The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-07-14
TA3oR's LACE NIGHT RogEs.

eugene Field Made Them the Subject
of Many a Singing attire.
Cup to middle age the late Senator
Tabor's life was one of greaa hard
ship said former resident OF the
Silver State, and when he suddenly
became fabulously rich he plunged INTO
luNuries like a starving man wading
into a banquet. One of his early freaks
was the purchase of several magniti-
cent lace night robes which cost 500
apiece and which he kept locked up in
Il safe during the day. Eugene Field
was editor OF the Denver Tribune ut
the time, and those lace night robes
made him simply hysterical. He wrote
column upon column about them. de-
Scribing the garments in detail, with
numerous diagrams depicting sections
fore and aft. The diagrams We're mid
eous affairs, which Field carved out
himself with Denknfe on the back
of old wood type. He used to describe
how Tabor would forget the combina.
ton of the safe and sit up. shivcrinS
and naked, half the night, trying to re-
member the right figures. 4AltoAlther,
he kept Denver in Il roar for weeks,
and made Tabor so wild that one day
he rushed into his office, snatched the
unfortunate night robes out of their
compartment and tore them to threads
There, now. he exclaimed. wiping his
forehead and kicking the tatteied frag.
mentS into q corner. 1 hope that fool
will be satisfied. I'll be hanged if ]
ain't going to get a gunny sack he
continued, cut some holes in the end
for my head and arms, and then sleep
in it for the rest of my life"
"When Tabor was appointed to the
Senate to fill an uneNpired term of eX-
actly twenty-nne days, Field broke
loose again and had all kinds of fun
with the old man. He declared that
Tabor opposed the tariff bill on the
ground that it encouraged lawlessness
in the West. 1 don't know this Tariff
Bill he reported the Senator as saying
in a speech, but we have entirely too
many of 'em out where l live. There's
Wild Bill and pecos Bill and Billy the
| kid-all 10 good. If you let Tariff
Bill have everything to do with the
custom house he is liable to steal the
Atlantic ocean, Many of the honest
| frontier folk took these flights of fancy
seriously and drove Tabor nearly dis
tracted by long letters Of remon-
STRANGE, urging him to read up and get
posted, so as not to disgrace the State.
At the expiration of the Senator's brief
term he circulated an autograph album
among his fellow members and the in
cident tickled Field immensely. He
gave what purpOrted to be Il copy Of
the sentiments inscribed in the vol
ume by the different statesmen-such
things as when this you see remember
me. Roscoe Conlling,' and sure as
the moss grown round a stump YOU
are my darling sugar lump-I mean
chump-George +. Hoar,' and similar
nonsense, all Of which maddened his
victim. l think Gene Field was the
only man Tabor never forgaye. for in
spite Of his gaunt, forbidding exterior,
the miner magnate was as tender
hearted as girl. He was really full
of sterling qualities. and in his proper
sphere he would have been anything
but grotesque. One thing is sure--if
every fellow he helped in secret would
have joined his funeral procession he
would have gone to his grave like an
emperor of old."-New Orleans Times.
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