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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GaTdEC. 28, 1807.
Contents of No. 26.
The Christmas Tree, by Clara Le Clerc— original
—with an illustration page 201
Ring out, Wild Bells
Lazy Boy, Lazy Man 202
Marooner’s Island ; by the Rev. F. R. (Moulding.
Chapter XVII concluded—original 202
The Elephant—illustrated 203
Advice to Boys 203
Editorial—
Now is the Time; The Close of the Year; A
Story of the War; A Mistake; Renew your
Subscription; Two Christmas Numbers 204
Aunt Susan's Talk with the Little Ones about
Christmas—original 204
The Christmas Angel—original —illustrated 205
A Christmas Hymn—poetry - 206
A Happy Heart 206
Jack Dobell; or. A Boy’s Adventures in Texas
Chapter XIX —original 206
The Golden Gate —poetry 207
Mustn’t always take People at their Word 207
Our Chimney Corner —illustrated 208
Postage on the “Weekly.”
The postage on the Weekly, when paid quarterly or
yearly, at the office of delivery, is five cents a quarter or
twenty cents a year.
NOW IS THE TIME!
SPLENDID OFFERS FOR 1868!
®HE next number of the Weekly will be
the first of anew year, and of the second
half year of its existence. Now is the
time to raise clubs for the new year, and
to obtain some of the beautiful premiums
oJ offered for new subscribers. In the list
of premiums are to be found beautiful books, sets
of Croquet and Martelle, Photograph Albums,
choice Music, and Photographs of Confederate
Generals, eic., Crandall’s Building Blocks, Mi
croscopes, Mason & Hamlin’s Parlor Organs, etc.
We are anxious to begin the new year with a
largely increased list of subscribers, and to induce
our little friends to work, we make the following
proposition: To the boy or girl who will, between
now and the first of March, send us the largest list
of subscribers above ten, at club rates , we will
give, as an additional premium, a complete set of
implements for playing the new beautiful game of
MARTELLE,
worth $25; or, if preferred, the successful con
testant will be allowed to select articles from the
premium list, of the same value.
Remember, the subscribers maybe taken at our
club rates, viz : Three copies for $5 ; five copies
for $8 ; ten copies for sls, or twenty-one copies
for S3O. At these rates you make a fair commis
sion, even if you do not obtain the extra premium,
while you stand a chance of obtaining the beauti
ful game of Martelle, or something equally valu
able.
Back Numbers.
We can still supply back numbers from the be
ginning of the volume. Yearly subscribers can
be supplied with the first twenty-six numbers,stitch
ed in an elegant illuminated cover. ts
Names may be added to clubs at any time
during the year, at the regular club rates.
BTJRKE’S WEEKLY.
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
Aunt Susan’s Talk with the Little Ones
about Christmas.
(/jS>:HILDREN, Christmas is coining ! Oh!
ow busy old Santa Claus is now, gath
ering up the good things, and pretty
f books, and new toys, and listening down
the nursery chimneys, and about the
school-room doors, and from behind the
big tree upon the play-ground ; listening to find
out who are good children, and who are not, and
where they all live. Ah! you had better stop
crying, and be pleasant and good, or some little
folks might find a bunch of switches m their stock
ings Christmas morning, peeping out among the
dolls, and balls, and candies, or hiding behind the
bright branches of the Christmas tree—and that
would never do.
Children, Christmas is almost here! Are those
little surprise presents almost ready? But hush!
don’t let mother, and lather, and dear, good grand
mamma, and grandpa hear about them. Oil, how
many busy little fingers there are now —every-
where! —some of them hemming that soft silk
handkerchief, and others finishing the comfortable
slippers, or writing letters of love and remem
brance to the absent ones. Work away, little fin
gers !
Yes, children, Christmas will soon be here!
Get those little baskets ready; you will want them
early Christmas morning to put those warm stock
ings in, and new shoes for those little children who
are always at the Sabbath School, with their old
shoes on, and no stockings at all. Then go to
mother and see if the large basket is ready, and
two or three of you children will have to take that
to good old Mrs. (you know who,) and her orphan
grand-children. It is not too full, although it is
heavy, for tney need so many things to make them
happy and comfortable. And be sure you put in
a nicely dressed doll, and a pretty new picture
book, to make those little pale faces brighten
when the basket is opened. And when Christmas
comes, don’t forget to fix a plate of nice dinner,
and take it yourself to your dear old nurse, or the
kind cook, who has been so busy for you all the
morning.
Who remembers last Christmas ? Think now,
and then tell me what you remember about the
day with most pleasure?—the pretty things you
received, and the good things you ate, or those
home gifts you made, and the full baskets you car
ried to those cold and hungry children ? Ah, I
know what makes good children really happy—
doing as the dear Saviour did, “going about —
(their homes as well as elsewhere,) —doing good.”
Children, Christmas has come ! Let us listen !
We can almost hear from the sacred hills of Judea
the echo of that sweet Christmas hymn which was
begun in Heaven, and which a glorious choir of
angels sung upon the plains of Bethlehem. Never
let that hallelujah of “good tidings” die away,
dear children. Catch the holy strain, join your
voices with children of every clime, until a Christ
mas hymn shall sound around the world.
Happy children! welcome this blessed Saviour
into your hearts, and by-and-by, when the angels
are sent to carry you home, you will sing and
serve with them around that Throne, where
“thousands of children stand, singing—
Glory ! Glory re to God on High !”
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JSST* Remember that clubs need not all go to
the same post office, or to the same State. Get
them where you can.
The Close of the Year.
EFORE another number of the Weekly
reaches its readers, the year 1867 will
have passed away and the new year be
cwW ushered into existence. The close of the
year is a fitting time for reflection. How
y) many of our little readers are better at
the close of the year than they were at the begin
ning of it? Have you done all in your power to
make others happy during the past year? and do
you enter upon the new year determined, with
God’s help, to be a better boy and girl than you
have been? We are living profitless lives if we
allow the years to come and go without improve
ment. We are obliged to become better or worse
—there is no such thing as standing still.
Remember that life is uncertain, and that you
may not live to see another year. Strive, there
fore, to improve the present, and determine, with
God’s help, that the next new year, if it find you
alive, shall find you the better for having lived.
“ Ever, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for every fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait.”
A Story of the War.
our next we shall publish the first chapter
of a thrilling novellette entitled “Ellen
Hunter: A Story of the War.” It is writ
?ten by a talented lady of Virginia, and is
“dedicated to the Children of the South, by
one who has been an eye-witness to their
sorrows and their sufferings.” The story opens in
Richmond, just before the beginning of the late
war, and is continued to the close of the sad, but
eventful struggle. A deep religious tone pervades
every chapter, and the spirit and interest of the
story are kept up from first to last with wonderful
power. It is a tale of the war, written for the
children of the South by one who loves them, and
is the first of a series destined to be immensely
popular.
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A Mistake.
SOME persons have misunderstood the offer
recently made through our exchanges.
We do not propose to send the numbers
for the past half year, bound, in addition
(7ff to the year’s subscription, but simply to
a) send them stitched in a cover, instead of
the unbound numbers. We shall be prepared to
furnish the first twenty-six numbers in this lorm
in a few days after the present issue goes to press.
Renew your Subscription.
who commenced with number one,
jf-jlyv and subscribed for six months, are again
reminded that this is the last number
they will receive, unless they renew then
subscriptions. Send on at once don «
put it olf until your names are erased,
for you then put us to the trouble of entering tin'
name again, and sending you back numbers.
Two Christmas Numbers!
(SEVERAL articles are published in this
number which were intended lor as
week’s paper, but one of them came too
late, and another was over-looked. H° w
J ever, as this issue will reach nearly nil o
our subscribers before Christmas day, the)
are not out of place. So that our little readers get
two Christmas numbers, instead of one.