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Show I THE BENGVLLLE BDGLB Th Leading Paper of th Ceunty Bright, Breexy.Belllcete, Buatling aw Mk tk tear little kn lepnif aaa aslata aw a nttartaf ta all Oj tar rra) tiwr insist iw. - TW ttiiiiil artlslat la tM Dmimlr. U jaa Mm la Hmaili, aaaaa aae im aa. M facta lafarawtlae aau e ar aMiaaa the eettat. We was just racking our brains for a fitten subjeckt for this wk's edittorial, when the Rev. Sam! Moore, our beloved pastor, come into in-to our aancktum and urged us to write a edittorial on the subjeckt of the singing in the Bingville church. This seemed to us nothing more or less than t gift of Providence, being as how a edittorial is one of the most trying things to bring forth, and producktive of more mental angwish on the part of the writer than any known form of lit-teratchure. lit-teratchure. Sometimes when we are to think of a edittorial we will sit in our aancktum for hrs. and hrs. and sweat like a sick horse trying try-ing to gennerate same, and get so all-fired nervous and fidgety that we would like to screech right out and throw our most treasured possessions pos-sessions onto the floor, so deep do we sink into the depths of disgust and despair, so to speak. Consekwently we was very glad to ashure the Rev. Moore that we would extend to him the assistants of the Fourth Estate. No sooner had we done so than the Rev. Moore seated hisself in a chair and unfolded his tale, which struck pitty to our heart. The Rev. Moore has enough troubles, what with the $728 in back salary that is owed to him and his wore out pants that he has to appear in the pulpit with, without with-out having to labrr with another grate trouble, even grater to a minister's min-ister's heart than v. on out pants. Rev. Moore says that the singing in the Bingville church is a disgrase to the community. We have been struck many times ourselfs while attending devine worship by a sort of peckuliar sourness in the singing. sing-ing. We observed this fackt to the Rev. Moore, but he said that wasn't the trouble. The grate trouble, he said, was that the church-goers pre- . 1 . J! J. . one can vouch for after having heard Cy hollering around the house asking hit wife where in tar-nashion tar-nashion he put his hoe when he come in from work the previous ev'g. But when it comes to tinging Cy don't even whisper. And last Sat'd'y, said the Rev. Moore, h heard Eph Higgins, our accommodating accommo-dating P. M., holler out of the P. O. to Deacon Butterworth and tell him what was writ on a pott card that Deacon Andrews had just ree'd, but when Eph comes to church the next day he wagged his lips all through Hym No. 68, but never made a sound. Mrs. Snod Petersby, said Rev. Moore, is not a member of our con gregashion of who we should be proud. Mrs. Snod has a chronic habit of being unable to keep up with musick, and is always three notes behind everyboddy fn the hymns, but she sings out loud nd clear, so that noboddy can doubt but what she is singing. Miss Mol-lie Mol-lie Underwood, also, who plays the melodeum for the choir, sings as she plays. She knows she can't sing, but she go:j ahed just the same. Miss Phronkia Watkins also al-so has a tumble peckuliar voice, and frekwently wanders from one Hym to another while singing, but she never stops. But all the men, said Rev. Moore, just open their mouths and wag their lips and never maik a sound. Consekwently the singing is tur-rible tur-rible bad. Now, said Rev. Moore, if all these men sing right out, no matter how poor they are at singing, all the bad singing will kind of blend together and will sound nearly good. What does it matter, asked Rev. Moore, if the first attempt at singing does make these men perspire per-spire on the forrad and the neck? The blame fools think everyone is watching them. This aint so. In church singing, everyone is too much bothered with how he is getting get-ting on hisself to car a hoot about how others is singing. Let their be a end to this silent singing, said Rev. Moore, and let everyone join in. We heartily second sec-ond this moshion. At present the singing is something offal. Let everyone open their mouths and holler right out. People that can't pay Rev. Moore's back salary ort to be willing to sing for him. Subscribe for the Bugle. We have full news on all home fights in this naborhood. tended to sing but diden t. Look at Miss Phoebe Hilderbrand, Hilder-brand, said the Rev. Moore. Her voice is awful, giving the impression impres-sion of a knife being scratched acrosst the bottom of a shiny plate. And. yet does Miss Phoebe Hilderbrand Hilder-brand hesatate to sing? Not by a long shot, she don't. She bawls away at the top of herjngs, even though she aint within a hundred mis. of the key. On the other hand, said the Rev. Moore, look at Cy Hoskins. Cy lias got considerable voice, as any- SawKv-naaWawaaaaawaawajnajaaaw |