The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1937, Page 10

PPOMM ONE OF THE LESSER- ¥ KINOWN HEROINES OF HISTORY, IS A SHINING EXAMPLE OF MFELV DEVOTON. NOBLE AND COURAGEOUS, EPPONINANVAS THE WIFE OF SABINUS, IEF OF A TRIBE OF BARBARIANS ,THAT LIVED IN GAUL DURING THE + FIRST CENTURY A.D - 1IN 60 AD. SABINUS, ANGERED BY THE OPPRESSIVE ACTY, INFLICTED UPON HIS PEOPLE BY THEIR OVER- LoQDs, THE ROMANS, HEADED A |, REVOLT AGAINST THE EMPEROR. | VESPASIAN , BUT WAS DEFEATED AND BECAME A HUNTED FUGITIVE A PRICE HIS HEA) LAST THEY WERE DISCOVERED BY THEIR FOES AND DRAGGED AMAY TO ROME I CHAINS. SABINUS WAS DOOMED TO DIE-. ... EPPONINA'S PLEAS FOR HER HUSSAND'S LIFE WOULD HAVE MELTED A HEAQIT OF STONE, BUT THE EMPEROR VESPASIAN TURNED A DEAF EAR - Pe————— DISTRUSTING HIS FOLLOWERS AND KNOWING THAT THE ROMANS WOULDP NEVER GIVE UP HOLNDING HIM, SABINLIS BURNED A HOUSE IN WHICH HE HAD TAKEN REFUGE AND MADE IT APPEAR THAT HE HAD PERISHED IN THE FLAMES ..... DEMIED CLEMENCY FOR SABINUS, THE COURAGEOUS WOMAN DECLARED THAT SHE WAS DETERMINED TO SHARE HER HUSBANDY FATE RATHER THAN L S By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD SLIPPING AWAY UNSEEN, THE FUGITIVE HID 1N AN UNDERGROUND CAVERN WHERE FOR WEEKS HE LIVED LIKE A WILD BEAST - HAPPILY, HE SUC - CEEDED IN GETTING WORD TO HIS FAITHFUL WIFE BY A TRUSTED SERVANT WHO CHANCED TO Ass ms mDmG PLACE - ASSURAN(E THAT 70667 EVEM IAIv A st DAYS LATER VESPASIAN DIED /| PLUTARCH, WHO GIVES LS THE TRAGIC STORY OF EPPONINA , ATTRIBUTED THE EMPERORS DEATH TO THE DISPLEASURE OF THE GOPDS. ] HISTORIC SHIP INDEED ./ THE “NINA™ (PRONOUNCED NEEN-YA), SMALLEST OF (OLUMBUS ' THREE TINY VESSELS ON HIS GREAT VOYAGE OF DISCONVERY ‘N 1402 . AFTER HIS FLAGSHIP, “Santa ™E MARIAT WAS WRECKED (DecemBER 24, MCMW TRANSFERREP TO THE mm WHICH LATER cm-sp HIA ON THE RETURN VOYAGE TO SPAIN ..