The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-01
TIE LIGHTS OF NIGHT.
HOY SUMMER TLLUMINA2IONs
 UNTEIL HUMAN HISTORY.

Pictures Revealed by the Lighted Windows and the Glowing Light on
 waIks-Country Scenes Recalled. In the wintry days we, dwelling in cities, see little of the world beyond our own walls. except when interest leads us to a given point, but when heat, imperative master of our wills and absolute ruler of our habits, takes possession of our dwellings, things take a different order of conduct. .
 No longer one, two or even three sorts of curtains shut out the eyes of ocur neighbers. The bare easements stand open day and night, and a linen shade is reluctantly drawn when pri- vacy is demanded. The idle, or those possessed with the inertia caused by the everpowering temperature, ind great refreshment and much food for thought as they sit in lightless rooms and take in at once the yivifying fresh ness Of the night winds and the revela- ton made by the wonderful lights which burn through the long hours of darkness. ts...ex s..... -z .-sN
 While the restful feel with delight the soothing quality of the breeze and hall with increasing pleasure the gradual cessation from many of the sorts of noisy toll, there comes also a great surprise; so many, such large majority of people, may not take this respite which God sends even upon the restless Babylon we have builded.
 Out of your darkness, which is to you 8 veritable camera obscura, you look forth and see, even at this time, when it is proper fallacy to think that "the town is desrted,' strange pictures of town is deserted,' strange pictures vast armies of human beings who seem to know no night. All day they bear the burning radiance of the sun, and all the hours meant to give the sweet yelled radiance of the stars their time for loving watchfulness is filled with the glare of gas or the intense brilliancy of electricity, goading their tired nerves to greater and greater ac- tivity.
 Last night when Jupiter regal and full of splendid majesty, rose to glorify the summer sky and reign over the softly yelled stars of lesser light, the bewildering glare of artificial, almost blinding light, left him unnoticed by those he came to bless. What was that distant, scolemn planet moving with out noise, or haste or rest, drought thase hazy spaces far away? Did not the whole gable of q sky-scraping edifice blaze with light-too fierce to look upon. with safety to vision-and tell the gazing people that this was "The Hotel Aladdin where music, twanged from many strings, could be heard upon the roof? Who would see mere wonder of Gods making, afar off and lonely, and remote from human mirth or misery while the Hotel Alad- din'' dispayed 1t wonders!
 Beyond the limit of the faring lights there lay a sphere of darkness or what stood for obscurity because of con trast. But there was new and wholly different aspect of lighted chambers ir the partial shadow. Air, all the air possible to obtain, must be had. nol could the emergency at hand permit uncertain light. Drawn to the nearest point accessible, on a cot lay an ole man. The pitiless gas flame told his suffering plainly, and the tender minis. trations of gentle nurse were not hid. den from the neighboring eyes; he wa. dying, and one he loved knelt beside Tim. All night long that steadfas ! light shone undiminished until dawn
 Yet the pain, the watcher, the mourn, si er-what were they among so many. In a hundred bright windows vol might see such sights, and in the aw, full separation of city life no one woult Know. unless some wakeful persor chanced to be drawn to darkenet
 easement and attracted by light.
 And there, across the street, an
 other open window and another hu
 man story laid bare; an artist work
 ing with absorbed and eager industry never looking up, never strengthening !, or urbending his bent shoulders, paint
 ing with eager haste. regardless 0
 temperature or the hinGering 'so fluence of artificial light upon his color @ Why? Was it some inspiring I..sGe, 2 which had so possessed him that i A compelled him to make it visible t Y men? Or was it, as I feared, the hur ried work of all illustrator com < pleting Ito order" what must be don
 within stated hour? Yet whatever i 1IllSilL pSs IiIS llldll IiedEI ana Skll z went into it. If the artistic tenn s perament within him groaned at tn .s loss of the summer night, meant to re fresh and invigorate natures like hi
 yet, he was not profaning 1t in uncleai
 places, and he worked, and that gen ' erally means at least measure o ! happiness.
 z High, so high that one could for
 moment think it was star, I nightI
 see a light which rouses my keenes \ curiositN The easement is, wide. ! Y broad, architecturally beautiful vii 7 dow. Figures move Occasionally acros v the room; they are too far away to re ' cognize. They are few in numbers, the ss move slowly and like gentle folk. The ay are not measured motions as of thos 9s who play a game of any sort, but az ks parently the natural movements C
 friends who sought merely change ( position.
 The light is soft and shaded, but fs Aai into the night there it glows on. Whe tN does the midair chamber conceal? ae the fate of the nation being inoulde s by long and earnest confidence? Doe 'rs some discover toll, like Edison, to fort