Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24

and SO it will flow for many, many years to come.
There is chance of the vein or rather veins-they
many in this magnificent body of ore-giving
out. The that is in sight and cannot be denied
will pay Pedro the peon thirty thousand dollars
every day of his life, even should his years exceed
the three and ten of the psalmist An earth
quake might put the Palmla mine out of business
for time-but so it might the Bank of England
Wall Street.
When Alvarado realized that he millionaire
he went money mad. Accustomed all his life to the
bitterest poverty he squandered thousands Da-
monds and jewelry, pictures and horses and car
riages and gowns galore for his beautiful wife Vir-
gnia, who had never had more than one change of
clothing before He gambled, and then he built
palace which is revelation BY the very few who
have visited the place these facts vouchsafed
for.
1t had been the abiding ambition of Virgnia's
life all through their poverty some day to have
piano; and SO, when the faithful husband got his
Millions of his first acts to buy a thousand
pianos, one for each of the thousand rooms in the
palace. In each there is also an aviary
tanning at least a hundred canary birds. Through
out the palace the woodwork is of mahogany, hand
carved. Almost every suite of apartments opens
out into its own private patio, where a fountain
plays at night when the canary birds resting
On saints days and holidays the fountains are said
Rue de la Pax but this statement have always
regarded tropical exaggeration..
For some years Alvarado had agents in Persia
on the lookout for the Daghestan rugs; in
Arabia to bride sheiks and pashas for permission
export famous mares of the Yemen breed; in the
Orient for rare curos Indeed, all that is rare in
the world and might come in the dreams of sud
denly made Croesus, that has this rich of the
soil sought; and furthermore he has succeeded in
getting most of the worldly things he desired.
Tired of His Extravagances
DUT in the last year two the delights of extrava
- gance seem to have palled upon Alvarado. He
lives quietly and unostentatiously While he has
everything that money can buy his personal ex-
pendture is greater than that of hundreds of his
erected shrine to the Virgin, the walls of which
of onyx and the supporting pillars of alabaster,
and here day and night thousand candles burn in
honor of Our Lady of the Mine.
Pedro Alvarado has many children; but in the
disposition of his wealth, which to have
brought him no greater happiness than was his
when he worked penniless peon, he is said to
have no more thought of them than of the children
of his neighbors. When President Diaz refused to
have the national debt of Mexico wiped out, AL
varado is said have acted bereft of reason
for few days Perhaps the fear, the dread, of the
silver food engulfng him, is working upon the
nerves of this favorite of fortune Undaunted,
however, he is planning another outlet for his
gigantic wealth. He is gathering the statistics
of every father of family throughout Mexico.
When the list is ready, he intends, it is said, to
divide with his fellow countrymen the output of
the Palmilla mine The Mexican Government is
also said to be perturbed these colossal relief