The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-20
JABEHAWKIN'S LUCK
The EFFECT PRODUCED sYA PAIR OF
FINE BLUE EYES.

a Tale Showing How the HOmliest
Man In the Village Won the "Pur-
tiest" Girl-A Travelling Hypnot1st
Proves Benefactor.
reckon Jabe Hawkins was about
the uslieSt man the Lord ever let live"
SAID Uncle Ben, as he meditatiyely
Whettcd his knife upon his boot leg.
We Anowed strangers to toller that
man around for half hour Jest to git
another look at his lace. an then 20
nght oil an take 4 drink of ticker.
seemed to kind of give em relish Tor
II. I've knowed fool women to scare
their children into spasm> by throatin
70 give EN- TO Jake, an they do say
ne S been the cause O more than one
runaway. He was jest pizen ugly, an
tnats all they was to it. 1t was
PITY, 100, because he was a mighty nice
man II you happened to meet him In
tne dark, and he had money in the
pank at Maple Run, and eighty acres
OF as tine bottom land as ever felt a
pillow.
We'll, in spite O. him bein' so blame
nomely that he dassent look women
III tue lace, this we're cuSS was always
Wantln to git married. but, o course,
they want no way to get at 1t. He ad-
VeruSed some in the city paper, an
writ letters to lots o women that way,
but he was honest 10 the core an when
the thing got along fur enough SOS
they might anything come OF it. he al
ways sent his photograph, an that
ended 1t. Oncet they was a mighty like
~ widow from way back East that got
10 llkin' Jabe purity well through his
letter writin', and | must say he was
good hand at that, before he sent his
plckshur After studyin' over his line
ments for couple o months she made
up her mind to come on, anyhow, but
when she ACCESSIBILITY saw .Iabe i'll the
flesh she backed out an married 81
Peters, an she made him mighty
tine wife, barrin' the fact that she
had twenty-year-old son that bobbed
up after the ceremony an turned out
to be AS shiftless as it's possible fur
man TO get an live.
Then Jabes gifts desperit, an he up
an offers a hundred dollars reward to
anybody as will git him a pardner.
But that didn't amount to much. Ole
bud Harris lowed he'd make his old
est girl, Mirandy, the one that had q
hare lip, jine him, and Jabe, KNOWN
his own Shortcomings, was satisfied to
git anybody most, but Mirandy took
epilepuc fits an died before the we'd
/ din come off, and folks all around said
I it was Judgment on bud.
Things was this-a way when there
was hypnotizer come through Maple
Run an give show an he asked for
people to come up on the platform an
be hypnotized. Everybody most was
afraid to 80 till Jabe made the break,
sayin it didn't matter much what be-
come Of him, nohow, an then i've more
went up like they alluz do.
well, the mint this here hypnotizer
took hold o Jabe's head an tilted 1t
back to git a good look in his eyes he
give a funny little jump an says:
I can't do nothin' with you. Why,
man, you may not know it, but you got
more power than l have. If you nix
them line blue eyes o your'n on any
body they just nachelly have to do
what you say.
"Then he let Jabe CO. an made Wash
Difins fight humble bees an preten' he
was dog an do the most outlandish
things you ever heard OF. Golly! it was
funny, an he made some O the others
act up, too, but none so much as old
Wash, an the next day he went away
But he made a mighty big change
in Jabe's life. N'see up to this time
Jabe allus dropped his eyes every time
he see q woman comm, an women al
lus looked the other way. But now
Jabe made up bis mind TO try 1t, an
looked, an all the women knowed
about it, SO they looked. an they found
out them eyes was mighty fine IL you
looked at 'em so Keen you couldn't see
the rest Of his face, They was mostly
scared, too, since they heard as how
Jabe was q hypnotizer if he only want
ed to be that-a-Way, but, of course,
that only made 'eu look all the more.
First off, Jabe didn't have the sand
to look at the best lookin' girls, but
only the h0mcly ones, an it wasn't tive
weeks till be could Of had his choice of
dozen girls. You see, they got to
talkin' to him an studyln' them eyes
O. hiss'n, an fust thing they knowed
they were hankcrin' after 'em. But
Jabe got partic'lar, They was time
when he'd been tckled to death To
have any girl that wore dresses keel
comp'ny with him but he KEEP raisin
his idees every day till fnly he sot
his mind on winnin' Iietty Allen that
was the blamcdest purtiest girl In the
whole county, an had dozen fine
lookin' fellers with good horses an
buggies 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 oh ldren O. Jabe's. An
thav all pot blue eyes"