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BURKE’S WEEKLY
for boys and girls.
MACON, GA., JULY 6, 1867.
One Word.
We are not going to inflict a long introductory
editorial on our little readers, and occupy space
which can be filled with matter of more interest,
but we may be pardoned for a word or two at
starting. We promised the boys and girls of the
South the handsomest and best juvenile paper
published in this country, and we think we have
kept our word. As far as looks are concerned, we
think the point will be conceded at once. Our
heading is peculiarly beautiful and appropriate,
and we confess that we are proud of it. The
engraving on our first page is a very fine one, and
the others are not much inferior to it. The pic
ture of “The Cloud ” is a gem. We are proud,
too, of our table of contents. Mr. Goulding’s
story of “Marooner’s Island,” of ’which we give
the opening chapter, will be read with delight by
all who have read and admired “The Young Ma
rooners,” and their name is legion; a talented
lady contributor from Rome furnishes the first
instalment of a beautiful Fairy Tale ; the sketch
of Sergeant Jasper will be found instructive and
entertaining; and the shorter stories and poems,
together with our Riddle department, all go to
make up a first-rate number.
Now, boys and girls, send us long lists of sub
scribers, and we promise you that still greater im
provements shall be made. We already have
much excellent material in hand for future num
bers. A pretty little story by “Clara LeClerc,”
and several tales and sketches by other writers,
are crowded out of this number, but will appear
in good time. We have the promise of an abun
dance of good things for future use, and if you
will send us the subscribers, we will give you just
as good a paper as you can ask for.
How to Destroy your Enemies.
The Emperor Sigismund was asked why he
always showed favor to his enemies, instead of
destroying them. “Do I not,” he answered,
“destroy my enemies when I make them my
friends?” A nohle reply. Is not this the very
best and surest way of destroying one’s enemies ?
Little kindnesses go much further than harsh and
angry words, and a little yielding gentleness will
do more towards conquering an enemy than
all the hard epithets that can be used. “A soft
answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words
stir up anger.” “He that is slow to wrath is of
great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit
exalteth folly.” It has been aptly said that a
kind word is like oil dropped into a rusty lock,
which makes it go gently and easily, and prevents
it wearing out.
Remember —that clubs need not all go to the
same post office, but to fifty different offices, if
you wish. Nor need they all go to the same
State. Get them where you can, and send us
their names and the money, and we will send the
paper.
When you send your own name, or any
other, be careful to give vs the name of the Post
Office arid State also. It is best to add the full
address at the bottom of your letter.
BTJRKE’S WEEKLY.
Our Premium List.
We desire to call the attention of our little
readers to the offer of Premiums for subscribers,
to be found in our advertising columns. The
Catalogue, which we will send, post-paid to any
one desiring it, contains a list of the very best Ju
venile books published in this country , which are
offered as premiums for three or more subscribers
to the Weekly. Now we want every boy or girl
into whose hands this number of our paper falls,
to go to work and send us a list of subscribers.
If you are already a subscriber, you may include
your own name in the club, provided it has not
been sent to us as a club subscriber by someone
else. For instance, two more names besides your
own will entitle you to the premium for three sub
scribers ; four besides your own, to the premium
for five subscribers, and so on. Now, there are
hundreds of boys and girls in the South
send us five, ten , twenty or fifty subscribers, and
secure for themselves good libraries. W r e intend
to give you a good paper, elegantly printed and
beautifully illustrated —one which will recommend
itself. You need not confine yourself to one post
office, but get your subscribers just where you
can, and remember, we will direct the paper to
each one separately. We make this explanation
because there seems to be an impression that the
papers for a club must all be sent to one person.
As fast as subscribers are obtained, send the
names along, so that we can begin to send the
paper, and when you have forwarded all the names
you can obtain, select your premium, and we will
forward it promptly, free of cost to you. To save
ijpjstalces, send with each name the exact subscrip
tion money, and when you send us names for a
premium, let them be marked Premium List in
every instance. This is necessary to enable us to
keep our accounts straight with the getter up of
the club.
So, now, little friends, do your part by sending
us the subscribers, and we will not only do ours
by giving you just as good a paper as you can want,
but will pay you well for your trouble besides.
Save every number of your paper. At the
close of the volume we expect to furnish you with
a handsome title page and index, so that you can
have your numbers bound into a neat and valuable
book, which will be worth to you three or four
times the amount it costs.
ftfSjP We send the first number to all who have
sent us their names, and to many others. Those
who have forwarded their names without the
money will please send the amount due at once,
as the regular publication of the paper is already
determined upon. Persons receiving this number
who do not wish to subscribe, or to aid us in pro
curing subscribers, will do us a favor by handing
it to someone who will take an interest in extend
ing our circulation.
Depend on Yourself. —Most young men con
sider it a misfortune to be born poor, or not to
have capital enough to establish themselves at
the outset of life in a good and comfortable busi
ness. This is a mistaken notion. So far from
poverty being a misfortune to them, if we may
judge from what we daily behold, it is really a
blessing; the chances are more than ten to one
against him who starts with a fortune. Most ch
men’s sons die in poverty, while many poor n is
sons coino to wealth and honor. It is abh tg.
instead of a curse, to have to work out y > u
fortune.
An Explanation.
After the present number of our Weekly v.
in type, it was discovered that the press on whi
we expected to print it was too small for pu,
pose, and that it was necessary to put up a ,
one before we could make a beginning. Tim
lay has been a source of serious annoyance to
but it was unavoidable, and we believe our ,’i;
readers will excuse it. The next number
appear on the 13th of July, and it will be pulT
ed regularly thereafter every Saturday.
What One Glass of Wine Did
The influence which an apparently insq
circumstance often exerts on the affairs
well illustrated in the history of the eld
Louis Phillippe, late Emperor of the Fr>
was the heir apparent of his father's thro ■,i
regarded as one of the most promising you ;
in France. Not given to dissipation, n : nfty
and noble character, and an officer of and
in the army, the hopes of his family, br
and his country were centered on him. 0:
ning, being about to take his departure from
to join his regiment, he invited a few comp
to breakfast with him, and in the convivia ; o,
the hour drank one glass of wine too much, bid
ding adieu to his companions, he stepped into a i
carriage. Had it not been for the “glass too
much” he would have remained seated ; as it wa-,
he sprang out. But for the “glass too much”
he would have alighted on his feet; as it was, his
head struck the pavement. Senseless and bleed
ing, he was carried into a beer shop and soon ex
pired.
That extra glass of wine overthrew the Orleans
dynasty, caused the confiscation of their property
worth $100,000,000, and drove the family into
poverty and exile.
idea of the terrible havoc of war may j
be gained from the following figures: In the des
perate encounter at Chickamauga, Rosecranz los I
16,851 men, and at Murfreesborough 12,085; a ;
Pittsburgh ‘Landing Grant lost 13,573, at Vicks ;
burg 9,875, and at Mission Ridge 7,000 ; at Gaines
Mills, Peach Orchard, Savage Station, Glendale,
White Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill McClellan
lost 70,000, and at Antietam 11,426 ; Hooker lost
in his campaign in the Wilderness 20,000; Burn
side at Fredericksburg 12,000; and Grant’s uni
ted losses, from the time of crossing the Rapidan
in his final campaign, to surrender of Lee, at |
computed at 90,000.
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JSSSP“' Time, patience and industry are the tin - < |j
grand masters of the world —they bring a man 1 j;
the end of his desires; whereas an imprudent a I
turbulent manner oftentimes turns him out off a J
way to his proposed ends.
ptaf A Sunday-school teacher was relating j|
her class of boys, graphically and of course in t n j
gravest manner possible, the ancient Bible im i \
dent which speaks of Joseph’s going out
chariot to meet his father, Jacob, when she w.i |
interrupted by the following abrupt reman
“ Uinp ! Joseph thought he was ‘ some pun in ,
didn’t he, riding in a chariot to meet his dad! ’
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friend asked of a pretty little child of s
years old, “ Which do you love best, your eat
your doll?” The little girl thought some tin
before answering, and then whispered in the <
of the questioner: “I love my cat the best,
please don’t tell my doll.”
