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Entered as second clbss matter March 1, 1211, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under t.he Act of March 3, 187*.
Nome, Alaska, April I, 101(1.
fii King’s Hail, Convent Garden,
■Garden, London, under the auspices
of the Fabian Society to which be
belongs, speaking on “The Illusions
of the War", Bernard Shaw conclud
' ed a very notable address in a very
suggestive way.
‘He did not know whether Ills
Audience had read that play of Euri
pides railed the Bacchae which had
been sci beautifully translated by his
friend, Hilbert Murray. In that play
theVe Vefe 1 certain women, The
Bacchantes, who become so frenzied
thah they roamed about the moun
tains In a state of ecstasy knowing
nothing of what they were doing,
and in that condition they tore the
wild beasts limb from limb. The
worst feature of all was that they
considered they were exalted wheu
they, in this state of frenzy, felt that
they were better than their normat
selves. The most terrible scene in
that play was where one Bacchante
who had been out on the mountain -
all night in a state or ecstasy came
home, bearing in her hands the head
of a wild beast. And when she
awoke she found it was the head oi
her son.
There were a great many mothers
in England and in Germany who felt
that rhe were doing bettor than they
had ever done in their lives before,
who thought that they were tearing
a wild beast limb from limb. These
mothers wore beginning to nealUe
that what they held in their hands
were the slaugthered bodice of their
own sons."
U’s a pity everyone cannot be
familiar with the play referred to by
•Shaw. It’s one of the most terr
ible as well as suggestive ever
written, and it surely was an espe
cially apt comparison Shaw made
use of in his lecture.
Euripides the wise classical men
stry is the father cf the modern
dr mu. He is long winded, and his
«n.utcmpor<Ties used to take shots
at him every now and then, and
so mo of theso satires by another
playwright named Aristophanes have
come down to us. Euripides was
what would have been called in
those days, did pagan mythology
prevail, an infidel, and his plays are
most of them terrific .iolts rt. the
whole pagan system cf pantheism.
>1 * seems to revoronee them exceed
ingly, But he hasn't got a kind word
for single one of the Gods.
His Bacchae is a fearful tragedy;
perhaps the most fearful in all lite
rature, and it is to he suspected
that Euripides hadn't much use for
Booze or its God although he cov- j
•crUy declares that Bacchus was!
“inferior to no other God”. Ills!
story of I’entheus which forma thi
plot of the Bacchae, is the story ot
a King of Thebos who wantod to
make Thebes dry, and the influence
of the wets in the form of the god
Hionyaus himself, couldn’t persuade’
him otherwise.
The god goes to work and sots all |
the women mad “with Bacchic in J
sol.Mice" and when Fentheus hoc.r-sj
al»'tt it. he determines to crush tie |
women. It happens that the god
with liis divino power and provid
es, il wisdom made Fentheus’
mother, Queen Agave, the loader o'
th ■. Bacchac, and the fiercest anc:
maddest drunk of the whole crazv
(Ti*w who were having a prolonged
»pi o in the mountains.
l/iouysus then peddled to Fen
th< us and offered to show him his
power by bringing him to the liil's
in Clagutaa wliore the women were
having the hot time in the old town.
He got the iKng up in a troe, anc
then piped him off to the women.
They went and dragged the tree
up by the roots, and the King saw
that the stuff was off with him.
it s here that Euripides with
•master eloquence tells the terrific
story, in a passage of barbaric beau
ty unexcelled anywhere.
The King took off his bead cover
ing so that his mother who thinks
him a roaring lion might recognize
him—he fondled her cheek and
asked him to spare him. But sne
was possessed of the devil and booze
and illusion and placing her feet
against his side grabbed his arm,
and,pulled it from the shoulder. The
rest did the same, and they trooped
down to the city with legs and arms
and pieces of flesh as trophies.
Agave herself, thinking she has a
lion's head brought her son’s dtla
piated features along.
Then arriving home and getting
sobered she perceives that the head
is not indeed a lion’s head, but the
head of her poor son.
The came the reaction:
“I am no more tnc Mocnad danc
ing blithely, but the feeble, fond
and desolate mother. I know and
see—knowledge best unknown, sight
best unseen—mine only son! whose
beauteous limbs within my womb 1
bore; whose head slept upon my lap;
whose lips drained my bosom's
swelling font; hands that loved to
fondle me; feet that so lightly ran
l to me; form that men wondered to
behold and all admired—by my own
hands, murderous and sacrilegious,
itorn, rent asunder, scattered, cast
abroad. O thou hard God was there
no other way to visit us. Or, if the
son must die, must it be his mother's
hand—if a mother has been Impious,
must she atone by killing her only
child?”
There's some tragedy for you. But
isn’t it true that it applies to this
I war. Who have been loudest in call
ing upon the young men to give
: their lives in this terrific struggle'.'
] Who have been believing that they
iwere fighting wild beasts or savage
Huns in doing so? Who have been
| tirelessly branding with cowardice
I those who refused to regard this a
i righteous war but the women, ana
now when they mourn in the grav
ity of it all, what consolation is
there except the poor melancholy of
an Agave, when she lamente 1 her
'act in the destruction of her son?
In the days of Euripides, too they
blamed it upon the Gods. Whew
men and women gave way to frenzy
of illusion and committed mail acts,
they felt that they were not them
selves and th'.t it must b> the im
moral gods who inspired their acts.
Euripides took these fancier and
without making known his object,
uncovered the folly of such belie 1.
He was befor t bis time, a;ta had to
be careful that he didn't offend the
religious sensibilities of his people.
But as one commentator has said
the whole attitude of Euripides in
his plays will be misunderstood, it
his pagan infidenity is not reaMzcu.
We haven't advanced an Inch
since the days of the Greek drama
tist. We still blame it upon the
gods. How elso can wc explain the
monstrous condition when kind, ana
tender hearted and loving women
send their sons in each of the na
tions to be a sacrifice to the war':
They believe that they are doing a
noble duty and effecting a splendiu
work in sacrificing their children
to their country and they are de
fending themselves against Russian
hordes or Hunnish barbarism, de
fending their culture against the
beasts who would destroy it—they
are merely shedding the blood oi
tlieir children to an impassionen
illusion, monstrous and vile an 1
terrible and infinitely tragic.
Shaw certainly Is a unique figure
In this war. Coldly and critically
ho has placed his finger upon the
facts of the case, and been unswayed
by the madness of militarism in a
world madly militaristic. His words
in this crisis have been soberel
words and his ideas full of common
sense. That he has now and then
given way to whr.t seems a facetious
bitterness is not by any means to be
wondered at. Men will listen to
language like that when more earn
est talk embodying the same facts,
will cause the speaker to be hootea
off the stage.
Shaw has never been at a loss on
the question of preparedness and he
has known and felt and foreseen,
and said so, that he who lives by the
sword shall perish by the sword.
NOTICK OK FORFEITURE.
To Fred Seidel, G. A. Adams.
Arthur Glorr, Ed Roberts, Gus
Aspen, Chas, Erickson, your heirs,
successors, assigns, or personal re
presentatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
one hundred dollars each year for
the years of 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912,
1913, 1914 and 1915 on the
Council Association, an association
placer mining claim situated on the
NiukInk river and recorded hip!
more fully described in volume
21, at page 20K, in the records of
"the Council City Mining and Re-j
cording District, in the second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended to hold said claim being the
amount required by the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims.
And you and each of you ar•
further notified that if wltliln ninety
days after the last publication of (
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
1 signed, your co-owner, under section
[2324 Revised Statutes of the United
I Slates.
CHAS STROM.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 26, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 27, 1916.
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE.
To Gretchen P. Meyer, D. B. Keith,
John T. Campion, your heirs, ex
ecutors, asaelgns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
one hundred dollars each year for
the years of 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905.
1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1810, 1911
1912 and 1915 on the following
claims located on Solomon river
In the Nome Mining and Recording
District, Bel claim, Mamie claim
and Gretchen claim, all four situat
ed on Solomon river, re
corded and more fully described
in Volume 91, pages 353, 354.
and 355 of the location records of
the Nome Recording procinct In the
Socond Division, District of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended In order to hold said claims
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice you fail to contn
bute your proportion of said expen
diture, your interest in paid claim*
will become the property of the
undersigned, your co-owner under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
the United States.
(Signed) WM. NIELSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publi., March 18, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 17, 1916...
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To W. W. Sale and Toby Sale, your
heirs, executors, assigns or per
sonal reprecentativcs:
You and each of you are herebv
notified that I have caused to he
expended in labor and improvements
the cum of one hundred dollar*
each year for the years of 1913,
1911 and 1915 -on No. 2 below
M’Donald's discovery, a placer min
ing claim on IXck creek, a tribu
tary to liryan creek which is a tri
butary of Serpentine river, and re
corded in Volume 2 at page 38 of
the Records of the Port Clarence
Mining Precinct, in the Second Di
vision of the Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning Annual Labor upon
Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you
are further notified that if
within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
CLAES FLODIN.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Fob. 12, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 13, 1916...
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