Excerpt from A Candle in the Sea, or Winter at Seal's Head A few years ago, I wrote about our Life-sav ing Stations, and the title of the book was Fighting the Sea. That subject not only interested my imagination and engaged my sympathies, but impressed me with a deep sense of the vast service rendered humanity by our life-saving crews. I have great admiration for it and the ability of its executive head, the Hon. Sumner Increase Kimball. While the service of the Life-saving Stations thus has impressed me, I have been deeply interested also in the work of our Lighthouse Board. Wisely is it directed at Washington, and brave, at times chivalrous and heroic, is the service rendered by our lonely light-keepers. I think of them at their often sea-girt posts with feelings of pro found interest and respect. The country owes them a debt even when any accounts have been squared. I want the youth of our land to ap preciate this work, to respect and admire the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.