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132 BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. MACON, Ga., OCT. 26, 1867. Contents of No. 17. The Pet Lamb, illustrated page 129 A Boy’s Lawsuit 129 Poetry—There’s Work Enough to 80, 130 Marooner’s Island, by the llcv. F. R. Goulding— Chapter Xll.,—original 130—131 Editorial— Crowded Out; Another Premium; The Little Murderer ; Read This 132 Letter from Fairy Madge—original 132 The Greyhound and the Rabbit, —original—illus- trated 133 The Little Jewess, by Mrs. JaneT. 11. Cross—con cluded—original 133 Poetry— My Good for Nothing 131 Poetry—The Golden Grain 135 Jack Dobell; or. The Adventures of a Boy in Texas—Chapter X —original 135 Poetry—All’s Well 135 Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 13(5 Postage on the “Weekly.” The postage on tho Weekly, when paid quarterly or yearly, at the office of delivery, is five cents a quarter, or twenty cents a year. Crowded Out. surrender most of our editorial space LB I'l week to correspondents, but our readers lose nothing by it. The chap fters of “ Marooner’s Island” and “Jack Dobell” will be found full of interest, and we are enabled to give the conclu sion of Mrs. Cross’ beautiful story—“ The Young Jewess.” *©♦ Another Premium. publishers of Burke’s Weekly have S ftjust received a large lot of superior steel pens, suitable for schools, which they vguA will sell at $1 per gross. To any one of our present subscribers who will send us e) an additional subscriber, with $2, we will send a gross of these pens as a premium. We warrant them to be as good as those usually sold at $1 50 per gross. No Answers this Week. As No. 15 was sent out too late to enable our distant subscribers to receive it, we omit answers to the enigmas, etc., in that number until next week. Back Numbers. We can still supply back numbers from the be ginning of the volume. ts that clubs need not all go to the same post office, or to the same State. Get them where you can. Names may be added to clubs at any time during the year, at the regular club rates. Reproof. M hen the most insignificant person tells us we are wrong, we ought to listen and to examine our selves, and see if it be so. Let us believe it pos sible that we may be in error, when any one thinks we are. The hope is sure which has its foundation in virtue. BURKE’S WEEKLY. from Fairy Madge. Dear Young Friends : You have all read the fairy story of & vV' the little Princess from whose mouth, she uttered a word, fell dia nionds, pearls, and other precious things. 'y" 3 Well, lam going to tell you how I made sparkling gems and rare flowers brighten the face of a poor little fatherless girl. I was rambling through the fields one afternoon and came to a cluster of miserable-looking cot tages. Now, as lain the special friend of the children, I went into the rudest, most uncomfort able of the huts, to see if any of my little favorites lived in such a cheerless home. A pleasant look ing woman met me at the door and requested me to be seated on a very rickety chair, which she handed me. A beautiful little girl, with auburn curls and large, soft brown eyes, was sitting on the dirt floor playing with her baby brother. She seemed so cheerful and happy, and spoke so kind ly to the younger children that I became interest ed in her directly. Her mother told me that Edith (that is the name of my little friend,) was very anxious to go to Sunday School; that she wished to learn the sweet songs she heard other children sing, and to read the charming papers and good books she saw other little girls have ; but the poor woman said she was not able to buy Edith decent clothes, so she had to stay at home. She said her little girls would have plenty of warm, comfortable clothing, and could go with the best in the land if her kind husband and her noble boy, Willie, was living; but Willie was in a soldier’s grave, and his father was dead, and it was as much as she could do to buy her children enough to eat. As I am a fairy, of course I had only to look in the basket which I carried on my arm to find a nice, warm dress, a snug little bonnet, and a pair of shoes, which just fitted Edith. I spread them on the bed —if bed that pile of rags could be call ed —and told Edith they were hers if she would wear them to Sunday School. She uttered a cry of delight, and I saw that her soft, brown- eyes had turned to glittering diamonds ; between her smi ling lips I caught a glimpse of glistening pearls : brilliant-hued roses sprang to her cheeks, and her whole face was as radiant as if surrounded by a circlet of sparkling gems. Wouldn’t you like to be a fairy, and do such wonders? I’ll tell you how you can create dia monds and rubies, and other gems, and how you can become the possessor sf these precious jewels. The next pleasant afternoon, take a suit or two of your cast-off clothing, (if you are unable to pur chase new,) go among the poor of your city or village*, find a good little girl, with a grateful heart, who cannot go to Sunday School for want of decent clothes ; give her those you have, and ask her to go to the Sabbath School; when her eye sparkles with delight, and her teeth glisten through her smiling lips, and her cheek flushes with joy, you will feel that you have created more Precious gems than any which gli tter in Golconda’s mines; and the thought that you have made an other happy, will brighten your eye, part your lips with a smile, and flush your cheek with delight till those who look upon your features, homely though they may be, will see rubies, pearls and diamonds flashing and glittering in your radiant face. The jewels which issued from the lips of the Piincess in the fairy story were only kind words and pleasant smiles, and all my little readers can have rich stores of them. Do not be like the maiden from whose lips sprung vipers, toads and hideous reptiles, but scatter, wherever you <r o those precious gems, soft words and lovingsniiles and you will be more highly esteemed than the greatest Fay in Fairyland. Your friend, Fairy Madge. o<o+>- A Little Murderer. t, AST week, two little boys—Dorsie Wil liams and Eddie Marrast—living near Greensboro, Alabama, quarreled with each other. Quarreling led to fighting, 1 when Eddie pulled out a knife and stab t bed Dorsie, so that he died of the wound. Dorsie was about eleven years old, and Eddie on ly ten. What a dreadful deed this little boy’s anger led him to commit. The law will probably not pun ish him for it, but if he lives to be an old man, the remembrance of it will be a source of torture to him throughout his life. Little boys, let this be a warning to you, to control your tempers. It is related’of Plato, who lived many years ago, and never knew anything about the beautiful precepts of Christianity, that on a certain occasion his ser vant acted in a most provoking manner, when his master cooly said to him, “I would beat thee, but that lam angry.” Imitate Plato’s example, for in a moment of anger you may, like poor little Eddie, commit the awful crime of taking human life. Our blessed Saviour, “when He w r as re viled, reviled not again.” Study to be like Him in all things, and you will avoid many of the evil consequences of sin. Read This! ta-4 I I' E want to double our present list of sub nfjP'l scribers at every post office, and we want all of our little friends to help us. To induce them to do so, we make the following proposition: To each one of Y our present subscribers who will send us one other name, with the year’s subscription— s2 —we will send a gross of superior steel pens, worth sl, or fifteen pieces of choice music, to be selected by themselves from a list which we will furnish ; or five card photographs of distinguished men, (including President Davis, Generals Lee, Johnston, Beauregard, Hill, Bartow, and others. To any one sending two new names, and $4, we will send any two of the above premiums, or a photograph album, worth $1 50; or a year s sub scription to the Nursery ; or a set of Crandall s Building Blocks. For three new names, and $6, we will send any two of the first premiums offered and one of the second. The Weekly must have a largely increased list in order to make it pay, and we appeal to our lit tle friends, one and all, to help us increase the circulation of their paper. The Weekly is pro nounced by all to be the best boys and girls paper in the country, but if its present patrons will help us to double its circulation, we promise to make it still better. Remember, that all new subscri bers who send us a year’s subscription will receive the numbers for the 'first three months, neail) stitched in an elegant illuminated cover. When you send your own name, or an) other, be careful to give us the name of the pod office and State also. It is best to add the h6l address at the bottom of your letter.