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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA., FEBRUARY 8, 1868.;
Contents of No. 32.
The Little Pilgrim—original —illustrated page 249
“ My Candle will soon be out,” 249
Poetry—Little Eyes and Little Feet 250
Marooner’s Island ; by tbe ltev. F. 11. Goulding.
Chapter XX continued —original 250—251
Poetry—The Sower to his Seed 251
Obedience; or, What Charlie did 251
God’s Will 251
Editorial —Loving our Neighbor; Copper-Toed
Teeth; A Large City;
Magazine; Nothing but Pearls; A Word to
Our Friends; Register your Letters; Some
thing about Snow; Mr. Goulding’s School;
Riverside Magazine 252
Wild Cats—original—illustrated 253
Jack Dobell; or, A Boy’s Adventures in Texas—
Chapter XXll—original 253
Poetry—The Song of the Bee 254
Ellen Hunter: A Story of the War —Chapter V
—original 254
Aunt Lina’s Sunshine 255
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 25G
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Loving our Neighbor.
“Our reward,” says a distinguished writer,
“for loving our neighbor as ourself in this life,
will be that when angels we shall be
enabled to love him better than ourself.”
Copper-Toed Teeth.
fITTLE SAL LIE had been wearing cop
per-toed shoes, and was very proud of
them. One day her aunt went to the
dentist’s and had several of her front
teeth filled with gold. Some time after
>9 wards, being in a particularly good hu
mor, she smiled at something little Sallie said, who
saw the polished gold glittering in her teeth. “0,
Aunt Mary,” she cried, “ I wish I had copper
toed teeth like you.”
A Large City.
tEDDO, in Japan, is probably the largest
city in the world. It contains one million
five hundred thousand houses and five
f millions of inhabitants. Many of the
streets are twenty-two miles long. Just
think of it! a single city with nearly five
times as many inhabitants as the whole State of
Georgia.
The Sunday-School Magazine.
first number, for January, of this new
jHbft magazine, devoted to the interests of
Sunday-Schools, and published under
the auspices of the Virginia Sunday-
School L nion of the M. E. Church,
5 South, is before us. Its editor, Rev. W.
W. Bennett, is favorably known to the public,
and will do his work well. Terms, $1 a year :
published at Richmond, Va.
BXJRKE’S WEEKLY.
Nothing but Pearls.
SADEE, a Persian writer, relates that he
saw a wild Arab sitting among the jewel
ers at Bassorah, and telling them this
story :
(Os “ I was once so worn out with the jour
ney that I could not keep up with the car
avan, and was left behind in the desert, without a
drop of water or a morsel of bread. In the midst
of my misery I found a bag, and I shall never for
get my joy when I thought it was parched corn,
nor my vexation when I found it was only a bag of
pearls.”
To the hungry or thirsty traveller in the desert,
pearls are nothing but dross, for they cannot pur
chase what is necessary to sustain life. It is just
so in the journey of life. The gold and precious
stones of this world can never purchase for us the
water of life, or the bread of righteousness. And
yet how many thousands there are who barter
away their soul’s salvation for the glittering bau
bles of time, and find, when too late, that all of
their wealth will not save them from that tor
menting thirst which consumed the rich man, as
he lifted up his eyes and beheld the beggar, Laza
rus, in Abraham’s bosom.
Children who spend their time in the pursuit of
vain and foolish pleasures, instead of improving
their minds and hearts, will find that they are lay
ing by a store of worldly baubles which will afford
them no permanent satisfaction in this world, and
will drag them down to perdition in the next.
A Word to Our Friends.
increase in our circulation since the
first of January has been most encoura
ging, and is an assurance to us that our
f’ friends are working for us with a will.
But much yet remains to be done. There
are thousands of post offices, neighbor
hoods and towns where the Weekly is not yet
known, and where but little labor would suffice to
give us a handsome circulation. We want active,
reliable and energetic agents everywhere, and we
are willing to pay those who work for us. We
have just prepared a Circular, giving full particu
lars to Agents, which we will forward, with a cer
tificate of agency, to any one who will send us the
proper references as to character.
There is not a post office or neighborhood in the
South where a club of Jive, ten or twenty subscri
bers cannot be raised by a little determined effort.
Reader, will you make that effort; or, if you can
not do so, will you influence someone else, whom
you can recommend, to do so? Remember: we
offer a set of Marteli.e, worth $25, or anything
else from our list, of like value , to the one who
will send us the largest list of subscribers, at dub
rates, before the first of March.
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Register Your Letters.
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fT 1-1 we are compelled to give notice that
hereafter ice will not be responsible for
any remittances sent by mail unless
they are sent in registered letters.
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cure a money order, send in a registered letter.
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bers for the first six months, stitched in a hand
some illuminated cover, to all who wish the back
numbers.
Something about Snow.
tS we write, (January 29,) the snow-flakes
are coming down thick and fast, and
there is every indication that we are go
ing to have a regular snow storm.
V-gs In many parts of the South, where our
paper circulates, a snow storm is an un
usual thing, and the little folks enjoy the luxury of
snow-balling with all the greater zest, because of
its novelty. To the uninformed and casual ob
server, a snow storm is a very common-place af
fair, and the snow is looked upon as a white, cold
substance, and nothing more. But, underthe mi
croscope it becomes one of the most beautiful
things in the museum of nature, each particle
when duly magnified, showing a regularity of fig
ure and variety of shape surpassingly beautiful.
Job speaks of “the treasures of the snow,” and
after one has seen in this way the singular beauty
of the snow-flakes, the expression is not wonder
ed at.
Some of our little readers may be surprised to
learn that snow affords a comparatively warm gar
ment in intensely cold weather. This arises from
the fact that the snow, on account of its loose and
flocculent nature, is a poor conductor of heat; so
that under a covering of snow, exactly as under
that of a heavy woolen garment, the heat of the
body passes off very slowly. It is a well known
fact that a heavy fall of snow is beneficial to early
vegetation, and that with us a good wheat crop is
almost sure to follow a snow storm.
Instances are recorded of persons having been
buried under the snow for seven or eight days and
then rescued, but little injured. Howitt tells ofa
poor woman who was buried under the snow for
a week, and who declared that during the time
she “ had lain very warm, and had slept most part
of the time ” In all these instances the snow
covering had prevented the natural warmth of the
body from escaping to such a degree as to be fatal.
Mr. Goulding’s School.
glad to learn tlmt our esteemed
Cp jJ'S correspondent, Rev. F. R. Goulding,
r has determined to establish a high
: school for boys at his residence, lios
well, Cobb county, Ga. We regret that
cjT 3 his necessities force him, at his time ot
life, to fall back upon his old profession, but we
can assure such of our readers as are in search of
an excellent school, wheie they will enjoy the
combined advantages of thorough scholastic train
ing and the most scrupulous attention to their
morals and manners, that they will find in Mr.
Goulding’s school just what they want. Circu
lars may be had by addressing the principal.
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Riverside Magazine.
February number of this favorite
|E monthly comes to us in good season.
We have so often recommended this pub
lication to our little readers that it is only
j necessary for us to call attention to it)
o) and to say that each number seems to be
an improvement on those which have preceded it.
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