MULTIPLICATION. such a concern, being considered a sufficient recompense and inducement. The second year he was to have a liberal salary. The prospect was sufficient for the most ample anticipations of the mother and son. Hence the boy was taken from a flour store in this city, where he served in the capacity of clerk, and on the representations of the gentlemen concerned, and the advice of friends, he embarked for St. Jago de Cuba. His passage out was paid by the gentlemen who held out the inducement. When he arrived there, what was his surprise to find, instead of a large commercial establisment, the merest groggery. Not a commercial establishment of any kind, but simply a bar-a retail rum, brandy, and gin establishment. 'This is not what I came for,' said the boy. He refused to mix the first drop of liquor. He immediately secreted himself from the establishment, sought out the first opportunity to make his way home, and actually worked his passage before the mast on board a vessel bound to Boston, where he arrived not many days since. Ought not such a boy to be encouraged ?" MULTIPLICATION. [A Friend has furnished the following wonderful multiplication. We have not time to test its correctness. Who will?] Ir the human race, beginning from one pair, were to double once in thirty years, or if the excess of births over deaths were to double the population once in thirty years, then at the end of three thousand years the population might be described as follows:Take men, women, and children, at an average height of four feet, and imagine a vast plain of the same surface as the whole earth and sea. Let each person - be allowed one square foot to stand upon, and let the surplus population, after the plain is full, stand upon the heads of the others, with others again upon their heads, and so on. The pile would extend to a height of 3688 times the distance from the earth to the sun. (Sun's distance 95,000,000 of miles. Earth's radius 3956 miles.) WELCOME WINTER. WELCOME Winter, welcome here! Fires are blazing thee to greet, Welcome Winter! for thy voice Fix we then on Christ our eye; M. A. S. J. F. WINKS, PRINTER, LEICESTER. THE CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE, AND MISSIONARY REPOSITORY. EDITED BY J. F. WINKS. VOLUME XII.-1849. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND Co. LEICESTER: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. F. WINKS. EDITOR'S PREFACE. MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND, It is now more than twenty years since I published my first little magazine for children. It has been hard work, every month, to find something new and pleasing for young folks to read; and yet it is a work I always wished to do, and a work I would rather do than any other in the world. I have always, ever since I grew up to be a man, and before I was quite a man, been fond of children, and now I am getting old, I am fond of them still. I was always fond of teaching them in Sabbath Schools, and, when I was a younger man, I formed many new Sabbath Schools, and never missed one Sabbath-day from my work. Since then I have had a large family of children of my own, and though they do not always do as I wish them, yet are they my chief joy. I tell you all this to shew you that I have spent most of my life in trying to do good to children; and when I think of it, I cannot tell you how thankful I feel to God that he has permitted me to do so for now nearly forty years. And now I wish to spend the rest of my days in your service; and, with God's continued blessing, I hope, |