The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-23

you one thing. I have never boarded
money. I have given away q great
deal, and have made and lost a half
dozen fortunes. ] believe that money
was made to use, and I think the man
who piles 1t up and will not let 1t go
until he has 81 security for every one
he puts out is nothing more than a.
paWnbroker on a big scale. AS to how
to succeed IN mining, I don't think
any one can tell. The Judging of a
mine is to a large extent a matter of
intuition and experience. You learn
after time to know a good thing
when you see 1t, and still there is a
great deal Of guesswork about it, after
all. AS for me, 1 have never been
afraid to back my judgment, and
though I have made some mistakes, T
have been, on the whole, right success
full. I believe, you know, in plenty Of
money. I believe that large circulat-
ing medium brings good times, and
that the more you restrict the currency
the greater the distress among both
capitalists and laborers."
STRATTON AND TABOR.
I am told here that Stratton, the
carpenter of Colorado Springs, who
struck it rich at Cripple Creek, is max
ing other good hits right along. For
twenty-five years luck went against
him. Now he don't seem able to make
a mistake. His big mine, "The indie
pendence," continues to grow richer
No one but Stratton knows what its
output Is. but the general belief is
that the mine produces somewhere be-
tween one and two hundred thousand
dollars worth Of gold year. For a
time he took out a $1,000 a day. and
am told that the mine is growing bet
ter as it goes further down. Stratton
has refused 81 900 900 for the property,
and he sticks to his old idea that the
gold is better where it is than in his
pockets. He says that Mother Earth
is the best banker that he knows; the
gold IS there, and that he can get it
out when he wants it. You may have
heard that Stratton recently gave Ia
Dor $4,000, and told him to go out into
the mountains and see if he could not
strike another fortune. Well, that
statement seems to be true. Tabor has
left Denver, and is now prospecting
in the Rockies. AS far as I can learn,
the sum was a straightout gift from
Stratton, and it was coupled with no
provision that if Tabor struck it rich
he was to divide with Stratton.
WILL TABOR'S LUCK TURN?
1t may be that the day will come
when Tabor will again be rich and
StrattOn again be poor. Tabor's luck
runs in streaks. Like Stratton, the
first part of his life was unsuccessful.
Then Dame Fortune smiled and pure
luck made him rich beyond the dreams
of avarice. Tabor did not get much
gray matter by inheritance. His brains
are meager. He half starved in Maine,
and when he first came to Colorado
and opened his little store near the
present site Of Leadville his wife had
to wash for the miners and take
bOarders to brighten the wolf from the
door. Then some miners whom he had
grub staked struck the Little Pitts
burg, which was soon yielding $4,000 a
day. Tabor and others got possession
of the mine. The stock soon sold so
that the mine was worth 100000, and
Tabor in four months jumped from a
cracker peddler to a millionair. He
made a big fortune out of the Match
less, which he got for a song. The
Erin gave him more money, and for a
long time it seemed rs if he could
touch nothing without finding it turn
to silver or gold under his fingers.
HOW TABOR TOOK IN WASHING
TON.
Almost every one has read the ups
and downs Of Tabor's romance. The
story is fuller of adventures than one
VI Tic O-u yCllOW-DdCh IlONeIS. Ou
know how, when he became a multi
millionaire, he was not suited with new
clothes alone. but wanted a new wife
as well. He divorced the good Old wom-
an who had worked for him and made
his fortune and picked up a dashing
young widow, with cheeks like a peach
and with eyes which had a brighter
sparkle than any of his gold when it
flowed from the smelters. I will not
{DJ1 Il e,4o Df hot II
vorce suit as 1t was brought out in the
courts of Colorado. I saw Tabor after
it was over, when he brought the
dashing young widow to Washington
city to be married. The wedding took
place at Wizards hotel, with a dinner
fit for a Lucullus in a room that was
almost walled and ceiled with roses,
though the time was midwinter. A cele-
brated priest performed the ceremony.
President Arthur was at the wedding
and gave a rose to the bride. The
event was the talk Of the capital, and
both before and after it Senator Tabor
shone in the brief sunshine of his own
notoriety. He even exhibited to the
newspaper correspondents the embroid-
cred night shirts which he had made
for the occasion, whispering that the
best of them had cost him $500 apiece
The marriage was hardly over, how
whole thing was a farce, and that the
zeal marriage had been performed some
months before by justice of the peace
in musty little office in st. Louis. The
second Mrs. Tabor is now COMPARE
lively poor. The first Mrs. Tabor in
vested the alimony which she got from
the divorce suit and died with some
thing like $2,00O,000. Her fortune be-
longs to her son, who stuck to her
hnY 10 I,ie fo4I
within the past few years has been
more or less contributing to his fathers
support.
SHAKESPEAREA AND ROBERT ELS
MERE.
Nearly every man I meet here has
some funny story to tell about Tabor
I was chatting the other day with a
member of the Colorado legislature.
He recalled the time when Tabor was
buying votes right and left in order to
be elected to the United States senate.
This was just at about the time that
Mrs. Humphrey Wards novel was Gre
ating a sensation and one of the poll
ticians asked Tabor if he had yet seen
Robert Elsmere," referring, of course,
to the novel
'Elsemere? Elsemere?" said Tabor.
ono, I have not seen him. From what
part Of the state does he come How
much will it cost to get his vote any
how?"
Tabor's Opera house here has long
passed out of his hands and also the
Tabor block His opera house in Lead
Vile is no longer his, and I am not
sure that his picture is still left on the
drop curtain. It was there for a time
at any rate, and the way in which it
was put there forms the subject Of the
story I heard yesterday. 1t was when
the h1.ilGinss had hae1a r,nnlated aud