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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA., MAY 30, 1808.
Contents of No. 48.
A Fishing Frolic—adapted—illustrated page 377
Punctuality 377
Poetry—Poor Robin 378
Ellen Hunter: A Story of the War—Chap. XIX.,
original 378
Safe Bind, Safe Find 379
Poetry—Answer lo Riddle 379
Advice to Boys 379
Editorial —An Oversight; The Household; The
Little Chief; Rules of Reading; Steadiness of
Purpose; A New Volume 380
Grandpa’s Philosophy for Young Folks—original 380
Blind Man’s Buff—original—illustrated 375
Poetry—Spring and Summer 382
Marooner’s Island, by the Rev. F. R. Goulding—
Chapter XXVll.—original 382
A Word to Little Girls 383
The Barn Swallow—illustrated 383
Boy Work 383
How to Make Magic Squares, No. 5 384
Our Chimney Corner, illustrated 384
An Oversight.
Our good friend, the editor of the Bainbriclge
Argiis, copies “Jack Billingslea and the Water
melon,” from Burke’s Weekly, but has forgotten
to give credit for it.
The Household.
This is an admirable monthly publication, de
voted to the interests of the American housewife,
which comes to us regularly. Each number con
tains sixteen pages large quarto si/e, elegantly
printed, and filled with the choicest matter.
Terms, $1 per annum. Milliken & Crowell,
publishers, Brattleboro, Yt.
The Little Chief.
Among all of our exchanges, there is no one we
can more "conscientiously recommend than the
Little Chief , published by Dowling & Shortridge,
Indianapolis, Ind. The pure religious tone which
pervades its columns, and its freedom from sec
tionalism, distinguish it from all of its cotempo
raries of the juvenile press published in the North
or Northwest. Terms, 75 cents per annum.
Rules of Reading.
OSPHERE is much good advice in the follow
ing> which we clip from one of our ex
changes:
? Better to read one book carefully than
to read ten carelessly. Be slow to begin
to read a book if it is likely you will not
have time to finish it. Be careful how you spend
time in reading books which are not worth read
ing. You had better throw away money than
time, for time is worth more than money. Asa
bad man may have a good name, so a bad book
may have a good title.
Steadiness of Purpose.
In whatever you engage, pursue it with a steadi
ness of purpose, as though you were determined
to succeed. A wavering mind never accomplish
ed anything worth naming. There is nothing like
a fixed, steady aim. It dignifies your nature and
.nsures success.
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BURKE’S WJEEKI, Y .
A New Volume !
Jt the number for July 4, BURKE’S
Yjjyj WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
will enter upon its second year, and
the publishers have peculiar pride in
co# directing attention to certain contem-
plated improvements and additional
attractions which will characterize the new volume.
The Editorial Department will remain in the
same hands as heretofore, and while its editor will
continue to avail himself of every opportunity to
secure the very best things from every possible
source, the publishers are enabled to promise cer
tainly the following attractive features :
Mr. Goulding will conclude bis admirable
serial, “ Marooner's Island,” which is being read
with the most intense interest by thousands of
boys and girls from Maine to California. The
Rev. Dr. Rice, of Mobile, pronounces Mr. Goul
ding “the De Foe of our times,” a title which he
has justly earned by his admirable story, the
“Young Marooners”—a story equalled in interest
only by “Robinson Crusoe.”
A well known gentleman, whose name we are
not at liberty to mention, will contribute a thril
ling story of Indian life, the scene of which is
laid in the Northern and Northwestern portions of
Georgia, in the time of the early settlement of the
State. In this story will be recounted the adven
tures of a boy who was captured by the Indians
and held a prisoner among them for many months,
making his escape from them at last, after endu
ring almost incredible hardships. It will be fine
ly illustrated, and the opening chapter will appear
as soon as Marooners Island is completed.
The authoress of “ Florilla and the Dove” will
contribute a serial fairy tale, entitled The En
chanted Spring.
“Byrd Lyttle,” whose Story of the War has
been so popular in the columns of the Weekly,
will contribute some of her excellent stories and
poems.
“ Clara LeClerc,” a favorite writer for chil
dren, is engaged as a regular contributor, and will
furnish several of her beautiful stories.
Mrs. Mary W are, whose sweet poems have al
ready enriched our pages, will continue to write
for us.
“ Grandpa s Philosophy for Young Polks ” will
be continued. "These papers are from the pen of
a talented scientific gentleman, who possesses the
peculiar faculty of making his writings both
useful and entertaining.
Other writers, well known at the South, will
contribute many choice articles for the new vol
ume.
The Illustrations will continue to be the very
best that can be obtained, and it is the intention
of the publishers to greatly increase their number
in the coming volume.
The children’s favorite department,—“ Our
Chimney Corner,” —will receive more attention
in future than the editor has been able to bestow
on it in the past, and it is our intention to intro
duce a new feature,—“ Oor Letter Bag,”— in
which he will, from time to time, converse fami
lial ly with his little readers and correspondents.
Each page of the Weekly will contain /owr col
umns, instead of three , as heretofore, thus giving
our readers thirty-two columns of reading matter
instead of twenty-four. In spite, however, of tin's
greatly increased expense, the publishers have de
termined to continue the subscription price the
same as heretofore, viz : One copy, one year, $2 ;
three copies, $5 ; five copies, $8; ten copies
sls ; twenty-one copies for S3O. Small amounts
may he sent by mail, but sums of $5, 0 r oVer
should he sent in registered letters, or in po q
office money orders.
May we not hope thataZZ of our present subscri
bers will renew their subscriptions promptly, and
interest themselves in extending our circulation ?
Recollect what we have given you in the past
twelve months. We venture the assertion that no
juvenile publication in the United States has fur
nished to its subscribers three such stories as
“Marooner’s Island,” “Jack Dobell’s Adven
tures in Texas” and “Ellen Hunter,” to say no
thing of all the other good things we have given
you. Let us beg every little friend of the Weekly
to WORK FOR it during the next four weeks as they
never worked before, and we promise that they
shall have, for the next twelve months, such a pa
per as they wouldn’t be without for three times
its price.
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
Grandpa’s Philosophy for Young Polks.
NO. XT. —AMUSING EXPERIMENTS.
EFORE leaving the subject of heat, let
me fulfil a promise indicated, if not pos
itively made, of supplying my young
ryUUU readers with several little items, which,
while they may amuse, are attended by
no danger.
M hen a boy, yea and even since I became a
man, I have amused myself with the pulris fulmi
nans, or fulminating powder. Take the fourth
part of an ounce of pulverized saltpetre, same
quantity of salaeratus, and the same of flowers of
sulphur, mix them well. "To explode it, put it on
a shovel over the fire, as you do when moulding
bullets ; presently it begins to melt and grow dark
on the edges ; now look out —all at once it ex
plodes with a report equal to a musket. It exerts
its force downward, so that that there is no danger
in it. If it be exploded on a very thin piece of
tin or copper, it will leave a depression —quite a
cup —in the metal, proving, as stated, that it exerts
a downward force. Just get some person, at
whose expense you propose to have a little fun,
to melt some for you. Tell them to watch it, so
as not to let it burn, which it will do if the fire
touches it before it melts. I have not furnished
the proportions accurately, but it will explode.
Take a thin slice of pdiosphorus —handle it care
fully, or it may ignite in your hand —put it on say
the bottom of a tin plate, then lay on the phos
phorus a small scale of iodine. This last comes
in scales looking like the fine cinders about a black
smith s anvil. In a few seconds ignition occurs
with a beautiful flame.
Put in a Wedgewood mortar —so called because
of the name of the inventor, Wedgewood a few
grains of flowers of sulphur, a like quantity of
chlorate of potassium ; rub them together slowly,
and you will have a succession of reports loud as
a percussion cap. It is well to have a glove on
the hand with which you conduct the trituration.
There is no danger in this.
Once I could have told you all about the ma
king of fire-works, hut it is well enough that I *l°
not, as there is some danger in handling so com
bustible a compound as gunpowder. Nemo.
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