Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-08-28
The Leisure Hour.
FERTA KEN BY JUSTICE.
a Clerical ROtunnce.


The Monday afler the second Mrs. Tuttlo
died, thirteen pock ct handk erchiefs tiapped
from the Rev. Titus Tuttle's clothes line.
Nine had signalled the gentleman's sor-
row for the first Mrs. Tuttle, bnt four of
those had been great silk squares capable
of being wet through and dried in the
brine, saturated and dried again Indefinite
ly, 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
Grape bound hat before him in that melan-
choly, deeply detected way, peculiar to the
newly widowed. II was very touching,
especially TO the female portion of the con
gregation.
The Rev. Tilus's mind being unsettled,
the Rev. TheopOlous of the Methodist per
suasion, this day ofiiciated for him. When
the Rev. Theopolous prayed that the Rev.
Titus, Though cast down, might not be
forsaken, and that his aflliclion, though for
the present not joyous bat griev0us, might
work out more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory" then every female head
In the congregation was bowed, and every
female right eye was turned outward 10
see how Titus "took it," II would have
been interesting had Titus at that moment
turned his right eye down on the congre-
CATION to see how they were impressed, but
he didn't. Blessed man There sat he ON
the ecclesiastical velvet, his face buried in
the fourteenth pocke ct handkerchicf--one Of
the half dozen with black borders, he had
purchased while mourning for the first
Mrs. futile. To see him crushed and yet
81 submissive, certainly had very mel
lowing effect, and il would have required
but little further infusion of the enthusiasm
of humanity To set one half the congrega-
ton including his ease in their private ori-
sons.
AT the close of the services, Mrs. Patty
pans, mother of five daughters of mar
ragable ages bN nnmarragable jaw
bones, grasped the hand of the bercaved
Rev. Titus in the aisle and exclaimed:
"Irs mysterious dispensation, but il
may turn out for the best"
80, Mrs. Patlypans," responded the pas
tor, wringing the parishionors hand, "no-
body knows what 'tis till he's passed
through it,"
"Youve passed through ii, haven't you,
| pa?" asked Mrs. Patlypans somewhat
snufIingly, addressing pa Pattypans.
Pa Pattypans was a fiorid gentleman,
| with large neck and heavy chin. Pa buried
one wife before he met the mother of tho
| five.
| "Yes-yes," answered Pattypans draw
| ing himself little out from his collar.
"Oh, yes, my dear, I've passed through it,"
In the entire round of protoplasm there
| is no organ that possesses such marvellous
recuperative powers ~ a mans heart.
| Cases have come within my individual
coguizance where that organ has been bro
ken, shredded, collapsed, irretrievably used
up, as one migh say, and in less than six
months il has been offered in barter, sound
and whole, warranted TO perform every
function of a healthy heart-systole and
dyastole perfect, valvular action unob-
structed, apex striking between fifth and
sixth rib, with precision and regularity,
Indications of amendment in the Rev
Tituss case, appeared in about six weeks
from the demise of the second Mrs. Tuttle
At that date he escorted Miss Polly Plum
home from Thursday evening prayer meet
ing. II was a calm, still night, like that Oh
which Lilly Dale of olden memories, was
buried, and the spring atmosphere was
favorable TO spiritual soothing syrup.
"You can't know how irrepressibly lone
ly am during these days, Miss Plum,
said Titus.
Polly said she supposed she couldn't.
| ~ don't know in what light my parish