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Show WONDERS OF LONG LIFETIME Michigan Nonogenarlan Who Haa Lived Through Ninety-one Most Marvelous Years. Plain well, Mlh. From the slow plodding of the saddle horse and th groaning ponderosity of the ancient stage roach to the rapid rush of the great locomotive; from tbe lingering postman to the wireless message; from tbe crude sailing vessel to the airship of the present day these are some of the changes witnessed by ' anyone who may have lived through the most of the pant century an epoch-making jxsrlod and Mrs. Sophia Bush of this village, who recently ft ' " r 11 I If"- ;' f passed her nlncty-flrst birthday, remembers re-members them all and ber lively and unclouded mentality still maintains nu Interest In these great things of life, extraneous though tbey may be to ber quiet wuys of existence. Grandma Hush, as she U commonly called. Is a remarkable 'woman, silver of Lair and benign of expression, and s!.o scans her dully paper without the aid of spectacles. She was born at Dingwall In the highlands of Scotland. It waa a II t tie town and during ber girlhood f-he re-members re-members seeing there Lord Brougham. Lord John Russell and William E. Gladstone. Indeed the grandfather of the last named was mayor of the town. She remembers distinctly the festivities Incidental to the coronation of Queen Victoria. She came to America In 1S39 by ailing vessel and tbe voyage took five weeks. The few steamboats of - that day were considered entirely too dangerous to be trusted. From New York she came west via tbe Hudxon river, Erie canal and tbe great lakes. At that time there were only two railroads rail-roads In the United States; one ran from Schenectady to Albany, N. Y., and tbe other from Detroit to Ann Arbor, Ar-bor, .Mich. Ily means of the latter railway. In a train that was plain, slow, cramped and jolty, she reached Ann Arbor. There a man and team were engaged and for days she rode through the dense forests to Gun Plains, Allegan county, where her borne has since been. In contrast Is her latest Journey, npon which she vlnited Chicago. Hoarding a parlor car at her homo station, she reached the city without change, and an automobile took her to the home of ber relatives. She is not at all nervoua about the "devil wagors" and rather enjoys a little speed stunt down the" boulevard. In going to tbe station upon ber return home, she motored past Grant park, where a dozen aviators were clearing the air like birds, In close prophecy of yet more wonderful modes of transportation. |