The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-03-08
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From the Cincinnati Inquirer.
A /" "Keerful shapherd. .

oohed oaiht, With complexion very strong
~ resembling tha. Of boiled tripe, arrived
here from Piitshurg with a couple of wives.
out deeming his flvck'too small to start Salt
Lakeward With. held forth Az follows to an
adnlrng audience, at house over the ca
nal, with view TO the completeness of his
domestic felicity. His text was:
Men is skeerce and weemen is Plenty"
Brethren and pertickler the
Sis'ern want to say few words to YOU
ABOUT Mormonism--not for my own sake.
but for yourn, for meu is skeerce and ,ceeDsen
plenty.
Mormonism is built on that high, old
principle which sez that il aint good Tor man
70 De alone, and mighty sight worse for a.
woman-Therefore if a nah feels good with
Iittie company good deal of it ought to
make him feel an awful sight better.
Ihe tirst principle of Mormonism is that
woman air good thing, and the second
principle is that you cant have too much of
good thing. Woman is tenderer than
man, and is nessary 10 smooth down the
ronghness of his character, and as man has
good many rough pints in his nature. he
ougbn't to give TO one woman too much
to do; but set each one to work smoothing
:. Don't think I'm over anxious for you to
Jne us for | aint. I'm not speaking for
my good, but for yourn; for men is skeerce
ana '0enen as plenty.
SAID woman was tenderer than man.
but you needn't feel stuck up about it, for
so she ought to be; she was made so a
purpose. But how was she made so?--
"here did she git it from Why, she was
created out OF the side bone of a man, and
The side bone of man is like the side.bone
OF turkey-the tenderest part of him.
Therefore, as a woman has three side bones
aud man has only one, of course she Is
three times as tender as man is, and is IN
duty bound to repay that tenderness of
which she robbed him. And how did she
rob him of his side.bo Why, exactIy as
she robs his pockete nova, davs of his loose
change-she took adyntage OF him when
he was asleep.
" But as woman is more tender than man
so is man more forgivener than woman.
therfore won't say anything more about
the slde-bone or the small change, but in-
Vite you all to jine my train, for I'm d big
shepherd out our way, and fare sumptuous-
ly every day on purple and fine linen. -
When | first landed on the shores OF
the Great Salt Lake, wasn't rich in wee
men, had but one poor lad yeo, but men
IS skecrce and wecnen as plenty, and like q
keerful shepherd l begin 10 increase my
flock. Weemen heard of us and of our
loVin' ways, and they kept a porin' in.-
They come from the North, and they come
from the South, they come from the East
and they come from the West, they come
from Europe, they come from Ashley, and a
few of 'em from Afrikey, and from beiu'
the miserable owner of one old zoe, / be-
came the joyful shepherd Of a mighty flock,
with right smart sprinkin of lambs, frisk-
ier and fatter than any body else's, and I've
still got room for few more.
AS said before, I'm not talkin' pertick.
Ter for my benefit, but for yourn--for nen
as skeerce and ,ceemen is plenty. Still I'd
little rather you'd 60 along with me than
not, perickler you fat one with the caliker
sun bonnet. Don't hesitate, but take the
chance while you can get it, and I'll make
you the bell.yoe of the flock. I'll lead you
through green pastures, where you may CO.
per in the sunshine and, as you are in pref
ty good condition already, in course of time
you shall be The fattest of the flock. Jine
in, Jine in; jine my train; jine it now; for
men IS Skeerce and 1oeen,en is ,Ienty."
The appeal was irresistible. At the las;
account L" the fat woman with the calker
sun'bonnet" had "jned in," and two or
three others were on the fence, with decid-
ed leaning toward the " keerful Shepherd.
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