The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-11-05

cause when he shakes hands. he
takes hold as though he meant It, Be-
cause when he speaks, he lets loose OF
all that energy, drives homo his
thought with the power OF trip ham
mer. embellishes It with tho blooms
OF the poet.
And that energy. physical and men
tai, Is shown In every move, every
speech, every thought. The physical
energy Is born first of naturally
rugged constitution handed down to
him through generations of sturdy an
cestry, handed down to him from the
great grandfather who was one Of the
Confidential army away back In the
days when the nation was born, hand
ed down to him through the grand
father, one of the first navlgators Of
the Ohio river. pioneer In the mid
die west, handed down to him from a
sturdy father, pioneer In Indiana.
radical abolitionist, interested in the
underground railway, through which
the slaves OF the south sought free
dom in tho north.
What nature gave. Chase s. Osborn
has not wasted. No dissipation has
marred his sturdy frame nor cast a
blot upon his name. Rather, he has
made good use Of what nature gave
and done his full part toward i'm
proving that rugged physique. From
his boyhood no was fond OF the woods.
Day after day during manhood has
he tramped the wilderness OF north
ern Canada. There in the wilds.
among tho ancient pines, with nature
his sole companion, he has builded
upon the foundation nature gave and
today at so stands feet in his stock
ings, straight as an arrow, eye bright
and clear, muscles hard and active.
mind clear and clean, model OF ply
steal manhood
Always the Student.
Neither has he neglected the mind
nature gave him. From boyhood he
has read everything no could lay
hands upon. He reads rapidly, re-
markedly SO. He remembe-s what he
reads. History, science of all kinds,
religion, government. poetry, tho best
OF literature. Nothing has escaped
him. He stores his memory with all,
it is always ready when needed.
An example of this was shown at
tho banquet of the Gridley club at
Ionia last winter. Governor Guild OF
Massachusetts was speaker ut that
banquet. In his remarks he proudly
and. rightfully boasted of the intel.
lectuality OF the old Bay state He
declared with emphasis that Massa.
chusetts led all the states in intel
lectuality.
Quicker than flash, Chase s. Os-
born was on his feet.
II do not wish to seem discourse
ous," he said. but l must challenge
the gentleman from Massachusetts.
The percentage OF illiteracy in Massa-
chusetts IL nine. while In Michigan II
is but SIX"
1t Is doubtful II there was another
man in Michigan who could have told
the percentage of illiteracy in his own
state to say nothing of Massachusetts,.
1t was just a sample OF tho quick
thought and the great stored-up fund
of knowledge Chase s. Osborn has.
To the newspaper men who travelled
with him to any extent during the
campaign, there never was any let up
in the seeming endless powers of his
mind and range OF knowledge. He
Rapids last spring. His speech was
filled with pointed, terse paragraphs
which were afterward sent broadcast
over the state as "Osbornisms" and
did not little toward rounding III
the votes cast for him. But after the
speech the Woodmen crowded around
him asking questions and always get
ting an answer. One man with dis
tinct German twang in his tones spoke
to him. In a moment Osborn and the
German we're jabbering away In the
native tongue of the Teuton. 1t sound
ed sweet to his ears. He went shout
ing for Osborn.
Tho difficult Polish language even is
not unknown to MI. Osborn.
II can manage 10 make myself un.
derstood and to understand any OF
the languages of the European CONT.
nent," says Mr.. Osborn.
Such statement might. coming
from some, appear to be an evidence
OF what is vulgarly known as swelled
head. Not SO when Mr.. Osborn
boasts He talks OF himself. He tells
what he can do and what he can't do
Yet in his telling of himself there is
no impression OF boastfulness, no ev-
idence OF swelled head. He knows
himself. He knows his own powers
He knows his own attachments. He
is confident Of himself. He is the
athlete who tells his own speed. He
is so self-reliant and so confident in
his own powers that to speak Of what
he can do is but natural It Is not
q boast. 1t does not seem to him any.
thing remarkable that he can do all
these things because he has mastered
them so completely.
remember the statement of a pro
lessor of Greek, who said:
when you have learned Greek SC
that when you see an object, the
Greek word for It comes first and
most naturally to your mind. then you
have mastered the language"
Mr. Osborn has reached that stage
i'm the many matters which his versa
tile mind has mastered
Why Is he magnetic? The answer
has been given.
Secret Of Popularity.
But there are other reasons. Every
man--lf he is a man--loves the other
man who is not afraid. Chase s. o.
born Is the man not afraid Friend
or foe, to neither is no afraid to ex.