New-York tribune., 1906-07-08
PART v.
EIGHT PAGES.
By James B. Morrow.

note Of tenderness crept into his unmusical
sneecb as Speaker Cannon arose. put his hands on
he back his chair. and looked over my head az
the wall
c,r income have always done that remember
said TO her morning after breakfast; Mary,
7 vent down TO the office last night and counted
nm what I-nhat we have accumulated. It's $2S.OOO'
-rben she came to me and laid her head upon my
arm Father she declared. that is enough
The Speaker walked jauntily TO the window, neck
.-,enaiciilar and shoulders as rrm set as a sol
5ier.s and he laughed at his own early boast ana
.. ..Nary's'' aTtlessness and simple satisfaction
had gone 10 this original man for a personal
.,orv and found him in HIS room. across corridor
from the House OF Representative narrow room,
crowded with desks and buzzing with many voices
T, the course of our conversation the Speaker
smoked one small cigar and gnawed another. be
v-as on his feet much of the tme-now balanced on
his toes the tips of his fingers the table. or again
moving about with light and steady stride. in
vrbicb there was neither rheumatism nor weakness.
T5e Is seventy years old but he has the animation
snd interest OF sound and cheerful middle age and
the nimbleness in mind and body of athletic
juvenility
The Purltans'' he said were splendid people.
Macaulay tells that they had long hair and
talked through their noses However that may
be ve DO know they were stern evangelists. carry
Ing their pety at the end Of a club. and otherwise
giving virtue heartless and odous aspect They
drove q good many quiet folk out of the northeast
colonies. An ancestor of mine. holding that every
man should mind his business and being
weary Of Pur1tanic supervision, moved TO Gulford,
y e. where other hectored Quakers had gone be-
fore him. Then. my father born. and. being left
an orphan while yet an infant, two maiden Quaker
sisters came TO the village and asked for him.
They brought him up, sending him 10 a Quaker
academy and helping him into the medical pro-
fession He married in the Church and practised
medicine at Guilford. where was born in 1886.
But the Quakers gave testimony against slav-
cry, war. violence and injustice, and not
comfortable in North Carolina. Accordingly. each
year several covered wagons bearing men, women
and children left GuiIford bound north to Ohio.
Indiana and Illinois. My family thus emigrated
while was youngster. finding a home the
Wabash River, in the little Indiana village OF
Annapolis. Ny father was man of resolute and
courageous character-a Scotch Irishman-who
handed down some qualities TO of which I make
vaunt, but which do not attempt to conceal
when I was fifteen years old my father was
drowned. and I had 10 go out I'm the world. I had
read the Commentaries OF Cesar in Latin, and
had made good headway at school An older
brother was in college. and kept him there.
Another brother, the youngest in The family, was
short sighted and there a prejudice against
persons whose eyes were bad-they couldn't do a
fun days work-so I went to clerk in a country
store at Annapolis at 500 a year. Ny mother
boarded The second year my employer kept
IT his house and paid $50 l sold every
thing. from a quart Of tar TO a skein of silk. and
developed into competent clerk I remained in
the store five years. and my wages in that time
amounted to SO9O."