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Show COLORADO SPRINGS. 309 say this man is?" The doctor, without waiting for the preacher to answer, replied: "I am Dr. Moore, of the Denver University." " That'll do to tell; lots of fellows pass themselves off as doctors and profess6rs up here." Another good story comes to my mind, and I will tell it, for, as Sairey Gamp says, "naming no names no offense could be took": When the Rev. Dr. C was pastor at Lawrence Street Church, in Denver, it happened one Sabbath morning that the pulpit was filled by Rev. T. C. Iliff, pastor at Salt Lake City. The service passed off quietly as usual, but during the sermon the speaker manifested more feeling than was the habit of the regular pastor. While the congregation was moving out, a good old brother, of an excitable temperament, was asked: " Well, Brother S , what did you think of the sermon?" " It was first rate. Brother Iliff is not as great an or-a-tor as Brother C , but he has got~ religion." Manitou is connected with Colorado Springs by a branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. It is situated near the base of Pike's Peak, where mineral springs of iron and soda abound, and is called the Saratoga of the West. These waters are peculiar; some people say they like them. I think they speak truthfully, judging from the crowds that gather around the various springs, smiling like Dutchmen at a beer garden, only more so. The tin cups attached to the curbs of these springs would not supply a fraction of the thirsty souls who rush to these fountains of health. Tin cans, wash pitchers and |