The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-08-25
JABE WON THE BELLE
WIT HIS FACE WAS HoMELv ENOUGH
70 SCARE CHILDREN,

IL Had Given w All Hope Of Ever
0etttag I wife Until He Acciden.
tally Learned His Power. and Then
Nc Got MtgAty Particular,
u reckon Labe Hawkins was about
the ugliest maj the Lord yer lot live"
oaid uncle Bon as he m%editatively
Whetted his knife upon his boot leg.
dive knowed strangers to toller that
ma around for a half hour jest to git
another look at his face an then SO
right on an take a drink o Ticker,
Seemed to kind o. give 'em u relish for
Il. I've kn0wed fool women to scare
their children into spasMs by threaten
In to give 'eM to Jabe, an they do say
he'a been the cause o. more than n
runaway, He was jest Eixen ugly, an
that's all they was to It., 1t was q durn
pity, too, because he was a mighty nice
man II you happened to meet him In
the dark, an he had money In the
hank at Maple Run an 10 acres o a.
dne bottom land M YER felt a plow,
well, In spite O. him bein no blame
hoMely that he dasseat look u woman
In the face, this yere cuss was always
wantin to Git married, but, q course,
they want no way to get AT It, he
advertised some In the city paper IN
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. II he al
ways Sent his photograph, an that end
I'D II.
"Qneet they was a mighty likely
widow from way back east that got to
Aikin Jahe purity we'll through his let
ter writin. an | must say he was a
good hand at that, before he sent his
pickahur, After studyin over his line
lments for a couple o mouths she made
up her mind to come on anyhow, but
when she aekshully saw Jabe In the
aesh she backed out an married ~ ,Fe'
ter, an she made him q mighty tine
wife, harrin the fact that she had a
%hO-year.old son that bobbed up after
the ceremony an turned out to be as
shiftless a. lt's possible fur q man to
CIT an live,
"Theu Iahe glts desperit, an he up an
offers a hundred dollars reward to any
body az will GIT him q pardner, But
that didn't amount to much, Ole Dud
Harris lowed he'd make bis oldest
girl, Mlrandy, the n that had the
harellp, jtne him, an Iabe, KNOWN
his own Shortcomings, was satisfied to
git anybody most, but MiraRdy took
eplleptic fits an died before the weddln
come of, an folks all aroun said II was
\ Judgment on Dud,
"Then Jim Damn hrung aroun his
half wltted girl, an Jabe studied a
long while over 1t, thinkln mebDy that
IL they was goin to be children come
with his ugllness they'd better be fools,
too, SOS they wouldn't realize IT, The
girl seemed to take a fancy To Jabe
tight away an wanted to kiss him, but
no changed hls mind right Off, properly
deeidin that he couldn't stand anybody
that was az big a fool az that,
"Things was this'a.way when there
was q ~hypnotlzer come through Maple
Run an give a show, an he asked for
people to come up on the platform an
DO hypnotlzed, Everybody most was
afraid to no till Jabe made the break,
sayln Ii didn't matter much what be-
come o. him nohow, an then Ave more
went up like they alluz do,
well, the mint this here hypnotist
took hold o. Jahe's head an tilted 1t
back to Git a good look In bis eyes no
give a funny little jump an says;
~ can't do nothin with you, Why,
man, you may not know II, but you
cot more power than ! have. II you
DIX them dne blue eyes O. your'n on
anybody, they just nachelly have to do
what you say
when no lot Iabe 30 an made Wash
pifins eight humblebees al 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 20 much a.
ole Wash, an the next day he went
away,
"Rut he made a mighty big change In
labels life, Y'see UP TO this time Jabe
allus dropped bis eyes every time he
zee a woman comm, an the woman allus
looked the other way, Rut now Jabe
made UP his mind to try II, an 80 he
looked, an all the women knowed
about 1t, 10 they looked, an they found
out that them eyes was mighty fine II
you looked ~ 'em 10 keen you couldn't
see the rest o. his face, They was
mostly scared, too, since they heard
as how Jahe was q ~hypnotizer II he
only wanted to be hathaway; but, o.
course, that only made 'em look all the
more,
-. @ " /
: "First off, Jahe didn't have the sand
ia look at the best lookin girls, but only
the hamely ones, an 1t wasn't two
weeks till no could o. had bis choice o.
q dozen girls, You see, they got to
tAlkln TO him an studyln them eyes o.
,hlss'n, an fnst thing they knowed they
was hankerln after 'em, But Lahe got
particular, They was u time when he'd
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