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Show An Eccentric Mun'i Funeral. Uncle Jared Wharton, an eccentric character char-acter of Forks township, died at tho age of ninety-one years, lie hated music, aud he Btaid in church ouly while the sermon was being preached, because, he said, the singing irritated him. Several years ago the congregation bought an organ, and after af-ter that he never entered the church. The old man had been toothless for forty odd years, uud whenever his friends urged him to buy some artificial teeth for himself he declared that the Lord would cause ual ural teeth to grow in his mouth before he died. In the summer time Uncle Jared want about his place barefooted. When it rained he visited the neighbors, and as lie plodded along the muddy road from house to house, he had his trousers rolled to his knees and au old cotton umbrella over his head. He seldom wore a hat in hot weather, and hia white hair was strong aud thick when he died. Many years ago the old man made coflin for himself out of 2-inch white oak planks. The bandies were made of horseshoes horse-shoes that had been worn by a mare of which he was very fond. The gentle beast was killed by a stroke of lightning, and the old man buried her under a tree where she had fallen. He desired to have her shoes buried with him, and so he nailed them to his heavy coffin. A few months ago Mr. Wharton line.d his coflin with fox skins, the sly animals from which they came having been shot by himself. He often expressed a wish that a bearskin robe belonging to him should be placed under his head in the rough oak box, and that his owd sons shoulcj act as bearers. Some of the old man's relatives advised the sons to gel a decent coffin, but their advice was not taken. Every wish of the aged dead man was carried out to the letter, and ou a beautiful afternoon last week the eccentric nonogenariau was laid to rest in his oaken casket. Scranton Republican. |