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Show COFFIN WAS A BACK NUMBER. So Pennsylvania Man 8old It and Will Purchase Another. Isnaii Coffman of Hnttorf, Pa., has sold u comn lie mado many years ngo. He sold It not because ho felt ho would have no uso for It, but becauso his wlfo Insisted that it was out of date. Mr. Coffman U noarlng his eightieth birthday. Ho explained to a friend that ho constructed tho coffin 20 years ago. It was built of chestnut because, as ho put It, "Many'a tho tlmo 1 havo sat beside a cheery blnzo of chestnut logs and heard them cracklo and burn merrily. It makes such a homelike blaze thRt I picked It In prefernco to other woods. It was my desire to have tho coffin as cozy as possible, 'and I rejected tho frivolities which so many persons nffect In tho matter pf cofflns. In order to havo It handy I kept It in tho garret. But my wlfo tells mo that stj les havo changed, nnd since 1 havo accumulated a littlo for-tunu for-tunu sho will not permit mo to die unless un-less 1 consent to get nn up-todato casket. To avoid trouble I agreed to sell the old one But at tho sauio time I think that the coflln which wns good enough for mo In my poorer days should satlify mo now, and I shall ulways feel out of placo in tho new-fangled nlTnlr." |