The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-05

Devotion to His Mother.
He has been always willing TO help
a friend in need. Always ready TO for
get the man not his friend. This
friendship. this love OF his friends is
probably born of the love he bears
his mother. No boy or girl shows a
more filial devotion 10 his mother than
c. S. Osborn. That mother now nearly
SO years of age. knows this. The affec-
ton of the son is returned by the
mother. She is proud of her big boy.
the eldest OF eight children. She
knows he is a smart boy as well as Il
good boy. She lives in South Bend.
Indiana, and all unknown TO him. she
travelled 10 Jackson last spring to hear
her big boy talk. And newell his
speech that night, he says himself,
was the poorest of his campaign. There
before him sat the mother so years of
age, straining her eyes and ears 10
catch every word and every move OF
her boy. And he, when he saw the
loved mother, was overcome His
speech was a poor attempt But TO
the mother il was the grandest she
had ever heard and she went back to
her home happy as only a mother can
be.
Let that aged mother be Ill ever so
little. Politics, governors. everything
is forgotten. Chase $. Osborn takes
the next train--a special train IL nee
essary-and hastens to the mother
Who needs him.
M = to n
man is more proud than he. What is
he proud Of? He is proud of his own
| family of the big boys he has reared
He is proud that they have been sue
cessful in their college days and that
they are growing up to be the kind of
men he would like them to be- He is
proud that never yet has a blot been
cast upon his name. He Is proud and
jealous, too. of his honor and his name.
He is proud that years and years ago,
he, first of any man in Michigan,
started a boom for William Alden
Smith for United States senator. He
is proud that while they laughed at
him then his boast and his prediction
is now a fact.
Chase S. Osborn is a man of moods.
Today he loves the whirl and excite
ment of the campaign. He loves to
talk. He knows he can be interesting.
He loves to appear before an audience,
loves to talk to them on any subject
that comes to his mind, loves to moral
ize them and loves their applause.
Tomorrow he hears the call of the
wild. He longs for the solitude of the
forest. the smell of the pines. the howl
of the wolf, the boot of the owl. To-
morrow he quietly drops from civiliza-
tin. With bsckskin moccasins on his
feet a heavy sweater or Mackinaw
jacket, a fur cap, with his rifle on his
shoulder he opens the door of his Dear
foot Lodge up in the wilds of the Up
per Peninsula. For days he tramps
the woods. quietly as an Indian,
guided by the North star at night. by
, the sun or the bark on the trees i'm the
day.
1T does one good to get right out
among the things God made" he says.
. Il love to be where no man ever was
!. before"
!. Then the mood again changes. He
. feels the charm of his library, his
, books his writing desk. Shut up there
. he reads and absorbs knowledge He
writes a book.
Again comes the wanderlust 1t
takes him to the ice fields of the north.
to the desert Of sand II calls him TO
mines of Lapland, to the songs of It
ally. to the flowers of Japan
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new thoughts, new ideas new knowl-
edge. He appears once more before
the crowd and with all his dynamic
energy tells the people what he has
learned and, striking his fist into his
palm, drives home a thought which he
hopes will do somebody some good.
Perhaps he is called to a political
conference. Maybe il is the president
who wants to discuss something with
him as has often been the case. per-
haps II is the governor, perhaps il is
but the county committee. whether Il
is the president or the county COM
mittee matters not. If his opinion il
asked, IL is given honestly, regardless
of whether II is the word the inter-
viewer wants or the reverse
IF my opinion is good for anything
II muse be my honest conviction" he
says. mo man asks an opinion who
Just wishes to be fiattered."
He is sweeping through the state
talking good government, telling peo-
pie why he wants to be governor.
" Wherever he speaks he will be cheer
'f ed. Perhaps all who hear will not vote
for him. but all who hear will cheer
for him.
r This big. brawny, magnetic fellow
Is will SOW good seed whether he Is ever
ia governor or not. But add to this the
IS fact that he will he governor and when
IN the roll Is called and Michigan re-
er spends Chase s. Osborn" every man
who hears will sit straight and every
is man in Michigan win swell out his
ar chest Just a little more.-Grand Rap
ids Herald.