"GETTING RID OF DEATH."
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] have just been reading the article in the Spectator of April 6th, "Getting Rid of Death," and cannot help sending you what I think you will consider a good condensation of the gist and truth of the sentiments therein expressed. " It's a graund ordination — death." This came from an old man a night or two before he. died, eighteen months ago, as he dismissed an old neighbour who had been sitting at his bedside, but would allow no one to sit up with him. He was a widower, and had lived long alone, doing for himself, and having a sister-in-law to look after things when he got quite unable. He was long a rural postman in this district after hand-loom weaving gave up. He might have been, if indeed he was not, one of the two. village worthies, brothers, in Annie Swan's " Gates of Eden.' A reading, thinking man, having his own philosophy of things, but withal a good man.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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