, 1877-02-03

AMUSING INCIDENT,

called in Seattle, in one Of the churches,
for the purpose Of praying for greater
purity of heart, brothcrly affection,
union, zeal. carnestncsS etc, in the good
cause, brother Hill, in lis prayer, referred
to the sin of hypocrisy, and as he pro
cccded. became more and moe pointed,
until ut last n certain member feeling
himself pointed at personally, bore it I'M
til he thought tOrbearanCe ceased to be
virtue, and rising to his feet spoke first
in moderate tone, stop the prayer;
but the evangel with eyes closed kept
right ON, when the command to step
was reiterated in louder tone, but stll
without effect he then repeated it in
still louder voice, and finally, the fourth
time at the top of his voice, with clench-
ed fist and in the attitude of striking
when another member sprung up and
ran to the evangelist, shook him and
told him to stop and avoid confusion
whereupon the evangelist opened his
eyes and rose to his feet when the be-
lgcrent member walked to the door, and
invited Mr.. Hill to come out doors and
he would settle it with him.
SEATTLE DIRECTORY
Our enterprising fellow citizen, Mr.
Northup, has just published city di-
rectory which contains quite an amount
of interesting historical and statistical
information and new the stirring and
and indomitable Mr.. Choir is preparing
another successor to the one he published
last year, and which promises to be very
interesting, with many original and
anomalous features which will make it
very attractive.
But my object now is to give a few
statistics on sheep and goat husbandrN
as carried on in Seattle, which presume
neither of the other directories will touch
upon.
There are at present kept here seven
different focks Of sheep, looked after
and tended by seven different shepherds,
who train and discipline them to come
and 90 at beck OF call in u wonderful
manner Each flock has separate fold
when they are regularly put up and it
is very seldom that q sheep Of one fold
ever strays off and gets into another
fold. The sheep of each fold are distin-
guished by peculiar styles of docking
and clipping. They have but one mark
in common which indicates that each
flock is variety only of breed that
dates its origin back about two thousand
years this mark in common is a cross
on the shoulders. 1t is singular, and
yet no more singular than true, that not
withstanding the different focks can all
be traced to one common origin, there
exists an antipathy and responsiveness be.
tween the different flocks, which drive
and keep them asunder. These sheep
have the reputation of being very docile,
and their shepherds train them in pe-
cuiar and stereotyped way, to high
degree of proficiency, but they never
learn anything beyond that; nothing
original can be claimed for them. All
the lambs, at certain age, are folded
together and are subjected to the usual
docking, marking and clipping process,
and emasculation, which ever AFTER as q
rule, renders them impOtent to the exer-
else of free or original thought or indie
pendent and selfreliant action, and sinks
their individuality into the common
mass of the homogenity of the flock.
The shepherds are remunerated, ofcourse,
by fleeing the flock but the flock has
been so trained that all are willing to be
feeced. The quality of fleece yielded is
about the same in all the flocks, the only
difference being in quantity. The term
was, when the goats were compelled to
run with the sheep, and submit to being
heeced with them, against their will
but they finally became so obstreperous,
fractions and troublesome about being
stripped of what little wool they had,
that the shepherds concluded to turn
them out of the fold and let them go,
And so it is now with the Seattle
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