The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-01-13
Truth Will Out.

mothers side as she WAS looking out ol
the window yesterday morning After &
few minutes of silence he broke out
with ''Ma, amt pas name JacobP'
Eyes, Jakey."
"If l was called young Jacob, he'd
be called old Jacob, wouldn't he?"
~ es, my dear What makes YOU ask
such questions as thatY'
Nothing, only l heard something
about him last Sunday"
rs. Watts suddenly became interest.
ed. What was it, my son?'
oh, nothing much; something the new
SunCay-Scbool teacher said
YOU Oughtn't to have anything your
mother don't know, Jakey, coaxingly
plead Mrs. Watts.
We'll. if Won must 20 pokiag into
every thing, IN tell you The new
teacher says to me, Whats your name,
my little mani and when | said Jacob,
be asked me if I ever heard of old Jacob;
and l thought that was pas name, so |
told him | guess | had, but Ia 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 aud stills, and used to play
hooky 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, aud ne got struck
with a young woman named Rachel
Mrs. Watts became still more interes-
ted and was going TO marry her, but
her old man fooled him, and made him
marry his other daughter bus pa said
he guessed he was nobOdO1y's fool, and
married them both.
The wretch calculated Mrs. Watts,
shaking her fist at Mr. Watts slipper.
lie said old Jacob had dozen or two
children, and
Did | marry him for this ex-
claimed Mrs Watts, sobbing and throw
ing herself on the sofa, making al the
springs hum like set of turning forks.
Jakey said he didn't know what she
married him for, but she woaldn't
catch him selling her anything very
soon again if she was going to kick up
such Il row about it, and went out of
the room highly indignant
When ar Watts came home he met
Mrs. Watts in the hall, with a very red
face, who pointed her finger at him and
jerked out the word Villain 7 and asked
him if he could look his innocent wife
and infant son in the face. Mr.. Watts
shovel that ne could by staring very
hard alternately at Jakey and Mrs.
Watts
i know where you go, sir, when you
stay away from home continued Mrs.
Watts; I've heard the story of your
perfidy. Can't you tell me how Rachel
and the other women is to-day 2 she
asked with forced calmness. Mr.. Watts
confessed his inability to enIighten ber
on the health of the ladies about VIII ON
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 health but not receiving
any satisfactory answer, she threw her
selfo tn sofa again and sobbed, and
asked herself few times why she had
ever left her mother house; and then
she called J4key to her and told him
that they would have to live alone in a
little house and be very poor, and may
be very poor, and maybe not have
enough to eat, which made that hopeful
utter a series Of most doleful howls and
,5e lardeF
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happ en-
e1 in, and Mrs Watts confdei to her
the story of her husbands villainy. Of
course Mrs. Lewis was very properly
stocked, and tried to impress upoh Mrs.
Watts the necessity of being philosophi-
cal, and left with the observation that
she had never yet seen man with 4
Ii. /, I
later, prove to be a rascal
Toward 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 Jakey hailed him with Say,
mistsr, | told my mother what you told
me about old Jacob last night, and there
has been the old scratch 70 pay ever
since. Ma called pa villain and a
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 a time since pa offered to kiss
Aunt Jare 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, ae-
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 considera
BILE talking. is was discovered that Jakey
had rnisapplied the story of the patri-
arch Jacob.
Mrs. Watts started right out to hunt
up Jacob, and when she found him, as
tOnished him again by being as loving
as 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