The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-02-05
Conversation Club,
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM VERSES.

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM VERSES.
Permit me TO send the Conversation Club the fol-
lowing Album verses:
i have inclosed herein a kiss
For you, my dainty little miss;
Keep 1t safely, close and tight.
Phi come and get it back tonight,
wish you health,
wish you wealth
wish you gold and store;
wish you Heaven after death.
What can l wish you more"
True politeness is TO do and say
| The kindest things in the kindest way.
Father was veteran of Co. G, 2lst H., Gen.
Grants old regiment kiser, Monticello,
Piatt Co., Ill.
Here is an autograph verse for the Club:
| "These few lines to you are rendered
BY q friend sincere and true,
Hoping but to be remembered
When I'm far away from you"
mistake in my former letter placed father In
the cavalry; he served in the sth Conn. Inf am
| an only daughter (l7) with three brothers.-Maude
| E. Chadsey, Middleton, Conn.
| QUESTION SQUAD.
Will some one tell me the chapter in the Bible
| that has the greatest number of words? Tell Dot
tie Littlejohn that the Nth Psalm, besides contain
ing the fewest number of words, is also the middle
| chapter in the Bible.-Wm. l.. Little Moline, H.
Here is a question: What better right has Uncle
Sam to give big national berths to rebel officers
than he has to pension soldiers. Father had his
| leg broken at the battle of Roanoke Island had
six uncles in the war, two of whom were wounded.
Hattie l.. Horton, Uxbridge Mass.
What animal walks on its head: Why are men
more frequently bald than women? Father was
an officer in Co. B. 18Th n. "; captured at Get
tysburg, and was prisoner 20 months i'll Libby
Prison and at Macon, Ga his name is J. w Drake,
Chaplain of Winnins Post.-Rosa T. Drake, Ovid.
Clinton Co, Mich.
Dottie Littlejohn: The shortest chapter In the
Bibeis Psalm cxyii, which reads thus: l. Oh praise
the Lord all nations: praise him, all We people
2. For his merciful kindness is great toward us:
and the truth OF the Lord endureth for ever Praise
We the Lord" i think it time we all tried to serve
Him. Now will some one tell me if o. T. Babcock
is drowned and was it off the Florida ccastJulius
S. Smith, Co. b. 9th Ill Cav, Geneseo Ill.
IN PRISON PENS.
Father was taken prisoner at the battle of Kerns-
town, Va, July "a 1864, while serving in Co. X. Both
Ohio and was in Danvilie Prison until Oct. 10, when
he made his escape Dottie Eittlejohn: Father was
well acquainted with tie Iittiejohns in Jackson
County; Also in the 9th Ohio. You will find the
1l7th Psalm contains the least number of words of
any in the Bible. Father would like to hear from
Mr.. Churchill. / think bangs are nice also, the
girls who wear them.-Jefferson Crawford, Fair
/ would like to correspond or exchange photo
graphs with either a young lady or gentleman
the Sultana when she was blown up on the Missis-
sippi River, laden with soldiers during the late
REBELLION: My father ICl s " Mills served
tured at Nashville Tenn, Dec. IL, 1860 and taken
to Andersonville where he remained three months.
| W. X. Mills, Box li6 Louisville, iii.
GcOD NOhDS FROM THE FEIERAN5
am glad to see The old soldiers children take an
| interest in THE TRIBUNE. / hear a great many
| people speak highly of it, / wish 10 say TO the
children whose fathers were prisoners at Ander-
sonvile that am making little ships and putting
| them into glass bottles with mysterious cork
| neatly painted. VIII send one free to the little
| boy or girl whose parents take THE TRIBUNE and
who will write me the most interesting letter upon
any subject was q member of Co. + I'd y. Y.
Cav, and prisoner 24S days, most of the time at
Andersonville. Though trying over Ii wears to get
| n DguSlOu- think Shall live a hear how
comes out. L am unable to express my JOY when
read Of the good words recorded in THE TRIBUNE
and from my old comrades in the war. God bless
| TEE NATIONAL TRIBUSE.-Harrison 7. Hayes, Box
272, National Military Home. Montgomery Co., o.
VETERAN ASKS LETTERS.
| DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Why cannot we
veterans have our say as well IS the and
| daughters God bless them)? would like to re-
ceive letters from comrades, the widows of those
vino fell defending their country or the boys and
/ girls themselves. Would say to the girls we
vets got banged enough during the war to last
lifetime, but do not object TO the ladies being as
/ fashionable as they choose May the time come
| when every veteran will have THE TRIBUNE. 1t
carries us back TO the time when were on the
tented field, and makes US feel young again.-Geo.
| H Palmer, Co ID. 10Th Conn, Portland Conn.
CLUB WHISPERS
J have read tie history of the rebellion and
numerous other books relating to the war. Father
served in Co. c. "a Ohio and was in the battles of
| Perryvie, Stones River, Resaca, Chic1amauga,
and Lookout Mounisin. i like THE TRIBUNE
! Oren Morris (l5), Goshen o.
think nothing looks more disgusting than to
| see boy with cigar in his mouth. What would
| the boys say should they young lady walking
down the street putting the nauseating weed; yet it
| is proper for the other. Father is pen
sioner because of the loss of eye in the army
! Ada Smith, Greenfield Ind.
wear no bangs and look just nice as those
who do. i would like to correspond with dark
eyed and baCk-haired Kansas young man. Here
| Il my sentiment for an autograph album: NAV
the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled
| with Loves whisperings. Nancy c. Fields, Macy
| Miami Co., Ind.
| CORRESPONDENTS WANTED.
Mertie +. Smith corrects her address, which Is 20
Alice street, Lynn, Mass. 1t was her grandfather
| who served in the 4;h y. II. She would like to
correspond with Carrie Noble
/ Mary o. Halves, Bowersyille, Greene County o.
daughter of a soldier, has had THE TRIBuN NE year
and likes it better all the time.
| i. Il. Watts, Cassopolis, Mich, says: Though we
have had THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE but six weeks
find that it Is indeed, the soldiers friend and
as such unite Ia wishing il long life and pros
! perity. Father would like TO hear from his COM
rades of the 4th Vt; name, w @. Watts Co. G, now
Of Albert Anderson Post, this place; and | would
like correspondents, particularly from Kansas and
| Nebraska.
Geneva" Box 81, Waldron, Mich, daughter OF
veteran OF the lllth Ohio wounded ut BuzzaTd' 8
| Roost, Ga, would IKE letters from the boys and
mand. Will send the words of Do They Miss Me
| at Home" to those writing her for them. and would
like If Allen 9. Garigus would write TO her.
Maude Huffman, Nickcrson, Kan daughter of q
veteran of Co g, lltl Ohio, who served three years
and re-cnlisted June. 1864, in Hanccck's Reserves
| and discharged at Elmira, n. Y. Oct 1865. Would
like to hear from the boys and girls Of the 18th.