The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1937, Page 15

B T — - 4 HLIGHTS : CHISTOR BY J.CARROLL MANSEIELD. q‘ue NEXT DAY AHASUERUS AND AMAN DINED WiTH QUEEN ESTHER. HAMAN WHAT HE SHOULD DO FOR A AMANHE WISHED 7O HONOR,, AND BADE HAMAN PLAN AND CARRY OUT BEFITTING CEQEMOMIES . et |8 AND THE KING ASKRED 3 WOULD You Beueve 112 | 3 mms- ANCIENTS mwe ANY OF THE: AMERICAN CONTINENT...2. THEOROMPUS, AN HISTORIAN LIVING A‘tmm oF Ammaefinw @) 15 16™ centuny LADY 1S NOT WAVING A FLAG,BUT A FAN, OF THE KINP? USED N THAT But AHASUERUY, WHO HAD RETIRED INTO SECLUSION IN THE INNERMOST COURT OF THE PALACE, RECEIVED THE QUEEN GRACIOUSLY. . ..... ... E STHER. ,DECIDING TO POSTPONE HER PLEA AND RESORT TO STRATEGY, INVITED THE KING AND HAMAN TO D!NE WITH HER ON THE MORROW AND HAMAN , BELIEVING IN HIS CONCEIT THAT AHASUERUS HAD HIM IN MIND, PROPOSED THAT THE HONORED ONE BE CLOTHED N ROYAL APPAREL AND LED THROUGH THE CITY, RIDING THE KING'S ‘BOOBY - HATCH & AREADER ASKS,"WHY 15 AN INSANE ASYLUM SOME - TIMES REFERRED TO AS ‘INE 'ue BOOBY-HATCH WAS A SMALL COMPARTMENT BELOW THE DECK ON OLD- TIME SAILING SHIPS IN WHICH SAILORS CRAZED BY A DRUNKEN SPREE ASHORE WERE CONFINED UNTIL THEY SOBERED UP ~w L ANDSMEN APPLIED THE TERM | AS SLANG FOR A MENTAL INSTITUTION «- AND THAT NIGHT AHASUERUS HAD THE SCROLLS OF THE ROYAL ARCHIVES READ TO HIM , AND LEARNED THAT HE HAD FORGOTTEN TO REWARD MORDECAI FOR SAVING HIS LIFE. I ag .HEN TO HIS CHAGRIN THE GRAND VIZIER LEARNED THAT THE HONORS - HE HAD SUGGESTED WERE NOT FOR HIM, BUT FOR MORDECA! THE JEAWV. AND HAMAN WAS OBUIGED TO ARRAY THE MAN HE HATED IN SPLENDID RAI- MENT AND PUBLICLY DO HIM HOMAGE-. STRETCHED .NE OF MAN'S EARLIEST CONTRIVANCES TO TRAVEL OVER WATER WAS THE CORACLE, A SMALL ,LIGHT, SAUCER- SHAPED FRAMEWORK. OF WOVEN OSfIERS OVER WHICH A BULLS HIDE WAS ... THE CORACLE CcouLy EASILY BE CARRIED BY ONE MAN, BUT WAS ONLY GOOD FOR CROSSING NARROW, CALM BODIES OF WATER . : e HAMAN FLATTERED 8Y me EVIDENCE OF ROYAL FAVOR \WENT AHEAD WITH HIS GRIM PREPARATIONS TO MASSACRE THE JEWS IN THE MONTH OF ADAR. BEFORE HIS HOUSE HE ERECTEP A GREAT GALLOWS ON WHICH TO HANG MORDECAL WHOM HE HATER MOST . AnD HAMAN WAS COMPELLED TO CONDUCT MORDECAI, MOUNTED ON THE KINGYT OWN CHARGER THROUGH THE STREETS OF SHUSHAN N TRI- UMPH , O BE ConTIIwvED % Z % % 7