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T. A. BURKE, Editor.
MACON , GA., APRIL 16, 1870.
The Bright Side.
common, we suppose, with every
3 other editor in the South, we re
ceived some time ago from Chi-
Q5P> cago, “a paper for children”
e? bearing the title we have given
above. In it was enclosed a cir
cular informing us that the publication
of a complimentary and highly lauda
tory notice of the paper, which was also
enclosed, would entitle us to the Bright
Side for one year, without the necessity
of sending our paper in return. Now,
we had no objection to the Bright Side
asking as a favor a notice at our hands ;
we ask just such favors of our brethren
of the press every month, and, thanks
to their kindness, frequently receive
them. But we make it a point not to
notice anything favorably in our col
umns unless it deserves it, and a careful
examination of the Bright Side con
vinced us that it not only had no claim
on Southern newspapers, but quite to
the contrary. We see that a goodly
number of Southern editors differ with
us in opinion, and have published a high
ly complimentary notice of the Bright
Side. We are obliged to believe that
they have done so without due exami
nation of the paper.
It seems that our shrewd and talent
ed friend, General D. H. Hill, of the
Southern Home , received a copy of the
paper and circular, but he was too old
a bird to be caught by such chaff, and
in a recent issue of his most excellent
paper he denounces the publication in
strong language, and says some things
that are pitifully true about the gulla
bility of Southern editors. To show his
readers that he has done no injustice to
this Chicago “paper for children,” and
in the hope that it will prevent South
ern parents from ordering the paper for
their children, he prints “a few dainty
morsels” from an article in the Bright
Side, touching the life of an “ Old War
Horse.” Here they are ; let Southern
readers examine them closely and de
cide whether such reading is fit for
Southern boys and girls :
“You may read in your history of the
defeat of our brave soldiers under Gen.
Sturgis, in Mississippi, where they re
treated over ground in three days which
it had taken them two weeks to travel
over in going out. There Jack’s regi
ment covered the retreat; that is, stop
ped and fought till the infantry had time
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
to get ahead a little, then would break
and run for dear life till they would
catch up, then stop and fight again.
There, a stumble or lagging of poor
Jack’s nimble feet would have, very
probably, doomed his rider to a death
of starvation at Andersonville.
“Another time, the chase, though
fleeter, was not so dangerous or gloomy.
’Twas when our cavalry, under General
Mower, was driving the rebel Price from
Missouri. They ran, at one time, a
hundred miles, over the big prairies, in
twenty-four hours, without stopping to
eat or drink. That was pretty hard,
don’t you think, on both men and
horses? Indeed it was, and only the
toughest could stand it. Out of sixty
horses of Jack's company, only eight
lived to get back to Holla.”
If Southern boys and girls want to
read about “rebels,” and have the old
lie of “starvation at Andersonville”
kept constantly before their eyes, the
Bright Side is a good paper for them ;
otherwise, it is not.
A Virginia Story.
®E have on hand, and will pub
lish soon a beautifully-written
story entitled “The Hermit
ago Children,” from the pen
of a talented Virginia lady,
Mrs. Maria Pendleton Ken
nedy. We have never met with a more
beautiful picture of domestic life in the
South. The characters are well drawn,
from old “ Uncle Reuben,” the coach
man, and Mammy, his wife, to ’Dair, the
oldest boy, and the scenes are so true
to nature, so home-like, that every
Southern boy and girl, especially those
who live or were raised in the “Old
Dominion,” will at once recognize and
endorse them. The story will run sev
eral weeks, and we predict for it great
popularity.
We have also received some addition
al chapters in the life of our favorite,
“ Little Totty.” That wonderful little
lady's character seems to develope new
peculiarities as she grows older, and the
young readers of Burke’s Weekly will
be both amused and instructed by a fur
ther acquaintance with her. We shall
give the additional chapters soon.
Book Notice.
(j|5\NE among the good books of
I the day—books that we can re
commend with perfect confi
dence —is Janet's Love and Ser
(c) vice, by Margaret M. Robertson,
® (an English woman,) and pub
lished by A. D. F. Randolph, New
York. “It is rarely that we read a
story which gives us so much satisfac
tion and so little cause of complaint.
We should characterize it as a book of
emphatically quiet power. The char
acters are drawn by a vigorous hand ;
but they are just such characters as you
meet with in daily life. The story is a»
natural as the actors. It is the story of
just such a life as has occurred again
and again in the past, and will again
and again in the future. In form and
style and method of treatment the vol
ume is as simple as it is in the rather
scant materials of which it is composed.
It is not without humor :’but there are
no clowns introduced for the purpose of
cracking poor jokes ; no cheap bur
lesques of Yankee farmers and New
England deacons. It is rather genial
than witty, or even humorous. It is
characterized by unusual pathetic pow
er. We ity the reader who peruses its
pages with undimmed eyes. But there
is no weeping heroine, and no sickly
sentimentalism. It is a religious novel
—its story that of a minister’s life. But
there are no dogmas to be advocated ;
no moralizing to be skipped ; no mawk
ish and tawdry piety to belie the cause
of true healthful religion.”
Easter,
is always the first
■ Sunday after the full moon
|FS=r which happens upon or next
wpTgf after the 21st of March, unless
the full moon happens on Slin
ks day, then Easter-day is the
Sunday following. This year Easter
day comes on the 17th of April.
Easter in the Christian church cor
responds to the Passover in the Jewish
church, and commemorates the death
and resurrection of our Saviour. The
Jewish passover was a feast appointed
to commemorate the exemption or pass
ing over of the families of the Israelites,
when the destroying angel smote the
fisst born of the Egyptians, as well as
their departure from the land of bond
age. The passover was celebrated on
the fourteenth day of the first month,
(Nisan,) between the evenings, (or from
the evening of the thirteenth to the eve
ning of the fourteenth day.) This first
day was the day of passover. At sun
set of the fourteenth day, the feast of
unleavened bread began, occupying sev
en days, the first and last of which were
peculiarly holy like the Sabbath.
We find, by reference to .the writings
of the Holy Evangelists, that at the close
of the thirteenth day, when the feast of
unleavened bread approached, our Sa
viour directed the lamb for the paschal
sacrifice to be prepared for Himself and
His d ; sciples, and that this paschal sup
per was eaten immediately after sunset
of the thirteenth day. After this sup
per, and in the course of the night He
was arrested, the next morning was
tried, and in the afternoon was crucified
and buried. This was the day before
the Jewish Sabbath, and is known now
as Good Friday. Three days after
wards—on Sunday—he rose from the
dead. And this, children, is why Chris
tian people celebrate Easter-day, be
cause it commemorates the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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