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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1933.
MAN WHO WASTED
G$12,000,000
ROMANCE OF DENVER'S SILVER MINES
1.
CAREER OF HAW TABOR
(By Howard Spring.)
and
He
It is to be doubted whether any recklessness frightened her; When that army was being rewoman ever had a stranger nache she had been robbed of work, and modelled in 1915 it was his habit to than this: Rosemary Silver Dollar therefore of meaning.
So she bat, stop any private soldier whom he Echo Honeymoon Tabor. Her death's head at the feast. saw wearing an unbuttoned tunic, parents called her Silver for short. • The Fateful Divorce. and chat with him on Tamiliar
-Remarkable people, those parents. Then Fate's next emissary came terms, asking him to what regiment You may learn something about to Haw Tabor: a girl whom he saw or unit he belonged."
them from the film "Silver Dollar," at a restaurant in Leadville. Nothing ever happened to the which has lately had its first show-invited her to join him. She did; poilu in question. But his respon- ing in the West End of London and she never left him. „ sible chief, if he were under the and will soon be more widely ex- "Baby Doe," they called her, bt orders of "desperate Frankie,"hibited. You may learn even more her name was Mrs. McCourt. S. would and himself in for a day's from the book of the same name had been born at Oshkosh; had arrest for allowing his men to ap written by David Karsnes, and married Harvey McCourt, son of pear improperly dressed.
published in New York by Covici the mayor of that town; had sicken- Friede.
ed of the poverty that came upon You must figure Haw Tabor, with them; and had dolled herself up to
New Style Defeatism.ted States there could be no llam Rothenstein. But the greatest exciting way, Fate one day sent Columbus.
chance in his life came when he met two messengers.
doubt. Both of them would be Anna Pavlova.
He Taught Pavlova. Uday Shankar, India's greatest his loud mouth and long flaring see what she could find in Leadville. mystic dancer, who taught Indian moustachios, as one of nature's She found one of the wealthiest men dances to Anna Pavlova, has arrived vikings, a corsair, a raider. Auguste in the world who was tired of his in London with his troupe of twelve Pierce, his wife, was the sort of wife. She was eighteen; he fifty. men and women and 56 varieties of woman who would never be happy She became the mother of Silver
| without a clean aink and plenty of Dollar. quaint musical instruments.
It was a long time before Tabor Once a penniless, starving youth, dishes to wash in it.
streets of Together they hugged the trail found the heart to burst out with who wandered in the London in search of a job, he is of the silver miners in the Rockies the truth, brutally, to Augusta. now travelling round the world in a They were in at the foundation of She uttered prophetic words: "It turban, glittering diamonds and Denver and of the town successively will be your ruin,"
divorces were rubies. He has musical instru- known as Oro, Cloud City and Lead. The necessary
Haw at first did some dig-quietly put through, and Haw ad- ments and silken saris embroidered ville.
Later he stuck to with gold lace, worth about sing.
store-dressed his mind to two great pro- keeping. His wife was everyone's [jects: to be married in Washington, £100,000. The China Mail
true of Germany to-day. Those Uday Shankar has had an amaz mother: nurse, cook and excellent with the President of the United who best know declare that it is ing life. The Maharajah of Jhala- friend to any tough in need. Small States at the breakfast; and to give war sent this artist to the Londen wonder that, when Leadville needed Baby Doe no less a wedding present Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 17, 1933. true of Italy, and also of France. Royal College of Arts. He soon be a mayor, Haw Tabor was appointed. than the jewels which Isabella of To this man, comfortable in an Spain pawned in order to finance. About Great Britain and the Un-came a favourite pupil of Sir Wil-
He summoned his They were down-jmessengera: "Those jewels are still jand-out Germans, Theodore Hook in some pawnshop in Spain or They wanted Portugal. Go and get them.” They Writing in The London Spec disposed with Falkland in the Uday Shankar has travelled from and August Rische.
and to dig, but they had no food, no got the jewels in time. Haw did tator, Mr. Vernon Bartlett points seventeenth century to "ngem-Kashmir to Cape Comorin,
Would Mayor Tabor help not know that they were bought in On New York. to the fact that there exist just inate peace," Even Mr. Winston during his wanderings in India he tools.
men the great Masters of Indian them? He certainly would.
that they gave him a Through
accident a political now many “defeatists" of peace. Churchill, in his recent slashing dancing. Once he was
told to condition The world gained its currency attack upon that ardent peace leave a West End Club because he third of what they found he allow which there is not time to explain, ed them to take equipment worth Haw Tabor became a senator of the in wartime. Great numbers of maker, Mr. Kathsay MacDonald, was too thin.
[64.76" dollara,"
THE BACON United States for 30 days. He On May 1, 1878, those Germans handed gold watches to his friends, people despaired of winning the confessed that he himself "hoped
began to dig. In September Hook paid 5000 dollars for a spécial train war against Germany. They ex-and believed in the continuance
Įsold out to Rische for 98,000 dollars. to Washington, and ordered another claimed at the frightful: losses, of a long peace. He contended A Hard Beginning.
Two months later Rische, sold out to bring Baby Doë-along later. All which seemed all in vain. The that "the pressure of taxation A padre was seated at the bed to David H. Moffatt for 262,000 went as he had planned: the jewels dollars. Tabor retained his third hung round the bride's neck and the embattled nations simply could would lead lo, a gradual, progres. side of a Jock free. Aberdeen.
"You want me to write home to share. He had nothing to do but President was at the breakfast. not endure the terrible drain of sive neglect of armaments in all
your wife," he remarked,
hold his buckets" under a silver
Il-Fated Name. blood and treasure. Lord Lans-countries." The too quick des "Ay," replied Jock.
stream.
Then he burst in flames again. downe was but a spokesman for pairers do not stop with dread "Well, what would you like to
Expensive Hoar.
He gave his wife 100 peacocks and Баут"
„Then practical" joker came a régiment of servants. She gave a multitude of others when he of the coming again of war. They 41 dinna ken," was Jock's
along: another, of Fate's messengers him two daughters-Silver was the argued that a compromise peace are defeatist as respects many answer.
"You don't know, then how do to Haw Tabor. The joker skimmed second. Il-fated name! Grover was absolutely necessary. In the of the agencies and activities of
some valuable stuff from Tabor's Cleveland put America on to the Government, you expect me to writeT. Suppose raine, spread it on the surface of gold standard. The silver-kings end this view did not prevail. But ordinary life and
I begin with, 'My Dear Wife "
the land not far away, and rushed to began to look earnestly into their it was undoubtedly gathering They are openly despondent ab-
"Ay, that'll amuse her."
Tabor with the news of his lucky|affairs. Tabor's lawyers found strength all through 1916 and cat the future of democracy. Par-
strike. Would Tabor buy the that between 1879, and 1893 he had 1917. To-day, writes Mr. Bartliamentary Institutions they are
claim? Yes, he would give squandered approximately 12,000,- DINER: Waiter, I ordered an eas thousand dollars for it
1000 dollars in cash. Ho owed sandwich and you brought me aj Digging began, and Tábor found million dollars. He was ruined. another kind. It is despondent a bad loss. They see fascism chicken sandwich.
that he had been duped. ~ The top He died soon afterwards. about the world outlook. Instead and dictatorships rising on every WAITER: Yes, sir, I was a little of the land was “salted,”... That - There is little more to tell. When of asserting that the last war hand to displace the old and now late calling for your order. could not be ended by victory, discredited order. In matters
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was all. "You might as well keep Mr. Karaner published his book in jon digging," he said. At thirty 1981 Baby Doe was still living in a feet they struck silver. This tattered shack on the site of what
_la_poor" relation. Within a year mine. Her elder daughter had suit, Tabor had become a dollar mil-married comfortably. Silver Dollar in-lionaire twice over. What shall was dead. How she had lived! we say of the next few years, when Journalist, actress, kept woman, she Tabor blossomed and bore his plumbed the depths of despair. blushing honours thick upon him? She was born with a silver dollar in What shall we say of the diamond her month. It was her infant as big as a dime that he wore in his laugh-ke the ring of a silver shirt, of the theatres he built, of dollar that gave her the name. the Leadville firemen in their new She died an outcast who had red shirts with the name "Tabor journeyed to the bitterness of in white upon them. What shall world end
it alleges that the next war can of finance and trade they give "Paul, this suit is very shabby, second mine made the first look like had been her husband's richest not be prevented. Efforts to full swing to their pessimism. May I give it away?" maintain peace Inviolate are sure" The capitalistic' system is doom "Heavens, no. That is the to fail, it is said. Disarmament} Unemployment will become go in to protest against my is only talked about; the Coven chronic everywhere. The de- ant of the League of Nations has pression will never be over. Why
A PRIVILEGE been made a mere form of words: gird ourselves for a struggle JACK: Grandpa, when did the Briand-Kellogg treaty really against the inevitable, when we become a grandpar is not binding, since every nation know that it naught availeth GRANDPA: When you holds itself free to disregard it. Well, it may be wholesome for And If I had not been Improvement in methods of des these defeatists of peace to re- would I
born.
truction only adds incitements to mind them that they are in their grandpa?
"No.""
you
were
beencomo
born,
we say of the public kalls and the But Augusta, prudently Investing "Tabor Light Cavalry who came to her allmony, called high and dry
hostilities. "How oft the sight temper and attitude, linéal des- "Then how much are you going supplement the police Or of the over the wreckage of those other
Facts You Did Not Know
Talcum powder is used in Bust
grand suite in the Clarendon Hotel, ves. where-Auguste, twiddling her Įthumbs, dreamed of the happy days |when she was her man's mate and cooked and washed, or of the Lead-
ville Bank, with a vast silver dome Mr. stop, that came and swelled and
of means to do il deeds makes llcendants of the defeatists with to give me for it?" deeds done!", War may be yet a whom we were familiar while the little delayed, but it is certain to Great War was going on, - Its is break out in Europe, or else sue frustrated their dire prophe- where, before long, and will in-cies. And it is not an unreason-2 volve the whole world. Such is ing or blind optimism which ness and manufacturing purposes burst and left a liter of ruin where the pessimism about peace which holds that these defentists of finds so frequent expression" at later day will in like manner find The only way to dis- their prophecies of wos falsifed present. pel these gloomy prognostica. bythe, event. They are pitt tions is to submit them to acru their judgment "agnini tiny What country actually sources and ab
wants war' to-day, or would dare of men and women to risk entering It light-hearted nations, who are mo ly? - Motiven have to be studied, at
gains and losses need
timated. If thi
tions were called
sible: to find one at:
in more than-509 ferent ways, it had been?
Well What shall
The United States supplies mere mahogany forest in Honduras than 90 per cent of the finished Tabors had ver, seen but
ther imported", by Japan, boughty convinced that.
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OBITUARY.
Burjor M. Talati In
Bombay.
The death took place yesterday, Bombay of Mr. Barjor M. Talati, ¡B,A” (ILK. "Univ.) following an peration. Deceased was 26 yORIS of age
only son of Mr. M. P. JP, who is in Hong Kong, Mrs. Talati, who is at present Bombay, the deceased was Jab employed in India as repré tative of Messra; Butterfeld &
in the sugar busin
ted at St. Joseph's College Kong, he later became