1. Dump the grate, and, with the poker, carefully remove the clinkers that adhere to the fire-brick.

2. Shovel into a scuttle the ashes, clinkers, and cinders or partially-burned coal.

N. B. - These should be sifted. Throw away the ashes and clinkers, but save the cinders, to use in kindling fires.

3. Take a brush or wing, and sweep down all the soot from the flues and oven.

N. B. - This should be done every day, when bituminous coal is burned; but if anthracite coal is used, the flues will not need cleaning oftener than once in two weeks.1 Wood-stoves should be cleaned as often as once a week.

1 Directions for keeping ranges and stoves in order are usually furnished by the dealer; and as they vary with the construction, they may be appealed to for more specific instructions.

4. Mix some stove-polish in an earthen dish, with enough water to make it into a smooth liquid.

5. Dip the blacking-brush in the mixture, and cover with it the whole of the range, working from the top downward.

6. When the blacking is dry, rub it all over with a dry-brush.

7. Then take another brush and polish the range all over, so as to make it quite bright.

8. Now sweep the soot and dust from the stove and the hearth.

9. Steel handles and bolts may be polished by rubbing with emery-paper, but brass handles and bolts should be polished with both brick-dust and a leather.

10. To clean the slate or limestone hearth in front of the range, get a flannel and a pail of hot water; put in it some soda, and wash the hearth all over.

11. Then wring the flannel out in hot water and smooth the hearth over, rubbing lightly all in one direction.

12. Black-lead and polish the inside of the fender in the same way as you did the range, and brighten the rim of it with emery-paper.