The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1937, Page 15

QUEEN ESTHER sAW THAT SHE MUST ACT QUICKLY. AND THE NEXT DAY WHEN THE GRAND VIZIER CAME TO THE PALACE- SHE DENOUNCED HIM AND REVEAL- ED HOW HE HAD DECEIVED THE KING. AHASUERUS PROMISED 1S BELOVED QUEEN THAT Hif JEWISH SUBJECTS AND SWIFT QIDERS WERE SENT TO ALL PARYS OF PERSIA BIDDING THE JEWS TO ARM FOR. THEIR DEFENSE AGAINST HAMANYT CLANSMEN , AND WHEN THE AGAGITES ATTACKED, THE JEWS WERQE READY FOR THEM AND DROVE THEM BACK WITH HEAVY LOSS. THE CRUEL EDICT AUTHORIZING THEIR DESTRUCTION .. ........ .. @7 cR unsuccess- FULLY COURTING - QUEEN ELIZABETH OWN LAND AND MARRIED A PRETTY, FLAXEN-HAIRED PEASANT GIRL -/ DiE WHITE RACE IS OFTEM TERMED THE CAUCASIAN RACE BECAUSE THE FIRST EUROPEAN ETHNOLOG ISTS MAINTAINED THAT THE MOST PERFECT PHYSICAL SPECIMENS WERE TO BE FOUND AMONG THE STURDY MOUNTAINEERS OF THE CAUCASUS IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE . INQAGED AT HAMAN'S PERFIDY, AHASUEQUS ED THE EVIL GRAND VIZIER PUT TO DEATH -~ AND THEY COVERQED HAMANY FACE fiN‘D,BYI,*V:F POETIC JUSTICE FOR MORDECAL. THAT SHE NEQSBLF WAS AJEWESS AND BEGGED FOR TWE LIVES OF MER a &by AND AHASUERUS GAVE HAMANS HOUSE AND GOODS TO MORDECA! AND MADE HIM GRAND VIZIER. AND AFTER THAT, THANKS TO ESTHER , THE JEWS OF PEQSIA DWELT IN PEACE AND HONOR . ©. 1937, J.CarnoiLl MANSF 1 ELD D EVERY YEAR THE JEWS OBSERQVED THE FEAST OF PURIM IN HONOR OF QUEEN ESTHER AND TO CELEBRATE THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM THEIR Deny VIl LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF ENGLANDY NAVAL GREATNESS . WITH THE WEALTH CONFISCATED FROM THE MONASTERIES HE BUILT A FLEET OF HUGE , TOWERING SHIPS, BRISTLING WITH CANNON - ABOVE 15 THE HARRY GRACE- DE-DIEU (HARRY GRACE OF GOD), THE PRIDE oF THE TupoR FLEET, WHICH = BRITONS FONDLY CALLED " THE GREAT HARRY!