" LUXENE, "—The New Illuminant.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 208, 2 September 1891, Page 4

" LUXENE, "—The New Illuminant.

The Mobt Powerful, Economical, and Safest Light Known. The dawn of creation was signified by the fulfiiment of the Divine command, •• Let there bo light, '' and the division of the light from the darkness was coincident with the germ of a provision of those inexhaustible B;ores of nature from whioh man in the ages to follow was to extraot, after one fashion or another, the varied artificial lights which would naturally bo required to enable him to fulfil his mission on earth. And as soon as the light made tbe darkness visible, the faoe of Nature, as ib then wae, brightened exceedingly and became gladsome and joyous, and bhe gteut ornithorhynohus commenced his gumbols with the lively and inteligent bacoili, and the Bniozoas, and the proas, aud plasms of the unformed animal wotld would set out in pursuit of prey and gave chase to the buffalo, the octohedroo, the moa, the phalaugere, and other duodecimals of irregular habitß, aud "played up old Harry ' generally until pre-Adamite man appealed upon the scene and reduoed absolute oaaos to comparative disorder uuder the influence of his magnetio eye and the cunning of bis right hand. But even he wbb powerless at nights when olouda obscured the faoe of the moon aud the twinkle of tbe stars, and ali the wild beasts and insects roared their defiance of him from the rooks aud fissures, and poked fun at bim from the tree to,-s, and chased bim about in his pyjamas, and bit and Btuug him, simply because he had no light by which he oould ccc lo fire backs at them with any degree of accuracy, and he had to keep awaks all ni^ht and dodge them from shelter to .belter, until his life beoame a wearisome miEery bo him for the wan D of knowing how io turn night iuto day— an an which hia 19th centuiy descendants have worked out to theii entire aatisf action. Theiefore he devoted all his energies to the discovery of an artificial ligbt which would .nab c him to combat with his nocturnal enemies, and to keep them at bay while he walked up aud down in the wilderness with his teething infant and administered the paregoria aud tha peppermint or the clinging Blipper, as tho oase might be, according to the necessities of the moment. And, fir.t cf all ho hit on a plan of obtaining it by the friction of two sticks, bnt it was a long and tedious process, during which the mosquitoes bit him, and the native deg howled at him from the d isbance, and the scorpion piospe. ted his feet, whiie the lighthearbed centipede dropped from a brauoh over head down the back of his neck. And generation suoceeded generation until presently he discovered the use of hint and seel, and the pitch pine and other lesinous torches, and then the fat of his numerous victims attracted his attention, and ied up to the invention of bhe useful but cvd-smelling fat lamp, from which to mutton fab candles waa bus a Bhort jump, aud their use suggested bo him the expression of liquid fab or oils frcm both animals and vegetables, and the fabrication of lamps in whioh to burn them and attribute tLe powerful aroma over large areas of country. And when other and more ingenious men .melt bhis burnt incense they set themselves to go one better, and th&y found coal and made gaß therefrom, and E&iißLifcHED monopolies, which have ground the faces of the poor and eaten out the hearts of countless thousands. Others again dug and found ready-made oil stored away in natural cisterns, into which they inserted pumps and formed " trusbs ' and buiit up syndicates, and companies, and monopolies of anobher sort, but none the les. venomous, and tbey advc-rtiaeci various fictitious legends with regard to these oi b, whioh they divided into ,l grades," as they called them, tho only difference between which was that one " grade " would bow a whole family with their house and a quarterxacre allotment higher and iuto smaller pieces and nearer to lh. confines of perdition in less time thau another " grade " whioh happened to belong to a rival syndicate. And these combustibles were called by a variety of names, such as petroleum, and petroline, and kerosene, and numerious otber "urns" acd "iocs" and "ibm.," but all more or le.B possessed of the familiar suddenness of foik.d lightning and the explotive force 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 b.en tested, and inspected, and set fire to, and put out again, and thoroughly overhauled by presidents and committees and experts of _,reat judgement. But in .pits of all these precautions, they still cominued to go eff at frequent intervals and wreck properties, and break up happy little family oirolee, until human nature reb.lied .gains; the imposition, and then the electric Jigbb was introduced, But it was altogether too frisky, and uncertain, and sensational an illuminution to suit all classes, aud at last ie had beeu rewarded with a sucoeas which may be justly claimed as the success of the century. At last there is light ; light that is pure and beautiful, maiutained from a source tbat is constant, economical, and absolutely devoid of all risk, danger, and unpleasantness, LuxiiNE is a genuine discovery of an enbirely new application of one of bhe sources of arbificial light ; ib is devoid of smell when burning, and cannot be purposely fired under any conditions, exoept euch as may be res.rted to by a luuatic or an idiob. Ib is prepared for bhe market by an entirely new process, and can be strongly recommended for domestic use both iv town and country, and under all conditions in which 1 oii is used for illuminabing purposes, and where freedom from smell, brilliancy of light ab a low cosb, and absolute safety are consider as facbors 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 sborekeepers, and consumers will soon learn I . nnderstand the trush of the assertion t ".at its use will go far towrds minimising the necessity for heavy iire insurances, besides imparting an additional securiby to bhe value of life, and adding largely to ibs pleasures.