Show A LUCK OF A 11 DESERTER a St Story of Row How He Became a Million Millionaire aire airs it Chicago Record Along In the a Scotch sailor sanor named Penny deserted from a manof manot war on n the west coast of South i t America and found his way weY to the theand f Interior of ot Bolivia where he worked I as a e miner and did odd jobs for a living liv living living ing In the course of time he took up 1 with an Indian woman VrOman and after she had nursed him through a ong and dangerous illness he married h her r to L show his gratitude She reciprocated i his confidence and affection by lead leadIng i Ing him to an ancient mine which had been abandoned and partially filled at atthe i the time of ot the conquest in order to tot I II t f keep it from falling into the hands of ot the Spaniards With the aid of his hia I wife and a named MacKenzie Penny cleaned out the rub bIsh and struck a vein of ot silver that mado him a millionaire The mine is still operated and is one of the most profitable in South America After having hating hav ing developed the property and an organized his affairs with Mac lI C Kenzle as his superintendent some years later Penny returned to Scotland and purchased the estate near Aberdeen upon which his parents had lived as la borers His Indian wife could neither read road nor write and could not speak or understand und a word of English but was habitually arrayed in silks and satins gatins and wore jewels that were the he wonder I I of ot all the country around Penny spent his money like a Monte Cristo and I Ithe the fame of af his philanthropy will never I be forgotten by the people of that re region region region gion He brought a son Gon of MacKenzIe to Scotland to be educated and sent senthi him hi to the best schools He also adopt I ed a e nephew of the name of Craig the son of a village parson living near ear Aberdeen Penny insisted that both should adopt his name and anti as he had bad no children of this ibis own and no prospects of any promised to make mak them his ills heirs heim When he died suddenly he left a will bequeathing his hiG mines and Ms his millions to his wife and commending to her care and generosity his two adopted sona Craig and MacKenzie Penny Shortly after Craig Penny Penn started for Bolivia with the widow leaving Mac Mae Kenzie who was then about 18 vears old in school During the itis voyage by some means Craig Induced Mrs Ire Penny to marry him and when they arrived I i at Oruro Omro he lie produced a marriage took charge of the property and dismissed the faithful MacKenzIe who rho ho had been sole manager of the mine for many years Then Mrs Penny died under unde mysterious circumstances I Although her husband attempted to keep away aay doctors and priests the old oM lady through a servant managed to send word to friends that she needed protection and before her death de declared declared declared that she had bad been poisoned The scandal was w hushed with i th money monny mon monand and Penny lived like a lord on OIl the profits of f the mine of which lie he claim claimed ed to be the sole owner but after a time young oung MaCKenzie learned what had transpired in Bolivia and started to Oruro Omra to protect his Being a British subject he placed his claims in the hands of Thomas H Anderson United States minister at St Bolivia Who was in charge of British interests and the tiro latter with the aid of Dr Alonzo recently president of Bolivia endeavored endeavored endeavored ored to arrange an amicable settlement of the controversy under which the two boys were to have baTe equal shares in the mine i When Mr Anderson returned to the United States at the end of ibis is term of office he brought young MacKenzie ie Penny with him in order that he be might complete his education in Washington but after a time when the boy return returned ed d to Bolivia President Alonzo organ organized organIzed Zed a syndicate to buy out both bath the heirs beirs for each He now controls the mines and is paying the two heirs in installments while both are drinking j themselves to death at Antofagasta |