THE COURIER.
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BLONDEL.
Within my heart I long have kept
A little chamber cleanly swept,
Embroidered with a fleur-de-lis,
And lintel boughs of redwood-tree;
A bed, a book, a crucifix,
Two little copper candlesticks
With tapers ready for the match
The moment I his footfall catch,
That when in thought he comes to me
He straightway at his ease may be,
This guest I love so to allure
Blondel, King Richard's troubadour!
He often comes, but sings no more
tHe says his singing days are o'er!);
Still, sweet of tongue and filled with tales
Of knights and ladies, bowers and vales,
1 1 c caps our frugal meal with talk
Of langue d'oil and langue d'oc,
Of Picardy and Aquitaine,
Blanche of Castile and Charlemagne,
Of menestrel, trouvere, conteur,
Mime, histrion, and old harpeur
Small wonder that I love him well,
King Richard's troubadour, Blondel!
Still, as he comes at candle-light
And goes before the east is bright,
I have no heart to beg him keep
Late hour with me when wooed by sleep;
But one request I ever make,
And ever No for answer take:
He will not make the secret mine,
What song he sang at Durrenstein!
Sleep, troubadour! Enough that thou
With that sweet lay didst keep thy vow
And link thy name by deathless art
With Richard of the Lion Heart!
-Clarence Urmy, in September Century.
THE WAY OF A SHIP,
Prank T. Bullen, author of" The
Cruifo of tho Cuchalot,'' etc., tells the
roadera of tho Septembor Century of
tho "wuyB11 of certain ships ho haB
sailed on as mate or foromnsthand. His
introduction rune thus:
Solomon had, among tho many mighty
qualities of mind which bave secured
hia high f mint nee ns tho wisest man of
tho world, u q attributo which does not
always accompany nbundant knowledge,
llo whb prompt to udmit his limitations
up far as no Know them, frankly nou
fully. And among thotn ho confesses to
an inability to understand "the way of
a ship in tho midst of a soa." It may
bo urged that thoro whb littlo to wonder
at in this, since tho extaouciea of his
position must have precluded his gain
ing more than the slightest actual ex-
soriencn of seafaring. YetitiB marvel-
)iis that he should have mentioned this
thing, seemingly simple to a abore-
1 .veil or. which is to all mariners a
nystory past finding out. 'No matter
iow long a sailor may havo sailed the
Boas in ono ship, or how deeply ho may
uivo studied the ways of that ship
(under all combinations of wind and sou,
ie will never bo found to assert thought
fully that bo ktowB her altogether.
Much more, then, are the myriad idio
lynoraBies of all ships unknowable.
Kipling has dono more, perhaps, than
ny other living writer to point out
io.v certain fabrics of man's construc
tion bocome invosted with iddividuality
)t an unmistakable kind, and of course
lo acute an observer could not fail to
lotieo how preeminently is this tho
Base withehipB.
Now, in what follows I seok, as best I
iay, to Bhow, by a niggardly handful
M instances in my own experience, how
he ' personality" of BhipB expresses it
olf, and how incomprehensible these
lanifoBtations. aro to tho man whose
Jsineas it is to Btudy thorn. Even be-
iro tho ship has quitted tho place of
for birth, yea, while sho is yet a-build-
ig, something of this may bo noted,
no man will Btudy doopest mathemat
al problems, will narfnntlv nnnlv hin
rmula, and seo them Hcnnriitnlv em.
lied in etoel or timber, bj that by all
dinary laws of cause and effoct tho
resultant vossol should be a marvol of
spocd, stability, and strength. And yet
alio is a failure Sho haB all tho vices
that tho sailor knows and dreads: crank,
slow, loowardly, hnoging in stays, im
possible to Bteor satisfactorily. Every
man who ovor sails in her carries in hin
tonaclous sea-momory, to tho day of his
death, vengeful recollections of hor
porvorsitiop, and often in tho dog-watch
holds foith to his ship matcB in oloquont
denunciation of her manifold iniquities
long uftr ouo would havo thought her
vory namo would bo forgotten. Anothor
shipbuilder, innocont of a scintilla of
mathomatics, impatient of diugrams,
will begin apparently without prepara
tion, adding timbor to timbor, and
breast-hook to Btom, until out of tho
dumb cavern of his mind a ship is
ovolvod, his inoxprcesiblo idea mani
fested in graceful yet maBsivo ehapo.
And that ship will bo all that tho other
is not. As if tho spirit of hor builder
had somehow been wrought into hor
frame, sho behaves with intelligence,
and becomes tho delight, tho pride, of
thoeo fortunato enough to Brtil in her.
LITERATURE.
A maid who is cursed with hysterics,
A youth that lioforo hor doth grovel,
With somo chaporones, servants and
preachers,
MaUo up tho now popular novel.
Tho Poru6er,
LANGUAGE OF THE FLAGS.
Whiit Tliry Aro KuppoHi'd tn Itonn-fiont
In Dentil or Mfc.
To "strike the flag" Is to lower the na
tional colo'rs In token of submission,
says the School Journal. Flags are used
ns the symbol of rank anil command,
the officers using them being called flag
ofllcers. Such flags are square, to dis
tinguish them from other banners. A
"flag of truce" Is a white flag displayed
to an enemy to Indicate a desire for a
parley or consultation. The white flat?
Is the sign of peace. After a battle par
ties from both sides often go out to the
field to rescue the wounded or bury
the deau, under the protection of
a white flag. The red flag Is a
sign of defiance, and Is often used by
revolutionists. In our service It Is a
mark of danger, and shows a vessel to
ho receiving or discharging her powder.
The black flag Is the sign of piracy. The
yellow flag shows a vessel to be at quar
antine, and is the sign of contagious dis
ease. A flag at half-mast moans mourn
ing. Fishing and other vessels return
with a flag at half-mast to announce the
loss or death of some of the men. Dip
ping a flag Is lowering it slightly and
then hoisting It again, to salute a vessel
or fort. If the President of tho United
States goes afloat, tho American flag Is
carried In the bows of his barge or hoist
ed at the main of the vessel on board of
which he Is.
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The report of Nasrullah Khan's im
pression that, as the first race he saw at
Epsom was won by the prince of Walea,
while on the second the premier was trl
umphnnt. they arrange rr.atters In this
way on the turf :n this country seems
to be borrowed from what actually took
place at the races near the monastery
In tho Crimea during tho war there. A
purse was given by tho executive to be
run for by a horse, the property of our
French allied. Some fifteen started and
finished In strict accordance with their
army rank the race being won by tho
general, the colonel being second and
the major third, but the subalterns no
where! London World.
Whh Uoiittlni; High.
Art Moneypenny, a prisoner In the
ifarilsvllle, W. Va., Jail, became sud
denly ill tho other night and while
the guards were removing him to tho
sick room, Leo Samples, awaiting trial
for forgery, escaped. As soon as he
was missed a posso started In search
of him and tho country wns scoured
by them, hut tho search was given up.
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ples was espied perched upon the top
most limb of a large beech tree. He
was ordered down, manacled and
taken back to Jail.
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An actor is In deep trouble in Mis
soula, Mont. For work performed by
a local dentist ho agreed to give n
horse. As the horse was not forth
coming, the dentist decoyed the actoi
to his office and, while pretending to
examine his teeth, jerked out the full
Bet and pocketed It. The actor Is now
forced to feed himself with soft fodder,
with the aid of a spoon. Nebraska
State Journal.
Deer limit tv; In Aliilnc.
There will be good deer hunting In
Maine this year. In ninny districts re
cently numoeis of the nnlmals have
been seen on farms and in fields very
close to settlements and villages, which
the hunters take to indicate a great
plenty of tho game In the woods.
A trinity there seems of principles,
Which represent and rule created life
The love of self, our fellows, and our
God.
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