And first of all ho bit on a plan of ob taining it by the friction of two sticks, but it was a long nnd todious process, during which tho tnosquitos nib him and tlio native dog howled at liim from tho distance, and the" scorpion prospected bis foot, while tho light-hearted contipedo dropped from tt branch overhead down tho back of hia neck. And generation succeeded generation, until presently he discovered the use of Hint and stoel, and the pitch pine and other rosinous torches, and then tho fat of his numerous victims abtracted hie attention, and led up to tho invention ot tho useful but ovil-smel!ing fat lamp from which the mutton fat) candles was but a shorb jump, and their use suggested to him tho ex pression of liquid fats or oils from both animals and vegetables, and tho fabrication of lamps in which to burn them, and dis tribute tho powerful aroma over larger areas of country. And when other and more ingenious men smelt this burnt incense they seb themselves to go ono better, and they found coal and mado gas therofrom, and established monopolies which have ground tho faces of the poor, and eaten out the hearts of countless thousands, who have gone to their graves with broken hearts and shattered frames in consequence. Others again dug, and found ready-made oil storod away in natural cisterns, into which thoy inserted pumps, and formed " trusts," and built up syndicates, and companies, and monopolies of another sort, brat none tho less venomous, and they advertised various fictitious legends with regard to these oils which they divided into "grades" ac they called them, tho only difference between which was that one " grade" would blow a whole family with their house and a quarter-acre allotment higher and into smaller piecss and nearer to feho confines ol perdition in less time than another " grado" which happened to belong to a rival syndicate. 