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Show WiLT DON ENRIQUEZ GATHERS MAiNT KINDS Of THEE5 MONEY Scion of Ancient House of Seville Disposes of "La Joya del Munda" Cigarros to Victims Touched by Tale of Misfortune. DON EMR1QUEZ BE LA CABALLO Y VACA Is a Spanish gentleman of the school that flourished at the time King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sat upon their temporary throne before the gates of Granada, waiting for those gates to ope. Of course, Enriquez did not live so long ago; Indeed, very few of the present Inhabitants In-habitants of the earth lived at that time. But Senor Knriquez had ancestors. This is no particular distinction, either, because be-cause almost everyone haH ancestors. But Knriipjez'a ancestors were different. They were a long line, whose root was sunk in the fertile soil of Seville, but which, at the time of the first appearance on earth of Senor Knriquez, had become incrusted on t lie more or less oterlle Plaza. Main street, Los Angeles, California. H. A. Ware is no such proud and haughty Spanish grandee. He Is just a Yankee, and while he, too. has a line of ancestor it neither had Its origin before the gates of Granada nor its lodgment on the Plaza at Los Angeles, for a 11 of which Mr. Ware offera up devout thanks. An Exciting Episode. A word or two more of Mr. Ware and then we shall proceed with the I brill ing details of an exciting episode. Mr. Ware is t lie representative of a large eastern merca ntlie establishment. He formerly had his headquarters In Salt Lake, a nd will be best, remembered as the first Good Fellow. Mr. Ware implanted tiie Good Fellow Idea In thld town in the Christmas Christ-mas times of 1912. It has rapidly grown to the dignity of an Institution of magnificent mag-nificent proportions. In 1 11 3 Mr. Ware was Good Fellow again, and as such personification per-sonification he and his estimable wife distributed dis-tributed cheer and joy and gladness among thousands and thousands of little children who otherwise would have been cheerless and jo'-icss and gladless at Yuletide. Now Mr. Ware has his headquarters at Denver, and it was In that city where acquaintance, since rudely fractured, between be-tween Mr. Ware and Don linriquez began. be-gan. Last week Mr. Ware's stenoirra pher laid upon his desk a card bearing the formidable cugnomenry that forms the whole of the lirst line and perhaps no small part of the second line of this piece. Met at the Bar. "Certainly I will eee him." paid Mr. Ware, and proceeded to attend the wants of his visitor at a railing which separates the working quarter from the space allotted al-lotted the caller, millionaire and proletarian prole-tarian alike. "What can I do for vou?" queried Mr. Wh re. Hal-la v. Espanol?"' Inquired the distinguished but extremely humble visitor. "Cmph. How's that?" "? Ilabia v. Jvspanol?" repeated Don dirlquez, for It wus none other than he. "I'ltch inn a strike," sut'if:sted Ware; "yon'e thrown two balls already.' "Yo no comprehend . rnooch thees lan-truace," lan-truace," murmund Senor Knriquez. "Hut of tln-es tunirue I haf to myself acquire a p-ile kmmledce. Thes I come to fay to tiie senor. I ;-hold ! My ha nd eet en -cir, lc 1 he line ci-arros. Cet is cigarros the like from whJ.-h the nenor nevarr-.-he shall haf smoke. Krt Is I, Knriquez 'If la Cat'allo y Vaca who sav so, and a '.s-.t eel is I who am with trrlef exr-ssif tri'-ken. jt is that to the henor I would b.-11 the 'MaiTu six hundred of heem. Eet Is I who am what In tores ceety you ahalt call broke." "Hut I don't want any cigars,' declared Vvare. For Mercy's Sake. "Let Is for mercy's -ako you buy thees tin- cigarros. A t homo in my beloved Havana there is 'what you rail, now. family. Good f'enor. in my casa there i.i muchacho und muchacha and so beautiful beau-tiful le-'tle nlnita. Thees baby he must what I mv? aeopado de bambr''; morlr ,lf. f.-d starve you rail heem. No, yrnor, von will not me refuse to buy. To the j senor I gif heem thees be-eautiful cigarros cigar-ros for nine cents. Let Is cneap, aenor, , eet is go very cheap." Ware was obdurate, lie protested that he did not want them, but the more he protested the more persuasively obsequious obsequi-ous grew Don Knriquez and the more insistent. in-sistent. Prices tumbled. From nine cents, the cigarros dropped to eight, to seven, to six, and finally to five. "Observe." said Don Knriquez, "with my leetie finger to push out the c!garro that the senor may the smoke try." And deftly there was protruded from one side of a bundle of a hundred cigars one which Ware lit. It was an excellent article. The lid of the box whence Don Enriquez En-riquez extracted the bundle of cigarros was gorgeously decorated. In glittering letters of gold It bore the legend, "La Jova del Munda," signifying, presumably, "Joy of tiie Earth." The Spanish dictionary, dic-tionary, however, falls to reveal even the remotest, affinity of "joya" for "joy." The beholder was, moreover, informed that the contents were "exqulsltos" and also "Colorados." with many other euphonious eu-phonious and no doubt alluring epithets descriptive of the aromatic qualities of the cigars. Told of Misery, All the while Don Enriquez dilated upon the miseries which were even then falling fall-ing upon his beloved family at Havana. Happily for them, he eald, they could not weil morir de frio, but, on the other hand, they miht with equal Inconvenience Inconven-ience perish with heat, so that their annihilation an-nihilation would be as complete in the one case as in the other. At length Don Enrlouez's loquacity prevailed pre-vailed and Ware bought 200 cigars. Three salesmen also bought 100 each. Don Enriquez was much elated. "Eet is safe the family," lie cried In erstacA-. "Of a consequence I remain tranquil cannot. Eet Is for the nlnita so leetie and so pretty that there ailment ail-ment is. Thees hour I go to Tampa. I hesitate no Jonsrer; I am fly on the Instant; In-stant; I am what you say beat It." Yesterday Ware came to Salt Lake. "Say." he exclaimed in the midst of the story, "that fellow certainly worked me. That clear he shoved out at me was a regular cigar. There's no mistake about that. But, listen! The rest of that bunch whew! Well, the 'puro o' tabaco' tliat fellow talked about never was even a cabbage. T think It must have been burdock weed." But that isn't all of the yarn. And They Met Again. Ware took a flyer up to his old quarters quar-ters li the Keanis building. Ae he was about to Btep Into the elevator who shouJd he encounter but Don Knriquez. The noble s:on of 'an atudent family cai-rifd a pa- kae very similar to the one he bore into Ware's office at Denver. Den-ver. "Hello," cried Ware, cheerily, "I see you are on your way to Tampa." "ila, I know you." snapped Don En-rioufz. En-rioufz. "You are Hip Denver cabru." Which, reduced to its elements in the chemistry of philology, means, "You axe the Denver goat." Later. Investigation proved that Don Enriquez had driven a prosperous business busi-ness in the building. P. P. A fellow just came in and said the way to make this a really pood story was to say to Mr. Ware something like this: "Now that you FL A. Ware of the 3u-plirlty 3u-plirlty of Spanish grandees " P. II The man that sii merest ed the first P. was removed to the hospital in a dying condition. Evidently his wounds are more ssll ue than his assailant assail-ant Intended they should he. P. S. ITI A report from the hospital just received says the man passed away without regaining consciousness. P. P. IV A second consultation of Mr. Ware's card proves that there wasn't any ie-ke after all and no grounds for one, becavso his initials are not R. A., but A. K. Consequently the man suffered death in vain. Still he brought It on himself. |