Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1918 — Legend of Alsace. [ARTICLE]

Legend of Alsace.

There is a quaint old legend of Alsace concerning a family of giants who, once upon a time, lived in a certain castle in a certain valley of the old country. The nioral of the story seems appropriate at a time when the French minister of agriculture, to mention but one of the allies, Is Braking special effort to encourage the cultivation of land. | The giants lived, says the legend, far from the peasants of the plain, and one day the daughter of the hobse, who, though quite a child, was already 30 feet high, strolled toward the plain and saw a laborer peacefully plowing his field. She picked up the peasant, the horse and the plow and put them in her pinafore and returned to the castle to show what she had found to her father. “What you think is but a toy,” said the giant, “is what produces the food which enables us to live. Put back the laborer and his horse where you found them.” From that time onward, adds the tale, the peasants were never more molested by the . giants.—Christian Science Monitor.