The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-08-31
JADE WON THE BELLE
YET HIS FACE WAS HoMELY ENOUGH
TO SCARE CHILDREN.

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TO SCARE CHILDREN.
he Had Given Up All Hope of Ever
Getting wife Until He Acciden-
tally Learned His Power, and Then
He Got Mighty Particular.
i 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.
i've 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. 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. 1t was durn
pity, too, because he was mighty nice
| man II 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 pillow.
| We'll, in spite o. him bein so blame
homely that he dassent look woman
10 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 it.
"Oncet they was mighty likely
widow from way back east that got to
likin 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 fora couple O. months she made
up her mind to come on anyhow, but
when she ACCESSIBILITY saw Jabe in the
flesh she backed out an married 81 Pc
ter, an she made him a 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. vi
"Then Jabe gifts desperit, an he up an
offers hundred dollars reward to any
body as will git him a 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
10 oh i'm RI
git anybody most, but Mirandy took
epileptic fits an died before the weddin
come off, an folks all aroun said it was
| a Judgment on bud.
"Then Jim Damn brung aroun his
half wftted girl, an Jabe studied q
long while over it, thinkin mebby that
tf 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 OF, properly
decidin that he couldn't stand anybody
that was as big fool as that
b Things was this-arWay when there
was q hypnotizer come through Maple
Run an give q 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.
sayin 1t didn't matter much what be-
come o him nohow, an then i've more
went up like they aIluz do.
We'll the mint this here hypnotist
took hold o. Jabeis head an tilted ID
back TO git good hook In his eyes be
give q funny little Jump an says:
Fl az can't do nothin with you. Why,
man. you may not know It, but you
got more power than have. II 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
Difins 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.
'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 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 if
you looked at 'em so keen you couldn't
see the rest o. his face. They was
mostly scared, too, since they heard
las 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.
q dozen girls. You see, they got to
talkin to him an studyin them eyes o.
hiss'n, an fust thing they knowed they
was hankerin after 'em. But Jabe got
particlar. They was time when he'd
leen tickied to death to have any girl
that wore dresses keep comp'ny with
him, but he KEEP raisfn his idees every
day till fin'ly he sot his mind on winnin
Hetty Allen, that was the biamedest