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Show COFFIN WAS A BACK NUMBER. Bo Pennsylvania. Man Sold It and Will Purchase Another. Isaac Coffman of Hatton, Pa., has sold a coffin he mado many years ago. Ho sold it not because he felt ho would have no use for it, but bocauso his wife insisted that it waa out of date. Mr. Coffman is nearlng his eightieth birthday. He explained to a friend that he constructed the coffin 20 years-ago. years-ago. It was built of chestnut becauso, as ho put it, "Many's tho time I have-sat have-sat beside a cheery blaze of chestnut logs and heard them crackle and burn merrily. It makes such a homelike blazo that I picked It in prefernco toother to-other woods. It was my deslro to-havo to-havo tho coffin as cozy as possible, and I rejected tho frivolities which so-many so-many persons affect In the matter of coffins. In order to havo It handy I kept It In tho garret But my wife tells mo that styles havo changed, and slnco I have accumulated a llttlo for-tuno for-tuno sho will not permit mo to dlo unless un-less I consent to get an up-to-date casket. To avoid troublo I agreed tot sell the old qne. But at tho same Ik tlmo I think that the coffln which wastjij good enough for mb in my poorer" days should satisfy mo now, nnd I shall always feel out of placo in the-now-fangled affair." |