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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, Ga., NOV. 9, 1867.
Contents of Ho. 10.
Tit for Tat—illustrated page 145
Marooner’s Island, by tlie Itev. F. It. Goulding—
Chapter XIII.,— original 146
Poetry—A Short Sermon 147
Thirty Seconds Too Late 147
Editorial —Peterson’s Magazine: The Magic
Square : Hunger; The Story Ended Ac 148
Louisville, Kentucky—illustrated 149
The Little Hero ; How to Put Away our Faults... 149
Poetry—To The Katydid 150
Jack Dobell; or. A Boy’s Adventures in Texas
Chapter XII —original 150
Poetry—The Garden of the Heart 151
A Thrilling Adventure 151
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 152
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Magic Square.
1(1 E republish the following Magic Square-
JLjt/ tak en from page 56 of Townes Intern
mediate Arithmetic , by special request.
hen added in lines, or columns, or
4) frora corner to corner, the sum is al
ways 24,156. We are authorized to pre
sent any pupil who is now, or may hereafter be
come, a subscriber to Burke’s Weekly, with a
complete set of Townes Arithmetics, (three vol
umes,) and Towne's Algebra, provided he will
send us, within six months, an intelligible account
of the manner of constructing the Square, as dis
covered by himself. We do not limit the pupil to
any particular age. The explanation must be
such as will enable the reader to construct the
Square without referring to the one already made:
2016; 4212; 16.56; 3852; 1296; 3492; 936; 3132; 576- 277?- 216
252; 2052; 4248; 1692; 3888; 1332; 3528; 972; 3168- 619-2412
2448; 288; 2088; 4284; 1728; 3924; 1368; 3564; 1008: 2808- 648
684; 2484; 324; 2124; 4320; 1764; 3960; 1404; 3204; 1044.’ 2844
l 2? 2 ? 0; 3601 2160; 4356; 1800: 3600; 1440; 3240; 1080
S 25561 396 : 2196 ’’ 3996; 1835; 3636; 1476; 3276
S J 92 ’ 25925 365 2232; 4032 ’ 1872 >’ 3672; 1512
374 L m 4325 2628: 72; 2268 ’ 4068 ' - 1903;: 7)8
980- 37R0 I 99i B on 468; 2664; 108; 2004; 4104; 1914
4176- 1620- 22-X T 5 5 ° 4; 27005 1445 23405 4144
41 b ’ 1620, 3816 ’ 126 °; 3456 ; 900; 3096; 540; 2736; 180- 2376
BTTITIC E’ S WEEK LY .
Hunger.
UNGER,” says Lewes, “is one of th
beneficent and terrible instincts. It is
the very fire of life, underlying all im
pulses to labor, and moving men to noble
C '(A) activities byits imperious demands. Look
where we may, we see it as the motive
power which sets the vast array of human ma
chinery in action.”
What is this hunger, and what are its causes
and effects ? All have felt its cravings—we all
know what it is to be hungry ; some of us have
felt what it is to b every hungry—but science has
never yet been able to furnish any sufficient ex
planation of it. From the best sources at our
command, we will try to give our little readers,
in as simple language as possible, the best explana
tion we can of this wonderful phenomenon.
In all living creatures there is “an incessant and
reciprocal activity of waste and repair. The liv
ing fabric, in the very action which constitutes its
life, is every moment yielding up its particles to
destruction, like the coal which is burned in a
furnace. You cannot wink your eye, move your
finger, or think a thought, but some minute par
ticle of your substance must be sacrificed in do
ing so. Unless the coal which is burning be from
time to time replaced, the fire soon smoulders and
finally goes out; unless the substance of your
body, which is wasting, be from time to time fur
nished with fresh food, life flickers, and at length
becomes extinct.” You will see, then, that hun
ger is the instinct which teaches us to replenish
the empty furnace.
But, although the want of food is the principal
cause of hunger, it is not, as some persons think,
in itself hunger. Insane people have been known
to deprive themselves of food for a very consider
able period, without suffering from the pangs of
hunger; and intense grief frequently deprives us
of all appetite for food, which but a short time be
fore was cravingly desired. The feeling of hun
ger may also be allayed by the use of tobacco,
opium and other substances, although none of
these can supply the place of food, in keeping up
the fires of life.
You will readily understand, then, why the feel
ing of hunger should come back to us from time
to time, in proportion as the stomach demands
food. Young animals require it oftenerthan old
er ones ; birds and most animals more often than
reptiles and fishes. While the boa-constrictor is
satisfied with food once a month, a rabbit will eat
twenty times a clay. Temperature has also much
to do with it, cold depriving some animals of ap
petite, while it increases it in others.
The appetite is affected by other causes. After
a long illness, for instance, it is frequently incon
trollable, and persons, after suffering from long de
privation of food, wouldinjure themselves by over
eating if left to themselves. Admiral Byron re
lates that, after suffering from a month's starva
tion, after a shipwreck, he and his companions,
when on shore, were not content with gorging
themselves at the table, but filled their pockets
that they might eat between meals.
In a luture article we shall say something about
the effects of hunger.
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office and State also. It is best to add the full
address at the bottom of your letter.
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during the year, at the regular club rates.
The Story Ended.
of our little readers who started
it l|)l with us on our journey last July, will re
member the “ Story without an End ”
(published in No. 3,) with which little
Charlie’s father was accustomed to meet
1 his frequent demands for “ more.” Poor
little fellow! the story has at length come to an
end with him, and he is now listening to a sweeter
one in that Heavenly city, whose inhabitants
“ shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more ;
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat,
and God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes.’’
The sad intelligence of his deatli comes to us in
a letter from his father, dated October 18th, from
which ive make the following extract:
“ Enclosed find one dollar to continue our little
Charlie’s subscription to your paper. He dearly
loved it living, and now that the angels have taken
him, we shall prize it for his sake.
“Yesterday we put his little body in the ground,
and lie will no more ask: “Has my paper
come ?” Oh ! we miss him much, and our tears
have freely fallen, but a fresh burst of grief has
just filled the house on. the arrival of the last num
ber of the Weekly, all knowing how he longed for
its coming, and to know that he is not here to
greet it with his loving utterances. Ho had been
taught to pray, and it was his custom after repeat
ing aloud : “ This night I lay me down to sleep,”
of his own will, silently to pray God’s blessing
on others. Only the other day, he asked a little
boy if he said his prayers, and told him “when he
did, (alluding to the Pilgrim’s burden) he always
felt his sins growing light, (poor little darling,
what sins?) and could sleep sweetly !” Blithe
has gone, dear child, where prayer is turned to
praise. AYe know that God doetli all things well,
and with Longfellow can say :
“ ’Twas at my door, O friend ! not thine,
The angel with the amaranthine wreath
Pasing, descended, and with voice divine,
Whispered a word that had a sound like death.
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom—
A shadow on those features fair and thin ;
And softly from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in.
All is of God ! If He but wave His hand,
The mists collect, the rain falls thick and loud,
Till, with a smile of light on sea and land,
Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud.
Angels of Life and Death alike are His ;
Without Ilis leave they pass no threshold o’er ;
Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this,
Against His messengers to shut the door?”
Towne’s Arithmetic.
1 are 4n(^e^ 4o 4ke publishers, J. P.
Morton & Cos., Louisvile, Kv., for a
copy of the Intermediate Arithmetic,
being the second of Prof. Towne’s new
series of Arithmetics. It is very band-
somely gotten up, and from what we
know of the author, we do not hesitate to recom
mend the scries as far superior to most of those
now in use.
The Riverside Magazine,
For November, is out, and is one of the best yet
issued of this splendid Monthly. The next num
ber will close the first volume, and the publishers
promise great improvements during the next year.
Terms—s 250 per annum.
We will send the Riverside and Burke s U eekly
one year, for $4.00.