The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 9, 1937, Page 15

Y FALSELY ACCUSING THE JEWS OF DISLOYALTY' AND VIOLATION OF THE PERSIAN LAVS, THE EVIL HAMAN, GRAND VIZIER TO KING AHASUERUS, PEQSUADED HIS ROYAL MASTER TO PROCLAIM THAT ON A CERTAIN DAY ALL THE JEWS DWELLING IN PERSIA WERE O BE | ExTERMINATED - | AND WAS Now KING AHASUERUYS, SORELY TROUBLED, HAD WITHDRAWN INTO THE INNER COURT OF THE PALACE-. AND HATACH WARNED ESTHER THAY IT WAS THE LAW THAT ANY MAN OR \WOMAN , EVEN A QUEEN, WHO VENTURED INTO THIS INNERMOST COURT WITHOUT BEING CALLED, SHOULD BE INSTANTLY PUT TO DEATH -......... 3 qu‘.’...‘.., . HERHAR | Ay WAVED, LIFE-LIKE- PAINTINGS OF 2 THIS LITTLE Z : AND MORDECA!, LAMENTING THE CRUEL FATE THAT ANAITED HIS PEOPLE, SAT IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES BEFORE THE KINGYS GATE-, AND ESTHER THE QUEEN FROM A WINDOW IN THE PALACE SAW HER KINSMAN GARBED |N MOURNING . O MORDECAI WENT HIS \WAY AND DID AS THE QUEEN HAD COMMANDED HIM, AND ON THE THIRD DAY ESTHER PUTON HMER ROYAL ROBES ANP APPROACHED THE INNER COURT WHERE THE KING SAT ON HIS THRONE . f@ TO BE CONTINUIED ..o - L& REIGNING AS KING OF GLAND, CHARLES TI RECEIVED A"PENSION" OF $500,000 A YEAR FROM Loutls XI¥, KING