Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1875-05-29
Truth Will Out.
JAkEY, IIls MANA AND TIE SUNDAY
SCHOOL TEACHER


Of the window Yesterday morning.
Aitcr n few minutes I'll silence, he
orokc out with
"NIa, amt pas name Jacob ?"
"Acs, Jakcy."
"If | was called young ] acob he'd
be called old Jacob, wouldn't lie 2"
"lcs, my dear; what makes you
ask such a question as that?"
| Nothing, only ] heard something
about him last night
Mira Waits suddenly became i"tcr-
,stc,l. "N'hat was it, ny s,>n ~
ooh, notli: G much; something the
new Sunday school teacher said"
"You oughtn't to have anything
your mother don't know, Jakey,"
coaxingly plead Mrs. Watts.
"WcIl, if YOU must go pokins into
everything, Ill tell you. The new
teacher says to me, 'What'syour name,
my little man? :? and when / said
Jacob, lie asked me if I ever heard Of
old JACOB, and thought that was
pas name, sol toldhim l guess / had,
but I'd like to hear What lie had to
say about linn. IIc said old Jacob
used to be a little boy once just like
nc, and had bcan-shuotcrs and stills,
and used 10 play hockey and set
licked, and to tend cattle
"lcs, | believe he said his father
used to keep Il cow interrupted Mrs.
| Watts.
"And he hoggcd his brothey out Of
something or other, and he got struck
with young woman named Rachel
| tAlrs Watts became still more inter
cstcd,) and was going TO marry her,
but her old man fooled him and made
him marry lis other daughter; hut pa
sud ha Z :=..rssec, I- :tu!5uriy .66f,
and married them both"
"Thc wretch :" calculated Mrs.
Watts, shaking her fist ut Mr.. Watts
slipper.
lie said old Jacol, had dozen or
two children and
"Did | marry him for dis ?' cx-
GAINED Mrs. Watts, xohbing and
throwing herself on the sofa, making
all the springs hum like set OF tun-
ing-iorks.
Jnkcy 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 on: .!
the room highly indignant.
When Mr. Watts came home he
met Mrs. Watts in tie hall, with a
very red face, who pointed her finger
and jerkcd out tho word "vilain y
and asked him il he could look his
innocent wife and infant son in the
':,nc. Mr.. Watts showed that he
could 5y staring very hard alternately
ri .1akcv and Mrs. Waits.
u know where YOU 50, sir, when
You stay away from l,omc," continued
Mrs. Watts; Give heard the story Of
Your pcriidy Can't yo,, tell me how
l,achcl and that other woman is TO-
day" !" shcasked WITH forced calmncss.
Mr.. Watts confessed his inability to
enli.htcn her on the health Of Tie
ladies about whom sho was 50 solic-
tous. Mrs. Watts taid that she al
ways knew that something like this
would occur, and cndcd with another
hys'crlcnl Interrogation after the
chldren's health, Eut not rccciyinr
any satisfactory answer, she threw
herself on the sol;,;again and snbbcd
aud asked hcrsclfia few times WHY
she cvc' ici' her mother S house, and
lhcn she called jal2cv to her and told
him that they would have to live
alone III little tlousc and be very
poor, and may bcrot have enough to
eat, which made Il iat hopeful utter
series Of most do!cfiIl how!s and hasten
down 70 thcaiicI|c len 10 examine the
Iaricr
Later in The ia J Mrs. Lewis hap
pc"c'l IN, and Mrs. Watts confidcd to
h4r the story Of her husbands vilIainy.
OF course, Mrs. Lewis was very pro-