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# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Archer and the Lion

THE ARCHER AND THE LION
AN Archer went up into the hills to get some sport with his bow, and all the animals fled at the sight of him with the exception of the Lion, who stayed behind and challenged him to fight. But he shot an arrow at the Lion and hit him, and said, “There, you see what my messenger can do: just you wait a moment and I’ll tackle you myself.” The Lion, however, when he felt the sting of the arrow, ran away as fast as his legs could carry him. A fox, who had seen it all happen, said to the Lion, “Come, don’t be a coward: why don’t you stay and show fight?” But the Lion replied, “You won’t get me to stay, not you: why, when he sends a messenger like that before him, he must himself be a terrible fellow to deal with.”
Give a wide berth to those who can do damage at a distance.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass Carrying the Image

THE ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE
A CERTAIN man put an Image on the back of his Ass to take it to one of the temples of the town. As they went along the road all the people they met uncovered and bowed their heads out of reverence for the Image; but the Ass thought they were doing it out of respect for himself, and began to give himself airs accordingly. At last he became so conceited that he imagined he could do as he liked, and, by way of protest against the load he was carrying, he came to a full stop and flatly declined to proceed any further. His driver, finding him so obstinate, hit him hard and long with his stick, saying the while, “Oh, you dunder-headed idiot, do you suppose it’s come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass?”
Rude shocks await those who take to themselves the credit that is due to others.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass and His Burdens

THE ASS AND HIS BURDENS
A PEDLAR who owned an Ass one day bought a quantity of salt, and loaded up his beast with as much as he could bear. On the way home the Ass stumbled as he was crossing a stream and fell into the water. The salt got thoroughly wetted and much of it melted and drained away, so that, when he got on his legs again, the Ass found his load had become much less heavy. His master, however, drove him back to town and bought more salt, which he added to what remained in the panniers, and started out again. No sooner had they reached a stream than the Ass lay down in it, and rose, as before, with a much lighter load. But his master detected the trick, and turning back once more, bought a large number of sponges, and piled them on the back of ​the Ass. When they came to the stream the Ass again lay down: but this time, as the sponges soaked up large quantities of water, he found, when he got up on his legs, that he had a bigger burden to carry than ever.
You may play a good card once too often.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass and His Purchaser

THE ASS AND HIS PURCHASER
A MAN who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming across a likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should be allowed to take him home on trial to see what he was like. When he reached home, he put him into his stable along with the other asses. The newcomer took a look round, and immediately went and chose a place next to the laziest and greediest beast in the stable. When the master saw this he put a halter on him at once, and led him off and handed him over to his owner again. The latter was a good deal surprised to see him back so soon, and said, “Why, do you mean to say you have tested him already?” “I don’t want to put him through any more tests,” replied the other: “I could see what sort of beast he is from the companion he chose for himself.”
A man is known by the company he keeps.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Apes and the Two Travellers

THE APES AND THE TWO TRAVELLERS
TWO men were travelling together, one of whom never spoke the truth, whereas the other never told a lie: and they came in the course of their travels to the land of Apes. The King of the Apes, hearing of their arrival, ordered them to be brought before him; and by way of impressing them with his magnificence, he received them sitting on a throne, while the Apes, his subjects, were ranged in long rows on either side of him. When the Travellers came into his presence he asked them what they thought of him as a King. The lying Traveller said, “Sire, every one must see that you are a most noble and mighty monarch.” “And what do you think of my subjects?” continued the King. “They,” said the Traveller, “are in every way ​worthy of their royal master.” The Ape was so delighted with his answer that he gave him a very handsome present. The other Traveller thought that if his companion was rewarded so splendidly for telling a lie, he himself would certainly receive a still greater reward for telling the truth; so, when the Ape turned to him and said, “And what, sir, is your opinion?” he replied, “I think you are a very fine Ape, and all your subjects are fine Apes too.” The King of the Apes was so enraged at his reply that he ordered him to be taken away and clawed to death.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ant

THE ANT
ANTS were once men and made their living by tilling the soil. But, not content with the results of their own work, they were always casting longing eyes upon the crops and fruits of their neighbours, which they stole, whenever they got the chance, and added to their own store. At last their covetousness made Jupiter so angry that he changed them into Ants. But, though their forms were changed, their nature remained the same; and so, to this day, they go about among the cornfields and gather the fruits of others’ labour, and store them up for their own use.
You may punish a thief, but his bent remains.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass In The Lion's Skin

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THE ASS IN THE LION’S SKIN
AN Ass found a Lion’s Skin, and dressed himself up in it. Then he went about frightening every one he met, for they all took him to be a lion, men and beasts alike, and took to their heels when they saw him coming. Elated by the success of his trick, he loudly brayed in triumph. The Fox heard him, and recognised him at once for the Ass he was, and said to him, “Oho, my friend, it’s you, is it? I, too, should have been afraid if I hadn’t heard your voice.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass, The Fox, and the Lion

THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION
AN Ass and a Fox went into partnership and sallied out to forage for food together. They hadn’t gone far before they saw a Lion coming their way, at which they were both dreadfully frightened. But the Fox thought he saw a way of saving his own skin, and went boldly up to the Lion and whispered in his ear, “I’ll manage that you shall get hold of the Ass without the trouble of stalking him, if you’ll promise to let me go free.” The Lion agreed to this, and the Fox then rejoined his companion and contrived before long to lead him by a hidden pit, which some hunter had dug ​as a trap for wild animals, and into which he fell. When the Lion saw that the Ass was safely caught and couldn’t get away, it was to the Fox that he first turned his attention, and he soon finished him off, and then at his leisure proceeded to feast upon the Ass.
Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion

THE ASS, THE COCK, AND THE LION
AN Ass and a Cock were in a cattle-pen together. Presently a Lion, who had been starving for days, came along and was just about to fall upon the Ass and make a meal of him when the Cock, rising to his full height and flapping his wings vigorously, uttered a ​tremendous crow. Now, if there is one thing that frightens a Lion, it is the crowing of a Cock: and this one had no sooner heard the noise than he fled. The Ass was mightily elated at this, and thought that, if the Lion couldn’t face a Cock, he would be still less likely to stand up to an Ass: so he ran out and pursued him. But when the two had got well out of sight and hearing of the Cock, the Lion suddenly turned upon the Ass and ate him up.
False confidence often leads to disaster.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YANO, Fumio

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​ YANO, Fumio (TOKYO), Journalist; b. 1850, in Oita-ki n. Secretary of Finance, 1878 to 1881; after resignation j oined political party of Count Okuma; afterwards chief editor of " Hochi ": in 1 890, was appointed Director of Imp. Archives; was Minister at Peking, 1897-1899; now editor of illustrated magazine. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YU-KANG

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​YU-KANG (TIBET), Resident; native of Manchuria. Asst. Resident, Tibat, Sept., 1898; Resident, do., Nov., 1900.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YASHIMA, Kajiko

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​ YASHIMA, Kajiko (Tokyo), Lady educationalist; b. April, 1834, at Kumainoto. Principal of Joshi Gaku-in (Girls' School) which founded in Tokyo about ] 895; is a strong advocate of betterment of condition of women in Japan; was instrumental in establishing local Society for Suppression of Vice. Address: Tokyo, Japan. 382
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YEN CHIH

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​ YEN CHIH (URGA), Resident; native of Manchuria; Hon. Degree. Grain Intendent, Kwangtung, Jan., 1896; Judge, Honan, Dec., 1893; Treasurer, do., Dec., 1900; do, Shensi, Feb., 1901; do., Shensi, April, 1901; do., Honan, Jan., 1902; resigned, July, 1C03; Brigade General, Ma-lan-chen, Eastern Tombs, Oct., 1903; Resident at Hsi-ning, Kansu, Oct., 1904; Resident, Urga, Mongolia, August, 1905.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YOKOI, Tokiyoshi

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​ YOKOI, Tokiyoshi (TOKYO), Dr. of Agr.; Prof, of Imp. Univ.; b. Jan., 1860, at Kumamoto. Has done much to improve Japanese agriculture. Publications: Several works on agriculture. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YOSHINO, Seikei

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​ YOSHINO, Seikei (TOKYO), Publicist; b. Nov., 1849, at Tokyo. Took prominent part in municipal organisation of Tokyo, and repeatedly occupied Chair in Municipal Council; sat for city in Lower House, 1890-1892. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YASUDA, Zenjiro

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​ YASUDA, Zenjiro (TOKYO), Merchant, &. October, 1838, in Toyama-ken. Was an apprentice at a shop in Yedo (Tolcyo) and later opened an exchange shop on own account; subsequenty founded a bank; has f >unded at various times several banks and was instrumental in starting Tokyo Fire Insurence Co., Imp. Marine Insurance Co. and Kyosai Life Insurance Co.; almost entirely supplied the funds required for Osaka Harbour Works. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YOKOTA, Kuniomi

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​ YOKOTA, Kuniomi (TOKYO), Public Procurator-General of Court of Cassation; b. August 1850 in Oita-kei Educ.: Germany, 1886-1891. Address, Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YOUNG, Robt. Heyden

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​ YOUNG, Robt. Heyden ( SINGAPORE), Surveyor. Sub-Surveyor, Survey Department, Straits Settlements, Jan. 28, 3878; Computer and Draftsman, Malacca, May 1, 1881; District Surveyor, Oct., 1882; Chief Surveyor, July 12, 1888; Senior Suiveyor, Jan., 1891; in Charge of Re-Survey of Singapore, May, 4, 1903. Address: Singapore, Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/Addenda/YURI, Viscount Kinmasa

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​YURI, Viscount Kinmasa (TOKYO), Member of House of Peers; 6. Oct., 1829, at Fukui. Was Treasurer to clan, shortly before Restoration, and after that Minister of Finance of Imp. Gov.; created Viscount, 1887. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Elizabeth Perley

​PERLEY, Miss Mary Elizabeth, educator and poet, born in Lempster, N. H., 2nd July. 1863. She was educated in the public schools of her native State and in the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, Tilton, N. H., after which she became a teacher in the public schools. MARY ELIZABETH PERLEY. A few years later she studied in Europe to fit herself to teach modern languages. She is now a teacher of French and German in the New Hampshire Conference Seminary. At an early age she began to contribute poems to the press. Sketches of her life and poems from her pen appear in several compilations. She is known as a graceful and finished poet.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Elizabeth Blanchard Lynde

​LYNDE, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Blanchard, philanthropist, born in Truxton, Cortland county, N. Y., 4th December, 1819. Her father was Azariel Blanchard. Her mother was Elizabeth Rabcock, a native of South Kingston, R. I. She was educated principally in the Albany Female Academy, where she was graduated in 1839, taking the first prize medal for composition, which was presented by the governor of the State, Hon. William H. Seward. Mrs. Lynde has spent most of her married life in Milwaukee, Wis. She is the widow of the eminent lawyer, Hon. William Pitt Lynde. She was appointed a member of the Wisconsin State Board of Charities and Reforms, while Governor Lucius Fairchild was in office. She was the first woman to hold such a position, and she filled it with great honor to herself and benefit to the dependent classes. She has spoken much in public, chiefly before legislative committees in behalf of charitable institutions, but also before State conventions of charities. She read papers in the meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Women in Chicago and Boston, and her ideas were so practical and forcible as to attract unusual attention. She is at present engaged in looking after the general interests of the Girls' Industrial School in Milwaukee, and she is more especially prominent in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Emerson Haven

​HAVEN, Mrs. Mary Emerson, educator, born in Norfolk, Conn., 22nd November, 1819, MARY EMERSON HAVEN. where her father, Rev. Ralph Emerson, subsequently professor in Andover Seminary, was then pastor. He was a relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many of the family were noted educators. Her uncle, Joseph Emerson, was celebrated as a pioneer in female education, having given a life-long inspiration to such pupils as Mary Lyon and Miss Z. P. Grant, which resulted in their founding such institutions as those in Ipswich and Mt. Holyoke. Mary was educated in her uncle's school and in Ipswich, Andover and Boston She became the wife of Rev. Joseph Haven, D. D., LL. D., pastor successively in Ashland and Brookline, Mass., and afterwards professor, first in Amherst College, and then called to the chair of systematic theology in the Chicago Theological Seminary. He was the author of text-books on "Mental and Moral Philosophy," standard in various colleges and schools in this and other countries. Mrs. Haven's position has given her large acquaintance with the literary world. Since her husband's death, in 1874, she has continued to reside in Chicago and has carried on work for the intellectual upbuilding in social life, for which she is admirably fitted by education, experience and extensive travel in this and foreign countries. She has been president of various clubs, of the Haven Class in English literature, of art and history classes, of the "Athena" and of the "Heliades," or Daughters of the Sun, who are following his course around the world, studying all lands he shines upon. Mrs. Haven is a member of the Fortnightly of Chicago, the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior, and of other associations. Her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Haven, was a teacher in Rockford Female Seminary. Another daughter, Mrs. Alice Haven Danforth, is the wife of Rev. J. R. Danforth, D. D. A third daughter, Miss Ada Haven, has been a missionary under the American Board of Foreign Missions in Pekin, China, since 1879. Mrs. Haven resides with her son, Joseph Haven, a physician, in Chicago.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Elizabeth Blake

​BLAKE. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth, poet, born in Dungarven, county Waterford, Ireland, 1st September, 1840. Her father's name was McGrath, a man of wide reading and much originality of thought. When Mary was six years old, the family came to America, settling in Quincy, Mass. Her education was acquired in the public and private schools of Boston and the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, N. Y. In June, 1865, she was married to Dr. John G. Blake, who has long held a prominent position among Massachusetts medical ​men. Up to the present time she has published the following works: "Poems" (Boston, 1881), which has passed to a second edition; "On the Wing" (Boston, 1883), a volume of letters of western travel, in its fifth edition; "Mexico" (Boston, 188S), a volume of travel, written in collaboration with Mrs. Margaret Sullivan; "A Summer Holiday" (Boston, 1890), an account of her European impressions; and "Verses Along the Way" (Boston and Dublin, 1890). Mrs. Blake has for many years contributed at frequent intervals to the Boston "Journal," the "Rambling Talks " by " M. E. B." being one of its most valued features. Much of her work in essays and poems has appeared in the "Catholic World," " Lippincott's Magazine," the "Independent," "St. Nicholas" and "Wide Awake." On the invitation of the Boston city government she wrote the poem read on the occasion of the Wendell Phillips Memorial Service in that city, and also the poem read on the occasion of similar honors paid to the memory of Admiral Porter Mrs. Blake's verse is lyrical rather than epic or dramatic, and its quality deepens and strengthens as time goes on.
# Woman of the Century/Sarah Killgore Wertman

​WERTMAN, Mrs. Sarah Killgore, lawyer, born in Jefferson, Clinton county, Ind., 1st March, 1843. She received from her parents, David and Elizabeth Killgore, a liberal education. She was graduated in Ladoga Seminary in 1862. She then engaged in teaching school for a number of years. She next began the study of law, and attended the law school in Chicago, Ill., during 1869. SARAH KILLGORE WERTMAN. Michigan University just then admitted women, and, on account of the greater convenience it afforded her, she went there during 1870. She was the first woman law student in Michigan University, and the first woman graduate in law of that school, in 1871. She was the first woman admitted to the supreme court of Michigan. Soon after she was taken sick and was an invalid for more than a year. Her naturally fragile body was long in recovering strength. She became the wife of J. S. Wertman, a practicing attorney, of Indianapolis, Ind., 16th June, 1875. The statutes of Indiana required for admission to the bar "male citizens of good moral character," hence she was compelled to content herself with office work. In November, 1878, they changed their location to Ashland, Ohio. She has two living children, Shields K. and Helen M., and one baby, Clay, died in his infancy. For a number of years the higher duties of motherhood prevented her from actively engaging in her profession. As soon as practicable, she resumed her profession, and is now engaged with her husband in the practice of law and the business of abstracting in Ashland. She is a busy and successful woman, a con- secrated Christian and a devoted wife and mother.
# Woman of the Century/Sarah Helen Whitman

​WHITMAN, Mrs. Sarah Helen, poet, born in Providence, R. I., in 1803, and died there 27th June, 1878. She was the daughter of Nicholas Power. She became the wife of John W. Whitman, a lawyer, of Boston, Mass., in 1828. SARAH HELEN WHITMAN. She lived in Boston until her husband died, in 1833, when she returned to Providence. There she devoted herself to literature. In 1848 she became conditionally engaged to Edgar A. Poe, but she broke the engagement. They remained friends. She contributed essays, critical sketches and poems to magazines for many years. In 1853 she published a collection of her works, entitled "Hours of Life, and Other Poems." In 1860 she published a volume entitled "Edgar A. Poe and His Critics," in which she defended him from harsh aspersions. She was the joint author, with her sister, Miss Anna Marsh Power, of "Fairy Ballads." "The Golden Ball." "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella." After her death a complete collection of her poems was published.
# Woman of the Century/Sarah Graham Young

​YOUNG, Mrs. Sarah Graham, army nurse, born in Tompkins county, N. Y., five miles north of Ithaca, in 1831. She was the only daughter in a family of ten children. Her maiden name was Sarah Graham. In youth she was fond of acting as nurse to the sick of her family and her neighborhood. At the age of fourteen she served as a nurse. SARAH GRAHAM YOUNG. When the Civil War broke out, she went to the South with the 109th Regiment of New York Volunteers. She was in the field hospital from 1862 to 1865, being absent from active service only eight days in three years. Miss Dix appointed her matron of the Ninth Corps Hospital. Her two brothers were in the same regiment. She served faithfully among the sick and wounded, never breaking down nor faltering under the terrible work of those terrible days. She was known among the soldiers by a pet name, "Aunt Becky." She is now living in Des Moines, Iowa.
# Woman of the Century/Sarah Hearst Black

​BLACK, Mrs. Sarah Hearst, temperance reformer, born on a farm near Savannah. Ashland county, Ohio, 4th May. 1846. Her father's family removed from Pennsylvania to that farm when he was a boy of fourteen years, and Mrs. Black there grew to womanhood. Her ancestors were Scotch-Irish people, all of them members of the Presbyterian Church. Her mother's maiden name was Townsley. SARAH HEARST BLACK. Miss Hearst first attended school in a typical red school-house situated on a corner of her father's farm. At thirteen years of age she began to attend school in Savannah Academy, where she completed a regular course of study. She made a public profession of religion in her fifteenth year and soon after became a teacher in the Sabbath-school, and has continued in that work ever since. After completing her course of study, she entered the ranks as a teacher, and that was her employment for more than ten years. In 1878 she was married to Rev. J. P. Black, a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and went with him to his field of labor in Pennsylvania. They removed to Kansas in 1880, and since that time she has borne the labor and self-denial incident to the life of a home missionary's wife in Kansas, Nebraska and now in Idaho. She became actively engaged in Woman's Christian Temperance Union work in 1885. in Nebraska, and was elected president of the fifth district of that State for two years in succession. After her removal to Idaho she was chosen president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in that State. Her home is in Nampa.