Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-01-01
A CORONER WHO UNDERSTOOD.
A Death That Was Not Unexpected by
Those WHO Had Observed.

They had lifted the body out Of the
canal, and dozen of US stod ID around it
when the coroner came. III glanced at
: the face, asked who first saw the body,
and then said:
81 have expected this fd r a year or
more. Poor fellowl No inquest will be
necessary
But isn't ii q case Of suitide?' asked
one of the crowd.
Certainly"
and shouldn't You investigate the
causes which drove him to the rash act:?"
Il know them already. He was 6
clerk in q hardware store next TO my
office. Last summer he got charge of
the refrigerator department. y hundred
times did hear him repeat:
"a refrigerator: Certainly, ma'am;
step this way and beseated. Now, then,
our Peerless refrigerator is built entirely
ON scientific principles. This, rs you
viii observe, is the ice chest. The cold
current passes from the ice down these
air pipest 10 the right. circulatcs along the
racks. passes up through those pipes 10
the left. ana escapes out of that ventlla-
tor in the end. There is always Il con-
slant current of air, not only preserving
the articles placed on the racks, but car
rying the odor away. We guarantee
that YOU may place onions and butter
side 10y side for one week, and that one
will not taste OF the other Inside this
zinc lining is 4 layer of charcoal two
inches thick Our refrigerator is cooler
with five pounds of ice than any other
with twenty. The circulation is on sci
entitic principles. as YOU viii observe.
No bellows are needed 10 create the cur
rent There are 10 coswheels to set out
OF orler-no springs togivc way. Actual
experiments have demonstrated that
there is m actual saving OF 30 per cent.
of ice during the season. The racks are
galvanized. as YOU will observe. and the
trimmings are of the latest and best pat
terms. We sold these right along last
year ut SIS. but, having secured all the
hardwood lumber in the country, and
having monopoly on the supply OF ice
in the United States. we have decided to
reduce the price TO So.
Day after day for three months, and
sometimes five OF six times day, H. re-
peated this statement, said the coroner,
and l knew that it was only 4 question
of time when the end would come. The
ist Of October they changed him into the
coal stove department. and then, day az
ter day. he sang this song:
"a base burner: Certainly, ma'am-
right this way. Presume you saw our
advertisement last Sunday. The climax
in base burners has ut last been reached.
Here it is, ma'am-our Acme. Isn't it
d beauty: Everything. outside of the
CRATES aud windows. made of solid
nickel and warranted not 10 turn black.
Its IS handsome IS painting. and lots
Of people who can't afford 4 piano are
buying these stoves simply as 4 parlor
ornament. What would our grand
fathers and grandmothers say if they
could step from thcir graves and behold
y picture Ike this! We have ladies come
VI here and ask permission to sit down
md criticise the stove as work Of art,
the same as they would piece of s'atu-
ary OF painting.
And now for the interior. This is
the Grepot, rs you VIII see. As soon as
combustion takes place the hot air II
drawn down through these hues, passes
twice around the base, ascendS 10 radl-
ate around the top, passes over the live
fire 10 he re.leated,.2nd inaLy escapes