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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-09
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-09

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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-09

ROYAL AND SEL kcr MATTERS
Trian Council. No. IL Meets second Wednesday
In each month. Annual election second Wsine.-
day in nrcember
George X. Kimhsll, Thrice Hrs Master
p. p Barb oua Recorder
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-09

Clubs
SHAKKsFKARR
Meets second and Fourth TusssAsy Election
d officers last meeting in Nay
Mrs, R. B. Morton President
Mn Geo. x. KimSsli. Secre.ry
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-09
Base Ball
Rv "PI" Warren

Another team went down to de-
feat before the local nine Sunday
by a score of II to b. The team
was from Denver representing
the W, .. w. No. as. The trst
few innings looked like an easy
game and the local BOYS started
to play horse" with the visitors
ard were nearly caught mapping
as the Denver team got busy and
b, the sixth inning bad tied the
score making 1t stand 60. This
opened the eyes OF the local team
sufficiently to score five runs in
the seventh inning.
Owens pitched for Idaho giy-
ing him chance TO show what
was in him. He was effective in
some pinches but was inclined
to let down when his team was
ahead.
Bv some streak of fortune
Tuffy Jeuck, who heretofore
said that left hand pitchers had
his goat hit one on the nose,
and sent it high over the fence
r,e ht mex, to the score board ir
center field. 1t was long hard
drive and Justly deser wing OF the
handsome box Of cigars presented
to him by Mr.. Elliott one OF the
base ball teams ardent supporter.
In orde. to show that his drive
was not one of pure luck, Tutty
connected with one later on in
the game for two sack.
The visiting pitcher was big
husky lad and aside from ten
dency to groove his balls he
pitched a good game. 1t was
these groove balls that allowed the
local batters to climb on him for
hits.
From the grand stand the game
was all interesting one and severa
found occasion to cheer the visit
ing team that shows good sports
manship and makes the visitors
feel more confident.
The steady persistent playing
of John Jeuck was greatly missed
end it is hoped that satisfactory
arrangements can be made for
him so that he can play in the re-
naming games of the season.
Jerome Park team expects to
battle with the local boys Sun
day and if the Idaho team wants
to win it will be necessary for
them to put up a snappy game.
Jerome Park is now tied with
SCOTS Breads for second place
in the second division Of the
Semi-pros in Denver.
The latter team was defeated
by Idaho earlier in the season after
a hard game by close score of
f., showing by comp arison that
the local boys will have to work
to win.
w. O. w.
Innings
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-09

Advertised Letter List.
Aug g 1913.
Williams, Chas.
John Trathen, P. NJ.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Both in Love With Mary

OF course both these boys fell in love
with their foster sister, Mary. They
loved each other as brothers, but be-
tween them gradually grew up a hidden
jealousy which rendered it impossible that
they should be TO each other what they
had been before they discovered the Sc
eret of their own hearts-a secret which
neither youth would scarcely admit, even
to himself
The gentle Mary would sit for hours
with Edward over his books or in con
Versation, as sister with a brother. But
with Halbert she. seemed less al her case.
would sometimes blush or betray agi-
tation in his presence, and held with HIM
none of those long conversations which
she did with Edward.
Lady Alice Glendinning died, and Mary,
still remaining al Glendearg. chung more
affectionately than ever to the family
Nhich gave her a home, and in which even
old Tibb Tacket. her mothers bower
woman, who had followed the fortunes of
her mistress, was bound TO admit she was
treated with all the Difference and re-
spect dueNsto her rank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Two Widows

So Julian kept the castle and the bar
ony and was such man as in those
troublous times had his doings winlled at
by all factions so that they might make
use of his daring and his knavery.
For very shame sake he sent bull and
q herd of COWS to the Lady Alice at
Glendeary, and now and then cloth at
Observation-Disclosures even little
money.
So Lady Alice settled down for life as a
guest of Dame Glendinning and in truth
had little desire to leave her retreat for
the tumults and rude grandeurs of Castle
Avenel.
When the two women, lIlspeth and
Alice, had lost their husbands upon the
fatal field of PinlSie Mary Avenel had
been but an infant in arms and the
two boys, Albert and Edward Glendin-
ming, were toddlers,
Now the years had passed, Mary was
developing into most beautiful young
woman and the Glendinning boys had
reached an age when the peculor tenn
permanent of each of them began to
chow itself in the first foreshadowing OF
manhood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
METAMoRPHosING OLD EDEN
Euphrates to Be Bridged, Trains Run
and CuriOs Sold

From the Christian Herald
From the mounds of Babylon you may
look for miles in every dlrection--tho
view that led acknowledgements to boast of
his great city. To the west is EzekieYs
tomb, to the south the Tower of Babel, to
the east the great arch of Ctesiphon and
the tomb of Salman PAX, private barber to
the Prophet Mahomet. In Nebuchadnez-
zar's time the plain about was waving
mass Of verdure, grain and frut canals
of water traversed it everywhere and
here and there cities dotted the land
scape No wonder he was proud! 1t is
to reclaim this historic land. to make the
Garden OF Eden over again that the irri-
cation works and the famous German
Bagdad railway are being built
Now wave of modernism sweeps the
long, changeless east As it reached out
to transform China so the long arm OF
progress is reaching out to Turkish Ara
bia. From the Mediterranean the inevit-
able railway to link Europe with India
is stretching forth. Already trains are
running on its western lengths, and the
German engineers have surveyed 1t into
Bagdad. The historic, untamed Euphra-
ties is to be bridged at last, and Europe s
dream of a railway to the Persian gulf
is about to be realized. Even an aero
plane race from Constantinople to Bonn
bay, crossing the Garden of Eden Ell
route. is now being discussed in the press
OF Europe.
Soon excursion trains may be run to
the traditional Garden of Eden, souvenir
postals of the tower and the famous
stone lion may be sold in curiosity shops
at Nez, Babylon, and another of the
worlds once inaccessible regions will echo
TO the whistle of the locomotive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
The Best Blood in Scotland

For naughty, proud race were the
Ayenels, of the best blood in Scotland,
ard, though shorn of many fair possess
sion and grievously fallen into decay, an
Ayenel was still an Avenel as high as
a Douglas in their pride of birth.
The house of Avenel was SO old that
it was supposed even TO have an attend
ant sprite-one of those beings of air and
moonshine whose fate is linked with the
fortunes of a great race and which no
really ancient Scotch family should be
without.
The White Lady of Avenel was she
called, and she was accustomed to mix
herself up in family affairs with or with
out bidding.
Mary Avenel had seen the White Lady
once or twice and been heartily scared
thereby. And now Habert began to hold
Interviews with her.
The White Lady dwet, apparently in
a spring at the head of sequestered
sien not far from Gendearg, a glen
which had the reputation of being
haunted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Driven from Her Home

Also there lived with Dame Elspeth
Glendinning in the rude tower another
widow. the Lady Alice of Avenel.
Her husband, Walter Avenel, commonly
called the Baron of Avenel, had fallen
upon the same field where had perished
the husband of Dame Glendinning-the
field of Pinlie at the time the English,
under the Protector Somerset, had invaled
the kingdom and put TO rout the forces
of the infant Queen Mary.
In those disastrous times when the
Castle of Avenel in the absence of its
lord had been stormed and taken by
the English, Lady Avenel had fled with
her infant daughter Mary and sought
s. refuge in the lonely and obscure tower
of Glendearg.
When the war was over and the enemy
had retired across the border Julian
Avenel brother of the slain Walter, had
seized upon the castle and the barony
and notified Lady Alice that Avenel was
a male fief and her daughter could not
inherit.
The law was on the side of the lady,
but the fact of force was ON the side
of Baron Julian, for 20 bold "jackmen'
who knew no law but their masters will
did he harbor in Avenel castle-wld and
dissolute moss-troopers, outlawed on both
sides of the Tweed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
The Tower of Glendcarg

At some distance from the monastery,
in an obscure glen, through which wound
a mountain stream, stood a small tower,
or fortalice. called the Tower Of Glen
oearg.
1t was one of those castles in minia-
ture in which dwelt, in the troublous
days of old. such of the farmers or a
border barony as held their estates from
their feudal superior upon the condition
of rendering military service and the pay
ment of certain small amount of the
proceeds of the lands, and who were
situated at such a distance from the
castle of the baron-in this case the abb
hey of the lord abbot-that, in case of
sudden tumult or invasion, the keeper of
the tower would have to depend upon his
own defenses for safety until relief
reached him.
In this tower of Glendearg dwelt the
widow Glendinning, with her two sons,
Efalbert, aged 10, and Edward, some two
years younger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
The Strange Pilgrim

The night before he had talked with
Mary Avenel of his intended departure
and when she had besought him for his
mothers sake and her own to remain
at Glendearg he had replied bitterly,
you have Edward"
For Halbert did not know what Ed
ward did-that it was the elder of the
two brothers who was beloved by the
high-born girl.
Halbert In a bewildered manner, told
the stranger pilgrim what had occurred
and the stranger looked at him with a
doubling look.
''As l am a Christian man." cried
Halbert II left Sir Percie Shafton here
bleeding to death. What power has
conveyed him hence 1 know no more
than you do"
Sir Percie Shafton" cried the stran-
ger. "Sir Percie Shafton of Wilverton,
a llinsman, it is said, of the great Per-
Gle of northumberland If thou hast
slain him to return to the territories of
the abbot were to give thy neck to the
gallows.
Come with me, youth; guide me to
the castle of Avenel. j am that Henry
Worden of whom you have heard :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Sir Percie Shafton

Affairs were at this stage at Glendearg
when one day there rode up to the tower
one of Julian Avenel's retainers, Christie
o. the Clinthill, as big a rascal--saving
his master, Sir Julian-as remained un-
hung upon the border
with him was person who at once ex-
cited the wonder of the inhabitants of the
fortalice
The stranger whom Christie had brought
was an English gallant, one Sir Percje
Shaiton, handsome. tall, well made,
dressed in such rich attire as excited
the admiration of all the serving wenches
and especially of Myse of the Mill,
who happened to be at the tower.
Sir Percie. spoke in that exaggerated
style of speech which then flourished at
the court of Elizabeth and was known
as euphemism,' language so high
flown that ordinary mortas had great diff
fieulty in understanding what the speaker
would be at.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
On a Stricken Field

Meantime Halbert had fallen in with
the Earl of Murray and his troons
Ihat ambitious man, who aimed at the
crown or his sister. had compromised
the feud of the semples and the Ken
nedys and was hurrying south, hay
ihs heard of the invasion of Foster.
lie received Halbert well, questioned
nim shrewdly. learned his whole story
and attached him.to his personal serv-
ice. F
Inen he sent him with 20 men hurry
ing 10 the border to get speech of
roster and command him to delav the
INVASION until he himself arrived
wnich would be hard upon the heels of
his emissary
but Halbert, squirting to the border
came upon the fugitives from striclx
en- field. The troops of the monastery
mad been beaten. many killed and the
rest put to flight
Lying upon the bloody ground he
saw the corpse of Julian Ayenel and
bending over him the form of Catherine
with young child in her arms. Be-
fore he could sooth the. distracted
woman she fell dead beside her Sc
ducer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Boasts and InsOlence


Christie said that Julian Avenel had
sent the English knight to Glendearg to
lie perdu for while, and that he bore
a letter from the lord abbot of st. Mary's,
also consigning Sir Perce to the care of
Dame Glendnning until such time as she
heard further upon the matter
The stranger knight treated everybody
III the tower with the greatest insolence
or most contemptuous Indifference and
bewailed the hard lot which had sent him
from the joys of the English court to pass
his time in such a hole as Glendearg.
Much also did he boast OF his relation
ship TO Percie, the great Duke of North
unlberland. He signaled out Mary
ANenel as creature of different breed
from the others and showered upon her
his courtly and euphemistic compliments.
Mary could scarce forbear laughing in
the face of the hair-brained coxcomb and
begged him to keep his courtly sinilitudes
foi more refined ears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
The Sorrowful Lady

BY the fireside sat lady of great
beauty, but of an exceedingly sorrow
full countenance, whom the baron ad-
dressed as Catherine. There were
gold chains around her arms and neck
and her long green dress swept the
floor.
She wore bunch of keys at her gir-
die and above all the circumstances so
delicate1y touched upon in the old bal
lad that cher girdle was all too short"
and "the gown of green all too
straight for the wearer's present
shape, would have intimated the ba-
ron's ladys.
But her lowly seat. her expression
of deep melancholy and the manner
in which Julian addressed her, her
own pleading and subdued manner
these were not the attributes of a
wife,
The eyes of Henry Worden were
sharp and when. the feast having been
spread, Avenel ordered him to sit
down at the board between himself
and Catherine, the preacher boldly
asked the baron, "Is that your wife,
Sir Julian replied that she was not
that she was "handfasted" to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Gone without a Trace

= Finally Sir Percie fell with a SWORD
thrust through the body Halbert, ir
CONSERVATION knelt beside him and strove
to staunch the blood which flowed from
the wound
Then he ran to call assistance, and al
the entrance of the glen saw approaching
a man somewhat beyond middle life
bearded and clad in dark gown. He had
somewhat the appearance of pilgrim
and was of most grave demeanor.
Halbert hurried him to the spot where
he had left Sir Percie. What was his as
tonishment upon arriving there to see no
trace of the wounded knight, but the
grave filed up, with mound over it, as
If a body lay beneath.
That he had killed the knight he did not
doubt and the mystery of the grave con-
fused his senses. He felt now that he
must fly.
He had been intending to seek his
fortune in the great world-but not
thus, fugitive murderer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
In the Days of Queen Bess

TT was in those days when Elizabeth
reigned and ruled in England, and in
Scotland her cousin Mary reigned, in
1t was in those days when Elizabeth
reigned and ruled in England, and in
Scotland her cousin Mary reigned, in
deed. but felt her rule fast passing from
her into the hands of her bastard brother,
the Earl of Murray.
1t was a time of the breaking up of
old orders and removing of old land
marks In both England and Scotland
religious differences had become political
and the struggle bitter.
The tide had set with overwhelming
force against the Catholic church in
Scotland, and where she had once been
powerful and great she was now fight
ing with her back to the crumbling wall
Tor her very existence
But the broad halidom of Kennaauhair
still lay rich and unshorn along the banks
of the Tweed; the stately abbey the
last resting place of saints and kings
reared it's magnificent proportions SO
rarely sculptured which are even now
the delight of the tourist and the anti
quarry the Inspiration of the artist and
the poet.
The lord abbot was still great spirit
ual peer. lord of great barony, with
the feudal powers of life and death and
service over many a vassal of the BAN
ner of st. Mary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
The White Lady

She was evidently of some strongly dis
senting denomination, for she played
MANY tricks upon the monks of st.
Mary's and, by hook or by crook, man.
aged that a certain unauthorized transla-
ton of the scriptures should be preserved
to the use of Lady Alice Avenel and
her children.
lialbert, she having once appeared TO
lin was accustomed to go to the haunt
ed glen at times and invoke her appear
ance and demand her advice.
The White Lady was rather tricky
person for disemboded sprite and tried
her best to break off the love affair be-
tween Halbert and Mary Avenel, as we'll
as to convert the Inhabitants of the sur
rounding country to the Protestant re-
ligion.
But as she was unsuccessful entirely in
the first and partly in the second ellort,
her gratutous interference in the affairs
of the Avenels and Glendinnings may be
dismissed as decidedly side issue of our
story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Restored to the Title

Sir Percie was much crestfallen, but
announced that he was still willing
to do battle with any knight and that,
as now the secret of his birth was
known, he would promptly marry Mysie
of the Mill.
The chiefs of the English and Scots
took counsel together, and it was de-
cided that Sir Percie should marry
Mysie and then be sent to Dunbar
under guard. there to be put on board
ship for lands where he could work no
harm.
This would avoid angering the Duke
of northumberland, and Elizabeth, her
anger having cooled, would be satisfied
If he were safely out of the way.
For a sum down and the relinquish-
ment of some lands Murray agreed to
leave the abbot and his monastery
without harm, and then turned his at
tention to Halbert.
He commanded that he and Mary
Avenel should maryland they were
nothing 10th to obey Then he con-
ferred the castle and lands of Avenel
upon Halbert in right of his wife-they
both having turned Protestant--and
took his way northward
Edward Glendenning left Glendearg
and became novice in the monastery
of which he was subsequently the last
lord abbot.
The White Lady of Avenel was seen
no more.
Next weeks one page classic will DO
"The Neighbors," by Frederick Bre-
mer.
Copyright, 1918. by Irving King)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Only a Silver BOdkin

The English knight gaped twice before
he answered and then replied in a ban
tering tone
Truly, good villagio, your question hath
in it somewhat of embarrassment; for
you ask me of things concerning which
| am not altogether determined what an
swer I may find it convenient to make.
Let it suffice, kind juvenal, that thou
last the lord abbot's authority for treat
ing me to the best of that power Of thine,
which, indeed, may not always so well
suffice for my accommodation as either
OF us would desire'
Il must have precise answer" replied
Halbert.
Friend" drawled the knight, ''be not
outrageous"
Just then Mary Avenel entered and
quickly turning to her, Sir Percie began
his compliments. and the baffled Halbert
withdrew in a rage.
Halbert went off to the fountain in the
haunted glen to consult the White Lady
She appeared at his bidding, and when
he told her of the nsolence of Sir Percje
Shafton, and of how he was continually
making love to Mary, the sprite smiled a
sarcastic smile, and taking silver bodkin
from her bag-one such as tailors used,
it seems, in those days-delivered it to the
youth with instructions to show it to the
knight when he again became insolent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Old Friends Meet

When Christie of the Clinthill ar
rived with the prisoner, Worden. and
learned this tale he sworc that Hal
bert was not dead, and Worden con-
firmed his story. They went to omen
the grave in the haunted dell and
found that it had entirely disappeared
Needless to say the grave and the
magic healing of Sir Percie's wound
was all the work of that meddlesome
person, the White Lady of Avenel
When Abbot Austace saw the captive
preacher he exclaimed: Henry We'll
woodr and Worden replied civilian
Allen.'
Alas. Under their real Names they
had been warm friends in youth, fell
low students in a foreign university.
But difference in religion had long
estranged them.
Austace was 10th to proceed to ex-
treme measures against his old class
mate and Worden gave his parole to
stay a prisoner at Glendearg until the
turbulent matters which were now i'm
pending should be over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Presenting the Token

Exclamatons of surprise from some,
indignation from others and a wall from
lis mother answered Ialbert's declara-
tion, but he, nevertheless, stuck to his
purpose, expressing his gratitude and be-
speaking for his family the same care
and consideration which the lord abbot
ha6 always shown them.
Then must butt in" Sir Percie Shafton
with: by the mass. tits what l should
have expected. l judge the man by his
birth and breeding: for seldom doth a
good hawk come out of a kites egs-'
"Thou art thyself a kite and kestral
to boot cried Halbert. PROUD as you
are, sir knight, in your assumed supe-
riority, be not too confident that you can
not be moved.
Faith, by nothing that you can say"
retorted Sir Percie with a sneer.
"I<nowest thou this token?' said Hal
bert. presenting to the knight the silver
bodkin he had received from the White
Lady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Copyright. 1873 BY irving King.
rights reserved r

Copyright. 1913, by irving King. Al
rights reserved.) f.
Sir Walter Scott was always a great
lover of tales of magic and 'glamourie.
and to keep the supernatural out of his
writings required from him a self-re-
straint of which he was not always ca
pablo. But nowhere did he sin so griev-
ously in this respect as in "The Monas-
terry"
He simply let himself go in this story,
and the White Lady of Evenel Is more in
the way of the narrative than was King
Charles head of the memorial of Mr..
Dick
But. shorn of the White I.ady-and of
Sir Walters theological discussions, which
are so worded as unconsciously to Of
fend both Catholics and Protestans
alike-"The Monastery is really a great
novel of the Great Wizard of the
North
The characters of Sir Percie Shafton,
of the Abbot Eustace, of Julian Avenel,
the old Abbot Boniface are wonderful
productions for the manner in which the
author seems to make these men really
live Also his picture of the times and
the manners of the time cannot be ap-
preached.