Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-03
Anmornns Department.
TRUTH WILL OFT.

TRUTH WILL OUT.
Jakey crept up and sat down by his moth.
er's side, as she was looking out of the window.
After few minutes of silence, he broke out
with
Ma, amt pas name Jacob ?''
"Yes, Jakey."
eff [ was called young Jacob, he'd be
called old Jacob, wouldn't he ?"
"Yes, my dear; but what makes you ask
such question as that?"
Nothing, only 1 heard something about
him last MI ght."
Mrs. Watts suddenly became interested.
"What was it, my son ?"
"Oh, nothing much, something the new
Sunday school teacher said"
"4ou oughtn't to have anything your moth
erdon't know, Jakey, coaxingly pleaded Mrs.
Watts.
"Well, if you must 60 poking into every
thing. I'll tell you. The new teacher says
to me, whats your name, my little man ?"
and when said Jacob, he asked me if I
ever heard of old Jacob, and thought that
was pas name, so told him 1 guess I had,
but I'd like-to hear what be had to say about
him. He said old Jacob used to be little
boy once, just like me, and had bean.shooters
licked, and to tend CATTLE
YES believe he said his father used to
keep cow" interrupted Mrs. Watts.
"And he hogged his brother out of some
thing or other, and he got struck with young
woman named Rachel, (Mrs Watts became
still more interested,) aud was going to mar
ry her, but her old man fooled him and made
him marry his other daughter; but pa said he
guessed he was nobody's fool and married
them BOTH"
"The wretchv' calculated Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr.. WIS slipper.
"He said old Jacob had dozen or two chill
dren and''-
did I marry him for this" exclaimed
Mrs. Watts, sobbing and throwing herself on
the sofa, making all the springs hum like
set of tuning-forks.
Jakey said he didn't know what she mar
ried him for, but she'd not catch him telling
her anything very soon again, ifshe was going
to kick up such row about it; and went
out of the room highly indignant.
When Mr. Watts came home, he met Mrs.
Watts in the hall, with very red face, who
pointed her finger and jerked out the word
"villain !" and asked him if he could look
his innocent wife and infant son in the face
Mr.. Watts showed that he could by staring very
hard alternately at Jakey and Mrs. Watts
81 know where you 60, sir, when you stay
away from home," Continued Mrs. Watts.
"I've heard the story of your per6dy. Can't
you tell me how Rachel and that other wo-
man is ro-day?" she asked with forced calm
ness. Mr.. Watts confessed his inability to
enlighten her on the health of the ladies
about whom she was so solicitous. Mrs.
Watts said that she always knew that some
thing like this would occur, and ended with
another hysterical Interrogation after the chill
dren's health, but not receiving any satisfac-
tory answer, she threw herself on the sofa
again, and sobbed and asked herself few
times why she ever left her mother and then
she called Jakey to her. and told him they
would have to live alone in little house
and be very poor, and maybe 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 con6ded to her the story
of her husbands vilaDy. Of course, Mrs.
Lewis was very properly shocked, and tried
to impress upon Mrs. Watts the necessity of
being philosohical, and left with the observa-
ton that she had never seen man with a
mole on his nose who did not sooner or later
prove to be rascal.
Towards evening, Jakey was sitting on the
steps, having recovered from his grief of the
morning, when the Sunday school teacher
chanced to pass by, and Jakey accosted him
with, "Say, mister, told my mother what
you told me about old Jacob last night, and
the scratch has been to pay ever since, Ma
called pa villain and bloody thief, and
tried to break her back on the sofa, and said
that there wouldn't be anything to eat, and
there amt been such time since pa offered
to kiss Aunt Jane goodbye. Maybe you
had better drop in and see the old lady, mis-
ter; though she amt so bad as she was.'
The teacher, after some pressing, accompa
MED Jakey into the house, and was presented
to Mrs. Watts in the parlor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him for disclo-
sing her husbands per6dy, but he disclaimed
having done anything of the kind, and at
length, after considerable talking, it was
discovered that Jakey had misapplied the
story of the patriarch Jacob Mrs. Watts start
ed right out to hunt up Jacob, and when she
found him, astonished him again by being
as loving as she had been distant. Jakey is
contented in the fact that there is no immediate
prospects of lack of supplies in the family,
and Mrs. Watts would be perfectly happy, if
she could only shut Mrs. Lewis mouth.
He COULDN'T Be CoNsoLED.-A Balti-
more paper tells an amusing story of a man
residing in that city. Recently he called on
grave.digger to have his wifes grave sodded.
His noticeable popularity was his extreme
penurousness, and he higgled and bargained
for long time over the price of sodding.
Suddenly he became mute, while his eyes were
fixed upon a neighboring tombstone. The
grave-digger and his daughter stood back in
respect for the feelings ofthe old gentleman, in
whose mind they supposed the sight of the
tablet had called up memories of dear de-
parted old friend, for grief was depicted on
every feature of his countenance, as he shook
with emotion. At length this pathetic SEN
tence burst from his swelling bosom:
"My God when did that man die? He
owes me two thousand dollars, and III never
see cent oft"
The grave-digger could apply no consolation
for such narrowing grief:
FRANKLIN's JoKE.-Tradition has it that
years ago, when Benjamin Franklin was a
young lad, he began the study of natural
philosophy. and soon became fond of apply
ing technical names to common obi jects. One
evening, when he mentioned to his father that
he had swallowed some marine acephalous
mollusks, the old man was much alarmed, and,
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