The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-24
TWO PATRIOTS IN A ROW,
A Naughty Son of Spain Re-
fuses to Put a Shine on
ga Cuban"
The Combatants We're Arrested.
Now Only a Damage Suit Can
Settle the Question.

Caesar Cervanti came swinging out of the
Christoforo Colombo restaurant the other
day with generous smile of satisfaction
on his big, round face. He had enjoyed
his meal as the feast of the month. His
eye lit upon his bootblack- stand. Aha, a
customer. Business was good. Cervanti's
smile grew more expansive.
He approached his stand with the airy
step of Spanish cavalier. Suddenly some
thing IN the cut of the customer attracted
his attention.
"Sapristi!' he Missed. GEES it?" And
he began to tiptoe toward the stand, his
elbows pumping up and down in his fran
tic efforts to make no noise.
The customers head and shoulders were
buried behind a big newspaper which he
was intently perusing. He was as limo
cent of the irate Cervanti's approach as
the dog asleep on the first assistant shoe
sinners coat. Cervanti stealthily tiptoed
near enough to get close view of the Gus
toners shoes. Then his eyes bulged with
rage, his face flushed, his short-cropped
hair rose on end and he looked like the en-
ragged Othello about to eat up half dozen
full grown Hyrcanean beasts.
"Dia blo!'' he yelled. With one bound
he had smashed down the inoffensive
newspaper from the face of the astonished
customer.
"Diablo' he roared again, and with one
mighty clutch he seized the coat collar of
the gasping customer and before the
"Dia" came out in the next "Dia bio," the
gasping customer was whirling in one wild
circle. He swung around Cervanti in
three cyclonic whirls. Then the mad
Spaniard let go and the air-splitting Gus
toner went shooting along the sidewalk,
L. 10, 4 4,
fetched up against hitching-post with a
resounding bang.
HAL hap laughed Cervanti, purple
with stated rage.
The thud against the post evidently
brought the astonished customer to him
self. He got up slowly, wiped the tears,
dirt and stars from his eyes, and in his
| rage.
"Ha," he cried. "Wha for, why you do
ices P'
CUBA, bah !' Missed Cervanti, brandish-
ing both his fists as he danced before his
bootblack-stand.
"Spain, bah, to you" retorted the angry
customer, eontemptuously. 'See, for you,
fingers with all the derision and contempt
he could put into the snap.
''Oh, from such a Cuban, from such a.
a-outland man. Diablo, it is too mucha !"
shouted Cervanti, fairly dancing up and
down IN his rage.
Then turning to the rapidly gathering
crowd he said ALREADY have told him
many times no Cuban shall sit on my
stand while the miserable island rebels
against my native land. He rebels against
me. he defies me, the low born"
'Llarl' yelled the dancing customer
from his side of the walk "Slave-driver
OF a Spaniard. Cuba shall drive you
whipped from her sacred soil. Bah, to
you, base mongrel-only fit to black the
Cubans.
ITO me!' yelled the enraged Cervanti.
He say this to me, Caesar Cervanti. [
will show him, so, he Missed, with hiss
not to be outdone by cobra with teeth
tangled in molasses candy. Down,
Cuban REBEL" and he made dash for the
intrepid customer.
An officer came up few seconds later
and elbowing his way through the big
crowd he separated what was left OF Ger
vantl and his customer under protest, VIM
cent Monge.
Monge had Cervanti arrested for assault
and the other day he was found guilty In
the Police Court.
Not content with this big revenge Mongee
has just filed in the Justices Court suit
against Cervanti for $299 damages. =,
Il will show him." said the excltable
little Cuban, "such as he cannot with
IMMUNITY say bah to my country. we
shall be free; yes. with certainty"
'Diablo," Cervanti retorts. 1T is the
Cuban way. If he fights in the open where
is hep and Cervanti lays low. his hands,
suggestively. eff his miserable, country
fights in the open where is sheT' ana ne
makes the same motion. It'll she Denus
the knee no Cuban shall sit on my s!anu
and have his shoes BACKED. No, not Ior
81 shine. am patriot, am. snlhe
no Cuban"
The present case is regarded as y, tes $40 OF
the merits of Spain and Cuba, SO both Ger
vanti and Monge are making extraord mary
efforts to win it.
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