The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-27
TRUTH WILL OUT.
Jakey, HIS MA, and the Sunday schoo
Teacher,

|
Teacher.
| Jakey crept up and sat down by his
mothers side as she was looking out of
the window yesterday morning, After a
| few minutes of silence, he broke ont
with
ssNIa, amt PAS name Jacob ?"
| eyes, Jakey.'
''If I was called young Jacob, he'd be
called old Jacob, wouldn't he ?"
eyes, my dear what makes YOU ask
such question as that 2"
Nothing, only I heard something
| about him last night.
Mrs Watts suddenly became interes-
ted. 'fWhat was it, my son?''
"Oh, nothing much j; something the
new Sunday-school teacher said
'You oughn't to have anything you,.
| mother don't know, Jakey," coaxingly
pleads Mrs. Watts.
"Well, if you must go poking into
everything, I'll tell you. The new teach
er says to me, "What's your name, my
little man ?" and when said Jacob, he
asked me if L ever heard of old Jacob,
| and thought that was pas name, so [
told him L guess / had, but I'd like to
hear what he had to say about him. He
said old Jacob used to be a 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, 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 CHrs
Watts became still more interested, J and
was going to marry her, but her father
fooled him and made him marry his other
daughter; but pa said he guessed ne
wasn't nobody's fool, and married them
both"
''The wretch - calculated Mrs. Watts
shaking her fist at Mr.. Watts slipper.
ssHe said old Jacob had n doHvn OF
two -e1.;lt1Ivu and
''Did 1 marry him for this ?'' exclaim-
ed Mrs. Watts, sobbing and throwing
herself on the sofa, making all the springs
hum like set of tuning g-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 a row
about it, and went out of the house feel
ing very indignant.
When Mr.. Watts came home he found
Mrs. Watts in the hall with very red
face, who pointed her finger at him and
jerked out the word ''viIlain p 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 atJakey and Mrs. Watts.
81 know where you go, slr, when you
stay away from home,' continued Mrs.
Watts GIVE heard the story of your
perfdy. Can't you tell me how Rachel
and that other woman is TO-DAY 2" she
asked with forced calmness. MIR. 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 something
like this would occur, and ended with
another hysterical interrogation after the
children's S health, but receiving no sat
isfactory answer she threw herself Oh
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 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 confded to her the
story of her husbands villainy. OF
course Mrs. Lewis was verv properly
shocked, and tried to impress upon Mrs
Watts the necessity of being philosoph-
ical, and left with the observation that
she had never yet seen man with
mole on his nose who did not sooner OF
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 CHANGED to pass by, and
Jakey hailed him with stSay, Mister,
L told my mother what you told me
about old Jacob last night, and there has
been the olt scratch 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 any
thing 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, Mister she amt
so bad as she was"
The teacher, after some pressing ac-
companied Jakey into the house, and
was presented to Mrs. Watts in the par
lor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank HIM for
dlScIOsSInS her nuSDanQ perndy, Dut he
disclaimed having done anything of the
kind and at length, after considerable
talking, it was discovered that Jaley
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
as she had been distant. Jakey is con
tented in the fact that there is no imme-
date prospect OF lack of supplies in the
family, and Mrs. Watts would be perfect
y happy if she could only shut Mrs.
Lewis mouth.
How SrYr, C.-r,n Vooto,Iou -,oo-