The Press., 1909-03-03
A Revolution In Chilon1bia.
 By GEORGE KENNETT. convr;c,bt lag. bv P. c. Eastment.
By GEORGE KENNETT.
Copyright, 1907, by P. c. Eastmont.

The D'Estes family was Of the haughiest in Chilombia. Papa DEsteS was a retired dictator, not yet entered into that permanent rest which the cemetery affords to most Spanish American patriots at or DeIore Lne end of their official careers. Ills pest energies were now engrossed In ere mating malodorous cigarfos ana ID IT, rigating certain arid tracts of his ln- terior with aguardiente. Mamma D Es- tes does not count in this story save as the parent of seven sons and one daughter enumerated below.
 ! There were Brother Alfonso, who was destined for the presidency, ana Brother Juan, for the generalshlp or the army. and Brother Leon, for the archbishopric, and so on through the list to little Brother Cristofero, who was to fill some older brothers place should any elect a foreign minister ship instead of service at home. but the flower and darling of the house hold was Sister Esmerelda. She was to wed the highest official in the re- public outside her own family unless indeed some foreign potentate should seek her hand.
 Two gallants wOoed the rose Of the D'Estes, both of the ChilOmbia ar1S- tocracy and both of the staff from which dictators and presidents are made-SenOr Caballero and Senor Loch- inyar. Of these two Esmerelda ap- peared to favor the latter, to his rivals great discontinue.
 So h.1II True, Ee might pistol or knife his ene- my returning some pleasant night from serenading his inamorata. But he knew that suspicion would at once be directed toward him and his chances of winning Esmerelda forever destroy ed He might challenge his foe to a duel, but Lochinvar was better shot than he. Decidedly things could not be worse. What was the remedy? Like homing pigeon, he turned to the refuge of his race-a revolution.
 Caballero sat himself down to think, thing he did only on special occa- sions. The lines of revolutionary cleavage must be such that he and Papa D'Estes should find themselves on one side and Lochinvar on the other. The smoke of his cigarrO fur nished inspiration.
 Only two kinds of tobacco are smOk- ed in Chilombia-BogOta and La Paz. Caballero and Papa D'Estes were of the cremators of BOgOta, while Loch- invar clave to those who calcined La Paz. There was 50 per cent duty on BOgota, only 40 on La PaZ. Here was revolutionary finder with a vengeance. Caballero quietly kindled the flame. Soon the populace were boiling like superheated chocolate pot The hot l blood of the descendants of the Incas must be let.
 Then came the explosion. There were bells. bullets, bayonets, brickbats and bluff ad libitum. By day they | slew one another at the barricadeS; by 1 night they fraternized in the cafes over brimming fagons of aguardiente. A delicate mutual courtesy prevented any smoking.
 The adherents of Bogota won. Loch- invar fled to the mountains to remain in retirement until the next revolution. In a fever of patriotic excitement the l duty on Bogota was abolished and the l importation of La Paz utterly forbid den. Behold at last just and stable 1 government! There would never be any more revolutions. Everybody was puf6ng Bogota. La Paz was synony- nous with high treason. But they still irrigated with aguardiente: nothing | could prevent that Caballero's comet was at its zenith. l In He called Papa D'Estes into consulta- tion and formally requested the hand of Senorita Esmerelda. He promised his future brothers-in-law the highest positions in the Chilombian state. | His daughter the wife of the dicta- tor! His sons leading members of the government! Papa D'Estes' feelings overcame him. The seven young bloods of his house raked their sombreros a trlhe lower than ever. But Esmerelda remained tearfully true to her absent lover and, despite parental urging, steadfastly repelled the advances of Caballero.
 | Meanwhile Lochinvar was wasting no time. He pawned an ancestral gold mine and purchased 100000 La Paz cigarros and 10000 flasks of aguardi- ente. These were brought over the passes on llamas and cached in con- Venient cave.
 A month passed, and still Esmerelda held out against Caballero. Popular enthusiasm for the new government had begun to cool.
 One day a messenger brought note ka ing, but returned a reply. That night a long black coffer was smuggled into the rear entrance of his mansion. score of similar boxes had been secret ly conveyed to the abodeS of other prominent families.
 At midnight in a double barred and bolted chamber the black coffer was placed on trestles. Papa D'EsteS stood at its head. and little Brother CrIsto
 fero at its foot, while the six othel brethren were ranged three on either side. The box was opened. It was filled to the brim with cigarros of Ls Paz. Among them nestled goodly number Of peculiarly shaped bottles.
 At last a date was set for the wed ding of Caballero and the unwilling Esmerelda. But as the dictator's ar dor increased that of Papa D'Estes Rnd the seven brothers percepttbly
 fooled. For six weeks not roll of I4s
 Az had been smoked openly in Chi Iombia. But now the people began to tire of Bogota. The daily journals voiced vague hints of tyranny. Steal thy whiffs, elusive scents of La Paz permeated the Chilombian atmosphere.
 The wedding day arrived. Caballero and his best man set out for the cathe- dral. AS they turned corner the per fume of an invisible cigarro drifted to tie dictator's nostrils. He paled and became silent. It was La Paz! The tide was turning. The revolutionary | pendulum had begun it's counter swing,