SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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all the commissioned sailing ships
of the world, and those Ca|>e Horn
ers which do not fly his house flag
may be counted upon the fingers of
one Hand.
Ordinarily a small Aland boy can
pull a boat almost as soon ns he
can walk, and sail one not long aft
erwards. At the age of ten or no
DANNY FINDS A REFUGE
trunk of the tree and brought It
he makes a Baltic voyage, helping
down swiftly. But lie was too late.
In a "sump” taking firewood and
AS DANNY MEADOW MOUSE There was no one under that big
fish to Stockholm or to Turku. From
paw. Buster watched and listened,
these he graduates to the Baltic 4* anxiously looked tlila way and
tint he saw nothing ami heard noth
schooners, and so to the North sea that way for a place to hide from
ing. Then he walked around the
barks; thereafter it Is an easy step Buster Bear, a sharp, squeaky voice
tree to Investigate. There was no
to deep water. Cape Horn, and the almost In his very ear made him
Jump. "What are you doing over sigil of Danny Meadow Mouse. But
grain trade from Australia.
between the roots of the tree was
A Finnish law restricts berths here. Cousin Danny? Aren't you
a little round hide.
before the mast to Finnish nation lost?” said the sharp, squeaky
"Huh!" grunted Buster Bear, and
als, and the forecastles of the ships voice.
began to dig furiously.
Danny turned quickly to find a
are ordinarily filled with Alanders.
Now Buster Bear's claws are long
But the half-decks, where the ap little round hole in the ground
nnd stout nnd when he sets out to
prentices live, contain all the na
dig tie makes tilings fly. But White
tionalities of the world. He who
foot the Woodmouse kqew all about
wishes to become a sail-trained
those great claws, and when he
sailor now must sail In Aland ships
made that little round holo he
—and pay $250 to the owner for
made It right under the big rotffi
that privilege.
of
that tree, It didn't take Buster
Quiet, Careful People.
long to find out that It was quite
They are quiet, these Alanders.
useless to try to dig out Danny
Making Hay In th* Aland*.
It takes a long time to know them:
Meadow Mouse.
You see, those
They are not given to the utterance
big roots were In the way. Mo after
Prepared by National Oeo<raphlc Society,
their vessels out Into the Baltic. of long dissertations u|>on the burn
Washington. D. C.—-WNU Service.
n minute or two of useless digging
N THE north of the Baltic sea. Now they built larger ships, schoon ing problems of the day. They are
Buster gave up. It was foolish to
ers,
and
brigs.
They
carried
their
where the breast of Finland
a quiet and careful rnce. hardbit
wnste time there when he might be
swells toward the Swedish own goods so successfully that soon ten. hard raised. To them wnste Is
hunting for and finding sweet little
they
began
to
carry
other
people's;
coast, there are 6,000 Islands, to
shameful and a loud mouth an
beechnuts. So, grumbling deep In
which belong all the surviving big and so the beginnings of their abomination. They have little time
Ills throat, Buster walked off and
sailing ships in the world; or, to merchant service grew. For a long for progress that means only
once more began to rnke over the
time
it
was
only
In
the
Baltic
and
be more exact, there are 6,554 Is
change.
leaves In wnrch of beechnuts.
lands, rock Islets, tree-spattered the Gulf of Bothnia. Politics still
The crews of the ships are steady “Now,” Said Whitefoot, "You Have
Nothing to Worry About From
Meanwhile Danny Meadow Mouse
specks of sea-encircled territory kept world trade the monopoly of boys, blue-eyed and competent.
Bueter Bear.”
had followed bls cousin, Whitefoot
whose name is Aland and in whose a few nations, and no Aland ship When their Australian voyage Is
(lie Woodmouse, along a little tun
small ports are registered 26 of the was seen beyond the Danish sound. over and the grain discharged Into between the roots of the tree, and
In the great discard of sail the some English mill, they bring the
nel among the roots that led him
surviving square-rigged ships in
Just Inside was the trim little head some distance away from where he
commission in the world. Altogeth Alanders, unworried by steam, ships home to Mariehamn, to lie of his cousin, Whitefoot the Wood-
bought
up
such
vessels
as
appeared
had entered. It was a very nice lit
er there may be 31 now, counting
there while the new grain ripens In
They ac Australian fields, 13.1MN) miles away, me use.
tle tunnel. Danny said ns much as
a German, two Swedes, an Ameri to be good bargains.
“Oh!” cried Danny, "Buster Bear he scampered along after White
quired Nova Scotian barks. Bluenose and there they repair their vessels
can, and a Dane.
Is trying to catch me, and I don’t foot. Whitefoot wan pleased but he
bar
ken
tines.
Down
East
full-rig
Aland is Finnish; but its people
and make ready for another voyage. know what to do.”
They bought ships cheaply,
didn't say anything, lie Just scam
are Swedes, speaking Swedish. gers.
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"Come hi here," replied White pered along and Danny followed.
Their colors are the blue and and they bought good ships. One
foot promptly.
Washington J4ad No Salary
After a while they came out In the
gold of Sweden, though the white of their principles was that a ship
Danny didn't need a second In heart of a big, hollow stump.
A salary as such was not accept
and blue flag of Finland floats offi should return her cost in three
vitation.
He
darted
In
Just
as
Bus
ed by Washington when he was
"Now," said Wliltefoot, "you have
cially from the Government House. years. If freights did not pay, they
President As a matter of expedi ter Bear reached the tree on flie nothing to worry about from Bus
The strange cadences of the Fin laid their ships up and waited for
ency and to establish a precedent, other side. Buster promptly tried ter Bear. Tell me what happened
nish tongue are little heard here, better times. Whenever sailing ships
congress voted $25.060 for expenses.
again the trick by which he had nnd what are you doing so faraway
went,
the
Aland
ships
were
seen
;
though by law Finnish is taught in
so nearly caught
Danny.
He from home.”
As a matter of fact, the President's
the schools are in the nautical but still no one dreamed that here
reached a great |>aw around the
sail would last when it had died In expenses exceeded this sum.
©. T. W. Burg«««.—WXU Sarview
academy.
The Finns have their own name all other waters.
Through the World war Aland
for the islands, in their own lan
ships
suffered heavily. Eight were
ones, like the Danes or Saxons. But
guage; to them they are Ahvenan
not even folklore has recorded
maa, and their capital of Marie- lost In one month. After the war
giants 31 feet high.—New York Her
hamn (which is Maryport in Eng some of the older ship owners had
had enough and bought no more
ald Tribune.
lish) becomes Maarlanhamina.
ships. But new ones arose; and one
What Mariehamn Is Like.
of these was Gustaf Erikson. In
Humanism, Religious Movement
Around a point between two Is 1920 he began- building up what
Humanism Is a rellgloua move
now
has
become
the
last
great
fleet
lands is Mariehamn quay. On the
ment emphasizing fnlth In man In
slope abeve It are houses and a of sail in the world.
A recent dispatch from India re of still lnrger animals of earlier stead of belief In the supernatural.
wood; then some more houses and
Erikson’s Fin« Ships.
porting
thnt natives have found ages, such as the gigantic dinosaurs. In the United States It has arisen
a great wood, down each side of
Erikson bought up the beautiful bones of a giant's skeleton no less Some elephants* leg bones look su Inrgely from nnd In the left wing
which a road has been made. This
German training ship Herzogin Ce-
parklike forest with lanes is the cllle. paying some ¿20,000 for her than 31 feet high has torn up all perficially not unlike human hones. It of Unltarlanlsm, although It In
records of this particular myth. Not is small wonder thnt they and hu spreading In other liberal rellgloua
Esplanade, main street of Marie
as she lay In a French port.
He even the Imaginative Doctor Ma- man giants have been confused, al groups.
The tendency Is toward
hamn. There one may walk in the
sent her to Australia for grain and zurier, who fabricated In 1613 the though even In 1020 the famous minimizing or abolition of prayer
cool shade of the trees, past rows
to Chile for nitrates, and in two circumstantial tale of n brick tomb William Harvey remarked of the worship and Bible reading, and
of clean spacious houses. It is all
years she had returned her purchase not only containing bls giant, but supposed Giant of Gloucester thnt the maintenance of an agnostic at
ships, this street, with shipowners
price and more besides. Wle bought provided with
equally
gigantic his bones evidently belonged In real
titude on Immortality nnd the ex
living there and sailors walking up
the big Lawbill, and with’one lucky swords and other weapons, and even Ity to "some exceedingly grent beast, istence of God. It In estimated that
and down, and at the bottom the
freight from Buenos Aires cleared labeled with the name and titles such as an elephant.” There is less there are at least 10,000 Humanists
harbor, on both sides (for Marie
hamn crosses a narrow peninsula), $200,000. Now he has a corner on which the giant had borne, dared to lexcuse for Doctor Mnzurlera manu In the United States.
make his Imagined relic more than facture out of whole cloth of the
with the masts and yards of the
26 feet tall. The famous Giant of brick tomb, weapons and Inncrip
barks growing there above the
Lucerne, who Involved scores of tlons which he said he found with
pines, as if they, like the pines, had
Swiss and German scientists In acri the 26-foot previous holder of the
begun there and grown there and
monious controversies from 1577 un ginnt record.
always belonged there.
til after 1600, was credited with only
To students of folklore these mis
At one end of the Esplanade Is
19 feet. England's Giant of Thorne conceptions about elephnnt bones
the town's hotel, Societetshuset,
way, In Cumberland, said to have supply one possible explanation of
where the visitors live when they
been found In armor which has con the virtually worldwide belief that
come from Sweden. The summer
veniently disappeared, measured but giants once existed, but not thè only-
business is good, and at week-ends
14 feet, by contemporary accounts.
one.
Another suggestion Is the
a special excursion steamer from
No doubt the new 31-foot marvel recollection by primitive people of
Stockholm brings hundreds more
of Calcutta belongs with these oth other humnn beings nble to walk on
visitors to the little town. The
ers among the long list of confusions stilts, as fen dwellers siili do In
tourists dance, eat, swim, and bathe,
between human bones and those of eastern England or dune dwellers In
and the Alanders, bent over their
Thus proli
fossil animals, mostly elephants. A southwestern France.
tasks in the fields, pay them no at
ably
originated
the
tale
of the fast
few
thousand
years
ago
several
tention at all.
types of elephants, such as the mam moving seven-league boots. Still an
Built Up a Merchant Marine.
moths and mastodons, were much other iMissihle origin of giant myths
more numerous and widespread than Is garbled tales of men standing on
There were always timber and
any kind of elephant is today. Be towers or platforms, like the mov
fish in Aland, and these, with the
“So your engagement with Annette
ing comparatively recent In geologic able siege towers used In ancient Is up?"
surplus products of the farms, were
history, their bones lie close to the w-arfare. And perhaps some giant
"Yes.”
the first cargoes. After 'a while,
"Suffer much from the heat?”
when the restrictions imposed by
"I should say so. Nearly bad a ground and frequently are found by myths date from days when relative
"What became of the engagement
rival ports had been broken down, sunstroke rushing around to lay in diggers or plowed up by farmers, ly short races, such as the Celts, ring?"
something which Is not true of bones were In conflict with relatively tall
the A lander* »ere allowed to «end next winter’s coal.”
"That's up, too.”
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THORNTON W. BURGESS
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Simple Explanation of
Origin of Giant Myths