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dead and almost forgotten father, who in its 
building and furnishing expended over $80,000. 
The place is known as ‘‘ The White House.” 
Marquette, four hundred and _ thirty-five 
miles from Chicago, is well supplied with excel- 
lent hotels and large Summer boarding-houses 
where comfortable, well furnished rooms and 
unexcelled board can be procured at very rea- 
sonable prices. The city is beautifully located 
For the invalid or for the resident of our South- 
ern or Eastern States, Marquette offers many 
inducements as a Summer resort. Its air is 
pure and clear, its days are not hot, its nights 
pleasantly cool, and yet not cold, and its 
healthfulness unquestioned. From Marquette 
you can take steamer for Sault St. Marie, for 
Isle Royal, St. Ignave Island, Fort William, or 
any point on the north shore of Lake Superior. 
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WIN rath 
IN THE YOSEMITE. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
on the Bay of Marquette, which is a deep in- 
dentation of the shores of the lake. On the 
bay are unequalled facilities for boating, and 
its waters are filled with gamey fish, which 
seem eager to reward the angler, as they are 
caught in great abundance with but little labor. 
A few miles out in the bay are several large 
islands covered with virgin forests. These 
islands are favorite resorts for picnic parties, 
that reach them by saii boats, by steamer, or 
by small row boats, of which any number 
may be hired at Marquette at almost any time. 
On that shore you will find Nature in all her 
wildness. The white man’s arts and ways 
have not yet penetrated its wilds, and the In- 
dian with his peculiar ways can be found 
without seeking far. This Indian is not the 
savage of the plains or mountains, but he who 
has been tamed by the kindly teachings of the 
patient Catholic missionary, who has been a 
dweller in the tents of the uncultivated child 
of the forest for generations, and who has lived 
there really and truly for the Indian’s good, 
and not for the white man’s aggrandizement, 
