The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-18
TRUTH WILL OUT.
JAHEY, HIS MA AND THE sUNDAY-scHooL
TEACHER.


Jalsey crept up and sat down by his
mothers side as she was looking out of the
window yesterday morning. After few
minutes of silence, he broke out with
"Ma, ain't pas name Jaeob?''
eyes, Jakey."
"If 1 was called young Jacob. he'd be
called old Jacob, wouldn't heS''
eyes, my dear what makes tot ask
such question as tbat?''
'Nothing, only heard something about
him last night"
Mrs: Watts suddenly beeaitis interested,
"What was It; my son 3''
''Oh, nothing much something the new
Sunday-school teacher said''
"fou oughtn't to have anything your
mother don't know, Jakey,'' coaxinaly
plead Mrs. Watts.
"Wcll, if you must go poking into everv-
thingj I'll tell you: The new teacher saws
to me, what's your name, my little man p
and when said Jacob, he asked me if
ever heard of old Jacob, and though. that
was pas name, so I told him guess I
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
bean-shOoters and stills, and used to play
hockey and get licked, and used to tend
Cattle
Eyes, l believe he said his father used
to keep cow" interrupted Mrs. Watts
"And he logged his brother out of some-
thing or other, and he got stick with
young woman named Rachel (Mrs. Watts
became still more intetested), and was TO
ing to marry her; but her old man fooled
him aiid made him marry his other daugii-
ter; but pa said lie guessed he was no
body's fool, and married them both'
"The wretch y CALCULATED Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr. Watts slipper.
ale said old Jacob had a dozen or two
children, and-'
''Did marry him for this p exclaimed
Mrs. Watts sobbing and throwing herself
on the sofa, making all the springsh,im like
a set Of tuning forks.
Jakey said he didn't know what she
married him for, bu. she wouldn't catch
him telling her anything very soor again if
she was going to kick up such a row about
it; and went out of the room highly in
d;gnant.
When Mr.. Watts eame home he met
Mrs. Watts iii the hail. with very red
face, who pointed her finger at him and
ijerked oiit tho word "Villain ~ ard 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 alter
nately at Jakey and Mrs. Watts:
al know where you SO, sir, when you
, stay away from home," continued Mrs.
Watts; 1--WE heard the story of your per-
fidy. Can't you tell ME how Rachel and
that other woman arctic day? ?' she asked,
with forced calmness. Mr. Watts con-
fcssed his inability to enlighten her OH the
health of the ladies about whom she tas 50
solicitous. Mrs. Watts said that she al
ways knew that something like this would
occur, and ended with another hysterical
Interrogation aftet the children's health,
but not receiving any satisfactory answer,
she threw herself on the sofa again and
sobbed and asked herself few times
why she had ever left her mothers house,
aid then she called Jakey to her and told
him that they would have to live alone in a
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 dotsn to the kitchen to examine
. the lalder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happened
in, and Mrs. Watts confded to her the
story of her husbands villainy. 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 neeet
. yet seen man with a mole on his nose who
did not, sooner or Later, prove to be a 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 Jaksy
hailed him with ''Say, master, I told my
mother what you told me abou. old Jacob
; last night, and there has been the old
scratch to pay ever since. Ma called pa a
, villain and bloody thief, and tried 20
break her back cn the sofa, and said that
F there wouln't be anything to eat, and thero
amt been such a time since pa offered to
kiss Aun. Jane goodbye. Maybe yOd had
better drop in and see the old lady, mister !;
SHE amt no bad as she was.''
The teacher, aftor sonic pressing, nc
tOmpanied JalSey into the house, and was
presented to Mrs. Watts in the parlor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him for dis
closing her husbands perGdy, but he dis
claimed having done anything of the kind,
and at length, after considerable talking, it
mas discovered that Jakey had misapplied
the story of the patriarch Jacob. Mrs:
Watts started right out to hunt up Jacob,
and when she found him astonished him
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