The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-29
JABEHAWKIN'SLUCE
THE EFFECT PRODUCED syApNe 4,
FINE BLUE EYES. "

A Tale Showing How the Hou,.
Man I'm the Village Won thu "p
tiest" Girl-A Travelling HyDDot..
Proves q Benefactor.
II reckon Jabe HAWKING Wa.
the ugliest man the Lord ever let G ivy
said Uncle Ben, as he meditatrsi
whetted his knife upon his loot Is
1--WE knowed strangers 70 follar tSE
man around for half hour lest ~
another look at his race, an thsn N
right of an take a drink of lio.tsu
Seemed to kind Of give EN- a relish -.
1t. I've knowed fool women 10 SOU W.
their children into spasms by threst0s'
to give 'em to Jake, an thev do snl
he's been the cause O. more than on 90!
runaway. He was jest pizen ugly S a0i
that's all they was to it. 1t was
pity, too, because he was mighty mia.
man If you happened to meet him y
the dark, and he had money in ~
bank at Maple Run, and eighty acr a'
Of as fine bottom land as ever fall
pillow.
"Well, in spite O. him bein' so blau.
homely that he dassent look a womor
In the face, this yere cuss was alwsv,
wantin' to git married, but, O. conr:o
they want no way to get at it. He aS
vertised some in the city paper an
writ letters to lots O women that waT
but he was honest to the core. an VIII,
the thing got along fur enough so,s
they might anything come of II, he Al.
ways sent his photograph, an tha,
ended it. Oncet they was a mighty lilo.
ly widow from way back East that "a,
to likin' Jabe purity well through hi,
/ letter writin', and l must say he wa.
a good hand at that, before he sent hi,
pickshur. After studyin' over his line.
ments for a couple O. months she mods
up her mind to come on, anyhow. but
when she ackshully saw JADE in the
flesh she backed out an married Il
Peters, an she made him mighty
fine wife, barrin' the fact that sbs
had twenty-year-old son that bobbed
up after the ceremony an turned ont
to be as shiftless as it's possible fur A
man to get an live.
"Then Jabes gifts desperit, an he In
an offers a hundred dollars reward "a
anybody as will git him a pardner
But that didn't amount to much. Ola
bud Harris lowed he'd make his Old,
est girl. Mirandy, the one that had a
/ hare lip, jine him, and Jabe KNOWN
his own Shortcomings, was satisfied "a
git anybody most, but Mirandy tool
epileptic fits an died before the wed
din come off, and folks all around sale
/ it was judgment on bud.
"Things was this-a-Way when Their
was a hypnotizer come through MapI
Run an give show an he asked fO
people to come up on the platform an
be hypnotized. Everybody most wa
afraid to go till Jabe made the break
sayin' it didn't matter much what be
come of him, nohow, an then five NOR
went up like they alluz do.
"Well, the mint this here hypnotic
took hold O. Jabe's head an tilted
back to git a good look in his eyes
give funny little jump an says:
4 can't do nothin' with you. VIII,
man, you may not know it, but you e
more power than l have. If you fl
them fine blue eyes O. your'n on an,
I OOuS llSJ JuSt AslSASAAy udNG ~
what you say
"Then he let Jabe go, an made Was
Diffins fight bumble-bees an preten' /
was q dog an do the most outlandis
things you ever heard Of. Gollyi it wa
funny, an he made some o the Other
act up, too, but none so much as Of
Wash, an the next day he went ava
But he made mighty big chan!
in Jabe's life. Y'see up to this tin
Jabe allus dropped his eyes every Tin
he see woman comm, an women
lus looked the other way. But no
Jabe made up bis mind to try it, a
looked, an all the women know
about it, so they looked, an they foul
out them eyes was mighty fine if y
looked at 'em so keen you couldn't S
the rest Of his face. They was most
scared, too, since they heard as he
Jabe was a hypnotizer if he only wal
ed to be that-a-way, but, of cour
that only made 'em look all the mo
First off, Jabe didn't have the sa
to look at the best lookin' girls,
only the homely ones, an it wasn't t
weeks till he could of had his choice
dozen girls. You see, they got
talkin' to him an studyin' them e!
O. hiss'n, an fust thing they know
: they were hankerin' after 'em. I
Jabe got partic'lar. They was a til
when he'd been tickled to death
have any girl that wore dresses kt
comp'ny with him, but he KEEP rails
his idees every day till fn'ly he
his mind on winnin' Hetty Allen Il
was the blamedest purtiest girl In
J whole county, an had dozen Fl
lookin' fellers with good horses
buggies an some land tryin' to co
her, an blame if he didn't git her !
the funniest part of it all is that tn
amt no purifier young uns anywh
than them seven children O Jabe's.