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Show 308 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. for those afflicted with asthmatic and pulmonary diseases. The State Deaf and Dumb Asylum is located here, and also the Colorado College for both sexes. When Rev. C. W. Blodgett was pastor at Colorado Springs he had a very artistic choir in his church, and as is often the case, it was an intensely nervous organism, and he_was put to a world of trouble to keep peace among its members. It was their custom to open the service with the doxology. After several weeks of jangling on the part of the choir and perplexity on the part of the pastor and committee on music, one after another of the members began to drop off, until one bright Sabbath morning the members of the congregation were all in their places, the pastor was at his post, and the last stroke of the bell had died away in-the distance, and silence reigned in the church. The pastor looked over to the corner from which the choir had been accustomed to break the stillness, and their seats were all vacant. He immediately arose and said, " I see the choir is not present, let us sing, 'Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!'" While on the subject of churches and ministers I will tell another story: At one time Dr. D. H. Moore, of the Denver University, was on a hunting excursion, in the vicinity of Jamestown, with a brother preacher. They stopped at a hotel for dinner, where was an inquisitive and quaint old lady, to whom the preacher introduced Dr. Moore. The expression " doctor," aroused the old lady's curiosity, and she began to scrutinize him in his rough, hunting dress, and finally said, "Mr. Preacher, who did you |