The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-01-24

lessen the esteem and confidence in which the /
Grand Army Is universally held. for that lessons
and those more sacred duties owe to the wild |
ows and orphans OF those Nhe fell thnt the Nation
Answer to Kansas 3Girl . for motto for auto
graph album:
Our lives are albums written; through
With good or i'll, with false or true;
May the good angels as they turn the pages OF our
Read the good with smiles, and blot the bad with
tears ~. q. Wiittier.
For chiibiains: Battle the feet thoroughly with
kerosene or with alcohol, or apply strictly accord
ing to directions Trask' magnetic ointment. The
last know from experience is sure. speedy cure;
tried them. When they are cured wear cotton
stockings and avoid stepping cold floor with
bare feet if possible Be careful about getting the
feet chilled when they wet-R.
e. j. Foster, NJ O., Waterbury, VT, writes as
follows: hive recently returned from the West
On reading the back numbers of the best paper
published in the United States-THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE notice that a comrade asks in the cofs
uInns of Loyal Woman's Work If Edwin Dilling-
ham Post of Waterbury, VT. Is named after
comrade he nursed in Bratteboro' Hospital?
answer no. have made inquiry, and the friends
of this Dillingham; know nothing of the one of
whom the comrade speaks. Our Edwin Dilling-
ham went out as captain of my company tB) 10th
Vermont volunteers, was promoted to major, and
killed in battle at Winchester Opequon, Septem-
ber 49, 1864
Will some one tell me how to sugar pop-eorn?-
w. e., Des Moines Iowa.
VIII somebody send me copy of 'Sheridan's
Rider" speak great many pieces. and as the sol
diers want me to speak for them, i would like to
learn that. Ny papa is a broken-down solder,
and, If am little girl, have learnt to show re-
speet for the veterans at all times = Address
Britty III. Thrasher, Francesville, Pulaski county,
Ind.
Would some please tell me some nice books
to read; also, give me Miss Alcott's address. 1
have read great many of Miss Alcotts books and
like them very much am twelve years old, and
have have a brother eight and sister six We have ave
taken THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for year, and are
all very fond of it.. I look every week TO see II
there Is story, and if there is generally read it
to my sister and brother. like stories very much,
and / wish some one would write story for 1t
every week. My papa fought in great many bat
ties and I am pround of it-Mary Yidler, Sc Put
nam street, Syracuse, n. Y.
VIII some one tell me how to wake up In the
morning without being called, and oblige--Sieepy
Head.
Mrs. George FL. Uhlen Lebanon. Pa, sends the
pattern for saw quilt TO be made as me-
mento or album quilt, with names written on. 1t
IS decidedly unique with very elaborate border TO
be set on III scroll applique. We have forwarded
it to ' A Worker who pronounces it . immense"
Will some one please inform me- through THE
TRIBUNE. what treaties the United States has with
Corea and Madagasoar?-Artie Marsh. North Lake,
Wis
Can any one send TIE TRIBUNE copy of the
song on Colonel Ellsworth, beginning with these
words:
ssadly she bells tolled the death ofth heron2
"w G. D. w. Byron, III. writes that he has
received answer 10 his advertisements in The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE for q correspondent, with a
view TO marriage, and adds: During the war it
was quite customary to advertise for wife. One
soldier had think, sixty letters in mail but
it seems out of date now, for have not received
letter In response to my request did think,
among so many readers, some good, sensible
woman would write. tt is a good way to get
united and it Is not good profitable for man to
live alone"
If w. g. D. w. viii send his address to AIRS. E.
Knapp, Antwerp. Ohio, he viii hear something to
his advantage, as shef thinks an acquaintance OF
hers VIII suit him.
"a soldiers little airln should not say have
tooz,n but have takenn Core spells the core
of an apple, but Corps spells army corps.
Member of Relief Corps a-The plural of corps
is the same as the sigular-sirnply corps. Do not
write "corpses.h
Please say TO Mrs. II. B. that know two rerne-
dies for chibains. She can try one, and when that
fails, the other. 1st Take the white OF an egg
well beaten, into which put tablespoonful of
turpentine. Apply at night. I'd. Put powdered
keep it in place.
Our Experience Meeting.
A BRIGHT BOYS LETTER-sTILL HE REsTs-A
SENSIBLE PRESENT - LETTERS FROM MIS-
EoURI-" THE SOLDIERS PooR LITTLE Boy"
North LAKE, WIS.,, Jan. /, 1884
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
,aush especially the called 4 ~, ssying the
listed in 1860 IN the Sth UIited States infantry
fight the Indians, and about the time they got out
on the Plains the war broke out They were or
dered back into Texas, and surrendered ND by the
traitor, General Twiggs. and were held prisoners
for twenty-five long months. While in prison
my fathers health broke down. and he has suffered
very much ever since.
One time he and some of his comrades tried to
escape from the rebels, and when they were almost
to the Union lines they were captured and had to
wear a ball and chain for i've months.
ARTTE MARSH.
IN MEMoRIAM.
CARIBOU ME., Jan. IL, 1854.
| To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
AS read the interesting letters in The TRIBUNE
some written by old soldiers others by their
wives and ehidrenlIfe that /, too would like to
add my mite. / soldiers wife, and my chill
dren love to hear their father tell of the days when
/ he was down In Dixie WAS a soldiers sister
also. but in those days that tried the stoutest
hearts there came message telling that was
brotherless; thai the darling brother for whom
/ had been praying Heaven to care for sleeping
] in o cemetery in Washington. Oh, how my heart
ached when learned in after years that even his
resting place could not be spared; that the ruth
less hand Of strangers had torn away the slab that
marked his resting place. The roses that loving
hands had planted there and the mound above his
/ ashes-au were gone But still he rests
Sleep, dear brother, sweetly sleep,
| Now more thy vigils keepl
Twenty years have come and fed
Since you're numbered with the dead:
But thy memory lives for aye,
/ Through each varying, changing day,
and the flag you did uphold
l Floats without q taTnisaed fold.
Every star it has unfurled
/ Waves triumphant Ger the world
! EMMA w.
SENSIBLE PRESENT.
In ordering TIE TRIBUNE for one year, as
present to DIR. Robert A. Williamson, Lebanon,
Ind, Josie Kise adds:
My father was colonel In the late war, and the
venerable DIR. Williamson was surgeon of his regi-
| ment has long been our family physician aud has
| done many acts of kindness for the family and
| know of nothing that would please him better
| than THE TRIBUNE. myself take great pleasure
in reading it, had one brother killed in the late
war and another brother who was assistant adj
iufat-general and afterwards colonel of the 10th
| Indiana. My father also old Mexican war
veteran and Of course / have a warm heart for
the soldier, and think everyone should take TIIE
| TRIBUNE
! LITTLE MISSOURI GIRL.
PLATO, TEXAS Co.. Mo-, JAN /, 1884
| To the Editor NATIONAL tribune:
/ am a little girl ten years old. My papa was q
| soldier /; he served q member of company L 9th
Illinois, two years, and one year in Ist regiment
| company e, Hancock Veteran Corps He has
! taken THE TRIBUNE one year and we all like Il
| very much. was much interested in " Good Bye
| TO Dixien Mamma had two brothers in the army
They were members of company c. 1I7th illinois
John Geers. have sister dead Papa SAYS
| he would not part with THE TRIBUNE love tt
| read the children's letters
] AMANDA RIGGIE.
LOGICAL CONCLUSION.