The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-04
TRUTH WILL OUT.
Jakey, His Ma, and the sunday-schooi
Teacher,

Teacher,
Jakey crept up and down by his moth
er's side as she was looking ont OF the
window Yesterday morning. After lew
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 Z
yes, my dear; what makes you ask
such question as that Z"
"Nothing, only heard something
about him last night.
Mrs. Watts suddenly became interest
ed. "What was it, my son Z"
"Oh, nothing much; something the
new Sunday-school teacher said.
"You oughtn't to have anything Your
mother don't know, Jakey," coaxingly
plead Mrs. Watts.
"Well, if you must go poking into
everything, I'll tell you. The new teach
er saws to me, What's your name, my
little man 2 and when l said Jacob, he
asked me if l ever heard of old Jacob,
and thought that was pas name, so L
told him / guess had, but I'd like to
hear what he had to say about him. He
aid 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"
Yes, / believe he 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 young woman named Rachel
Mrs. Watts became still more inter
10 hJ1t
her old man fooled him and made him
marry his other daughter ; but pa said
he guessed he wasn't nobody's fool, and
married them both.
"The wretch !" calculated Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr.. Watts slipper.
:" He said old Jacob had dozen or
two children and"
Did Imarry him for this9" exclaimed
Mrs. Watts, sobbing and throwing her
self on the sofa, making all the springs
hum like 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 up such
row about it, and went out of the room
feeling highly indignant.
When Mr.. Watts came home he met
Mrs. Watts in the hall with a very red
face, who pointed her finger at him and
ierked out the word civilian ~ 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.
CT know where you go, sir, when you
stay away from home" continued Mrs.
Watts "I've heard the story of your
perfdity. 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 ladies about whom
she was so SOLICITORS. Mrs. Watts said
that she always knew that something like
this would occur, and ended with another
hysterical Interrogation after the chill
dren'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, and then she called
Jakey to her and told him that they would
have to live alone III little house, and
be very poor, and maybe not have enough
to cot, which made that hopeful utter a
series of most doleful bowls and hasten
down 20 the kitchen to examine the
larder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happened
IN and Mrs. Watts confided to her the
story of her husbands villainy. OF course
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 a mole on his
nose who did not, sooner or later, prove
TO be rascal.
Toward evening Jakey was sitting on
the steps, having recovered from his
grief of the morning, when the Sunday
school teacher CHANGED to pass by, and
Jakey hailed him with " Say, Mister,
l told my mother what you told me
about 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 to break her back
on the sofa, and said that there wouldn't
be anything to eat, and there amt been
such n 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 she was.
The teacher, after some pressing, &c
companied Jakey into the house, and
was presented to Mrs. Watts in the
parlor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him for
disclosing her husbands perfdy, 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 started right out TO
hunt up Jacob, and when she found him,
astonished him again by being as loving
AZ she had been distant. Jakey is con-
tented in the fact that there is no i'm
mediate prospect of a lack of supplies in
the family, and Mrs. Watts would be
perfectly happy if she could only shut
Mrs. Lewis mouth.
Hans Spassenmacher OIL Spelling