Evening journal., 1903-01-08
H0MELY JABE
WON THE BELLE
Learned His Power All at
Once and Then Made
Good Use of It

the ugiieSt man the Lord ever let live,
said Uncle Ben as he medltatively
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 Off an take a drink O. licker.
Seemed to kind O. give 'em relish for
It, I've knowed fool women - 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 1t. 1t was durn
pity, too, because he was a mighty nice
man If you happened to meet him In
the dark, an he had money in the
bank at Maple Run an so acres o. as
iine bottom land as ever felt pillow.
"Well, in spite O. him bein so blame
homely that he dassent look 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 Tots 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. 1t he al
ways sent his photograph an that end
cd it.
"Oncet they was a mighty likely
widow from way back east that got to
likin Jabe purity well through his let
ter writin, an | must say he was
good hand at that, before he sent, his
plckshur. After studyin over his line
ments for a 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 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 a man to
git an live.
"Then Jabe gifts desperit, an he up an
offers a hundred dollars reward to any
body as win git him a pardner. But
that didn't amount to much. Ole Dud
Harris lowed he'd make his oldest
girl, AIirandy, 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
a judgment on Dud.
"Then Jim Damn brung aroun his
half witted girl. an Jabe studied a
long while over It, thinllin mebby that
If they was goin to be children come
with his ugliness they'd better be fools,
too, SOS they wouldn't realize 1t. The
girl seemed to take a 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 a fool as that.
"Things was this-a-way when there
was a hypnotizer come through Maple
Run an give a 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,
sayin it didn't matter much what be-
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 a good look in his eyes he
give n funny little jump an says:
~ can't do nothin with you. Why,
man, you may not know it, but you
got more power than l have. IL you
fix them fine blue eyes O. yourn on
anybody. they just nachelly have to do
what you say
''rhen he let Jabe go an made Wash
Dinins fight bumblebees an preten' he
was a dog an do the most outlandish
things you ever heard OF. l gosh, II
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 Jabd
allus dropped his eyes every time he
see a woman comm. an thewoman allu'
looked the other way. But now JabC
made up his mind TO try 1t. an SO he
looked. an all the women knOwed
about 1t. so th8 looked an they found
out that them eyes was mighty fine Il
you looked at 'em so keen you couldn'i
see the rest o. his face, They was
mostly scared. too. since they heard
as how Jabe was a hypnotizer if ht
only wanted 10 be hathaway; but, o
course, that only made 'em look all th'
more.
First off, Jabe didn't have the sant
to look at the best lookin girls, but onl!
the homely ones. an it wasn't tive
weeks till he could O. had his choice o
dozen girls. You see. they got t
talkin to him an studyin them eyes o
hiss'n, an fust thing they knowed the.
was hankerin after 'em. But Jabe go
partic'lar. They was q time when he''
been tickled 10 death to have any cir
that wore dresses keep compny will
him, but he KEEP raisin his idees ever
day till fn'ly he sot his mind on winnil
Hetty Alien, that was the blamedes
purtiest girl In the whole country al
p had a dozen fine lookin fellers witt
good horses an buggies an some lam
tryin to court her. an blame IL he didn'
git her An the funniest part of it al
| Is that there amt no purifier youn
uns anywhere than them seven chil
dren O. Jabe's. An they all got blu