New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-16

ia BE WON THE BELLE
VET HIS FACE WAS HoMELY ENOUGH
TO SCARE CHILDREN.
He Had Given Up All Hope OF Ever
Getting Wife Until He Acciden-
tally Learned His Power, and Then
HesGot Mighty Particular.
reckon Jabe Hawkins was about
the ugliest man the Lord ever let live"
said Uncle Ben as he meditatively
whetted his knife upon his boot leg.
1--WE knowed strangers to foller that
man around for half hour jest to git
another look at his face an then go
right of an take a drink o. ticker.
Seemed to kind o. give 'em relish for
it I've knowed fool women to scare
their children into spasms by threaten
In to give 'em to Jabe, an they do say
he's been the cause O. more than one
runaway. He was jest pizen ugly, an
that's all they was to it. It was durn
pity, too. because he was mighty nice
man If you happened to meet him in
the dark, an he had money in the
bank at Maple Run an 80 acres o. as
fine bottom land as ever felt plow.
'Well, In spite O. him bein so blame
homely that he dassent look a woman
In the face, this yere cuss was always
wantin to git married, but, o. course,
they want no way to get at it. He
advertised some in the city paper an
writ letters to lots O. women that way,
but he was honest to the core, an when
the thing got along fur enough SOS
they might anything come O it he al
ways sent his photograph. an that end
ed 1t. II
"Oncet they was a mighty likely
widow from way back east that got to
Hkin Jabe purity well through his let
ter writin, an / must say he was a
good hand at that, before he sent his
pickshur. After studyin over his line
| ments for couple O. months she made
up her mind to come on anyhow, but
when she ackshully saw Jabe in the
flesh she backed out an married 81 Pc
| ter, an she made him mighty fine
wife, barrin the fact that she had a
20-year-old son that bobbed up after
the ceremony an turned out to be as
shiftless as it's possible fur man to
git an live. '. ....-
"Then Jabe gifts desperit, an he up an
offers a hundred dollars reward to any
body as will git him pardner. But
that didn't amount to much. Ole bud
! Harris lowed he'd make his oldest
girl, Mirandy, the one that had the
harelip, jine him, an Jabe, KNOWN
his own Shortcomings, was satisfied to
| git anybody most, but Mirandy took
| epileptic fits an died before the weddin
come off, an folks all aroun said it was
q judgment on Dud. s.'-.
! 'Then Jim Damn brung aroun his
half witted girl, an Jabe studied a
| long while over it, thinkin mebby that
! If they was goin to be children come
| with his ugliness they'd better be fools,
too, SOS they wouldn't realize it. The
| girl seemed to take fancy to Jabe
right away an wanted to kiss him, but
decidin that he couldn't stand anybody
! that was as big fool as that
'"Things was this-a-way when there
was a hypnotizer come through Maple
Run an give show, an. he asked for
people to come up on the platform an
be hypnotized. Everybody most was
| afraid to 60 till Jabe made the break,
L ~ rho% In
come O. him nohow, an then five more
went up like they alluz do.
"Well, the mint this here hypnotist
! took hold O. Jabe's head an tilted it
back to git good look in his eyes he
give funny little jump an says:
"1 can't do nothin with you. Why,
| man, you may not know it, but you
got more power, than I have. IF you
fix them fine blue eyes O. your'n on
anybody, they just nachelly have to do
| what you say
'"Then he let Jabe go an made Wash
Diffins fight bumblebees an preten' he
was dog an do the most outlandish
things you ever heard Of gosh, it
was funny, an he made some O. the
others act up, too, but none SO much as
| ole Wash, an the next day he went
away. @...--s~--...,~ ....-..~s-,- e.. .-r 81. S..
"But he made mighty big change in
Jabe's life. Y'see up to this time Jabe
| allus dropped his eyes every time he
see woman comm, an the woman allts
looked the other way. But now Jabe
! made up his mind to try it, an SO he
looked, an all the women knowed
about it, SO they looked, an they found
out that them eyes was mighty fine if
you looked at 'em so keen you couldn't
see the rest o. his face. They was
mostly scared, too, since they heard
as how Jabe was hypnotizer If he
only wanted to be that-a-way; but, O.
| course, that only made 'em look all the
/ moro = II $780, = =