Alas! my orphan sister,

You'll not recall the face,
Whose meek and lovely likeness
These treasured lines retrace.
It is your mother's picture;
You are so like her now,-
With eyes of tearful dimness,
And grave and earnest brow.
Oh, be like her, my own sister!
But less in face than mind.
I would you could remember
One so tender and so kind.
Oh, weep that angel mother!
Such tears are not in vain;
Yet, dry them in the hope, love,
We all shall meet again.
And keep this gentle monitor,
And when you kneel in prayer,
Deem an angel's eye is on you-
That your mother watches there.
I'll believe that she rejoices

O'er her darling child to-day:
Heaven bless thee, dearest sister,

'Tis all that I can say.-Miss Landon.

DETACHED PIECES.

WATER teems with life. The multitudinous creatures of the sea, from not experiencing the same extremes of heat and cold with terrestrial beings, are as prolific under the pole as under the equator. For land animals, if their situation be too hot or too cold, cannot quickly pass to one of a more convenient temperature, because their course is interrupted by rivers, mountains, and seas. On the contrary, the inhabitants of the ocean can instantly plunge fathoms deeper, when they find the degree of heat or cold insupportable near the surface, and quickly migrate from one place to another. The quantity of beings upon the earth is proportioned to the degree of heat connected with that of moisture; but the watery tribes are universally disseminated: and hence, the land, when compared

with the ocean, is a mere desert. Man himself is the greatly abounding animal upon the earth.

WHEN fruits, and herbs, and flowers are decayed and perished, they are continually succeeded by new productions, and this governing power of the Deity is only his creating power constantly repeated. So it is with respect to the races of animated beings. What an amazing structure of parts, fitted to strain the various particles that are imbibed; which can admit and percolate molecules of such various figures and sizes! Out of the same common earth what variety of beings!-a variety of which no human capacity can venture the calculation; and each differing from the rest in taste, colour, smell, and every other property! How powerful must that art be which makes the flesh of the various species of animals differ in all sensible qualities, and yet be formed by the separation of parts of the same common food! In all this is the Creator everywhere present, and everywhere active; it is he who clothes the fields with green, and raises the trees of the forest; who brings up the lowing herds and bleating flocks; who guides the fish of the sea, wings the inhabitants of the air, and directs the meanest insect and reptile of the earth. He forms their bodies incomparable in their kind, and furnishes them with instincts still more admirable. Here are eternally living force, and omnipotent intelligence.-Baxter.

DISCRETION. Of all the qualities of the mind, none is more useful than discretion. It is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Cunning is the mimic of discretion, and sometimes passes on weak men in the same manner as vivacity does for wit, and gravity for wisdom. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them; it is the perfection of reason, and is only found in men of strong sense and good understandings; whereas cunning is only an accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. The discreet man

carries his thoughts to the end of every action, and considers the most distant as well as the most immediate effects of it; his schemes are large and glorious, and his conduct suitable to one who knows his true interest, and how to pursue it by proper methods. Addison.

WHAT greater measure can we have, than that we should bring joy to our brother, who, with his dreary eyes, looks to heaven, and round about, and cannot find so much rest as to lay his eyelids close together; than that thy tongue should be tuned with heavenly accents, and make the very soul to listen for ease and light, and when he perceives there is such a thing in the world, and in the order of things, as comfort and joy, to begin to break out from the prison of his sorrows, at the door of sighs and tears, and by little and little to melt into showers and refreshment? This is glory to thy voice, and employment fit for the brightest angel. But so have I seen the sun kiss the frozen earth, which was bound up with the images of death, and the colder breath of the north; and then the waters break from their enclosures, and melt with joy, and run in useful channels; and the flies do rise again from their little graves in walls, and dance awhile in the air, to tell that their joy is within, and that the great mother of creatures will open the stock of her new refreshment, become useful to mankind, and sing praises to her Redeemer: so is the heart of a sorrowful man under the discourses of a wise comforter; he breaks from the despairs of the grave, and the fetters and chains of sorrow: he blesses God, and he blesses thee; and he feels his life returning; for, to be miserable is death; but, nothing is life but to be comforted; and God is pleased with no music from below, so much as in the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows, of supported orphans, of rejoicing, and comforted, and thankful persons.Jeremy Taylor.

ADVANTAGES OF EXERCISE TO HEALTH.

АH! what avail the largest gifts of heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given:
Health is the vital principle of bliss.

And exercise of health :-in proof of this, Behold the wretch who flings his life away,

Soon swallowed in disease's sad abyss;
While he whom toil has braced, or manly play,
Has light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day.

Oh! who can speak the vigorous joys of health,
Unclogged the body, unobscured the mind;
The morning rises gay; with pleasing stealth
The temperate evening falls serene and kind.
In health the wiser brutes true gladness find:
See how the young lambs frisk along the meads
As May comes on, and wakes the balmy wind;
Rampant with joy, their joy all joy exceeds;

Yet what but high strung health this dancing pleasure breeds?

I care not, Fortune, what you me deny;

You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky,

Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living stream at eve: Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the rich children leave; Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave. Thomson.

BREAD.

THE miller grinds the corn delivered to him, and sorts the flour into three qualities, called firsts, seconds, and thirds. The first is employed for French bread, and for the finest and whitest sort of wheaten bread, consumed in large towns. Household bread is made from a mixture of firsts and seconds, with, occasionally, some proportion of thirds. Brown bread is made from a mixture of the better boulted flour, with the meal as it leaves the millstones; the portion of bran contained in this kind of bread gives the colour, and being of a resinous nature, imparts medicinal properties to the bread, which renders it wholesome to some, and the reverse to other constitutions.

Salt is a necessary ingredient in bread, improving its flavour and rendering it lighter. The proportion to be used varies according to the quality of the flour; above seven pounds to every four hundred weight of flour is the average quantity.

Before bread is made, a certain preparation called ferment or leaven, must be obtained, for the purpose of making the dough rise, or become light or in spongy, consequence of its undergoing one stage of the chemical action called fermentation. It is found by experience that this action is most readily and perfectly brought about by introducing a portion of dough, which has already fermented to a certain degree, and is called leaven, or by adding to the dough some liquid in a fermenting state; this liquid is usually what is called yeast, the froth that rises to the top of malt liquor while fermenting.

In remote districts, where yeast for baking cannot be obtained as often as it is wanted, leaven is employed instead of it. Flour and water are well mixed up into a stiff dough, which is set in a warm place, and undergoes a spontaneous fermentation; bubbles of carbonic acid gas form in the mass, giving it that porous, spongy, texture, which is observable in all bread, and causing the dough to swell up or rise; it also becomes rather sour; in this state it is leaven, and is capable of exciting a similar fermentation in other dough sooner than would be produced spontaneously, for it usually takes a fortnight, at ordinary temperatures, to bring on this action. Hence, a piece of this prepared dough is added to the batch, of which the bread is to be made.

When bread is made in the usual way and in large quantities, the following is the process:-The requisite proportion of yeast is diluted with hot water, some salt is added, and the liquor poured into a wooden kneadingtrough. One-third of the whole quantity of flour about to be made into bread is first mixed with the liquor, being well worked with the hands, until the combination is thoroughly effected, and the mass free from lumps; when this is the case, the trough is covered up closely, and the mixture is left for several hours, during which time a fermentation commences, and the mass swells: when this

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