The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-02-19
LEFT ONE TOO MANY
OF THE THIRTEEN WIVES HE
MARRIED -ANDNOW IN JAIL

Ugly but Never Failed as Sultor-
Did it With his eye sEvery gaf
Jedges man by his Eyes and Jedge
a gal by her Eyes.
| Compton. KY, Feb. s 8-The
unlucky thirteen in combination
with the marrying habithas brought
the promising career of Howard
Moore to full stop.
At. twenty eight, the unblushing
husband of thirteen wives, none of
whom have seen fit to depart this
life since the matrimonial knot was
tied, he is now lauguishing in Jail
with the probability of twenty
years sojcurn in the penitentiary as
a mild antidote for his fatal weakness.
It was on Dec. 13 last that Moore
met his waterloo. She was plump.
and pleasing brunstte enty- y-on6s
years of age and named Fannie
Robinson. He fell IoVs aI sight
and the marriagswaa immediate.
After married MaM fifteen days
Moore took umbrage at the factthat
his wife desired to visit her father,
who was i'll. He promptly deserted
her. Mrs Moore refused 70 look at
things in the same light. She sWore
out warrant for his arrest, and
his incarceratiaa developed crop
of wives and cidertal children
that would set psgin business the
most ambitious folloWer of Brig
ham Young,
! The universal fascinator who has
accomplished SO much in SO brief 4
space of existence is the nastasin-
gularly hard featured mountafneer
to be found for miles around. Broad !.
nosed and wide n1outhed, he has a
complexion like badly tanned leath-
era shock of black hair and pair of
! slow black eyes.A pair of bushy
irregular eyebrows lend somewhat
sinister look to his face, and heavy
slouching gait complet,g the uI--
attractive whole.
Moore cherishes no delusion
anent his beauty, he explains the
whole matter by the power of the
eye. -,
'It's the way you look at gal''
lis the simple theory put forward
by this heart-breaker, whose record
is thus far unexampled. Here is
his strange statement: @
II believe in men marrying as
many times as they want to. Pap
said that the Bible said to multiply
and replenish the yeth. 1t lisa
easy to win a woman's heart as
fallin' off Of log. I don't believe
in a long courtship. I believe
when feller gets stuck ON gal
he ort to ask her to marry him
right then, and never put it off,
nary day. u. ggs.ss..s,e- ss.s,-z
',Itall depends ea bow you look at
ca gal; the eyes teHsfhe tale. Every
gal id ges man by his eyes, and I
'jedgea gal by her eyes. The eyes
talk to each other ntheir own way.
"It does not matter how ugly a
man may be, nor how ragged he
may be, nor who he is; if he knows
how to look the gal in the eyes he
will win her heart, and she will
marry him or die. Every gal I
ever axed to marry me said yes.
But if I hadn't axed 'em all at the
very moment our eyes looked into
each others several Nv EN- would
have said 10. I alluz got tired of
EN- in q little while after
married 'en, and alluz found good
excuse to get away from EN-.
-"I loved all Nv EN- when I mar
ried 'em, but, as I said awhile ago,
soon got tared Nv 'em; but then I
would alluz want me anuther wife.
II don't. like. single life all the
time nur married life all the time.
l alluz like to try both. I intend to
marry again when I git out Nv
this scrape, and, if can git to look
into all their eyes at nay trial, they
will tell the Jedge to turn me loose.