MADERA   MERCURY Madera, Madera County, California Friday, July 27, 1906 SHORTY'S LOVE _________ The Current Continues to Zigzag Woefully. _________ Outside Influences at Work -- The Merchant Wants Ah Moy, Shorty His Money. _________ From Friday's Daily     CHAPTER II.     Since the first chapter of "Shorty's Love" appeared in last Tuesday's Mercury, a change has come over Len Fat, alias Lum Hing, also known as "Shorty, the slop man."  The unquenched fires of love which burned fiercely in his bosom for comely Ah Moy for many moons, and then some, have flickered and gone out.     Shorty no longer pines for the damsel whose mercantile value recently went up like the mercury in a tin thermometer hanging on the sunny side of the street.  Instead, his love is for dollars of the realm -- and he is particularly interested in the recovery of those 510 "bucks" advanced to the widowed mother of little Ah Moy during the time when he imagined his joss looked with favor upon his ambition to become the son-in-law of Mrs. Yee Chung.     Learning of the change in Shorty's sentiments, an agent of the wily Coulterville chink, who so ruthlessly tore into the slop man's love dream, sought out Shorty and offered him $800 for an assignment of his claims against Mrs. Yee Chung and Ah Moy, financial, matrimonial and otherwise.  Shorty indignantly refused the offer, and the matter has been referred to Fresno's Chinatown for arbitration.  A threat to invoke the aid of the "Melican" courts, on the part of Shorty, in the recovery of his money, was met by a counter threat to introduce one or two natives of the Flowery Kingdom who are paid to settle Chinese differences outside the courts.  And so the matter rests -- but the final chapter is yet to be recorded.     Later, -- Mrs. Yee Chung left for Fresno on the 2:25 train, with a copy of Tuesday's Mercury tightly clasped in her hand. _________