"LUXENE,"—The New Illuminant.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 168, 17 July 1891, Page 4

"LUXENE, "— The New Illuminant.

The Most Powebbto, Economical, and Satbst Light Khown. | The dawn of creation was signified by the fulfilment of the Divine command, "Let there be light, " and the division of the light from the darkness was coincident with the germ of a provision of those inexhaustible stores of nature from whiob man in the ages to follow was to extract, after one fashion or another, the varied artificial lights whioh would naturally be required to enable him to fulfil hia mission on earth. And as soon as the light made the darkness visible, the face of Nature, ft3 it then wae, brightened exceedingly and became gladsome and joyous, and the great ornithorhynchus commenced his gambola with the lively and intelligent bacoili, and the Bntozoas, and the proas, and plasms of the unformed animal world would set out in pursuit of prey and gave cUttse to the buffalo, the ocfcohedron, the moa, the phalangers, and other duodecimals ol irregular habits, and " played up old Harry" generally until pre-Adamite man appeared upon the scene and reduoed absolute ouaoa to comparative disorder under the influence of his magnetic eye and the cunning of his right band, Bub even ho was powerless ot night when clouds obscured the faoe of the moon and the twinkle oi the stars, and all the wild beasts and insects roared their defiance of him from the rooks and fissures, and poked fun at bim from the tree tops, and ohaßcd bim about in his pyjamas, and bit and slung him, aimply because he had no light by which he oould see to fire bricks at them with any degree of aoouracy. ana he had to keep avraks | alt night and dodge them from shelter to shelter, until his life beoame a wearisome I misery to him for the wane of knowing bow to turn night into day~an art which hiß 19 th century descendants have worked out to (heir entire satisfaction. Therefore he devoted all his energies to the discovery of an artificial light whioh would enable him to oombab with his nocturnal enemies, and to keep them at bay while he walked up and down in the wilderness with his teething infant and administered the paregorio and the peppermint or the clinging slipper, as the caße might be, according to the necessities of the moment. . And, first of all he hit on a plan of obtaining it by the friction of two stioks, but it was a long and tedious prooess, during which the mosquitoes bit him, and the native dog howled at him from the distance, and the scorpion prospected hia feet, while the light" hearted centipede dropped from a branoh over bead down the baok of his neck. And generation suoceeded generation until pie* aently he discovered the use of flint and steel, and the pitch pine and other reßinous torches, and then the fat of his numerous viotims attracted his attention, and led up to the invention of the useful but evil-smelling fat lamp, from whioh to mutton fat candles was but a short jump, and their use suggested to him the expression of liquid fat or oils from both animals and vegetables, and the fabrication of lamps in whioh to burn them and distribute the powerful aroma over large areas iof country. And when other and more ingenious men smelt this burnt incense they set themselves to go one better, and , they found coal and made gas therefrom, and established monopolies, which have ground thefaoeß of the poor and eaten out the hearts of countless thousands, CHhers again dug and found ready-made oil stored away in natural cisterns, into which they inserted pumps and formed " trusts " and built up syndicates, and companies, and monopolies of another sort, but none the less venomous, and they advertised various fiotiiious legends with regard to these oils, whioh they divided into " grades," as they called them, the only difference between whioh was that one "grade" would b!ow a whole family with their house and a quarter«aere allotment higher and into smaller pieces and nearer to the confines of perdition in less time than another " grade " wbioh happened to belong to a rival syndicate! And these combustibles were called by a variety of names, suoh as petroleum, and petroline, and kerosene, and numerious other "urns" and "ines" and "isms," but all i more or leas possessed of the familiar suddenness of forked lightning and the explosive foroe of dynamite, and worst of all at the very time when they were supposed to be perfectly reliable on account of a guarantee that they had bsen tested, and inspected, and set fire to, and nut out again, and thoroughly overhauled by presidents and oommittees and experts o£ great judgement. But in spite of all these precautions, they still continued to go off at frequent intervals and wreck properties, and break up happy little family circles, until human nature rebelled against the imposition, and then the electric light was introduced. But it was altogether too frisky, and uncertain, and sensational an illumination to suit all classes, and at last it had been rewarded with a success whioh may be justly claimed aa the success of the century. At last there is light ; light that ib pure and beautiful, maintained from a source that is constant, economical, and absolutely devoid of all risk, danger, and unpleasant* ness, Lttxkne ia a genuine discovery of an entirely new application of one of the sources of artificial light ; it is devoid of smell when burning, and cannot be purposely fired under any conditions, except Buch a8 may be resorted to by a luuatic or an idiot. It vi prepared for the market by an entirely I new process, and can be strongly recommended for domestic use both in town and country, and under all conditions in which oil is used for illuminating purposes, and where freedom from smell, brilliancy of light at a low cost, and absolute safety are consider aa factors of general importance among the details of human life and progress. Luxene can be obtained from the Buckeye Harvester Co., Dunedin. or from all grocers and storekeepers, Bnd consumers will soon learn to understand the trush of the assertion that its use will go far towrds minimising the necessity for heavy fire insurances, . besides imparting an additional security to the value of lite, and adding largely to its pleasures.