Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-10

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, promised continental tour unless, IL
deed, matters progressed between
! Stanhope and Enid to the point of an
early marriage.
He had foreseen that Stanhope would
proba bly, ask Enid to be his wife. He
knew the youngster well and liked
him. For the opposition that Lady
Margaret might offer he cared not a
jot He smiled inwardly-as the con-
venient phrase has it-when he re
viewed the certain outcome of any
dispute between himself and her lady
ship. He would surprise her.
Brand the lighthouse keeper and
Brand urging the claims of his adopted
daughter would be two very different
persons.
Of course all Penzance knew that he
was gentleman, scientist in small
way and a man of means. Otherwise
Constance and Enid would not have oc-
cupied the position they held in locan $50
ciety. Those unacquainted with Eng
lish ways ofttimes make the mistake
of rating Il mans social status by the
means he possesses or the manner of
his life in LONDON. No greater error
could be committed The small, exclu-
sive county town, the community
which registers the family connections
of many generations, is the only re-
liable index Here to be of gentle
birth and breeding-not bad credentials
even in the court of King Demos-con-
fa, Tl1,,I, nil +nr q
the personal fortunes of the Individual.
Brand, it is true, did not belong to a
Cornish county family, but there We're
those who conned him shrewdly. They
regarded him as a well meaning crank,
yet the edict went forth that his daugh-
ters were to be received and received
they were, with pleasure and admira-
ton, by all save such startled elderly
mammas as Lady Margaret Stanhope,
who expected her good looking son to
contract a marriage which would re-
store the falling fortunes of the house.
All unconscious of the thoughts fit
ting through his brain, for Brand was
busy trimming a spare lamp, the two
girls amused themselves by learning
the semaphore alphabet from a little
handbook which he found for them.
When the night fell, dark and lower
ing, the lamp was lighted. They had
never before seen an eight wicked con-
centric burner in use. Tie shore light
houses with which they were acquaint-
ed were Illuminated by electricity or
on the catoptric principle, wherein a
large number of small Argand lamps,
with reflectors, are grouped together.
To interest them, to keep their eyes
and ears away from the low water
orgy Of the reef, he explained to them
the capillary action of the oil. Al
though they had learned these things in
school, they had not realized the ex-
actness of the statement thaF Sill does
not burn, but must first be converted
into gas by the application of heat.
On the Gulf Rock there were nearly
5000 gallons of COLA Oil stored in the
tanks beneath. COLA being used in
preference to paraffin because it was
safer, and there was no storage accom-
modation apart from the lighthouse.
Requiring much greater heat than
mineral oil to produce infiammable gas,
the COLA had to be forced by heavy
pressure in the cistern right up to the
edge of the wfcks and made to flow
evenly over the rims of the burner,
else the fierce fame would eat the met
al disks as WE'LL
He read them little lecture on the
rival claims of gas and electricity and