The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19
WHAT KILLED HIM.
The Coroner Had Long Expected 1t, and
Knew What the Matter Was.

The Coroner Had Long Expected 1t. and
Knew What the Matter Was.
They had lifted the body out of the canal
and dozen of us stood around it when the
coroner came. He glanced at the face, asked
who first saw the body, and then said:
81 have expected this for year or more
Poor fellowl No inquest will be necessary"
But isn't it a case of suicide?" asked one
of the crowd.
Certainly"
"And shouldn't you investigate the causes
which drove him to the rash act."
II know them already. He was a clerk in
a hardware store next to my office Last
summer he got charge of the refrigerator
department A hundred times did | hear
him repeat:
"A refrigerator! Certainly, ma am; step
this way, and be seated. Now, then, our
Peerless refrigerator is built entirely on sci
entifc principles. This as you will observe.
IS the ice chest. The cold current passee
from the ice down these air pipes to the
right, circulates along the racks, passes up
through those pipes to the left, and escapes
out of that ventilator in the end. There is
always constant current of air, not only
preserving the articles placed on the racks
but carrying the odor away. We guarantee
that you may place onions and butter side by
side for one week, and that one will not
taste of the other. Inside this zinc lining is
q layer of charcoal two inches thick. Our
refrigerator is cooler with five pounds of ice
than any other with twenty. The circula-
ton is on scientific principles, as you will OBJ
serve. No bellows are needed to create the
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of order-no springs to give way Actual
experiments have demonstrated that there is
an actual saving of 50 per cent of ice during
the season The racks are galvanized, as you
will observe, and the trimmings are of the
latest and best patterns We sold these
right along last year at SIS, but, having Sc
cured all the hard wood lumber in the coun-
try, and having monopoly on the supply of
ice IN the United States we have decided to
reduce the price to SIS
DAY after day for three months, and
sometimes five or six times day, he repeat
ed this statement" said the coroner land
knew that it was only question of time
when the end would come The 1st of Octo
Der they chapgedhim into the coal stove de
partment, and then, day after day, he sang
this song:
ga base burnen Certainly, ma'am-
right this way. Presume you saw our ad
vertisement last Sunday. The climax in base
burners has at last been reached. Here
it is, ma'aniyour Acme Isn't it beauty
Everything, outside of the CRATES and win.
dows, made of solid nickel and warranted
not to turn black. It's rs handsome as
painting, and lots of people who can't afford
piano are buying these stoves simply as a
parlor ornament. What would our grand
fathers and grandmothers say if they could
step from their graves and behold picture
like thiss We have ladies come in here and
ask permission to sit down and criticise the
stove as a work of art, the same Us they
would piece of statuary or painting.
And now for the interior This is tbs
firepot, as you will see. As soon as the com.
bustion takes place the hot air is drawn down
through these hues, passes twice around the
base, ascends to radiate around the top.
passes over the live fire to be reheated, and
finally escapes by the flue when it has no fur.
Their value as heating power. Economicali
That's our strong point, ma'am. We claim
that this stove will heat four times the sur.
face with one ton of coal that any other stove
will with three. It feeds and regulates itself
Any child can run it. No gas can escape
when the stove is closed. All its parts are
so handy to be got at, and by no possibility
can any accident OCCUR. 1t lights room SC
that no lamp is needed, saves enough in coal
to buy all your meat and potatoes, and when
not in use as a stove we have a music box to
so inside of it,
Poor fellow!" sighed the coroner, as he
bent over him in pity. These were the songs
he was compelled to sing to earn his daily
bread. and we who were near him knew that
the end must finally come 1t has come. He
did not want to live any longer, and none of
US can blame him. l will turn the body over
to the undertaken. The jury could only find
that he died of a broken heart New Yor,,
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