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140 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 Postage on the “Weekly.” The postage on the Weekly, when paid quarterly or yearly, at the office of delivery, is jive cents a quarter, or twenty cents a year. Croquet. accommodate those who "would like to ft ly* procure a set of implements for this charming and universally popular game, ¥the publishers of Burke’s Weekly make the following offer: To the person sending us Ten new subscribers, and Twenty Dollars, we will send a fine Croquet set worth Ten Dollars. The mal lets and balls are of maple, and the materials, style and finish of the set are excellent. For Twelve new subscribers, and Twenty-Four Dollars , we will send an elegant set of Croquet, worth Twelve Dollars. This set is of applewood, equal to rosewood in durability, and is highly fin ished. For Fifteen new subscribers, and Thirty Dol lars, we will send a very superior Applewood Croquet Set, worth Fifteen Dollars. This set is all that the most exacting could require, for use and beauty. These Croquet Sets are from one of the best manufactories in the country. They are made of thoroughly seasoned wood, to prevent cracking, are nicely painted and varnished, and are securely packed in strong and neat boxes. This is a fine opportunity to procure a set for this charming game for nothing. It is suited for boys and girls, and is one of the most innocent and healthful out-door games that can be played. Almost any boy or girl who reads this can, by a little extra effort, procure ten , twelve or fifteen subscribers, and thus secure for themselves an in exhaustible source of amusement. Back Numbers. # We can still supply back numbers from the be ginning of the volume. MlT’Remember that clubs need not all go to the same post office, or to the same'State. Get them where you can. hen 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 the full address at the bottom of your letter. 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. ♦♦♦- _ 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. <>«■*■ 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.” «.«>♦ —• 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.