The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-07-01
Truth Will Out.
Jakey, His Ma and the Sunday
School Teacher.

Jakey crept up and sat down by hi
mother as she was 10 oking cut of tn,
window yesterday morning. After {
few minutes OF silence, he broke ou
with:
Ma, amt Pas name Jacob?'
Yes, Jakey.'
IF was called young Jacob, he'd
be called old Jacob, wouldn't he p
Eyes, my dear; what makes you ask
such a question as that?'
Nothing, only heard somethine
about him last night
Mrs. Watts suddenly became inter.
ested. 7-sss = z p = E---A -s-
'What was it, my son?'
ooh, nothing much; something the
new Sunday School teacher said
sYou oughtn't to have anything
your mother don't know, Jakey,' coax
ingly plead Mrs. Watts.
well, if you must go poking into
everything, I'll tell you. The new
| teacher says to me, whats your name,
my little man P and when l said jacob.
he asked me if l ever heard of old Ja-
cob, and thought that was pas name,
so told him guess had. but I'd
like to hear what he had to say abou,
hiM.- lie said Old Jacob used 10 be a
little boy once just like me, and had
bean-shooters and stills. and used to
play hockey and get licked, and used
to tend cattle.
Yes, believe nc said his father
used to keep cow interrupted Mrs.
Waits.
And re hogged his brother out Of
something or other, and he got struck
with n young woman named Rachel
(Mrs. Watts became still more inter
ested), aud was going to marry her.
bat The old man fooled him ana made
him marry his other daughter; but pa
said he was nobody's fool, and married
them BOTH +--'- - 4-@
trhc wretch ! calculated Mrs Watts
shaking her fist at Mr.. Watts slipper.
Gle said old Jacob had dozen or
two children, and
Did l marry him for this ? exclaim-
ed Mrs. Watts, sobbing and throwing
herself on 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 soon
again if she was going to kick up such
a row about it, and went out of the
room highly indignant.
When Mr.. Waits came home he met
Mrs. Watts in the hall, with very red
face, who pointed her finger at him
and asked him if he could look his in
nocent wife and infant son in the face.
Mr.. Watts showed that he could by
staring very hard alternately at Jakey
and Mrs. Watts.
Il know where vol, go, sir, when
yousstay away from home continued
Mrs. Matt Is; I've heard the story OF
your perfidy. Can't you tell me how
Rachel and that other woman is to-
day ? she asked with forced calmness.
Mr.. Watts confessed his inability to
enlighten her on the health of the la
dies about whom she was SO solicit
Gus. Mrs. Watts said that she al ways
knew that something like this would
occur, and ended with another hyster-
ical interrogation after the children's
health, but moi receiving any satisfac
tory answer she threw herself on the
sofa again aud sobbed and asked her
self few times why she had ever lcfl
her mothers house, aud then she call
ed Jakey TO her and told him that 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 howIs and hasten down to the
kitchen TO examine the larder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis hap
pened in, and Mrs. Watts coniidcd to
her the story of her husbands viliainy.
Or course Mrs. Lewis was very prop
crly shocked and tried to impress up
on Mrs. Watts the necessity of being
philosophical, and left with the obser-
vation that she had not yet seen a Inau
with Il mole OH his nose who did not
sooner or later, prove to be a rascal.
a,.i IaI-
on the steps, having recovered from
his grief of the mCrning, when the
Suuday-scho teacher Glanced 10 pass
by, and Jakcy hailed him with "Say,
mister, I told ma about old Jacob last
night, and there has been the old
scratch to pay ever since. Ma called
pa villain and Il bloody thief, and
tried to break her back on the sofa,