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


Seated in his cane.bottom chair
with his heels higher than his head
and the stump of a cigar between his
teeth, he receives his visitors. His
eyes. glanclng over the upper rims OF
his spectacles, size up his caller in a
moment and he usually plunges al
once into the matter In hand.
His language is strong, terse and
not infrequently tinged with mild pro.
family. which somehow fails to offend
even the fastidious. 1t seems part OF
the man and is accepted as merely q
notice that conventionalities are bar.
red.
His Quaker Training.
A Quaker settlement near Greens.
boro, n. c.. was Mr.. Cannon's birth.
place and In appearance, in dress and
in speech he still shows signs OF his
Quaker training though he married
outside of the faith and there was
mutual announcement long ago. The
story goes that II was at this time that
he began to study the gentle art OF
profanity.
A fatherly Quaker soon came to him
with proposal to return to the fold.
The only condition was that to atone
for his sin in wedding wording he
must say that he was sorry he had
married Mary.
But I'm damned II I'm sorry, and
III be damned II I'll say IT," was the
reply OF Joseph.
II was then that diplomatic rela.
tons with the brethren were severed
That was long ago. but the habit OF
strong language has remained. Uncle
Joe" is now man OF &C.. He has a
thin, ford face, clean.shaven upper
lip and thin fringe of reddish gray
whiskers. His hair is white but his
eyes are still keen and piercing. His
, dress is curious mixture of the care.
less and the articular--immacula
linen, black string tie and a frock
, coat. His overcoat is almost invaria.
bly, on his left arm and almost invarl.
ably the edge of It drags in the-street
as he walks along deep in thought.
! He smokes almost constantly and
a when he does not smoke he chews to.
bacco. He has the old country habit
/. of passing his plug around when he
, takes chew. II is a "Reminiscences OF
, the Wabash Valley and itsticks. When
he needs chew himself he will FIRE.
. quontly stop the first laborer he meets
in the street and ask for one, to the
/, great Joy OF the donor.
a His eoyhood Days.
d Young Joe Cannon was only IA wher
d his father. physician. who had left
n North Carolina for Bloomingdale, Ind.
/. was drowned in crossing a swoller
r. creek to attend a patient, and the boy
was left to make his own way In the
world. He had little schooling ant
r, he educated himself for the rest of II
y from books.
5. He studied la In Terre Haute will
IS John p. Usher, famous lawyer In tn,
IS Wabash Valley. and later went to Law
r. school in Cincinnati. Finally he hun.
II out his single In Shelbyville. ILL.,, theI
k moved to Tuscola, and from that tim,
Is on his progress was steady.
n He was so poor that In trying case
he walked from town to town to saw,
$. travelling expenses, but he made hi
ID way. He married, and one OF the goo,
W stories he tells Is of his first attemp
is to found household. His mother. al
g. economical Quakeress. had told him
At Good Mothers Advice.
Is Joseph, now that thee is married
thee must get thee COW, a pig and
n hive of bees"
k. Il took mothers advice" relate
W Mr.. Cannon.
ID 81 tried to milk the COW, but sh
Is kicked me over, and | had to give tina
10 up as a bad job.
II tried to feed the calf and II butte