The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-22
ABOUT WELL-KNoWN MEN,
Anecdotes About Three Men Yer!

Anecdotes About Three Men Very
 Prominent in Public Life.
 It has often been said of President Shouts of the Isthmian Canal Com mission that he does not wait for trouble to come to him, but meets it outside the door. It is one of the characteristics which have brought him to his present eminent position. It is we'll illustrated in one or two stories of his physical prowess. One who has seen his stalwart figure and firm ag- gressive face can imagine how an en- counter with him would result. There have been such encounters, and they have usually resulted as one thinks they would.
 When MT. Shouts was general man. ager of the Iowa, Illinois and Indiana Railroad with offices at Kankakee, Ill, there was in the tow a clustering coal merchant, somewhat larger even than MT Shouts, who did not like the way the railroad officials treated him He would make the air blue whenever he thought of the way them boys who operated the railroad were handling him" On one ccasion he started for | the presidents s office, with the inten- tion of cleaning up the place. The subordinates each received a flashing | from his tongue before he reached MT. | SGlont's room When he entered the office of the general manager his i'm mense beard was brstling with rage, and flood of profanity poured forth with a vehemence that would not be stayed. At last MT. Shonts could stand it no longer. He seized the beard of the irate man tightly in one hand and with the other doubled into a fist 1e pummeled the beligerent coal dealer until he could hardly see and cried for mercy. Then he was re- leased and allowed to depart.
 Not a word of this to any one, said Mr. Shonts to the admiring office force.
 The story got out however, for the coal dealer told everybody he met thaf his condition was due to an encounter with shonts
 Speaker Cannon may also be sur prise to a visitor. The person whC has not discovered that he has over stayed his welcome may be treated tt the explosion of a volcanic vocabular, that will almost literally drive him ou of the presence of the Speaker. From his language one would not think Q Uncle Joe as the son of Quaker parents When Joseph married outside of thu sect there was a mutual renouncement the elders rep. diating Joseph and Jo seph repudiating the elders. It is salt that at this time he began the study Q the gentle art of swearing. It was b! way of emphasizing his don't care position. Ho was informed that would not be difficult for him to vii his way back into the fold by atonini for the sin of becoming enequally yoke to worldling. Simply say that yo, are sorry you married Mary" said tn fatherI elder who went to him with tn proposal to return
 But I'm blanked if I'm sorry, an I'm blanked if I'll say it." was youn Cannon's reply.
 Booker T Washington would not b
 considered a kulnorlst' he ofdlndrll is very serious. Yet he like other me , of broad horizon, can find humor in situation. When on his way fror Tuskegee to New Haven once, to atten
 a Yale celebration, he spent severa
 days in New York, Some one aske s him what his object was in going [
 New Haven. In answer he said: , was a guest at the Lotos Club dime
 last season when that body gave din ! ner to a distinguished citizen. l had n
 idea that I would be called upon | 6 speak. but some one did ask me to sa
 something and I told the president b l way of introduction to my little speec
 that fancied I had been asked to giy f color to the occasion" The man wh
 wanted to know asked no more ques tions.-New York Tribune