To the Editor:

SIR,--I am approaching seventy; it is in sight;
it is only three years away. Necessarily, I must
go soon. It is but matter-of-course wisdom, then,
that I should begin to set my worldly house in order
now, so that it may be done calmly and with thor-
oughness, in place of waiting until the last day, when,
as we have often seen, the attempt to set both houses
in order at the same time has been marred by the
necessity for haste and by the confusion and waste
of time arising from the inability of the notary and
the ecclesiastic to work together harmoniously, taking
turn about and giving each other friendly assistance
--not perhaps in fielding, which could hardly be ex-
pected, but at least in the minor offices of keeping
game and umpiring; by consequence of which conflict
of interests and absence of harmonious action a draw
has frequently resulted where this ill-fortune could
not have happened if the houses had been set in order
one at a time and hurry avoided by beginning in
season, and giving to each the amount of time fairly
and justly proper to it.

In setting my earthly house in order I find it of
moment that I should attend in person to one or two

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