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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 208, 13 September 1879, Page 2

For keeping the times hard we give a receipt : — Let everybody talk depressingly; when any one fails in business put it all in the papers. Let business men keep up perpetual complaints; let us have occasional editorials, meetings, bread riots, and political speeches on the wrongs of the laboring classes. Let everybody prophesy a hard winter, a very bard winter, and an awfully hard winter. Let us all talk down instead of up. Let us take no account of the fact that flour is cheap, and that the harvests are large and God is good. We shall in this way be able to take another faggot from the poor man's hearth, and knock another pane of glass out of his window, and hinder the manufacturer from employing him. All together now — ministers, editors, capitalists, laborers, and storekeepers — let us give a long deep groan, and keep it going till next spring, and the times will be as bard as we can reasonably expect. — More Crumbs. Mr H. W. Longfellow ha3 recently written an interesting letter to a governess at Chicago, which has found its way into the American papers. Therein he says : — To those who ask how I can write " so many things that sound as if I were as happy as a boy," piease say that there is in this neighborhood, or neighbouring town, a pear-tree planted by Governor Endicott 200 years ago, and that it bears f rnit not to be distinguished from the young tree flavour. I suppose the tree makes new wood every year, so that some part of it is always young. Perhaps that is the way with some men when they grow old; I hope it is so with me. lam glad to hear that your boys and girls take so much interest in poetry. That is a good sign, for poetry is the flower and perfume of thought, and a perpetual delight, clothing the commonplace of life " with golden exhalation of the dawn."