The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-06-02
WHOLE NO. 1850.
Truth VIII Out

Ma amt Pas name JacObgv
Yes, Jakey.n
"lf ] was called young jacob
bed be called old Jacob, wouldn'
he ?"
"1es, my dear; what makes vor
ask such question as that?r
Nothing, only l heard sometbin.
about him last night"
Mrs, Watts suddenly became in
terested. "What was it my son?1
ooh, nothing much; something th
new Sunday-sehool teacher said
"You oughtn't 20 have anythin:
your mother don't know, Jakey,
coaxingly pleaded Mrs Watts.
"Well, if you must go poking int
everything, III tell you. The new
teacher SAYS to me, What's you
name my little man2 and when
said Jacob, be asked me if | eve
heard Of old Jacob, and / though
that was pas name. 50 | told him
guess | had, but I'd liks to hear wha
he had to say about him. He sale
old Jacob used to be a little boy once
Just like me, and had bean shooter:
and stills, and used to play hockey
and get licked, and used to tend cat
del
"Yes, believe be said bis father
used to keep a Cow, interrupted Mrs
Watts.
"And be hogged his brother out Of
something or other, and be got struck
with a young woman named Rachel
( Mrs. Watts became still more inter-
ested /, and was going TO marry her,
but her old man fooled him aud made
him marry his other daughter; but
pa said he guessed be Was nob0dy's
fool, and married them both"
The wretch" ejaculatee Mrs.
Watts, shaking her fist at Mr.. Watts
slipper
lie said old Jacob bad G dozen or
more children, and"-
Did | marry you for thisy' ex-
claimed Mrs Watts, sobbing aud
throwing herself on the sofa, making
all the springs hum like q set Of tun-
ing forks.
Jakey said be 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
up such a row about it, and went out
Of the room highly indignant
When Mr. Watts came home be
met Mrs. Watts in the hall, with a
very red face, who pointed her fin
ger at him and jerked out the word
villain" and asked him if be could
look his innocent wife and infant sou
in the face. Mr. Watts showed that
be could by staring very hard alter
nateIy at Jakey aud Mrs Watts
Il know where you 60, sir, when
you stay away from home" contin-
ued Mrs. Watts; Give heard the stO-
~ Of your perfdy. Can't YOU tell
me how Rachael and that other wo-
man is today she asked with fore
ed ealmness.
Mr.. Watts confessed his inability
to enlighten her on the health Of the
ladies about whom she was solicit
Gus.
Mrs. Watts said that she always
knew that something like this would
occur, and ended with another his
terical interrogation after the chill
dren's health, but not receiving any
satisfactory answer, she threw her
self on the sofa again and asked her
self few times why she had ever
left her mothers house, aud then she
called Jakey to her and told him that
they would have to live alone in o
little house and be very poor, and
maybe not have enough TO eat,
which made that hopeful utter q Sc
ries Of most doleful bowls and has,en
down to the kitchen 70 examine the
larder.
Later in the day Mrs Lewis hap
pened in, and Mrs. Watts confded tc
her the story Of ber husbands vii
lainv. OF course Mrs Lewis was
very properly shocked, and tried to
impress upon Mrs. Watts the neces-
sity Of being philosophical, and left
with the observation that she had
never yet seen a man with g mole
on his nose who did not, sooner or
later, prove TO be rascal.
Towards evening Jakey was sit
ting on the steps, having recovered
from bis grief Of the morning, when
the Sunday-scnool teacher ehanced
to pass by, and Jakey hailed him
with: Say, mister, l told ny moth
er what you told ne about old ia
cob last night, and there has been the
old scratch TO pay ever sinee. Ma
called pa 4 villain and bloody thief
and tried 10 break her back on the
sofa, and said that there wouldn't be
to eat, aud there amt been
such o time since pa offered to kiss
Aunt Jane good-by Maybe you
had better drop in and see the old
lady, mister; she ain'i SO bad as she
was
The teacher, afte- some pressing,
accompanied Jakey into the house,
and was presented 10 Mrs. Watts 10
the parlor
Mrs. Watts began TO thank bin for
disclosing her husbands perfdy, but
be diselaimed having done anything
Of the kind, and al length, after con
siderable talking, it was discovered
that Jakey bad misapplied the story
of the patriarch jacob. Mrs. Watts
started right out 70 hunt up Jacob,
and when she fvgud him astonished
him again BY being as loving as she
had been distant. Jakey is content
ed in The fact that there is no imme-
date prospect Of a lack Of supplies
in the family, and Mrs. Watts would
be perfectly happy If she could only
shut Mrs. Lewis mouth.
TuE nerve Of a tooth, not 80 large
ss the snes, csmbric needle, will
sometimes drive q strong man 20 dis