Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1915 — Crop Was Lasting Well. [ARTICLE]

Crop Was Lasting Well.

The discovery of a carpenter, whan father, grandfather and great-grand-father practised the same craft has been commented upon in several newspapers, and at Lamberhurst, in Kent, there is a family who have been innkeepers for four centuries. In countries where the caste system prevails such a record would be thought utterly insignificant, says the London Chronicle. Grant Duff notes in his dlttry the answer made by a punkahpuller In Madras to an English lady who suggested that he might improve hi* position. “Mem-sahib, my father polled a punkah, my grandfather pulled a pukkah, all my ancestors for fear million ages pulled punkahs; and before that the god who <*ff casta p2toff a punkah for Vlahna.*