The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1937, Page 15

1 ‘e v I8 THE GREAT BiBLICAL EPIC THE DRAMATIC INCIDENTS THAT FOLLOW TOOK PLACE- IN SHUSHAN (SusA),ROYAL CITY OF PERSIA, DURING THE REIGN m KING XERXES (485-465 BC.A\‘\JIHOM SUERUYS - AND AHASUERUS HEEDED THE- ADVICE OF HIS COUNJSELLORS AND SET VASHT! ASIDE. AND THE KINGS OFFICERS WENT OUT AND GATHERED AT SHUSHAN THE FAIREST MAIDS IN THE KINGDOM SO THAT THE KING MIGHT CHOOSE A NEW QUEEN FROM AMONG THEM .. ....... Woulp You BELIEVE- IT 2 \\ik .NE OF THE MOST AMAZING FINDS IN HISTORY ....... IN 1799 A PARTY OF RUSSIANS EXPLORING IN SIBERIA ON THE- FROZEN RIAM OF THE ARCTIC O DISCOVERED THE PERFECTLY PRE- - SJERVED BODIES OF A NUMBER. o OF MAMMOTHS, GIGANTIC, PREHISTORIC ELEPHANTS FROZEN INTO A TOWERING CLIFF OF CLEAR,SOLID ICE-. THE GREAT CARCASSES HAD BEEN KEPT FROM DECAY IN THEIR ICY 5 THAN 10,000 -, ToMB FOR MORE YEARS e L R ——o ST. PATRICK , CONVERTING THE IRISH TO CHRISTIANITY, CHOSE THE SHAMROCK AS A SYMBOL BECAUSE TS THREE PETALS CONVEYED THE IDEA OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ~ > NOW IN THE THIRD YEAR OF MIS REIGN AHASUERUS, KING OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS, HELD A GREAT FEAST IN IS PALACE AT SHUSHAN FOR ALL HIS PRINCES AND NOBLES AND AFTER THAT HE FEASTED ALL THE PEOPLE OF SHUSHAN, GREAT AND SMALL . POLECATYS IN AMERICA , E THE TRUE POLECAT LOOKS LIKE A WEASEL AND 1S FOUND ONLY IN EUROPE - THE EARLY COLONISTS WRONGLY TERMED THE AMERICAN SRUNK A*POLECAT ¥.uivoorimanvinsaen THERE ARE NO AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE FEAST (J) AHASUERUY SENT HIS CHAM! NS TO BRING VASHTI, THE QUEEN,TO SHOW THE PRINCES AND THE PEOPLE HER BEAUTY, FOR SHE WAS FAIR TO LOOK UPON. BuT VASHTI REFUSED TO COME AT THE OMMAND HIS UNCLEY AS HIS OWN|, FOR SHE HAD NEITHER. FAl NOR MOTHER . AND THE THER. MAID WAS RAIR AND BEAUTIFUL - @, 1937, 7 CURBOLL MANSFEIE LD « =7 (oR FITCHET), .unma THE 18T CENTURY THE BRIG WAS A VERY COMMON TYPE OF VESSEL . HAVING BUT TWO MASTS, THERE WERE MANY LESS SAILS TO MANAGE THAN ON A FULERIGGER . THIS MEANT ECONOMY OF OPERATION AS ONLY A SMALL CREW \WAS REQUIRED. BRIGS WERE GENERALLY USEP AS FREIGHTERS AND WHALERYS AnD SOMETIMES AS NAVAL CRUWVERS. ©. 19372 T Cucnci. MANSFIBLE ... THEN THE KING BECAME VERY WROTH AND ANGER BURNED WITHIN HIM . AND HIS WISE MEN WARNED HIM THAT, IF THE QUEEN WAS NOT PUNISHED FOR HER DI1SOBEDIENCE; ALL THE WOMEN OF PERSIA AND MEDIA WOULD DISOBEY THEIR HUSBANDS/ AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, WHEN THE FAIREST MAIDENS OF THE REALM WERE GATHERED AT SHUSHAN ,THAT ESTHER. WAS BROUGHT ALSO UNTO THE- KINGY PALACE, YO THE CUSYODY OF HEGAI, KEEPER OF THE . TO 8E CONTINUED:. s‘f