The Van Buren press., 1875-07-13
TRUTH WILL OUT.
Jakey, Mamma and the School. Teacher

Jakcy CTept up auo SUI uo"u ny HIS
mothers side as she was looking out Of
the window, yesterday morning After
few moments of silence, he broke out
with
Ma. amt Pas name Jacob?'
Yes, Jakey.'
If was called young Jacob, he'd be
called old Jacob, wouldn't hep
Yes, my dear; what makes you ask
such question as thatT
Nothing, only l heard something
aboHt him last night
What was it, my son2' said Mrs.
Watts, becoming suddenly interested
'Oh, nothing much; something the
new Sunday. school teacher said.
You oughten'tto have anything your
mother don't know, Jakey,' eoaxingiy
plead Mrs Watts.
We'll, if you must go poking into ev
crything, III tell you. The new teacher
aays to me:
What's your name. my little man 2
and when said Jacob, he asked me IL
ever heard of old Jacob, and | thought
that was pas name, so told him guess
had, but I'd like to hear what he had
to say about him. He said old Jacob
used to be a little boy once, just like me,
and had beautiful shooters and stills, and
used to play hockey aud get licked, and
used to attend cattle, -
Yes, believe be said his father used
to keep a cow interrupted Mrs. Watts
| And he hogged his brother out of
something or other, and he got struck
with n young woman named Rachel,
Mrs, Watts became still more interest
ed, and was going to marry her, but her
old man fooled him, and made him mar
~ his other daughter but pa said he
guessed he wasn't anybody's fool, and
married them both.
The wretch y calculated Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr. Watts slipper.
He said old Jacob had dozen or two
children
Did marry him for this1 exclaim.
ed Mrs. Watts, sobbing and throwing
herself en- the sofa, making all the springs
hum like a set of tuning forks.
Jakey said he didn't know what she
married him for, but she wouldn't catch
him telling her anything very soon again
if she was going to kick mp such row
about it, and went cut Of the room high.
ly indignant.
When M Watts came home, he met
Mrs. Watts in the hall, with a very red
face, who pointed her finger at him, and
jcrked out the word VILLAIN ! and asked
him il he could look his innocent wife in
the face Mr. Watts showed that he could
by staring very hard alternately at Jakcy
aud at Mrs. Watts.
Il know, sir, where you 60, sir, when
Mrs Watts; have heard tie STORY oi
your pcrlidy. Can't you tell me how Ra
chael and that other woman is to day Z
she asked, with forced calmncss. MIR. W
confessed his Inability to enlighten her
on the health of the ladies about whom
she was so solictous. Mrs. Watts said
that she always knew something like this
would occur, and ended with another
hystercal interrogation after the child
ren's health, but not receiving any salts
factory answer, she threw herself on the
sofa again, and sobbed and askel hersclf,
few tunes, why She had left her moth
er's house. and then she called Jakey to
her, and told him that they would have
to live alone in little house, and be very
poor, and ybc not have enough to eat,
which made that hopeful utter series OF
most doleful howls, and hasten down to
the kitchen to examine the larder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happened
in and Mrs Watts conhded to her the
story other husbands villainy. Ofcourse
Mrs Lewis was very properly shocked,
and tried to impress upon Mrs. Watts
the necessity of being philosophical, and
left with the observation that she had
never yet seen man with mole on his
nose, who did not, sooner or later, prove
to be rascal.
Towards evening, Jakcy was sitting on
the steps. having recovered from his
grief Of the morning when the Sunday
School teacher chanced to pass by, and
Jakey hailed him with:
Say, mister, told my mother what
YOU told me about old Jacob, last night,
and there hys been the old scratch to pay
ever since. Ma called pa villain, and a
bloody thief, aud tried to break her back
on the sofa, and said there wouldn't be any
thing to eat, and there amt been such
time since pa offered TO kiss Aunt Jane
good by. Maybe you had better drop in
and see the old lady. mister; she amt so
bad as che vss
The teacher, after some pressing, ac-
compsnied Jakey into the house, and was
presented to Mrs Watts, in the parler.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him fer
disclosing her husbands per6dy, but he
disclaimed having done anything Of the
kind, aud, after considerable talking, it
was discovered that Jakcy had misappli-
ed the story of the patriarch Jacob.
Mrs Watts started right out to huut up
Jacob, and when she found him aston
ishe him again by being as loving as she
had been distant. Jakey is content in
the fact that there is no immediate pros.
pcct of lack of supplies in the family,
and Mrs Watts would be perfectly hap
py il she could only shut Mrs Lewis
mouth -Baliimore american.