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THE PERFERCT WOMAN. A Japanese Folk Tale That Gives t - Native Ideal. In a current magazine Madai Calla J. Harrison relates the follo ing Japanese folk-tale as illustrati the native ideal of perfect womo hood: ' Kesa filled the eighteen requii ments of a beautiful woman. Moi over. she was peerless in charac1 as well. Before her and her. Iov< husband. Wataru. life seemingly bh stretched a long. happy road to M( ito, a neighboring samurai, whc evil eye fell upon Kesa. and coveted her with all his soul. I wished Kesa for his wife, but wh Wataru lived this could not be wi honor. But an enemy's life was b a small hindrance-one stroke of t keen samurai sword and Kest cot be free. So, Morito reasoned a pressed this plan upon Kesa's c mother, who in turn pleaded with h daughter, till Kesa found herself t tween two fires, filial versus conjug love and duty. At last, after bitter weeping, s consented and plans were laid. ( a certain night Wataru would retu from a journey and after his ba would lie down on his own pall among the sleeping ones in the fai ily hall. Morito could easily find hi: for his hair would be wet from t: bath. On the appoiated night Mori crept through the hall, lit only I the andon's dim light. He foui Waturu's place; his hair was wet a his face spread down a napkin by t pillow, his sword severed the slee er's head. Gathering it up in t napkin, he fled. There was no pt suit, and when he had gained I own room in safety he sat down gloat over his prize. As he turn the head to get a good view the sig froze him with horror, for it was t sweet, piteous face of Kesa. S had sent her husband from harm, c off her hair and prepared it to in tate his and meekly lay down to d that she might be true to both ties dying, she fulfilled her duties as filial dauhter, and a faithful wife. those stern and cruel times, mai women had done excellently, b Kesa outshone them all. The question as the priority of soldier's duty of obedience to I commanding officer-that is to sa to' the generalissimo-over his ob gations as a citizen to the state is problem that has been a matter 'discussion for hundreds of yea past. It is a problem which Briti soldiers were called upon to dete mine in the reign of King Charl I., who, having violated the terms the constitution, found himself armed confict with parliament. portion of the army sided with t: king, holding that their allegiance him was superior to that which th owed to the state, as represented parliament, while the other moiety the army ranged themselves und the orders of Oliver Cromwell a: the other parliamentary leaders, ta ing the ground that their obligatio as patriotic citizens to the commc wealth were of greater weight th their -duty to the crown. FAMOUS MEN'S DREAMS. Origin of Some of the Most Not Works of Fiction. Brooklyn Eagle. Some of the rmost popular nov in our language owe their origin< tirely to dreams, 'for the wonder working of the brain during sle ften furnish material which the hor is not slow to turn to good ount. Had it not been for a dre: Robinson Crusoe" would probal ever have been written. At 1 e the plot was first conceived I was suffering from great men rry that resulted in his slumb< ng broken by incessant nig: es. On one of these occasic dreamed that he was stranded serted island alone and began out in the 'dream a means nce. So pleased was he wv xperience that Defoe confess lings of disappointment wh~ ke, and he hastened to put:] "Rienzi" wa:- the dream offspring of Lord Lytton's brain, the whol( plot appearing before him in th< he short space of two hours' sleep be tween violent attacks of neuralgia Kingsley, after a hard day's fishing went to sleep. only to get a shadow) outline of "Westward Ho" in his ne dr,!am. though what -onnection the w. story had with his sport it is diffi ng cult to understand. Few people, knou .n- why Coleridge's entrancing poem "Kubla Khan." remains unfinished -e but this masterpiece has a very re -e- nirkable history. The poet had ju1s er taken an anecdyne and dropped off tc sleep, when the poem began to shape ad tstif in his mind, and the lines to run >in rhvming order. W-hen he awoke he rushed to his writing table and he wrote out the lines as we now have le :hem. without a second's pause, but ile his memory failed him at the con th clusion so the work was never com u1 pleted. Another famous- poem com he posed in a dream was "The Bells,' Id while the same author, Edgar Poe. ad formulated one of the finest pieces of ld prose, "The Masque of Red Death," er during the hours of unconsciousness. e-. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll al and Mr. Hyde" probably caused Stev enson more mental trouble than any of his other works, but a dream got )e him out of the difficulty. He be gan a story about a man's double, rn but it appeared so unsatisfactory to th him that he tore it up without ban et ishing the theme from his mind. One n~ night, however, he dreamed the scen at the window and a few minor in 1e cidents, while the second night the remainder of the plot followed, and to the story was soon on paper. )y Another author, G. P. R. James, ad had oromised to furnish the publish d ers with the opening characters of a new book by a certain date, but he p~ entirely forgot all about the contract e until the night before.it expired. He relates that he sat over the fire far into is the early hours of the morning, but to a plot of any kind absolutely refused hd to come to him until, disheartened, he went to bed. Then, during the hours ,e of sleep, the missing plot wove itself le mechanically in his mind and ere the ut next day passed the first few chapters l of "Bernard Marsh' were in the ie hands of the publishers. ~ One of Coulson Kernahan's most a delightful volumes is "God and the [n Ant." a phantasy that makes it easy l to believe that the book was the re ut sult of a dream. Mr. Kernahan in the preface acknowledges it to be a .avision which appeared to him in sleep 1s put into words. WV. L. Allen like ~' wise dreamed the majority of the -plot and the detail of the opening a chapters of one of hi,s most recent of works, which he very fitly named rs "Out of the Night." hOnly two authors are known to r- have gone so far as to cultivate es dieamns for the purpose of plot man of ufacturers. D*';den often ate raw~ in beefsteaks at night, and the night A ma;Es that followed originated some ae of his most notable poems. Mayne to Reid confessed that his prolificacy ir ey producing novels was due to eating some handful of chestnuts ere he re of -tired to rest when in need of a plot. er ad, k- The Bargain Spirit. ns Naggsby-I see that Japan esti n- mates that the war will cost her $1, an 000,000,000 .Waggsby-yes, but if she'd jusi mark it down to $99,999,999,99g9g there would be a grand rush to take it off her hands. ed It is possible to rrove in political circles and still be square. 1ls His Lonesome Modesty. S Naggsby-I guess Braggsby does. ~ul not underestimate any of his owr epqualities. u- Waggsby-Yes, he does. c- agsby--Wat?d he Burley-There goes Mrs. Twiddle She's a peach! tal Katlin-And her husband is a reg rsular beat. Quite an agricultural al at- liance, isn't it.-Boston Transcript. ns onNot Without Spice of Danger. to Youth's Companion. oil They were spending the autumn it th the Pennsylvania mountains and; ed shooting expedition had been planne< en for the next day. The talk naturall: ai turned on the prospects for variou: "We miss the spice of danger th gives zest to hunting in the far west one of the younger members of tl party began, a little pompously. "Ah, and it is danger with your spo you like?" earnestly returned the o German farmer who was to act : guide. "Den you keeps close by m sir. De last time I have sport shobts mine brudder-in-law in de le I gladly takes you uter mine onI wing," he conclided in all -criou ness. A Scotch doctor who was atttndir a laird had instructed the butler the house in the art of takin at recording his master's teiperatu: with a thermometer. On repairir to the house one morning he was m bv the butler. to whom he sai "Well. John. I hope the laird's ten perature is not any higher today The man looked puzzled for a m< ment, and then replied. "Wee]. I w: just wonderin' that myself. Ye s< he died at twal o'clock." Sparticus-When those farmer down along the Mississippi river g( word that there is a break in the lev< somewhere I tell you there's a quic gathering to stop the water's runnin over. Smarticus-Sort of an overflo meeting, eh? Don't Be a Clam. A Clam -a thousand years ago, w2 as now, and a thousand years hen< will be the same. - Keep up in the race. Use moder mixed Paints containing zinc. The are sure to wear. Lead mixed wit zinc, belongs to the past. Its clam. It chalks. It lets the woc rot. J. R. Barron, President Manchesti Mills, Rock Hill, S. C., writes: "I 1883, I painted my residence with ] & M. It looks better than a gre; many houses painted three yea ago. E. G. Tracy, Waverly, N. Y writes: "Customers call for L. M. and say they used it 12, 14 ar even 17 years ago. Every church given a liberal qua1 tity when bought from The Newberi Hardware Co. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIN2 COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, By John C. Wilson, Esquire, Proba Judge. WHEREAS, Eddie G. Havird hat made suit to me, to grant her Lette: of Administration of the Estate< and effects of Pope L.Havird. THESE ARE THEREFORE 1 cite and admonish all and singul the kindred and Creditors of the sa Pope L. Harird, deceased, that the be and apepar before me, in the Cou of Probate, to be held at Newberi on November 2nd, next after pub] cation thereof, at 11 o'clock in ti forenoon, to show cause, if any th< have, why the said Administratic should not be 'granted. Given under my Hand. this 141 day of October, Anno Domini, 19c J. C. Wilson, J. P. N. C. 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