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BURKE’S WEEKLY
POE BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, Ga., NOY. 2, 1867.
Contents of No. 18.
Grandma Nichols’ Clock, by Clara Le Clerc il
lustrated—o rigirt al 137—138
Jack Dobell; or. A Boy’s Adventures in Texas
Chapter Xl—original 139
Editorial —Croquet: The Try Company: Anoth
er Premium ; Little Corie Watson; Clara Lo
Clerc; Time ; Our Exchanges 140
The Natural Bridge in Virginia—illustrated 141
Rearing Herself to Bed 141
No Good from Passion 141
Poetry—Conflict and Conquest 141
Only one Brick upon Another 141
Keep Them Out 141
Poetry—Story for Children 142
Marooner’s Island, by the Rev. F. R. Goulding —
Chapter XIII.,— original 142
Poem for the Little Ones 143
A Beautiful Allegory 143
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 144
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Croquet.
accommodate those who "would like to
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charming and universally popular game,
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hen you send your own name, or any
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BURKE’S WEE IK LY .
The Try Company.
fy N the first number of the W ekkly, we pub
> fished a story with this title. Little George
j complained that he could not do his sums,
? because they were “the hardest kind of
sums to do, and wanted his uncle to help
him. His uncle very properly refused to
do so, but promised him it he sat down patiently
to his task, and conquered the difficult sum, he
would make him a member of the tk Try Com
pany.” Turn back to the first number of your
paper and read the story over again. You will
find it on page 7. You will see that the terms up
on which members were admitted to this com
pany were, “First, never to say ''leant,' and
secondly, to adopt as their motto—Y will try.' "
Now, boys and girls, we propose to organize a
“Try Company” among the subscribers to the
Weekly. We are going to get up the handsomest
commission that can be printed in our large
printing office—something that can be framed and
will make a handsome parlor ornament. AVe want
recruiting officers for our new company all over
the South, and we propose to issue commissions
according to the following table of rank and merit:
For three yearly subscribers we will send a com
mission as Corporal; for five yearly subscribers a
commission as Sergeant: for ten a commission as
Second Lieutenant; for fifteen a commission as
First Lieutenant; for twenty a commission as
Captain ; for twenty-five a commission as Major;
for thirty a commission as Lieutenant Colonel;
for forty a commission as Colonel; and for fifty
yearly subscribers we will send a commission as
Brigadier General. The officer sending the lar
gest list above fifty before the close of the present
volume, (June 30th, 1888,) will be made a full
General; the one sending the next largest will be
promoted to Lieutenant General, and the one
sending the next largest will be made a Major
General.
Remember, that recruits may be enlisted at
club rates, and that the officer sending us three,
five, ten, twenty, or more subscribers, will be en
titled to any premium offered in our premium list,
as heretofore. Officers will be promoted as fast
as the increased number of recruits enlisted by
them will authorize it; for instance, any one who
sends us three subscribers, and receives a com
mission as Corporal, will be made a Sergeant as
soon as two more are sent in, and so on. AVhere
no objection is made, the names of officers will be
published as commissions are sent out.
Now, little friends, who will be to send
us in a list of recruits and receive a commission
in our new organization ? Remember the rules of
the company: Never say, I can't, but always, I
will try. We want every boy and girl in the
South to join our company, and if those who are
now members (for we count all of our present
subscribers as members,) will only live up to the
rules of the company, we shall soon have our wish.
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Another Premium.
publishers of Burke’s Weekly have
Ik) J ust received a large lot of superior steel
pens, suitable for schools, which they
vAgj will sell at $1 per gross. To any one of
our present subscribers who will send us
eT an additional subscriber, with $2, we
will send a gross of these pens as a premium.
e warrant them to be as good as those usually
sold at $1 50 per gross.
Preserve all your Nos. and have them bound.
Little Corie Watson.
LJ are pained to hear of the death of lit
tie Corie Watson, one of our subscri
bers ’ at Fairfield, N. C. A friend,
writing to us of this sad event, says:
“Little Corie is gone. In the dis-
pensation of God’s providence, she has
been removed from the troubles of earth to a home
in Heaven. She was a cheerful, bright-eyed, in
teresting and obedient child. We can but sympa
thise with her afflicted parents and relatives ; but
we sorrow not as those having no hope, for we are
sure that she is happy with Jesus, who said, ( Suf
fer little children to come unto me, and forbid
them not, for of such is the kingdom of Ileaveu.’
Let us, then, with Christian fortitude, patiently
submit to the ways of God, knowing that He is
too wise to err, and too good to be unkind.”
Little Corie died at the age of ten years, five
months and three days.
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Clara Le Clerc.
present this week, on our first and
WJJr f P a £ es > first of a series of il
lustrated stories by this popular author
ess. “ Grandma Nichols’ Clock” is a
wYq beautiful story, and we know will please
our little readers.
The engraving which accompanies it is one of
the finest wood cuts we have ever printed, and the
other stories of the series will be illustrated in the
same elegant manner.
Time.
value of time cannot be over-estima
ted, and yet how many there are who
squander it in the most frivolous—oft
QjiUfD times the most sinful —manner. God
gives us the moments one by one, and
<T) will hold us to a strict account for the
manner in which we spend each one of
them. Bear this in mind when time hangs heavily
on your hands, and you think the hours and days
long that intervene between yourself and some
promised pleasure. Make good use of the mo
ments as they pass. Have a regular time for
everything —for play, for study, for reading.—
“ Observe,” says Bishope Horne, “a method in
the disposition of your time. Every hour will
then know its proper employment, and no time
will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every
avenue, and with her that numerous body ol vices
that make up her train.”
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Our Exchanges.
LM&E have received the September number
r \ j|-1 of “Scott’s Magazine,” a valuable
Southern publication that deserves a
very general support. Subscription
$5 a year.
The October number of the “ Home
Monthly,” published at Nashville, Tennessee, by
Prof. A. B. Stark, is also on our table. An ex
cellent number of a most excellent magazine.
“ Merry’s Museum,” one of the oldest juveni e
periodicals in the United States, has been remove
from New York to Boston.
Ij&iF' The pretty little poem entitled “ Catchin,,
Sunbeams,” copied into our issue of September
19th, should have been credited to “ Ibe Gift l
Corporal.” We clipped it from one ol out < x
changes, where it appeared without credit;
wise, we assure our sprightly cotemporary,
would have been duly credited.