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CHICAGO, March N.-"You Knew the
bride. then, beforer asked the reporter q
Q prominent official. 8
"Lord, yes--and her whole family. And
q nice, plain, respectable family. Old Pstss
McCourt, the father, Il French. Ifishmsn,
and he has been around Oshkosh for msny
years He's tailor BY trade, and Of lats
yeais he has been running tailor shop In
Oshkosh and supporting his family, There
are four children in all-two sons and two
daughters. The sors are promising young
men. The eldest daughter Is nicely mar.
ried. Lizzie, whom Tabor has gone wild
over, Is the youngest Of the family. Pretty.
No. not exactly; bot she is very volup-
tuous-lookins, very fond OF admiration.
and smarter than Q steel-trap. She kas
only made one blunder in life % far, view
ed from q worldly sense, and that wss
when she married young Doe. He wasn't
any account and they didn't get on very
well together. He was jealous Of her-not
altogether without cause, ! guess, for she
was slways seeking admiration. Doe
was the SON d an old Osh-
kosh man, who afterward got
Down In the World.
The Does went to Denver three years ago,
and 1; was there that the fair Lizzie met Ia
Dor, who was Just then beginning 70 get
rich. There isn't any use dwelling on what
followed. It's enough to say that Tabors
influence and Tabor's money procured di.
yorce for the lady a. fast Is stern justice in
n ~ IL tta al
Doe, too, was pensioned OF In mild kind
of way-given . fat job in Leadvills or
somewhere in one OF Tabor's mines. From
that time the fortunes of the McCourt fam.
lily have improved. Old Peter has shut up
the tailor shop and folks say that-well, no
matter what they say. Peter doesn'. work
any more. OF course it would have been
better all around il the ex-senator and his
bride could have called in the priest before,
but the former Mrs. Tabor was kind OF
stumbling block. lShe wouldn't consent to .
divorce, nor didn't, until the Tabor sack
yielded something like $500, 900. The old
lady had got $l0J, 900 before, and she would
not have objected, only she knew about
The Liasie Doe Busiae-s,
and she swore that il Tabor wanted the
Oshkosh beauty he must pay big money to
her (Mrs. IT, for the privilege. She got II,
TOT III tnere WAS All iuldtua'Su oiu isHe -
was Tabor"
did | understand you were at the we'd
ding" asked the reporter.
"Yes, was there. The Washington
newspapers got onto it pretty well but 1t
took man who knows the antecedents OF
the party to appreciate the fun. II was
great sport to see how i'll ut ease the Prest.
dent was and how he seemed to realize
that he had got into snao. 1t was Tom
Bowen who got him to go, and shouldn't
wonder il that very thing will make the
atmosphere a lit:lo cool for Tom around
the White House during the remainder OF
Arthurs term. It was thought'ess OF
Bowen, for he knew all about the real In
wardness Of the Tabor Doe affair, and has
known il for two years, and he ought not
to have got the President into such posi-
ton"
Yes" continued the gentleman. "Lizzie
did pretty we'll financially, guess. They
ssy he settled $20o, 900 on her, and fxc3
the McCourt family handsomely besides"
"What do you think Of the st. Louis
marriage months ngoY'
Il believe 1t Oh, for that matter. they
might ss well have been married two years
ago. The Washington ceremony was got
up as a mere splurge to try aud force them
selves INTO society. That il proved Q fail.
ure Tabor has got nobody TO blame but
himself"