, 1890-01-08
A CORONER Woo UNDERSTOOD.
4 Death That Was Not Unexpected b,
Those Who Had Observed.

4 Death That Was Not Unexpected by
Those Who Had Observed.
They had lifted the body out of the
canal, and a dozen of US stood around 1t
when the coroner came. He glanced at
the face, asked who first saw the body,
and then said:
81 have expected this for a year or
moro. Poor fellow! No inquest will be
necessary"
But isn't it a case of suicide?" asked
one of he crowd.
Certainly"
And shouldn't you investigate the
causes which drove him to the rash act1'
81 know them already. He was a
:Ierk In a hardware store next to my
)fice. Last summer he got charge OF
.he refrigerator department. A hundred
times did hear him repeat:
IA refrigerator? Certainly, ma'am;
step this way and be seated. Now, then,
our Peerless refrigerator is built entirely
IN scientific principles. This. as you
will observe, is the ice chest. The cold
current passes from the ice down these
air pipesto the right, ~circulates along the
racks, passes up through those pipes to
the left, and escapes out Of that ventila.
tor in the end. There is always a 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 by side for one week, and that one
will not taste of the other. Inside this
zinc lining is n 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 will observe.
No bellows are needed to create the cur
rent. There are no c~ogwheels to get out
OF order-nos springs to give way. Actual
experiments have demonstrated that
there Is an actual saving of so 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 at SIS, but. having secured all the
hardwood lumber in the country, and
having a 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 q day, he re-
peated this statement" said the coroner,
and knew that it was only a question
of time when the end would come. The
LIST of October they changed him into the
coal stove department, and then, day af-
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 at last been reached.
Here it is, ma'am-our Acme. Isn't it
n beauty Everything, outside Of the
CRATES and windows, made of solid
nickel and warranted not 50 urn black.
It's as handsome Us n painting, and lots
OF people who can't afford a 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
a picture like thisl We have ladies come
i'll here and ask permission to sit down
and crIticise the stove as a work of art,
the same as they would a piece of statu-
AIRY or a painting.
And now for the interior. This is
the tirePot, as you will see. As soon as
combustion takes place the hot air is
drawn down through these fiues, passes
twice around the base, ascends to radi-
ate around the top, passes over the live
fire to be reheated, and finally escapes
by the fiue when it has no further value
as a heating power. Economical? 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. 1t feeds and req
ulates itself. Any child can run it. No
gas can escape when the stove is closed.
All its parts are handy to be got at, and
by no possibility can any accident occur.
1t lights a room SO hat 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
go inside of it,
POO fellowl" 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