The Newtown bee., 1896-02-07

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 -.NelsOn Taylor, Bethel, January 2S THE USHER AND THE BASS SIN-
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 am one of the ushers at Dr Cover dalc's church. There are three of us, but l have been there the longest, and so have the middle aisle, and the other two have to take the sides. l suppose I should be considered as rather good usher; at least, I know who sits in every pew in the church, and do not have to consult list when lady asks mn if 1 will take her to MT PaJ ker s pew, All do is to smile and say MT F G. Parker or Mr F. r. Parker:" 7" and then she says "Mr F. C rarkc' ;" for Mir F, P Parker is a retired old coal ,uer- chant and very rrn~s, and m one ever
 watts 'n it Nith him. l ought not to trag ut unv u~h"ring, for I make mis- r5krs ai! ,ha ,iao. r. w1s G"Iy last Sunday that filled old Mr F4byan's pcv up to the brim, and five miDutcs 4fterward the whole FabyAn fxu.ilv camc in, ard three visiting cou-ins with them.
 Well, an usher has rather u strange time of it, and, if he accepts all his chances, he ought to be good student of human nature, Oae good trick the visitors play on me is to say they would like a seat, and then not follow me when | walk down the aisle. Down salk with my head well up in the air to one of the front seats, and face about with polite digniey only to fad that my vis- jtOl- have stayed behind and that l am little boys laugh, and even savage old Mir F. P. Parker allows himself tn grin. When come back to my visitors, they say they would "a little rather sit near the back" IL is hard to tell by a vis- jtOr's looks where he wants to sit. " Man judgc'h by outward appearance; l ut the Lord k oYcth he heart" l wish did Of course an old man or "omen is generally deaf, and wants to it up near. A young man dres not want 70 be looked at, and Invariably wants seat near the door. A young women i, the hardest to satisfy She is di- vided between desire to see other people and 70 have them ee her And if all kinds nf vi iJor- she is the least afraid If an u.her. Sh- knows that he will do just WhaC he waut~, so she Jes not hesitate to ask for better seat if he gives her one which 7he considers a poor )ne.
 make it rule to give the bet seats 70 the modest strangers who wait for heir turn without putting themselves 'orward. But it is pretty hard to do hi~; for there are only a few seats lyailable, and the forth putting young women go their best to get them. And no am an old hand at the busi- less, they very often get ahead of me. What hate most of anything is to have he Standing Committee interfere with 1. ne. You'd better put some one into 1r Philbrick's pew," Mir Atkinson will . ay. Then l have to do it, and Mrs . who always comes late, is irri- . ated at iuding her pew full. However, do not mean to intimate that ushering B disagreeable profession. It has it's dvantages If It had not been for ly ushering at Dr Coverdale's church, I hould never had met the Soprano finger.
 Our choir has something of rpputa- ion. think most of the strangers 'ho come to the church come to hear he singing, tho I should not Ike to ave it get round to Dr Coverdale that 1 aid so. All the singers have pretty OOd voices, and 1 understand from one hO knows, that they all sing remark. ely true. Then their voices are said , blend very well, tho I always hear le Soprano above the rest. I know i cry little about music; but l have { card it said that the organist plays $ ,ry finely, and makes excellent select s ms. Even I can see that the singer are t ten carried away by what they are ( nging. It is really very satisfactory loir. We do not have the singers be- t nd us, in the old-fashioned way. Our t ioir is kind of balcony up above the Q mister. It is very nice having them a ere, for you can see the singers with 0 It looking round. " It was two years ago when the So- u ano Singer first came to cur church. le had never sung in church before; lt It our organist is always on the look Ii t for uDappreciated talent, and he n ought her to notice of the Musical U 'mmittee. As soon as they had heard v r sing, they engaged her. She is D Jher small but she has a very big 2 ice for her size. I am a very impar- Ct l person, and think she sings some ing the way Patti used to sing when st g was in her prime. I should rot be h sure if it were not for the fact that al r Bass Singer thinks very highly of m r singing, too; and he really knows a tf ,at deal about it, and gives lessons in h; ,al culture. Our Soprano is modest ht le person. She was pretty well th yhtened the first time she sang to us. i'd not know her then. Her voice al rtled me it seemed as if I had heard ge