Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-10-18

Il reckon Jabe Hawkins was about
the ugliest man the Lord ever let live"
said Uncle Ben as me meditatively
whetted his knife upon his boot leg.
I've knowed strangers TO foller that
man around for a half hour jest To git
another look at his face an then so
right of an take a drink o licker.
Seemed TO kind O. give 'em relish for
il. 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 il. Ii was durn
pity, too, because he was IA 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
fine bottom land as ever felt a pillow.
well. in spite O him bein SO blame
homely that he dasSent look a woman
in the face. this we're cusS was always
wantin TO git married. but. O course.
they want no way to get at il. He
advertised some IN the city paper an
writ letters to lots o women that way,
but he was honest 70 the core, an when
the thing got along fur enough SOS
they might anything come o II he al
ways sent his photograph. an that end
ed 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 be was n
good hand at that, before he sent his
pickshur. After studyin over his line
ments for couple O months she made
up her mind 10 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 Ind
20-year-old son that bObbed up after
the ceremony an turned out TO be as
shiftless rs it's possible fur a man TO
git an 1--we.
Then Jabe gifts desperit, an he up an
offers a hundred dollars reward 70 any
body as VIII 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
his own Shortcomings, was satisfied to
git anybody most. but Mirandy took
epileptic fits an died before the weddin
come of, an folks all aroun said II was
a judgment on Dud-
Then Jim Damn bTung aroun his
half witted girl, an Jabe studied a
long while over II. thinlSin mebby that
If they was goin 10 be children come
with his ugliness they'd better be fools.
too, SOS they wouldn't realize IL. The
girl seemed to take a fancy 10 Jabe
right away an wanted TO kiss him, but
he changed his mind right of. properly
decidin that be 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 n show, an he asked for
people to come up on the platform an
be hypnotized. Everybody most was
afraid TO go TIL Jabe made the break,
sayin II didn't matter much what be
come O him nohow, an then five more
went up like they alluz do.
We'll the mint this here hypnotist
took hold o. Jabe's head an tilted II
back TO git good look in his eyes be
give funny little jump an says:
at can't do nothin with you. Why,
man. you may not know 1t, but you
got more power than have. If you
Ak 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
Dif1ns 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
~ al,
ole Wash, an the next day he went
away.
But he made a mighty big change il
Jabe's life. Y'see up To this time Jabt
allus dropped his eyes every time III
see a woman comm. an the woman allu:
looked the other way. But now JADE
made up his mind TO try ii, an so hi
looked, an all the women knoweC
about II, so they looked, an they found
out that them eyes was mighty fine Il
you looked at 'em so keen you couldn'-
see the rest o. his face. They was
mostly scared, too, since they heard
as how Jabe was a hypnotizer If ht
only wanted TO be hathaway; but, o
course that only made 'em look all the
more.
to look at the best lookin girls, but only
the homely OA-s, an it wasn't two
weeks till he could o had his choice o
a dozen girls. You see, they got t.
talkin 10 him an studyin them eyes o
hiss'n, an fust thing they knowed they
was hankerin after 'em. But Jabe go
particular. They was time when he'(
been tickled TO death to have any CIR
that wore dresses keep comp'ny witt
him, but he KEEP raisin his idees every
day till fin'ly he sot his mind on winnil
Hetty Allen, that was the blamedes
purtiest girl in the whole country al
had n dozen fine lOokin fellers witt
good horses an buggies an some Lane
tryin to court her, an blame If he didn'
git her An the funniest part of it al
is that there amt no purifier youni
uns anywhere than them seven chill
dren o. Jabe's. An they all got blu
eyes, every one Of 'em, an the rest 4
like their mother"
The Sun Is Blue.
Professor s = Langley. secretary o