Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-07-13

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FEyERs AND FRUITS. have little
talk about orchards and gardens as lite pre-
servers. Many farmer thinks he cant fuss
about garden" with vegetables and small
fruits in ample variety, hardly about an
orchard, especially beyond apple trees. So he
goes on to weig ghtier matters OF grain, or stock,
or dairy, and eats potatoes, wheat bread, pork
and salt beef all summer long; no fue variety
peaches or Juicy cherries. By October lever
comes or bowe! complaints of some kind, or
some congestige troubles, most likely. He Is
laid Up, his work stops mouth, the doctor
comes, AID he drags round all winter, aud the
doctors bill drass too Ihc poor vile, mean
while, gets dyspertic, has fever, too, perhaps,
and she lust :''crawls round y What's the
matter? They don't know, poor souls !
Would they build hot fire in July, aud Shut
the doors? Of course not-in their rooms;
but thsy have done just that i'll heir Stomachs.
How so? They have been eating all summer
the heat producing food tit tor cold season,
but not tor warm one.
A Hindoo lives on rice, juicy ii ulIs, and veg
etables, cooling and opening to the SYSTEM
In July We move toward Hindostan, in a heat
almost tropical. Diet must change, too
Have anples, pears, cherries, etc, from the
orchard every day Let there be plenty of
good vegetables. rasp pbcrries, Strawberries etc.
1t takes little time and trouble, but it's the
cheapest way to pay the doctor bills. And
bless your dear souls these things taste good.
You study what feed is good for pigs and
cattle. All right; but wife and children are Of
higher consequence; and it. shame il, with
ali our great gifts of intellect and intuition, we
do not obey the Divine laws in our own physi
cal being 30 we'll that the doctor shall visit the
house less than the horse doctor goes to the
barn. Don't fail OF vegetables, berries, and
fruits Try it, and you'll say We haven't told
you half the truth. h.-E.cchange.
Two WAYS OF TELLING A THING We
rescue the following alorctau from the columns
of a contemporary. 1t forebly illustrates the
different ways in which different people see
things:
ONE WAY.
RICHMOND July 5, lSG7.-Excessive heat
prevailed here to-day, to the general prostra-
ton of active work In the evening, about !
o'clock, remarkable change occurred in the
previously clopdless sky by dark, dense pail
of clouds, through which, above the Southern
horizon, lightning skinned with bright silvery
sheen for hours. Occasionallya globular fame,
lustrous as golden rocket, burst through
banks of sable vapor, with sIngularly beautiful
effect. At the same time Southern wind
sprung up and swept with the heated breath Of
sSirocco in strong. ftful gusts over the city.
A false report Of fire soon after caused the city
bells to ring out an alarm in a tone OF such
and blacks to run from all parts of the city,
truitlessly seeking for connagration, which
most fortunately the fates averted. The wind
has now abated and the strange apparit;on of
clouds has slowly disappeared
THE OTHER.
RICHMOND, July 5.-A thunder shower took
place this evening, and there was false alarm
of fire.
STORY WITH 4 MoRAL-When General
Jackson was moving on to strike McClellan's
flank on the Chickahominy, he came to stream
which had no bridge, and could not be crossed
without one. The General had brought with
him from the Valley rough, uneducatcd
man, full of energy, who had served him in
emergencies, aud in whom he had the utmost
confidence He called this man and told him
that stream must be bridged Immediately the
regular engineers were also advised OF the fact.
In short time the rough carpenter and the
polished men of science were at the stream:
the former had his plan, the latter theirs he
wished to go at the work at once without draw
ings, but they objected until they could per-
feet the plans on paper. The engineers retired
TO their tent to perfect paper bridge: the
carpenter took his men and went to work at
once to make real one. In q very short time
he appeared at the Generals tent, aud report
ed briefly thus: General, that bridge il
done done, but them pictures amt come yet.
This story has moral that all our readers Can
discover-Ciristian Advocate.
SOLEMN THOUGHTS. Paragraphs like the
following, from the North British Review are
calculated to make one feel his nothingness,--
1t says:
What this change is to be, we dare not even
conjecture but We see 10 the heavens them.
selves some traces of the destructive elements,
and some indications of their power. The
fragments of broken planets the descent Of the
meteoric stones upon our globe, the wheeling
comets, welding their loose material in our own
satellite, the appearance of new stars and the
disappearance Of others, are as the solar fur
mace, the volcanic eruptions, all foreshadows Of
that impending convulsion to which. the system
OF the world is doomed Thus placed on a
planet which is to be burned Up, and under
heavens which are to pass away; thus tread
ing, as it were, on the cemeteries, and dwell
ing upon the mausoleums of former worlds, let
Us learn the lesson of humility and wisdom, if
we have not already been taught in the school
OF revelation"
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