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The man poured out the devotion of his heart in a burn- ing lava of verse and exquisite prose, and, like the volcanoes he resembled, bumt himself entirely out in the process. He had no more to say, neither did he even feel any more. - For the moment his love was dead, killed by a too-fluent pen, He vainly tried to re-Kindle the ashes of his eloquence, but, being of the type of man whom only a new object oould fire his enthusiasm afresh; "this was impossible, In fact, 500d did he heconie that the lady of his heart, to keep her. self- respect at all, was fain to break off the ment. + She suffered a 1, but might possibly have had she known she of her prolific love-let- sweetheart. AL IN FORM OF DUST. 1 in Pipe Lines in Bame Way as Oil, to pipe a mixture of and water, i8 8 not new, but it has to the coal dust pro- y processes of min- aa fovot ou er oonsiderable 7 : SAR MAE CHASED BY A WATERSPOUT. Thrilling Story of a Tramp Steam- : er's Adventure, Waterspouts are not, perhaps, as dangerous as they appear Yo be. or as sea-captains used bohink them, but they are by on means harmless, especially to craft of moderate size. In "My Vagabondage," his account of wanderings over the greater part of the known world, Mr. J. E. Pat terson tells & thrilling story of a tramp steamer's adventure with a Saiprapont in the harbor of Vers uz. All the forenoon a.thick heat haze hung over the , 'greasy face of- those tropic waters, re might 'never have been a breath of _| wind in.the whole heavens, the at- re - Was 80 oppressive. A heavy ground-swell was rolling lei- surely in. We lay at anchor in four- teen feet of water. Ly Captain G. said that we were "in for a duster," and gave the chief engineer orders to have steam up ready for instant use. On the pre- vious evening a couple of landsmen had come with the '"'old man," and at three o'clock they were still aboard, making revolver practice at the sharks that floated lazily on the surface of the bay. Suddenly there went up a shout from one of > Jialiors, 3 Py -» "A spout spout!' he cried, excitedly, . From the fore-deck came a confu- sion of warning cries. Up from the hold, like fate from a burning cel- lar, came 'Mexicans, Yankees, and representatives of some six other nations. 3 Now we caught sight of the ad- vancing terror. Apparently it had its birth about a quarter of a mile from where we lay.. Like a mighty funnel, with its spout thrust into another inverted one, it towered up: from the surface of the water into the heavy bank of clouds and haze overhead. But it did not keep any definite "shape for long. ~ At. times the narrow. part sank inward until we thought that it would snap; at others it swelled out till the "spout" was one sheer column of upright water, ; Suddenly the 'whirling = pillar quickened its progress, and began to approach thé ship. Straight on it. came, 'so fast that its advance god easily be marked on the sea. louder. | For a moment we stood dumfounded before the remarkable 'spectacle. Then every man turned and ran aft in a long rush for cover. Steadily the waterspout came on. The * foremost lighter, half-filled | with cargo, went down as if it were "la match-box under a bucketful of "the en be water poured from an altitude of a dozen. feet. The spout paused sheered off a little way, returned the second lighter, and sent ) oe iy had come' from Jerusalém with the same purpose of accusin Jesus of violating the ceremonial e. | 1 9. Ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands --- Mark gives the explanation for the béne- fit of his Gentile readers. The reference is to ceremonial unclean- ness. "Some think that this rénew- ed activity of the scribes and Pharisees against Jesus is: another indication that = the = Passover oc- curred just before this, when the presence of Jesus himself, or re- ports concerning him brought from Galilee, drew fresh attention to 3. All the Jews--The rigid cus- toms practiced at first by the more * punctilious Pharisees only had fin~ ° ally been adopted - by the people generally. Diligently--The exact 'rendering of the Greek is difficult. It is vari- ously rendered "frequently," 'up to the elbow," and to some scholars it: conveys the idea of rolling the fist of one hand in the palm of the other, thug rubbing the hands thor- oughly. y Tradition of the elders---The re- gulations and interpretations of the written law, which had been hand- ed down orally by the scribes through many generations, 4. From the marketplace, except they bathe--Whereas, ordinarily it was necessary only to wash the hands before meals, those who came from the marketplace were to "baptize,"' that is, bathe the entire body. The object of the washing in each instance was. not to remove dirt, but to free oneself from de- filement due to contact with pro- fane things; and as one was more susceptible to defilement in the mar- ket, the more elaborate ceremony Was necessary. Washing of cups--The "cleans- ing," extended to the common household utensils. . Some manu scripts add, "and couches.' 5. Why walk not thy disciples !-- Why do they not conduct themselves in accordance with the common interpretations of the law! 6. Hypocrites--False pretenders to great virtue and piety. Honoreth me with their lips--The quotation is from Isaiah 29. 13. The conditions at this time were similar to those in the prophet's day when the religious teachers, though pre- tending 'to honor God, substituted their eelf-constructed doctrines for the divine law. Jesus considers the rebuke which Isaiah administered to the faithless leaders of his day to be fitting at this time. 8. Leave the commandment of God--The rules of their own mak- ing came to be regarded as more worthy of observation than even the written law. ' 10. Honor thy father and thy mo. ther--Jesus makes reference to this wellknown commandment of Moses, Exod. 20. 12; 21. 17, to illus- traté the manner in which' they have perverted the law. = . } Die the death--Or, surely die. 11. Corban--Thisis a Hebrew word meaning an offering. = By merely pronouncing the word over any- thing the object was considered to be set aside for divine service, and the obligation, no mattér how ur- gent, of using it for the relief or comfort of one's parents was entire- ly removed. After. thus pronounc- ing the word the object not only dare not be used for the human pur- pose with reference to which the Corban was uttered, but the obli- gation to use it as an offering was Td {ls cariceled so. that it: might 'be diverted to an utterly selfish pur-