Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-15
OVERTAKEN BY JUSTICE.

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ilOVERTAKEN BY JUSTICE.
The Monday after the second Mrs.
Iuttie died, thirteen pocket-handker-
chiefs Tapped from the Rev. Titus
Tuttle's olothes-line.F Nine had sig.
nailed the gentlemap's sorrow for the
first Mrs. Tuttle, but four of those had
Deeu great silk squares, capable of be-
angI vet through, dried in the brine,
saturated and dried again indefinitely,
SO that the number was no criterion Of
the mourner's comparative grief upon
the two occasions. He felt very badly
indeed. No, one could doubt that who.
the Sunday. after the funeral, saw him
IN his suit of black pass slowly up the
aisle, holding his crape-bound hat be-
-a=nafore@him ain that melancholic, deeply
detected way, peculiar to the newly
widowed. 1t was very touching, espe-
cally to the female portion of the CON.
gregation.
The Rev. Titus' mind being unset
tied, the Rev. Theopolis, of the Meth
3 odist perspasion, this day officiated for
him. When the Rev. Theopolis prayed
that the Rev. Titus 8: though cast down
might not be forsaken; and that this
afllction, though for the present not
Joyous but grieyous, might work out a
far more exceeding and eternal weight
OF elory"-then every female head in
the congregation was bowed, and every
female right eye turned outward to see
how Titus "took it." It would have
been interesting had Titus at that mo-
mentturned his right eye down on the
ssa14zcongregatlon to see how they were i'm,
pressed but he didn't. B essed man /
there he sat on the ecclesiastic velvet
his face buried i'll the fourteenth pocket.
handkerchief-one of the half dozen
with black bordors he natl1 ,,urcnaaaa
while mourning for the first Mrs. Tiths.
To see him 30 crushed and yet SO sub
gmissiye certainly had very mellowing
effect, and it would have required but
slittle'further infusionof the enthusiasm
of humanity to set one-half the congre-
CATION including his case in their pri-
vate prisons.
at the close of the services. Mrs
Pattypans, mother of five daughters of
marriageble ages, but unmarriageble
jawbones grasped the hand of the Rev.
Titus IN the aisle.
it may turn out for the BETTER" quoth
ssaAEshe.z 5faasi Sa.-
80, Mrs. Pattypans," responded the
pastor, @ringing the parisnioner's hand,
nobody Knows what it is until he's
passed through it."
,.'t You've passed through it, haven't
you, pa ?" asked Mrs. Pattypans, some
"hAo eHuuluBiy, udaEeSslnB Ia Iatty-
paus
rPa Pattypans was forid gentleman,
n with large neck and q, heavy chin. Pa
X had buried ION ewife before he met the
Is" smother of~the Ave. f5
"Ye-.yes. - answered Pattypans,
drawing himself little out from his
collar 80, yes, I've passed through
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Indications of amendment in the Rev
oh,
from the demise of the second Mrs.
Futile. at that date he escorted Miss
Pollie Plum home from Thursday pray
er-meeting. 1t W 8 a calm, still night.
like that on which Lilly Dale, of olden
memories, was buried, and tho spring
atmosphere was favorable to spiritual
soothing syrups
"Yon cannot know how irrepressibly
am during these days. Miss
Plum" said Titus.
POllie supposed she couldn't.
- do not know in what light my
parishioDers may view the matter. +"
- continued Titus, with little cough.
n But there is no time in mans life.
Miss Plum. when he more needs the
- $snpporting influence of womanly sym.
pathy than under such bereavement
as mine"
Polite felt that man ought not To
cut himself off from supporting influ-
ences" because OF the speech OF n carp.
ing and ungodly world.
Woman seems to possess an intui-
tive knowledge of the nature and needs
of sorrow, and it seems ordained tint
man III the dark hours Of life should
tnrn to her for light"
Polite thought so, TOO.
"'The consolations Of religion are, to
our weak faith, sometimes vague and
unsatisfactory, and we yearn for the
sweet ministrasions Of human sympa-
thy"
Pollie did not doubt it.
}NE, hold it q mans dnty never to Weld
to dark despair, but to seek out a way w
through the furnace of affliction. and
therein gain strength for the future. -
Pollie approved that doctrine.
I no Onthc ninth prayer.meeting evening.
quoth the pastor: 'tYou little renliaea
I q EPbat a precious source of consolation
yonr synipatly has been to me, Miss
Plum"
~ ~, Poilie. made n little noise in her
- sthraat. SAsasormd it didn't amount TO
m.ch; as an expression it meant she
didn't see how that could be-she 40
weak and unworthy but if che was a