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44 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.