Evening star., 1911-08-24
them: as the one d,eth. so die,h the

other"
a monument of Vermont marble, seven
feet high. bearing q life-size profile por-
trait of Mrs. Rose Sayer, I'm relief. and
on the other side is the inscription:
'.oLD KIT.
Our family horse
And my first investment in 1878.
Died March. 1896"
Mrs. Mary b Snow OF Hartford Conn.
having been unsuccessful In q suit for
divorce from her husband, DR.. Frank :.
Snow. a physician OF that city, left him
in her will the one-third of her estate
to which, by law, he was entitled. The
residue. which amounted to $4,000. was
left in trust to one OF the banks to be
expended in the care and maintenance
OF Mrs. Shows horses and dogs. and in
purchasing a lot for their burial at death
and erecting monuments to their men,
ory.
Lighthouse Guards Coast.
Two OF the most dangerous piles of
rock along the coast were named by
French explorers, in early days. Grand
Manan and Petit Menan. which. by the
ellision OF the native speech. have been
shortened to "Granan" and '-rtnan."
Petit Menan lighthouse is one OF those
spidery y-looking affairs which rises from
the water and is supported by four iron
tubes securely fastened into solid, sub
merged rocks. About thirty feet above
high tide. but not entirely out of reach
of the waves when a gale is blowing. is
a house built of corrugated iron. The
lower story is for storage purposes. Here
three months provisions and a stock of
fresh water are always kept. In case
the light keeper should be cut of from
shore. and a stock of Oil sufficient to
keep the lamp burning all winter. There
is a little machine shop. too, where re-
Above this are the living apartments
two rooms. about twenty by fourteen
feet in size. One Of them fs the drawing
room, sitting room. library and chamber
combined; the other is kitchen. dining
room. etc, etc. Outside. on all four sides
of the building, is a gallery or piazza,
where the lightkeeper can sit in his lei
sure hours and enjoy the changing seen
cry of the sea, or drop a hook over the
railing and catch q fish for dinner or
breakfast.
Above this is the tower with an enor-
nous lamp, whose rays can be seen for
fourteen miles. 1t revolves SO many times
an hour and winks regularly twice q min
ute at the mariners who haunt that coast.
During the winter gales the lenses are
often crusted with salt from the spray
that spatters them.
ASAJC0 oot = W4S0 a I Ce1xs
A lonesome place is Tltnan lighthouse,
thirty miles from shore, and the only
means Of communication is sail or row
boat. There are no neighbors any nearer,
and no visitors disturb the solitude of
the hghtkeeper except once or twice a
year. when the inspector comes around.
or people from q pleasure yacht climb
the iron ladder for curiosity.
lAv luht Har
than quarter Of century. and his
wife lived there contentedly with him
all that time. Their children grew up
and married off or were engaged in en-
ployment elsewhere, SO that they had
nothing to trouble them, and were able
to put by the greater part OF the salary
paid Amos for protecting commerce
against disaster upon the shoals.
When Mrs. Rice peacefully terminated
a long and lonesome life and went to
join the choir invisible Amos had to keep
her body four days before he could full
fill his promise to bury her with her
folks at White Harbor, for the sea was
high. 1t is no easy job for a man un-
like that lighthouse into q rowboat that
is tossing furiously upon the waves. but
Amos finally did 1t. The first quiet
morning he left his bereaved home the
very minute 1t was lawful to put his
light out and sailed thirty miles over a
rough sea. Upon his arrival at the harbor
he called up the sexton and the minister
and what friends could be summoned.
and, after a brief and impressive service,
the body Of Mrs. Rice was committed to
the dust and her soul to the God who
gave It.
Takes Bride Back With Him.
After the mourners returned from the
cemetery one of the neighbors asked
Amos and the friends to have q little re-
freshment. OF course. they all accepted.
and with others likely widow,
| whose husband had been dead two years.
and who was "boardin' round" among
her relatives for want Of q home and
income. Amos grief was not greater
than his sense Of loneliness, and, finding
a sympathetic chord in the heart Of the
ence Of the whole company. and, the
parson' being present, they were fmme-
diately married. The bride hurried over
to her sisters to put up her things. "
while Amos continued to receive mingled
condolences concerning his first wife and
congratulations concerning the other.
1t was o'clock in the afternoon when
he started back to his watery eyrie with
fore him. II any ships were out that
night they must have wondered why, for
the first time in a quarter OF g. century,
the CLEANS of 'Tit-Nan'' light were not
visible until more than two hours after
sunset Amos reached home at last,
after performing what he considers a
good days work for a man who is more
than. sixty. He sailed sixty miles In a
dory, buried one wife and married an
other, and. as in tho case OF the King
of Denmark. the funeral baked meats set
forth the wedding dinner.
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