Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-17

Distinguished People Who Are LAWN
in the Warm Springs.

MEN IN THE MOUNTAINS.
Distinguished People Who Are LAYING
in the Warm Springs.
JUDGE THURMAN AND HIS yAMnY--A TENNIS
SEE MANS RHcoLLEcTIoNs OF PRESIDENTS LIN
COLIN AND JoHSsoN-YouNa ENoLIsHNEN OF
NOBLE LINEAGE WHO ARE TENDING sHRxP.
Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAN.
The HoT SPRINGS, Va, August Is.
The GOODNESS Of the autumnal season has
brought the long looked and prayed for rain
less period to this mountain region. Myste-
rious mists now veil the inaccessible beauties
OF the heights; fires upon the open hearth are
comfortable accessories of the toilet In the
morning, and the starry nights are quite chill.
But the delectable valley of warm mineral
waters continues to attract more guests than
the hostelries herein have powers Of entertain
ing with comfort. The hotel at the Warm
Springs il overcrowded. The very Offices Of
Of the court house, which is in the near neigh
borhood-Germantown is the county seat Of
Bath county-is occupied as bachelor cham
bers, and the resident physician Of the hotel
spends his nights upon horsehair sofa in the
drawing room. or the Thousands Of people
who come here for physical relief in season
there are, OF course, many remarkable persons.
THE OLD ROMAN.
The best-known man now taking the baths in
the Hot Springs is Judge Allen G. Thurman of
Columbus, Ohio. Mr.. Thurman 10 attended
here by the aged partner of his conquests and
defeats, his daughter-in-law, wife OF his only
son and namesake, and Ave Of her children.
The family consists OF six children, four boys
and two girls, abundantly assuring the most
prominent buckeye democrat that his name
shall not cease in the land when he shall be
gathered to his fathers.
MIR. Thurman, ST., is now in his seventy-sixth
year, but is not so feeble in appearance as the
! newspaper reports Of him lead one to expect
him TO be. 1t is greatly in his favor that he is
not stout Of figure. but is slender, and carries
his goodly height erect. His full suit Of white
hair flows over the collar of his black Prince
Albert coat and his rudy countenance is
fringed by white chin whiskers. He wears a
veteran black silk high hat, which he varies
highly unbecoming to his age and style. His
intirmity Is rheumatism that has settled in his
legs below the knees and causes him to hug his
cane closely in walking. But his mind does
not halt He Is always the center of an admir-
ing group Of men when he is upon the piazza,
and the loud laughter that follows the narration
of his stories indicates that his tongue
has not lost its cunning in garnish-
ing tale to tickle the masculine
fancy. To Washington democrat who was
presented anu VINO SAID cOurto.
ously to the great party leader, 1--WE were
deeply disappointed in not beirg able to count
you one of us for the next four years." Mr..
Thurman promptly replied: The good Lord
took better care of me than to permit that
thing to come to pass" Whether he rejoiced
at escaping residence in the capital city, the
arduous cares of the Vice Presidency of the
greatest nation of the globe, or the close COM
partnership of the ex-President and his cabinet,
the Introduce did not stop to inquire. but as
hastily as consistent with grace and good man
ners withdrew from the presence of the plain
speaking old Roman. But for all that Judge
Thurman may be dreaming dreams Of succeed
ing Henry G. Payne in the Senate Of the United
States.
MRS. THURMAN
is the senior of her husband, and looks less
than her stature from a habit of STOPPING at
her shoulders that she has allowed to grow
upon her during the last twenty years. At her
prime she was below the medium height Of
women, but the personal dignity of her pres
ence and manner causes her to seem almost
tall, and her figure is slight The animated
face is set between gray puff curls and she ar
ranges a scarf of black Spanish lace about her
head and shoulders IN a way that gives a CO.
quettish effect to her artistic toilet. Judge and
Mrs Thurman are mutually dependent upon
each other in many things, but the lady Is still
able to assist her husband SO much more than
she requires his help. In this respect she is as
truly and as intelligently devoted to her states
man husband as ever Mrs. Gladstone is to .the
grand old man." only we do not hear much
about the case OF our own countrywoman.
Like the late beloved Horace Greedy, Judge
Thurman is utterly obIvious Of some
Of the necessary details Of his dress,
permits a red handkerchief to peep
from his coat pocket argues reconciliation in
that particular. Mrs. Thurman sees that the
judge is properly put to bed at night and she
always superntends the making of his morn
ing toilet. Mrs. Thurman, jr.'s oldest son is
twenty years old and she does not herself look
more than that age. She was a Baltimore
belle and retains her brilliant brunette beauty
The Misses Thurman. her two daughters, are
in the interesting period Of their later teens
They have mingled little in general society and
have the manners of inexperienced school
girls. They play tennis and dance and take
long walks with their sketch books under their
arms. They thought the mountains and the
sanitarium surroundings unendurably dull on
their arrival, but have since become reconciled
to their stay.
JUDGE BURNS RECoLLEcTIoNs.
The first man to greet Judge Thurman here
was Judge NJ Burns OF Nashville, an ex-state
senator of Tennessee, who is also recuperating
wasted energies by having his body in the
wOndrous waters of the hot springs. Judge
Burns was prominent though unofficial figure
In the capital at the court of President John
son, with whom he was on intimate friendly
terms for thirty years before he went to the
White House. Dur ng the first days of the re-
construction period Judge Burns made the ac-
quaintance of MIR Lincoln. The latter delighted
in the mother wit of the frank Irishman who
presented his claims with rare sense and
brevity. Lincoln loved him for his name, too
and would recite to him the Address to a
Young Friend" all the stangas and others of
Robert Burns poems. and the judge says his
elocution was excellent Gen. Meigs, before
whom the judge had his claim, was 10th to pay
the damages and deferred doing so until one
day Mr.. Lincoln told him if he did not do as he
ordered he would find some person who would
do so. When Mr.. Burns bade Mr.. Lincoln
farewell he was invited to visit him whenever
he returned to Washington.
PRESIDENT JoHNsoN's HOUSEHOLD.
The next time Judge Burns visited the White
House he was in company with Senator Patter-
son, the son-in-law Of President johnson, and
the remains of President Lincoln were on the
way to the tomb at Springfield. Ill. Judge
Burns had the entree to President Johnson's
presence at any hour of the day or night. He
never asked for an Office, and then as now the
non-office hunter among the Presidents
friends was rare visitor who was always well
come. MIR. Burns met a prominent southern
politician In the ante room at the White House
he was coming from Mr. Jobnson's room ono