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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA., JANUARY 4, 1868.
Contents of No. 27.
Little It ed-Riding-Hood—illustrated page 209
Acrostic, by Mariana Cross—poetry-onginal.„... 2iU
Ellen Hunter: A Story of the W ar— Chapter I
original
The Disobedient Son— original
Editorial— t
Now is the Time; Letter from a Little JJoy;
Back Numbers; President Davis Playing
Marbles; To Correspondents; The Home
Monthly ;
Christopher Columbus— original—illustrated "id
Some Place for Me—poetry 114
Marooner’s Island, by the Rev. F. R. Goulding
Chapter XVIII. —original 214
Be Clean Outside and Inside 215
Better to Wait and not Say the Angry Word-ori
ginal
The Little People—Poetry - 10
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 210
NOW IS THE TIME!
SPLENDID OFFERS FOR 1868!
present number of the Weekly is
(fix the first of anew year, and of the second
half year of its existence. Now is the
ftime to raise clubs for the new year, and
to obtain some of the beautiful premiums
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, etc., 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, before
the first of March, send us the largest list of sub
scribers above ten, at club rates , we will give,
as an additional premium, a complete set of im
plements for playing the new and beautiful game of
worth $25; or, if preferred, the successful con
testant will be allowed to select articles from our
premium list, of the same value.
Remember, the subscribers may be 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.
All of our young friends can help us if they try.
They have, all of them, many acquaintances who
are not subscribers. By showing their numbers,
talking about the paper, and asking their friends
and schoolmates to subscribe, they can procure us
a great many new subscribers, and thus benefit
themselves as well as us. Will each of them try
to send us at least one new subscriber every week
from this time until the first of March ? We will
keep a regular account with each one, and on the
first of March announce the one who has sent us
the largest uumber, which must not be less than
ten, so that he or she can let us know what prem
ium
WORTH TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS
they prefer. This offer applies to clubs as well as
to single subscriptions.
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
Letter from a Little Boy.
(aTqYNE of our little subscribers, at Athens, Ga.,
writes us the following letter:
“I am only five years old, and very
small at that, but I guess you will be as
glad to bear from little boys as from the
big ones ; and when my mother read me
those nice little letters from children, in your pa
per. it came into my mind that I would write too.
“I love the Weekly very much, and though I
can’t do much towards reading it, still I think the
pictures are very fine. I wish every Sunday-school
had it. Don’t you think they will before long ?
We have a great Sunday-School here in Athens—
a great many scholars, and such nice teachers ;
but I tell you, we have just one of the best Super
intendants you ever saw. I expect you know him ;
if you do not, you ought to come to Athens and
get acquainted with him. I do love the Sunday-
School very much ; but there is one thing I think
I love better: that is, always to be at the house of
God when the Communion day comes, and be
ready to kneel down with God’s people and take
the bread and wine with them. Now, if I had
never been to Sunday-school, I don’t think I
would have loved the church so well as I do.
“ Now I shall close. You must know, as lam
so young, that I was obliged to get my mother to
write down my thoughts and wishes to you. Ido
hope you will have a very merry Christmas, and
live a long, long while, to be able to send your
little paper everywhere.
“ Your little friend, Jeffie.”
The editor returns the compliments of the sea
son to little “Jeffie,” and begs to assure him
that there is nothing he loves better than to hear
from the little boys and girls who read the Week
ly, or those who, like our little friend, are too
small to read it themselves, and have it read for
them by their fathers or mothers. The editor
wishes, with Jeffie, that “ every Sunday-school ”
had the Weekly, not to the exclusion of their re
gular Sunday-school papers, but their own paper
and ours too.
The editor is glad to hear that the Sunday-school
in Athens is flourishing. He knows the Superin
tendant of Jeffle’s school to be one of the very
best of men ; one who loves children, and does all
in his power to make them better and happier. —
He wishes there were thousands like him all over
the country —honest, earnest workers in the cause
of Sunday-schools and the church. Love your
Sunday-school, little Jeffie, and do not, when you
are a little older, imagine, like some silly boys,
that you are “too old to go to Sunday-school.”
You will never be too old for the Sunday-school
as long as you are able to attend it. When you
are too old to be a scholar, become a teacher, and
assist others in learning what you have been
taught. Remember this, and live up to it when
you are grown, and take our word for it, God will
bless you in this world and in the next.
Back Numbers.
Correspondents are informed that hereafter we
cannot send Numbers 2 and 4 except in regular
sets. We are short of those numbers, and cannot
furnish them singly without spoiling our semi-an
nual parts. We can, for the present, continue to
supply the other numbers free, from one to twen
ty-six, to those whose copies have never reached
them. The numbers for the first six months, in
handsome illuminated covers, can still be supplied
to those who wish the back numbers from the be
ginning of the volume.
President Davis Playing Marbles.
t CORRESPONDENT of a Pensacola pa
per, who is supposed to be Mr. Mal
lory, the Confederate Secretary of the
Navy, is writing some very interesting
letters about President Davis and his
wT 5 Cabinet. We know that every boy and
girl who reads the Weekly loves the great and
good man who sacrificed himself in the cause of
the South, and that any fact connected with his
history will be interesting to them ; but we find in
one of these letters an incident so beautiful, and
at the same time so well calculated to interest the
boys of the country that w<; must give our little
readers the benefit of it.
After the fall of Richmond, and while Air. Davis
and his Cabinet were making their slow and toil
some way through the country, beset on every
side by foes, they were met, near the Catawba
river, in North Carolina, by a gentleman whose
plantation lay about a half mile from its banks,
and who had come to meet Air. Davis and offer
him the hospitalities of his house. Tire dwelling
was reached about four o’clock in the afternoon,
and the party were soon made to feel at home.
After such a change of clothing as could be
made, and an hour’s rest, it was a novel sight to
see Air. Davis and Air. Reagan, the Postmaster
General, with a little son of their kind host, play
ing an animated and well-contested game of mar
bles against his second son, a boy about ten years
old, supported by General Breckinridge and an
other Cabinet officer. The game lasted nearly an
hour. Notwithstanding the skill of his opponents,
Air. Breckinridge, who plays the best game of
marbles of any leading public man since Chief
Justice Marshall, and who had his usual good
luck, came off' victorious.
The youngsters, two bright intelligent Southern
boys, will never forget that ardently disputed game
of marbles with Air. Davis, who, to their infinite
delight, seemed as much at home with all the
words of caution and command, from “ knuckle
down at taw” to “roundings,” as themselves.
To Correspondents.
Aliss E. B. R., Fort Valley.—Your explanation
of the “ Alagic Square” has. been referred to the
one who has charge of that department, and will
receive due consideration. It is the most satisfac
tory of any yet received.
LoulieF. , Eagle Rock. —Your contribution is
on file. AVe are sorry that any one should hau'
thought it necessary to “ abuse the Weekly,” and
thank you for “ taking up” for us. We trust that
they will live long enough to like the V eeklv as
well as you do.
The Home Monthly.
ffIjVNE of the best of the monthly magazines,
for older persons, is the “Home Month
U VZ/ ly,” published at Nashville, Tennessee, by
fProf. A. B. Starke. The subscription
price is $3 a year, but we have made an
arrangement with the publisher by "bit 1
we are enabled to offer it, with the AV eekly, f° r
$4. Parents who want a good magazine for the
selves and a paper for the children, can get 4 e
two publications for $4, by addressing us, oi t ll
publisher of the Home Monthly at Nashville.
Jack Dobell.
The twentieth chapter of this favorite story viil
appear next week.