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BURKE'S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, Ga., AUGUST 10, 1867.
Contents of No. 6.
The Council of Five—illustrated pages 41, 42
Red Riding Hood, with illustration, b5 r Mrs. E. P,
M.—original, 43
Jack Dobell, or A Boy’s Adventures in Texas, part
I—original 43
Editorial: Timo; A Warning for Boys; Work,
Work, Work; Good Things in Storo; Our
Chimney Corner; A Secret worth Knowing;
Shoddy 44, 45
Hattie’s Dream —original 45
The Best of Books—illustrated 45
Fannie on the Stairs—poetry 46
Marooner’s Island, Chapter V„ by Rev. F. R.
Goulding—original 46
An Eastern Story, by Lamartine 47
Our Chimney Corner 48
An Organ for Nothing.
fIHE Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs are
justly regarded as the best instruments of their
class in the world. Fifty-six gold and silver
ivrvO me<^s > or °l^ er highest premiums, have been
awarded them at the principal industrial fairs
\£j 'O of the country, and two hundred and sixty of
gp 3 the most eminent musicians in the United
States have pronounced them “the best of
their class,” and recommend them as “ very admirable
and desirable for both public and private use.”
We have sold a number of these organs for use in
churches in Georgia and Florida, and they give univer
sal satisfaction. Now, in order to give every church and
Sabbath school in the country an opportunity of pro
curing one of these useful and desirable instruments, we
make the following propositions :
For fifty subscribers and SIOO, we will allow a credit of
S3O in the purchase of any organ that may bo selected.
For one hundred subscribers and S2OO, we will allow a
credit of $75 on any organ that may be selected,
For one hundred, and fifty subscribers and S3OO, we will
allow a credit of slls on any organ selected.
For two hundred mibscribers and S4OO, we will allow a
credit of $175.
There are over forty different styles of these organs,
ranging in i*fce from S9O to SISOO, according to style and
finish. The cut represents style No. 15, the factory price
of which is sllO. We supply them as low as they can be
purchased from the manufacturers, and will make the
above deductions on any organ selectod from factory
prices l These organs are fully warranted for five years,
and will be securely packed, ready for shipment, and de
livered at any railroad depot in Macon, free of cost to
purchasers, or we can have them shipped direct from
New York, if preferred.
Price Catalogues sent on application to the publishers
of this paper.
Remember that subscribers can be procured at any
post office, or any number of offices.
H@“’“Papa,” said a little boy, “ought the
master to flog me for what I did not do ?” “ Cer
tainly not, my boy,” replied the father. “Well,”
said the little fellow, “he did to-day, when I did
not do my sum.”
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
Time.
t MILLION of money for an inch of
time,” said Queen Elizabeth, the proud
monarch of Great. Britain, while filled
with remorse in her dying moments ;
it was too late! All the wealth of
the world could not purchase for her a
* single hour.
Young woman, asks a writer, are you improv
ing the golden hours so as to save yourself from
vain regrets by-and-bye, when the fatal archer lets
fly the arrow of death, and cuts short your dream
of life? You have heart sympathies to cultivate,
a mind to educate, powers to make active for
good, and influences to wield for the right and the
true. How much of your time is absorbed by
lofty aims and noble strivings ?
Young man, can you afford to waste an hour in
idleness and frivolity ? Can you afford to neglect
your opportunities of storing your mind with use
ful information, of making solid acquirements,
and preparing yourself thoroughly for those high
efforts that w r in success in the great undertaking
of life? You have a great deal to do before you
attain to your majority, in order to meet the just
expectations of society. You have to do with a
fast age, to share in operations moving with light
ning speed, and you must be capable of quick de
cisions and brisk movements ; fortune and tide
will not wait for you. Every hour not needed for
repose and recreation should be filled up with
benefits to yourself and others. Act upon this
hint, and you will bless us for dropping it. Here
is an old saying, and a true one, which you will
do well to fix in your memory: “ Who knows no
thing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his forti
eth, has nothing in his fiftieth, learns nothing, is
nothing, and comes to nothing.”
A Warning for Boys.
tBOY in Chicago recently shot his uncle.
It appears that he had been a reader of
cheap novels. His uncle was scolding
¥him, when the boy struck an attitude
similar to that of a hero of a hundred
cuts, drew a pistol, and firing, melodra
matically exclaimed, as he lodged a ball
in his uncle’s face : “Hold your jaw, old fellow! ’ ’
A Cleveland (Ohio) paper says that a number
of young boys in that city had been in the habit of
reading “dime novels” to a great extent, gorging
themselves with the exploits of burglars, highway
men, smugglers, pirates and murderers, which
are the staple of these pernicious books, and were
filled with a morbid desire for similar adventures.
Five or six of them, the oldest fourteen and the
youngest ten years of age, organized themselves
into a “ band of robbers,” with a capital of forty
dollars to begin business -with. They selected a
wild cavern for their base of operations, in imita
tion of Dick Turpin and Jack Shepherd. They
lived there for several days and practiced all sorts
of mischief before their parents found out their
hiding place and took them home.
These are some of the natural and inevitable
results of reading the abominable trash which is
now thrown broadcast over the country. We beg
our readers to shun all such literature as they
would the small-pox, for it is infinitely more to
be dreaded, Ihe one only disfigures or destroys
the body, while the other poisons the mind and
ruins the soul.
#§r-Names may be added to clubs at any time
during the year, at the regular club rates.
Work ! Work ! Work !
SOW is the time to work for clubs. We
can still send back numbers from the
first, and as we begin this week the new
f story of “A Boy’s Adventures in Tex
as,” it is important that all new sub
scriptions should commence at once.
We want our little friends to go ahead and raise
their clubs as fast as they can. Send us the names
and money as you get them, and notify us that
you are working for a club or a premium, and we
will keep account of the number you send us.
You may have three or six months time, if you
like, to Complete your list, and may procure your
subscribers just where you pelase. Remember,too,
that two half yearly, or four quarterly subscribers
count as one yearly subscriber in all club or pre
mium lists.
—
Good Things in Store.
have in hand “The Walk,” a pretty
little sketch, by Mrs. Theodosia Ford;
“The Fairy Ride,” by our esteemed
f correspondent, Mrs. E. P. M., with two
illustrations; “The Sleeping Beauty,”
dramatized for children, by the same
writer; “The Little Girl and the Bird,” with a
beautiful illustration ; “ The Fairy Shell, a Story
for Little Boys,” by Uncle Joe ; “ The Story of
a Dog,” with an illustration; and other good
things, which we shall publish as fast as we can
make room for them.
♦♦♦
Our Chimney Corner.
department of our paper is wonder-
I fully popular with our little readers.
Answers to the puzzles, conundrums,
fete., come in to us from all quarters, and
are always most welcome. But we want
our little friends to contribute more lib
erally to it than they are doing. Send
us charades, rebuses, puzzles, enigmas, or any
thing suited to that department, and we will re
ceive them with thanks. Always keep copies of
what you send us, and number them in the copy
you keep to correspond with that sent to us, so
that if we point out defects in any particular part,
you can refer to your copy and see just what we
mean. We desire to make this department of our
paper full and interesting, and we invoke the aid
of our little friends.
+*+
A Secret worth Knowing.
An able writer gives utterance to the following
valuable secret: This looking forward to enjoy
ment don’t pay. From what I know of it, I would
as soon chase butterflies for a living, or bottle up
moonshine for cloudy nights. The only way to
be happy is to take the drops of happiness as God
gives them to us every day of our lives. The boy
must learn to be happy while he is learning his
trade ; the merchant while he is making his for
tune. If he fails to learn this art, he will be sure
to miss his enjoyment when he gains what he has
sighed for.
When you send your own name, or any
other, be careful to give us the name of the post
office and State also. It is best to add tho full
address at the bottom of your letter.
JB@5 D ’Remember that clubs need not all go to the
same post office, or to the same State. Get them
where you can.