Arizona republican., 1899-06-03
TABOR'S LACE NlGHTSHlPrS
Fan They Afforded Eugene Field
 and whaf Became of Them.

"Up to middle age the late Senator
 Tabors life was one of great hard
 sAfp." said d former resident cf the
 silver state, and when he suddenly 1 beeame fabulously rich he plunged inCo l .uxuries ike a starving man w2ding i into a banquet One of his early l freaks was the purchase of several magnificent lace night robes which | cost SlO0 apiece, and which he kept i Iccked up in a safe during the day. 1 Eugene Field was editor of the Denver i Tribune at the tins. and these lace night robes made him simply hy6teri-
 cal. He wrote column upon column about them. describing the garments in Ga.ail. with nunlsrCus diagrams de- pfcting sections fore and aft, which
 Field carved cut himself with a pen
 knife. Cn the back Cf cid wood type.
 He used to describe how Tabor would
 forget the combination of the safe and
 sit. shiyeTing and nakCd, half the
 night. trying to remember the right
 figures Altogether he kept Denver tn
 2 rear for weeks, and made Tabor 90
 wild that one day he rushed into his
 Cfiice. snatched the unfCr reunate night
 robes out Of thalr compartment and
 tore them to threads. There, now!'
 he exclaimed, Wiping his forehead and
 kicking the tatteIed fragments intcl
 corner, I hope that fool will be sal-
 isfied I'll be hanged if 1 ain't going to get q gunny sack he continued, cut some holes in the end for my head and arms, and then sleep in ie for the rest of my Hfe,'
 .'When Tabor was appointed to the cenate tc ffl an unexpired term of ez- actly twenty-nine days Field broke loose again. and had all kinds Of fun with the cid man. He declared that Tabor opposed the tariff bill Ca the ground that it encouraged l2wless1esS ii the west I don't know this tariff bill,' he reported the senator as saying in 2 speech. but we have entre.y tco many Of 'em out where | live. There's Wild Bill and Pecos Bill and Billy the Kid-aH nc good. If you let Tari1E Bill nave anything to do with the cls- tom house he is liable to steal the Al Ianuc ocean, Many of the honest frcc1tier folks took these flights Of fancy seriously, and drove Tabor near ly distracted by long ls5ters of remOn- urging him to read up and get posted, so as not 10 disgrace the state. At the expiration of the senator's brief term he circulated an autograph al bum amcng his fell-.w members, and the incidsnt tickled Field immensely. He gave what purported to be a copy of the sentiments Inscribed in the volume by the different statesmen-- such things as when this yCU see rs- nc, Roscoe Colkling, and i sure as the moss grows round a stump you are my darling sugar lump i .-I mean chUmp-Ge0rge F. Hear. i and similar nonsense, all of which ] his victim. l think Gene | Field was the cnly man Ta5or never ! forgave, for in spite Of his gaunt, for | bidding exterior, the miner magnare ! was as tender hearted a5 a girl. He i was really full Of sterling qualities, i and in his proper sphere he would have been anything but grctzsque. One thing is sure-if every fellow Ee he.pe1 | in secret would have joined his funera! i procession the other day he would have gone to his grave like an em peror of old. New Orleans Times Democrat.