The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-22
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GOING TO STAY YOUNG.
Even Government Inspectors couldn't
Make Her Older Than
She Looked.

A Brooklyn woman lately returned from
Europe was describing to her husb band who
had remained at home aer experiences with
the customs inspectors who had taken her
declaration in the cabin of the liner. coming
UP the bay, relates the Brooklyn Eagle:
When he asked me my age" she said, II
told him 3d."
But, my dear" exclaimed the husband,
you're over 49,"
al know it," she returned, but do look
"No, you don't; that's fact"
"Weli," she concluded, triumphantly,
convinced that mere man was squelched
once more by the force of feminine logic,
until ! look more than 80 I'm going to be
80, and don't care for the old United States
government and all its customs inspectors
o older d tSan look or Waat to sa be- maze
Maps.
Robert Louis Stevenson, one OF the most
notable English writer's known to the pres
emit generation. was wont to say that moth
ing interested him more than the perusal
of good map; and without doubt, map
that is well made and accurate catches the
eye and arrests the attention of many peo-
pie as few other things can do.
The men In charge OF railway traffic pos
sess most positive appreciation OF this fact
and large expenditure of time and skill
full thought. is made on this feature of rail-
coun ny as the Black Hills in South Dakota,
the wonderful mountain ranges compactly
rising tier upon tier throughout the
central and western portion of Colo
RADIO, the rich valleys and hillsides Of
California, covered with vineyards, or
chards and grain fields, Yellowstone
regions of interlacing lakes and water
courses which mark that portion of the great
northwest located in upper Wisconsin,
southern Minnesota and that part of Mich
igan known as the Upper Peninsula, have
been mapped in detail and given to the pub
lie gratis, far and wide.
Said an official OF the Chicago q North
Western Railway recently: "The Amer
lean railway map engraver has carried his
art well-nigh to the borders of perfection.
! do not know. of any road maps or other
detailed data for the state of Wisconsin, for
instance, that equal those published by our
passenger department, showing the haunts
of summer tourists and fishermen. They are
on file in public libraries as part of their
reference records. Other portions of the
western country have been similarly taken
up and maps OF most complete character
made for them; in fact, the western lines
are fully alive to the value of a good map
in the hands Of the traveller The map pub
fishing business of the large railway sys-
TENS is to-day reduced to scientific prin-
ciples and handled in a most systematic
manner. The Northwestern Line prints
thousands of maps, running all the way from
large wall maps OF the world, down to the
smallest details of sections and quarter Sec
tions of Government land open for settle
ment in the west, and from an atlas con-
tanning a series of maps of the seat Of war
in the far east to the most carefully worked
out portrayal Of Colorado's mountain re-
gions, CALIFORNIA; winter resorts, or the
summering places that abound along the
line throughout the west and northwest"