The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-21

sold for t6OO its ancient aud very valuable
civil silver plate Recantiv II has risen ONCE
more to the occasion and has had the pufior Rich
in the Seventeenth century pItchpine paneling
with noble fireplace and oyermantei all thickly
painted in sealing-wax or postofice red. 1t is
remarkable indeed that the very fine and curious
Henry VIII period linenfold paneled doors of what
was once the municipal strong-room and reposi-
tory of documents have been allowed to remain
In their olden condition.
Assuredly these Bostonians are not sentimental
lists; and where such ancient buildings as remain
are allowed to exist it is mostly because they can
be put to commercial use. The most interesting
old warehouses left IN the town are, for example,
those which face confectionery factory in Spain
lane, and are used by it, Spain lane is
ceedngly picturesque nook. 1t takes its name
from the old merchant family of De Spayne. These
surviving old stone buildings perhaps some OF
those which once belonged to various abbeys in
Lincolnshire. A of projecting stone bosses
perhaps indicate the means by which the goods
raised or lowered to or from the upper floors.
The very irregularly shaped Market place
in spite of It's containing no buildings of any note,
is remarkably suggestive of the central place
of foreign towps. This is due not merely
its wide area. but largely to the imposing sight
of sBoston stump, which is as well viewed from
this standpoint as from any other and looks not
a little un-EngIish with its lantern stage like
corona, delicatey supported by flying buttresses
at the angles. A not Improbable time may be
spent along the riverside whose ancient buildings
and oIdworld SAVIOR inevitably recall Longfellow's
lines
Il remember the black wharves and the ships
"And the sea-tdes tossing free;
"And the Spanish sailors with bearded lips
And the beauty and mystery of the ships.
..And the magic Of the sea-
The Pilgrims and the Purtans should not be
confounded in the readers mind. Frank NJ Gregg
sets forth the difference between them clearly In
his Introduction 1.-The Founding of a Nation"
(Doran)
The colonists of the Mayfiower were Englishmen
of the period of 1905 while the Puritans of Massa-
chusetts bay colony (Salem and Boston) were
Englishmen of the period Of 1923. The name
pilgrims" given to the Plymouth colonIsts
by Gov. William Bradford who. was passenger
on the Maylower The name ''Puritans' was ap-
piled to reformers of all classes in England IN
the early part of the Seventeenth ceItury by the
supporters of the court and king,
When the Pilgrims fled from England to Ho-
land in 1905 the Stuart dynasty had not fully de
veloped its despotic theory of the divine right of
kings. The commoners at this period were st
loyal The Pilgrims themselves attributed their
prosecutions the bishops of the established
church and to the king. But in 1928 Kings
James | and Charles had denied many of the
ancient rights of the English parliament and peo
pie; and disoyalty rife throughout the nation.
1t is evident, therefore that the men of these
periods were not impeed by the same motives.
The Pilgrims came to America to enjoy religious
freedom. The Purtans came to America to enjoy
political rs We'll religious. freedom Consider
ing the conduct of the fwo colonies in after years
toward the mother country, it Is reasonable to as
sumo that at no time during the life of the Ply
mouth colony could the Pilgrims have written the
Declaration of Independence. On the other hand,
at almost any time between 162S and lTI6 the