Windsor & Richmond Gazette, Saturday, March 3, 1900 - page 8 Stray Thoughts. I have had a trip down to Colo since I last wrote you, did enjoyed [sic] most immensely. I saw many of my old friends, notable the Aspery's, the Turnbull's, and the Dunstan's, all residents in and about Sackville. I always try and manage a trip in the fruit season, I'm something like the bank clerks in Windsor. They do the same thing, go down when the fruit is ripe. This is the season the young ladies on the river call them the "flying foxes." Anyway, it is to me a most charming trip. There is health in every turn ; there is no necessity for correcting the faults of sewage, or advising the people how to prevent epidemics. The doctors tell us that cholera and typhus have but a small chance with those who live in healthy localities, and who keep their digestive organs right, I'm sorry, I can't say that Freeman's Reach is so free from objectionable influences. We are too close to Windsor, and we suffer when the winds blow our way. Some very ugly effluvias waft across! the river from the dirty old town. As we live by breathing air, our great aim should be to have it pure if possible. To accomplish this we are invited to try a thousand of the various nostrums put forward for the benefit of the human family. My advice is ; Have none of it. Let me be your medical adviser and I'll undertake to carry you through - that is if you follow instructions. I don't want to feel your pulse. I don't want to look at your tongue ; if there is anything that will increase vitality, and enable the system to throw the debilitating efforts of a foul atmosphere, giving vigor to the organs of digestion, renewing the faded appetite, and encouraging healthful repose it is "Elixir" - composed only of the charming and salubrious air of the far-famed Hawkesbury. The ingredients are safe, and credentives to that effect can be had from all who are lucky enough to be located either at Sackville or on that beautiful retreat the Colo River, the water of which is s! aid to be the purest in the world. There is land to be had in both pl aces for residential purpose. If you are wise, you will go and buy a lot whilst it can be had cheaply. There is one thing certain - the day is not far distant when all the choice spots of the river will be annexed by land speculators. I am pleased to notice that one of your aldermen has made an attempt to bring about the purification of Windsor. It will doubtless be a hard task to convince some of the aldermen that cleanliness is godliness. Windsor may well be termed a "city of dried bones," and it is likely to retain the name whilst it is governed by men who have not got the heart to spend a shilling. They ought to go down upon their knees and pray night and day to be delivered from the presence of the bubonic plague. Chumpkins.