the seutFies watch. the sentries watch
Till memory giids the dome,
| Till the rattng drum shall the sleepers rouse
From their dream OF the girls al home
LTNcoLE's LETTER TO MISSOURI UNIoNTsT.
A comrade writes us from Missouri who
served ali through the war; that Carlcton's !"
State outside the st, Louis Germans cannot be
| substantiated by the actual facts. The writer's
| father was a soldier III the war of 1872. aud,
| although stakeholder was loyal TO the core.
| When the war broke ont he was sixty five years
| old and nearly blind and could not 20 himself,
but he sent his fifteen year oid sou, who served
from first to last. nearly four years. When his
| secesh neghhors told him he did wrong to send
such mere child. he said: Well, if it wasn't
| for the internal traitors have III this coun-
| try he wouldn't have to go; aud If he is a mere
boy he can shoot as hard any body, as you fellows
| viii find out before you get through with
| him."
We are quite ready to believe that tho Mis-
souri, Unionists have never had full justice
| done them, and the writer of this who happened
to visit some families of Missouri shareholders a
year before the war, whose action when the
| war broke out was similar 10 that which ap-
pears below, is inclined TO think that snei,
cases were by no means few and isolated. Our
Missouri c0mrade thus concludes his letter: i.
Our folks were all shareholders. and three OF our
black men enlisted ia the ID Missouri G.. T. Father
sent them, too We didn't care If slavery stood or
fell. so that had country we could be proud
OF. Father said. Anything TO put down this re,
beon, even if we have 10 traisf mules kick tile
rebels death!" He wrote To Mr. Lincoln. aiid
said YoI put down this rebellion, aud if you
have to free the negroes do il. No good Unior
man will object The Presidents kind thankful
letter in reply is framed. hanging before me.
Our Young Recruits.
BRIGHT LETTERS FROM THE SONS AND DAUGH
TEES OF OUR VETERANS.
"a soldier Of the Union mustered ont,"
is the inscription ot an unknown grave
AT Newport News beside tie si.ll-sca wave,
NaIneiess aud dateieos sentinel
Shot down in shirnsl, or disastrous rout
| OF battle, when the loud artillery drave
. Its iron wedges through the Ranks OF brays
And doomed bntlaions, storning the redoubt
r Thou unknown hero sleeping by the
! In thy forgotten grave! with secret shame
fell my pulses beat, my for. heal iturn.
When ] remember thou hast given for me
All thai thou hast, Thy life, thy very name,
And / can give thee nothing in return
Henry w. Longfellow.
Like Adda b. Taylor. have wondered why IN
older and daughters oil veterans, did write
, ann seventeen. and the eldest daughter of "a sol
dier j. L. Horrei of company C. 18Th Illinois regi
nlent He wounded the right elisuw at III
battle OF Fort DoneisoIi. and has never had hi
hand TO his head s1ice the day he WAS shot. WIS.,
a
! will write.-Eva b. Horreli. Frankfort, Ill.
We lire ut the foothills Of the Cas1z,.ies tsyeu
| miles from Salem. Three miles away are lii
beautiful Silver Creek Falls. The wafer falls Is
feet and they bulid summer houses there
Papa served ia company g. SD illinois. am 81 4
0 | and have a brother Frank and brother Willie
| one eight the other four. - Carrie Batcheior
Knight. Marion county. Oregon.
. | am pnpas baby girl. only seven Papa serve
three years for the best government in tile worl.
aud will love te flag and iuy country a. long
1 live and the who fought for it. too.-Maggi
: j. Spencer. Nevada. story county. iowa.
I arm little girl Of ten. aad love THE TBIBuS
and the soldiers. Three cheers for the flag aid il
: brave MISUNDERSTANDING A. Spencer. Nevada low.
r. My mamma Is dead and | keep house for m,
= | papa He soldier three years and tw
| months in company r. 7th Illinois cavalry tn
| TRIBUNE s "A dear friend In the hollse.-Cora \
i Warner. Carleton. Heb.
| love TO hear nay papa read THE TRIBUNE III
y | served in company G.. 10Th o. v. l.. and was
s | prisoner at Andersonyille. am eight and l,ay
: two little sisters and brothcr.-Sadie Bell Morr
s ing sun, Ohio.
We live here In dear little cottage--pap
mamma. and two little brothers and /. One Iitt
sister Is dead.
{. There is no fold however watched and tende,
But dead lamb is there"
Papa's name is John Sargent. He has two di
,f charges tn. last from the l1ti Missouri infansr
i He had three nephews serving with Sherman a
y mammals dear. only brother. John ID. William
was killed III the war. am thrteen.-Ella Sa
gent Plato Texas county. BIO.
i, Would you Ike to hear from little New YoY
" girl, whose father served in the IfSih New York
n His name is James Redmond. ann twelve. al