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148 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 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. Peterson’s Magazine. are in the receipt of this popular jJk |il~ Lady’s Magazine for December. Tt is a CjjjL'F beautiful number, quite “ahead of the field.” This Magazine, in consequence of its merit and cheapness, had, in 1867, a larger circulation than all the other Ladies Magazines combined. In 1868 it will be greatly improved ; the reading matter will be increased, and each number will contain a double-size steel Fashion Plate, elegantly col ored, and a colored Pattern in Berlin Work. Peterson is really the cheapest in the world ; and every body ought to subscribe for it. The terms will remain two dollars a year to single sub scribers. To clubs it is cheaper still, viz : five copies for SB.OO, eight copies for $12.00, or four teen copies for $20.00. To every person getting up a club (at these rates,) the Publisher will send an extra copy gratis. We will send “ Peterson 5 and “Burke’s Weekly,” one year, for $3.50. Specimens sent (if written for) to those wishing to get up clubs. Address, post-paid, Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 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. —— Uif*’ Tv 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. — Names may be added to clubs at any time 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.