The Red Cloud chief., 1906-08-03

Brand urging the claims of his adoptccF
daughter would 10 two very different
persons.
OF curse all PcnZancc knew that fp~
was Il gentleman, II scientist in n smaW
way and Il man OF means. Otherwise
Constance ard Enid would not have q
cupicd the position they held iii local sU'-
clcty. Those ~unacquainted with Eng
lish ways ofttimcs make the mistake
of rating n mans social status by the
means he possesses or the manner ot
his life in London. No greater errur
could he committed. The small, cXClu-
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 brecding-not bad credentials
even in the court of King Dcmos-con-
fers Brahmanical rank. no matter what
the personal fortunes Of the individual
Brand, ii is true, did not belong to g
Cornish county family, hut there were"
those WIZ connGd him shrcwdly. They
regarded him as a we'll meaning crank.
yet the edict went forth that his daugh-
tiers were to be received" and received
they were. with pleasure and admirTi-
ton, by all save such startled elderly
mammals as Lady Margaret %Stanhopc-
who expected her good looking son to-
contract a marriage which would re-
store the failing fortunes Of the house.
All unconscious Of the thoughts mir
ting through his brain, for Brand was
busy trimming a spare lamp, the twn
girls amused themselves by learning
the semaphore alphabet from a Little
handbook which he found for them.
When the night fell, dark and Nwer-
ing, the lamp was lighted. They had,
never before seen an eight wicked con-
centric burner In use. The shore light
houses with which they were acuuai1t-
ed were Illuminated by electricity or
on the catoptric principle, wherein n
large number of small Argand lamps.
with refiectors, 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 I'm
school. they had not realized the OK
actness Of he statement that oil 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 i'm the
tanks beneath, COLA being used ip
preference to parafiin because IL 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 clstern right up to the
edge Of the wlcks and made to fiow
evenly over the rims of the burner.
else the fierce flame would eat the met
nj disks as well.
He read them n little lecture on the
rival claims of gas and electricity and
demonstrated how d~azzlingly brilliant
the latter could be on Il dark, clear
night by showing them the fine light on
the Lizard.
But in haZy weather the oil wins
he said, with the proper pride of every
man In his W engine. FISHERMEN
sailing into PenZance along a course.
equidistant from the two points tel
me that II they can see anything at ali
on a foggy night they invariably catadi
a dull yellow radiance from the roes..
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