The Little River news., 1920-08-21
"All right I'll not say another


 To begin, Don Juan Cafeter0 was
 not his real name, but rather free Spanish translation of the Gaelic,
 John Cafferty. MT. Cafferty was an exile of Erin with horrible thirst. He had first arrived in Sobrante some five years before, as section boss in
 the employ of the little foreign-oWned
 narrow-gauge railway which ran from
 Buenaventura on the Caribbean coast to San Miguel de Padua, up-country where the nitrate beds were located. Prior to his advent the railroad peo-
 pie had tried many breeds of section boss without visible results, until Chicago man, who had come to SO- brante to install an inter- communicate
 ing telephone system in the govern ment buildings, suggested to the su- perintendent of the road. who was German, that the men made for bosses come from Erin's isle; wherefore Mir.
 Cafferty had been imported at price
 of $5 a day gold. Result-a marked improvement ill the road bed and con-
 sequently the train schedules, and the dttiliitIiC lOFrH Ol tiit 'ttiltttN SOuts Something fin the climate of Sobran- te must have appealed to a touch of
 laissez faire in Don Juan's amiab1e nature, for in the course of time he
 had taken unto himself, without bell or book. after the fashion of the pro-
 letariat of Sobrante, the daughter of
 one Esteban Manuel Enrique Jose Ma ,,,o l ble peon who was singularly glad to 1 have his daughter off his hands and no 1 questions asked Following the fash l ion of the country, however, Esteban | had forthwith moved the remainder of l his numerous progeny under the man. 1 tie of Don Juan Cafetero's phlan- | thropy, and resigned a position which
 for many years he had not enjoyed -to-wit: salting and packing green
 hides at local abattoir. This fool l hardy economic move had so incensed Don Juan that in a fit of pique he
 spurned his father-in-law (we must
 call Esteban something and so why
 split hairs?) under the tails of his i camisa, with such vigor as to sever forever the friendly relations hither- 1 to existing between the families. Mrs. | CaffertI iagain we transgress, but
 what of it?) subsequently, passed away l in child birth, and no sooner had she been decently buried than Don Juan
 took week off to drown his sorrows. In this condition he had encoun- l tered Esteban Manuel Enrique Jose | Maria Pasqual Miramontes and
 called him out of his name. In the
 altercation that ensued Esteban. fully | convinced that he had received the | nub end of the transaction from start
 to finish, cut Don Juan severely; Don
 Juan had thereupon slain Esteban with a .44-caliber revolver and upon
 emerging from the railroad hospital
 month later had been tried by a SO-
 brantean magistrate and fined the sum
 of S20.OOO. legal tender of the republic of Sobrante. Of course, he had paid it off within six months from his
 wages as section boss, but the mem
 ory of the injustice always ranked l him, and gradually he moved down the l scale of society from section boss to day labOrer, day laborer to tropical tramp. and tropical tramp to beach | comber, in which latter state he had I now existed for several months. To return to Mother Jenks.
 Before Don Juan could even utter a ] matutinal greeting, Mother 4enks laid finger to lip and silenced him. "Go | back to Leber's and return in an hour,"
 she whispered. 'I lave my reasons for
 wantin' that bloomin' caldegram de- l livered later"
 Don Juan hadn't the least idea what 1 Mother Jenks' reasons might be, but 1 he presumed she was up to some chi l canery, and so he winked his blood
 shot eye very knowingly and nodded | his scquiescence in the program. When he had gone, Mother Jenks went behind the bar and fortified her | self with her mornings morning
 which rite having been performed, her seep-benumbed brain livened up i'm mediately.
 Cords truth !" the lady murmured
 "An' me about to turn him adrift for tHc iGNSt ILlSHt Ncii loI HI alters hadmired the picture O my
 sainted Emery, as was the spittin' i'm age of his own fawther. 'Evings 'Ell's bells! But that was bit of a
 tight squeak Just as I'm fully con
 winced 'e's beat it an I'm left 'oldin'
 the sack. all along O my kindness of
 'eart, e gets the cablegram 'e'S been
 ookn' for this two months past; an e aIlers claimed as low any time e got
 a cablegram it'd be an answer to is letter, with money to foller, My word, but that was touch an goV
 Still cOngratulating herself upon her good fortune in intercepting Don Juan Cafetero, Mother Jenks proceeded up- stairs to her chamber, clothed her
 self, and adjourned to the kitchen, After giving orders for an extra spe- cial breakfast for two, Mother Jenks returned to her cantipa, and formally opened the same for the business of that day and night.
 TO har Capoo nrasoptly Via the tiled