El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-17
The Spectator.

1000 ~~~>S
The tenor in one of the leading
churches of Brook Ign broke down yes
terday morning while the quartet were
in the middle of q hymn, says the N.
Y. Tribune, and took his seat, the
other three einRers finishing the
hymn as best they could. The cOngre-
CATION naturally wondered at the in
cident, and in the main sscribed 1t to
nervousness or sudden illness. Few,
however, were aware of the pathetic
circumstances attending the tenor's
withdraw. The hymn was
o Jesus Thou are standing
Outside the fast closed door.
The first,verse was given by the
full quartet. The second verse was
sung as g tenor solo, and it was noticed
that the singer was giving 1t in ia ter
ing and spiritless way. In the follow
ing verse the quartet tO'k part but
when the lines
died for you. NY children.
And will 70 treat Me SO?
were reached the tenor hesitated, his
voice choked, and he sat down abrupt
ly, crying like q child. The organist
| took up the tenor part and the verse.
which was the last, was somehow
apart after the hymn, as Ia customary,
the chOir-loft being above the pulpit,
and the organist went over and sat be-
side the weeping tenor, holding his
hand and giving him silent sympathy.
| The tenor had lost his little girl only
| few weeks ago, and the hymn, 20
Jesus Thou art standing" was sung to
her in her dying moments. The young
| fathers heart was still sore with his
affection, and the singing of the hymn
in church awakened recOllectfons 80
sorrowful that he found it beyond his
powers of self-control to go through
with his part OF it.
| An assistant government weather
| forecaster in q western city has written
to Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the
weather bureau, asking 10 be trans
ferred from his present station to the
most remote and isolated weather sta
| ton of the United States, says dis.
patch. His reasons for his request are
Interesting. He says he is devOtedly at
tached to q young woman of wealth and
social position in the CITY where he is
now stationed, but that on account oil
his small salary and poor prospects her
parents absolutely refuse to consider
his offer of marriage with theil
daughter, and forbid him to see her
| AO~
him in his present residence, and that
he desires TO be transferred to another
station. No place, he adds
can be. too remote or too
disagreeable. He is willing to join the
station on the top Eof Pixies
Peak, on Tamsulipas, or in any of the
new colonies. Prof. Moore has decid.
ed to assign him to Cedar City, little
Mormon settlement on q plateau IL
southwestern Utah, 5000 feet above
sea level, 100 miles from railroad and
almost without communication will
the outside world, excepting by tri
weekly stage.
Among the contestants for admission
to West Point military academy VIII,
will take part in the examiu alton at tn,
Chicago manual training school Sstur
day will be one of the heroes of E
Cauey, says an exchange. Walter r
Sharpe, whose heroism during the fam
Gus ,charge of Col. Roosevelt's rouRl
riders had become q matter of history
is the one who aspires to the honor
Attorney L. G. Condo, q friend of thu
Sharpe family, made known the younI
mans hopes yesterday. Walter L
: Sharpe Is I'll g son of L. L. Sharpe, for
merly manager of McVicker's theater
When the war broke out young Sharp
was q member of the sophomor
class of the University of Chi
| csgo. After the famous charge at E
l Caney, where Captain Allan K. Capror
was killed, Sharpe was among tn
missing. When he turned up alive
but much emaciated, it was learned b
had accompanied the body of the car
tain, at whose side he had fought, t
the seacoast, where he became i'll
} Sharpe o cloth ing was riddled with bul
lets in the battle, one Mauser ball shat
tering q pipe in his pocket. Sharpe
\ almost of age and is nearly 6 feet tai
and an athlete.
The two sailors from Dewey's flag
ship who passed Through the city yes
did not withdraw from the fight to ca
breakfast as has been published al
over the world. "We withdrew be
cause the commander heard that onl
fifteen rounds of fve-iuch shell
were left after the frs
FIGHT. He though we wer
about to run out of ammunition an
did not propose to get caught by thos
Spaniards without it, said one of tn
) Admiral Dewey discovered that "
had so rounds. He then said that "
might as we'll eat breakfast as b
} couldn't tell how long the FIGHT woul
last. So we we're served with hare
( tack, cold meat and coffee.
3 Many persons were somewhat pu
zled yesterday to know why Ger
Shafter wore on his collar the initial
y s'U. S. w." when he belongs to the ref
ular army. It is explained by the fat
Z that during the war with Spain b
B was made major general of volu q
! teers.
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