Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-09-05
JADE WON THE BELLE
VET HIS FACE WAS HOME1Y ENOUGH
TO SCARE CHILDREN.

He Got Mighty Particulars.
Il reckon Jabe Hawkins was about
the ugliest man the Lord everhl let lfve,'
said Uncle Ben as he medltauVely
whetted his knife upon his boot leg.
"I'ye knowed strangers to foller that
man around for half hour Jest to GIT
another look at his face an then go
right off an take a drink O hcker'
Seemed to kind O give 'em relish TOT
If. I've knowed fool women to scare
their children into spasms by threaten
In to give 'em to Jabe, an they 90 say
he's been the cause O more than one
runaway. He was jest pizen ugly, an
that's all they was to It, 1t was durn
pity, too, because he was mighty NEE
man if you happened to meet INN IN
the dark, all he had money III the
bank at Maple Run an 80 acres Q as
fine bottom land as ever felt plow
"Well, in spite O him beln SO blame
homely that he dassent look woman
in the face, this yere euss was always
wantin to git married, but O course,
they waITt no way to get at II. lie
advertised some in the city paper an
writ letters to lots q women that way,
but he was honest to the core, an when
the thing got along fur enough sos
they might anything come o 1t he al
ways sent his photograph, an that end
ed it.
"0ucet they was mighty likely
widow from way back east that got TO
likin Jabe purity we'll through his let
ter writln, an | must say he was
good hand at that, before he sent his
pickshur. After studyin over his line
ments for couple O months she made
I'D her mind to- come on anyhow, BUT
when she ACCESSIBILITY saw JaDe in tile
flesh she backed out an married 81 Pc
ter. an she made him mighty fine
wife, barrin the fact that she had Il
2O-year-old son that bobbed up after
the ceremony an turned out to be as
shiftless as it's possible fur a man to
git an live.
"Then Jabe gifts desperit, an he up an
offers hundred dollars reward to any
body as will git him paEdner. But
that didn't amount to much. Ole Duo
Harris lowed he'd make his oldest
girl Alirandy, the one that had the
harelip. iine him, an Iitbe, 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
Judgment on Dud.
"Then Jim Damn brung aroun his
half witted girl, an Jabe studied q
long Willie over 1t, thinlin 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
he changed his mind right off, properly
decidin that he couldn't stand anybody
that was as big fool as that.
"Things was this-a-way when there
was hypnother come through Maple
Run an give Il show, an he asked for
people to come up on the platform an
be hypnotized. Everybody most was
afraid to go till Jabe made the break,
Sdy III II dlNAli ilitttCl iiuSli W fIt't w
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:
".T can't do nothn with you. Why,
man, you may not know it, but you
got more power than l 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 60 an made Wash
Diffins fight bumblebees an preten' he
was q 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.
But he made a mighty big change in
Jabes Life. Y'see up to this time Jabc
allus dropped his eyes every time he
see woman comm, an the woman allus
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 IL
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 a hypnotizer If he
only wanted to be hathaway; but, O
course, that only made 'em look all the
more.
First off, Jabe didn't have the sand
to look at the best lookin girls, but only
the homely ones, an it wasn't two
weeks till he could O. had his choice O
dozen girls. You see, they got to
tallkin to him an studyin them eyes O
hiss'n, an fust thing they knowed they
was hankerin after 'em. But Jabe got
particular They was a time when he'd
been tickled to death to have any girl
that wore dresses keep comp'ny with
him, but he KEEP raisin hts idees every
day till tinly he sot his mind on wnnin
Hetty Allen that was the blamedest
purtiest girl in the whole country an
had a dozen fine loollin fellers with
good horses an buggles an some land
tryin to court her, an blame if he didn't
git her. An the funniest part of it all
Is that there amt no purifier young
uns anywhere than them seven chill
dren O Jabe's. An they all got blue
eyes, every one Of 'em, an the rest Is
like their mother
The Sun Is Blue.
Professor s. p. Langley, secretary of
the Smithsonian institution, says: