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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA., JUNE 13, 186S.
Contents of No. 50.
Forgive us our Trespasses—original—illustrated-page 393
Coal 394
Poetry—Little Willie ° 94
Marooner’s Island, by the Rev. F. R. Goulding
Chapter XXVll.—original 394
Poetry—June—original 395
Don’t be a Coward 395
Power of Integrity 395
Editorial —Binding the Weekly : To Correspon
dents ; Every Saturday; Gossip with Corres
pondents 396
Grandpa’s Philosophy for Young Folks—original 396
The Duke of Wellington—original —illustrated.... 397
The Power of a Word 39"
Truth and Honor 397
Poetry—Little Pilgrims 398
Ellen Hunter: A Story of the War —Chap. XXI.,
original 398
•Poetry—Child's Morning Hymn 399
The Deaf and Dumb Boy 399
An Old Friend —original—illustrated 399
Kindness to Animals 399
Sensibility 399
Our Chimney Corner, illustrated 400
Binding the Weekly.
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Our title page and index will be ready soon af
ter the close of the volume.
To Correspondents.
F. P. 8., Kimberton, Pa., sends us a number
of enigmas, etc., but he violates our standing rule,
by writing on both sides of the paper, and mixing
up his contributions so that we should have to
spend more time in getting them ready for the
printer than we have to spare.
Several poetical replies to the Riddle published
in No. 44 have come to hand, but as we have al
ready published two, we are obliged to decline the
others. We hope to hear from the writers again.
Every Saturday.
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BURKE’S WEEKLY.
Gossip with Correspondents.
jfvE receive a great many letters from our
orip lllittle friends in all parts ol the country.
To some of these we reply by mail, but
there are many others left unanswered
for want of time. In our new volume,
we propose to devote more time to our
little correspondents than we have been able to do
heretofore, and to answer such questions as they
may ask us, so far as we may be able. We anti
cipate much pleasure from these weekly chats
with little readers and correspondents, and invite
inquiries on all matters pertaining to history,
science, art, poetry, or, indeed, any other subject
on which they desire information.
We have before us a batch of letters on various
subjects, and from far and near, some of which
are more than a month old, and others of later
date.
Here is one all the way from Sutherland Springs,
Texas. Onr little subscriber, William L. C.,
says : “I take more interest in reading the Week
ly than any other paper I ever read. I hope that
Jack Dobell will fulfil his promise, and give us
the story of Big-Foot Wallace.”
So do tve, and if we can communicate with Mr.
Jack Dobell, we shall beg him to hurry up that
story, so that we can print it in the next volume
of the Weekly. We have sent our correspondent
the missing numbers.
A prettily-written note comes to us from “Min
nie.” She says: “ Mr. Editor —I am an entire
stranger to you, but Ave take your Weekly, and I
am so much pleased Avith it that I must write a
feAV lines to thank you for the interest you take in
children. We never tire reading your dear little
paper. Among the most interesting stories that
Ave have seen is ‘Ellen Hunter,’ but they are all
very pretty and interesting, and Ave Avould not be
without it for anything in reason. I have been
Avorking out the enigmas, and find them very en
tertaining indeed. I send one of my own and ask
for it a place,”
Minnie hopes that we may become better ac
quainted through the columns of Weekly. The
editor indulges the same hope, and begs to assure
Minnie that he will always be glad to hear from
her. Her enigma is laid over, because she forgot
to send an answer with it.
S. Katie M. writes from Staunton Depot, Tenn.:
“Through the kindness of our little cousin in
Georgia, my sister Nannie subscribed for your pa
per. We are all very much pleased with it, and
I am trying to get you some subscribers in our
neighborhood. I have given out several numbers
to my little friends for thern to examine, and if
they are as much delighted with it as I am, I will
succeed in making you up a club. [Thank you,
Miss Katie.] You may set me down as a subscri
ber as soon as my sister's subscription expires.
As I am only eight years old, and don’t write a
very good hand, I had to get my papa to copy off
my letter. I never went to school in my life, but
study at home. lam studying Geography, Arith
metic, Reading and Spelling.”
Well done, Miss Katie. We are delighted with
your letter. Shall be glad to hear from you again.
Our little friend, M. Jessie C., at Centre Aca
demy, sends us a puzzle, which she calls “ the
Democrats and Radicals.” If she will turn to
No. 21 of the Weekly she will find that No. 202
is very similar to hers. As, however, the words
in the key are different, we may print her puzzle
in a short time. We shall be glad to have more
Arithmetical Puzzles and examples from her. We
are now supplied with arithmetical and algebraic
signs, so that we can hereafter publish the solu
tions in full, and we beg that our little correspon
dents will send us more contributions of this char
acter for “ Our Chimney Corner.”
Miss Emma A. P., Madison, Ga., writes: “J
have been a reader of the Weekly ever since its
first publication. I like it very much—it has such
very pretty stories, and so many riddles and enig
mas, which I like to solve. With father’s and
mother’s help, I make out nearly all of them.
“I am a little girl, only ten years old, so you
must look over my mistakes. lam trying to learn
fast, so that I may be able, before a great while,
to write stories for the Weekly, as other little
girls have done.”
Well done, Emma. Your letter, which is evi
dently written by yourself, is well written , every
word spelled properly, and punctuated nearly as
Avell as any one could do it. You will soon be
able to take yotfr place among “ our little contri
tors,”
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
Grandpa’s Philosophy for Young Folks.
NO. XIII. — MORE ABOUT ATMOSPHERIC AIR.
fN our preceding paper, we referred to a very
curious and interesting fact, the passage of
air through the coats of the blood vessels
?in the lungs, so that the vitalizing power of
the oxygen upon the blood was effected, and
the blood purified, renewed, and rendered
capable of accomplishing its work in the animal
economy. Now, it is capable of supplying bone,
muscle, fibre, tissue, membrane—indeed, all the
elements which make up the body. Nails for the
fingers and toes, hair for the head, the juices to
lubricate the joints, as Avell as the elements al
ready enumerated. While atmospheric air, or
rather the oxygen contained in the air, is thus
essential to animal life, it is. at the same time, the
supporter of combustion, it is well known that
where a taper or candle will not burn, neither will
the life of a breathing animal be sustained.
Some years ago—about 1845 —a large ship ar
rived at Liverpool, England. It was found re
corded in her Log Book that on a certain day a
man was let down into the well of the ship to re
pair the pumps. The signal agreed upon ay as not
answered; another went down, and the same
thing happened, so that another and another de
scended without response. Then a lighted candle
was let down ; it went out. Measures were now
taken to relieve the men that had fallen down.
They were ultimately recovered and restored.
They were nearly black in the face, showing the
absence of oxygen to decarbonize the blood. In
all such instances, and indeed in our ordinary
wells, before any one descends, a light ought al
ways to be let down first; if it burns, you may
venture with safety; if it goes out, then lime wa
ter ought to be thrown down two or three times,
and the light tried again. This calamitous effect
is owing to the fact that carbonic acid gas has ac
cumulated in the well. The lime water absoibs
the carbonic acid gas, for which it has a strong
affinity, and thus purifies the air and makes it t
for respiration. Oxygen is heavier somewhat than
the air, and, by itself, would at first be found at
the bottom of a vessel. One hundred cubic inch'»
of atmospheric air weigh about thirty grains, h
has already been shown that a column one squat e
inch in measure, forty-five miles high, weighs lit
teen pounds at ocean level. Nemo.