The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-06-21
ANECDOTES ABOUT THURMAN.
His Snuff and Smoking-Hfs Bible and
the Red Bandana--Its Effect on
the Southern Negro Vote.

the Red Bandana--Its Effect on
the Southern Negro Vote.
WASHINGTON, June ia friend
of Judge Thurman, who knows him
both in social and business way,
gave some interesting facts to the New
York Herald correspondent to-day
about the ex-senator.
''To judge from the newspaper sto-
ries," ne said, i" one would imagine
that the Senator was most inveterate
snuff taker. Now, that idea is all
wrong. The Senator uses snuff very
moderately-in fact, l have often
known the snuff in his box to become
dry and caked up simply because he
used it so sparingly. That shows you
how moderate he is.
TEN CIGARS A DAY.
"By the way, did you ever hear
anything about the Senator's smok
ing? No. Well, 1 thought not. Ev-
erybody knows that he is snuff taker,
but few have ever thought about his
using tobacco in any other form. The
truth is, the Judge smokes more than
he snuffs he will average ten cigars
a day."
"Are they good or bad p
Il am not much of a smoker myself,
but 1 should say they were of average
quality and medium strength"
"What kind of snuff does he use? ?"
1t is the ordinary Scotch snuff,
Maccaboy I think it is called. He
carries it in plain box, and, unlike
the snuff takers of century ago, has
no weakness or vanity for fancy or
expensive boxes"
THE BANDANA.
"What is the regulation Thurman
bandanna-linen,c cotton or silk p
"Silk, and although some of the pa
pers have said linen they do not know
what they are talking about. How
ever there is nothing peculiar about
the bandanna. 1t is the ordinary
kind, such as can be bought in any
store, and Mrs. Thurman has bought
them for the Judge in this city and
New York and other places. And
while talking about that let me tell
you that when the Judge wears a
dress suit he always has white hand
kerchief in his pocket"
"What is the Senator's home life
like?"
"He is devotedly attached to Mrs
Thurman and his children, son and
two daughters, both of whom are
married. He is simple in his habits
There is a good deal of the old school
| courtliness of manner about him, but
he is never austere and frigid, and
have known him to be interrupted in
the midst of matters of Importance by
some pronounced bore and yet he
never displayed the slightest signs o.
impatience.
BIBLE READING.
"The Judge makes practice o.
reading the Bible Lhrough in three
languages every year. Every day he
reads chapter or so in Latin, French
and English, and then he compares
the three versions to see bow they cor
respond
sits up nearly every night until two
and three o'clock in the morning
studying historical, scientific and phi
losophical works. He is very kind tt
young men and has special affection
for them"
A Southern member of Congress
saws that the red baudanna is going t,
make large numbers of negroes vot
the Democratic ticket this fall, as they
all use the red bandanna, and the fac
| +l,t - :, Tho apohlop, Of tho Dono
cratic party will inspire them witt
confidence.
| A Boston man in the trade, VIII
was here to-day, said that all the Ne,
York wholesale houses have sold ou
their stocks of bandannas and that tn
New England mills ale now runnin
night and day to fill orders.