Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-03

worth of merchandise, which block tn
railroad officials the glut Is caused b
velopment. While big shipment of
| Pennsylvania are in despair at the en-
S>o>o>S>S %
me all around the yard and too my
| clothes nearly off, When the bees got
ready to swarm thought | would go
out among them like father used to do
and swarm them.
"The bees got among me; crawlod
up under my shirt and stung me in a
hundred different places and | had to
let them go.
The only thing I could get along
with at all was the pig. could feed
that, scratch its sides and II would
grunt. ] got IL good and fat and gave
II away to a farmer.
-"Why. could no more kill and eat
that hog than could one Of the mem.
bers of my own family. thought too
much of It,"
First Political Work.
In 1861 he went into politics by run.
ming for the office OF States Attorney.
His opponent was Ward II. Lamon
)nce Abraham Lincoln's law partner,
and he was popular In Illinois.
Nobody but himself thought that
Young Joe Cannon bad a chance. But
ne did. The roads were almost impas-
sable, but he bought horse and made
house.to-house canvass In the Qua.
ker district. They knew him and all
agreed to vote for him.
When election day came around he
was elected by comfortable major.
Ity. He held the office for seven
years.
Three years later he was sett TO
Congress, to become. as II turned out.
Dne of the most interesting figures in
he great assemblage at Washington
md one Of the most original men ever
destined for the Speakers chair.
Since his first term he has been nom
mated by reclamation in his district
every time but once and from major.
ty OF 800 or so at his first election he
I. has won by as many as $500 votes.
He knows men and how to handle
hem. He is himself known as man
If absolute integrity. That, some OF
his friends say, Is the secret Of his sue
l. ,ess.
But he has kind heart, a willing
ness to listen to others and practica
way of helping them. In every town
shin In his district there are men who
are glad to stand up and say: "Se'
I what Joe Cannon did for me-" Mayb,
there is some hint of his success
q here. too.
He looks after every mans cas-
himself. He will go out and look "a
matters for his constituents. and whe,
he undertakes to do anything n
amount of opposition daunts him.
He has obtained places for man
Young men In Washington, but h
looks after therapeutics with grea
care. Woe be to the one who is anus
ing himself instead OF attending I
his duties. He will find himself sen
ZONE In short order,
Strength in Congress.
In Congress he has made his reputi
ion as chairman of the Committee o
Appropriations, of which he has bee
a member for twenty years. The tit
Watch Dog of the Treasury" ca
hardly he applied to him. for Other
have preempted II, He keeps his gri
on the purse strings and he can 50
No" with emphasis.
He is strong speaker, yet no oil
would ever think of calling him g
orator. There are two points in h
forensic abilities-earnestne al
common sense.
II these do not win his case he fail
He is no adept In sophistries, and h
oratorical manner when he Is in ear
est is a sight to marvel at.
He wriggles from head to toe as
talks, his arms whirl about like Il
sails on a windmill, his coattails 10
his head wags and his hands poun
first each other, and then the des
. The wrenching and racking he und'
= goes In Hve-minute speech leave hi
% purple and exhausted. His voice !