Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-07-11

ut is high water about half past !,
thinkY'
He nodded, pretending to treat the
question rs of no special import. y
"From all appearances there will be
q heavy sea-" she went on.
"Just IN ordinary bad night" he said
coolly.
do tho waves reach far up the light
house in gale?" she persisted.
Then Brand grasped the situation
firmly. =,
$50 that your slumbers may bg
peaceful" he said ~ will call your
kind attention to the fact that the
Gulf Rock light has appeared every
night during the past twenty-five
years, or since date some four years
before you were born. Constance. II
contains 1900 tons of granite and is
practically monolithlc, US IL 1t were
carved out Of quarry. Indeed,
think its builder went one better than
nature. Here are no cracks or assures
or undetected flaws. The lowest course
Is bolted to the rock with wrought
iron clamps. Every stone Is dove
tailed to its neighbors and clasped to
them with iron, above, below and ut
the sides. IL you understand comic Sec
tons i could make clearer the scicn-
tific aspect Of the structure, but you
can take It from me you are far safer
here than on a natural rock many
times the dimensions of this column"
THAT sounds very satisfactory"
murmured Enid, sleeplly.
Il am overwhelmed" said Constance,
who graspnd the essential fact that he
had not answered her question.
Soon after 0 o'clock he kissed them
good night. They promised not to sit
up talking. AS guarantee of good be-
havior, Enid said she would ring the
electric bel just before she climbed
Into her bunk
The signal came soon and he was
glad. He trusted to the fatigue, the
fresh air. the confidence of the knowl-
edge that he was on guard, to lull
them into the security of unconscious
ness ~
The beha yior of the mercury puzzled
him. In tie barometer 1t fell, in the
thermometer 1t rose. Increasing tenn
perature combined with low pressure
was not healthy weather combina-
tion In January. Looking back through
the records Of several years, he dis
covered n similar set Of conditions one
day in March, 1891. He was stationed
then OH thu northeast coast and failed
to remember any remarkable circum-
stance connected with the date, SO he
consulted the lighthouse diary for that
year. All! Here was possible ex-
PLANTATION. The chief keeper, a strnn-
ger to him, was something of a meteor.
ologlst.
He had written: "At 4:15 D. IN. the
barometer stood at 27.18 degrees and
the thermometer ut $3.50 degrees.
There was heavy sen and a No. Z gale
blowing from the 8. S.-W. About S
o'clock the wind increased to hurri-
cane and the sea became more violent
than have seen 1t during five years
experience OF this station. Judging
solely by the clouds and the flight of
birds, l should imagine that the cy-
clonic center passed over the ScIlly
isles and the Lands End"
Then next day:
"a steady northeast wind stilled the
sea most effectually. Within twenty
four hours Of the first signs Of the hur-
ricane the channel was practicable for
small craft. A fisherman reports that
the coast Is strewn with wreckage."
. nj
awhile. With his night glasses he
peered long into the teeth Of the grow
Ing atorm to see II lie could tind the