Show T. T L I I I 1 The 0 of r i St ory the theBY St a t es n 1 i iI I I I I BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE I I I I II III i I I- I Copyright bt 1015 1915 by th the Press Co th the New cw York Torl World odd 1 f. f AN AN EMPIRE WITHIN OHIO OHIO MOTTO MOTTO AN EMPIRE I I TANNED rA shaggy haired man A clad in a n. ragged coffee sack and wearing a tin pan for a a. hat plodded through the Ohio in 1806 alone unarmed penniless Even EYen at dead of winter ho slept out of ot doors rather than titan in a a. house And er c every few tew mlle miles of or his hlA constant journeying he would halt clear a bit bitof bitof bill billor of or ground round put a a. rude fence around it itana and ana plant In the a few fett apple seeds seed And everywhere he was received ed as asa asa asa a welcome 1 friend Pione ra throw threw open their doors to him Children an and animals animals ani ani- mals adored him Tho The fierce beasts of ot the tho wilderness dl did him no harm The Thu fat far fiercer Indians In Indians Indians In- In treated him like c a god and Indeed in indeed indeed In- In deed they thought h h h. was way one The eccentric wanderer was Johnny Johnn John n ny Apple and that odd nickname was was a a. household word and n a t term rm nn of ot Ohio Ills His loving loving- reverence throughout and antI he lie real name was John Chapman came from Springfield la 1 Mass class s. s SEED Ills mission In life as he lie bellowed believed it It was CUI to plant lant apple seeds In tho the desolate desolate desolate deso deso- late places place of or ohio hlo and to supply tho the frontiersmen with apples and half- half grown trues i from those forest nurs of oC his Ills More afore thun than his warnings warn warn- ings saved saed tho the settlers from Indian massacres Tie ire carried civilization into tho the wilds Ills His name namo is ia engraved on a monument In Ashland county count Ohio Ohio front from tho the Iroquois word Yord Ohlon hlo meaning Beautiful River had haa the mount mound builders aa BM Its first The These o gave o place to the tIlt In Indians In- In Then Thin came L I. I a Sallo Salle with hi his swaggering H claim o of tho the whole res region ion for France Tho The Trench settled there So did the r English and somo some V uns ans And the result was what ono might expect x front from putting putting- two hostilo cat cats In iii one barrel rh There Je WitS a a. succession suc suc- succession Uc c cession s lon of clashes and l killing The French with their Indian allies HO so harried th tIll the English n lIsh and Virginia settlers of or Ohio that in I 1753 53 Governor GO of ot Virginia nt F nt a protest to the local French governor He lie sent Hent It b by a R. big fearless V Virginia youth only three twenty o years old who braved ed th the th winter anti and the murderous savages ues by crossing lh the Ohio wast wastes s to deliver th the message e. e Tho The youth was eras George Wash Ington Inston It was his entrance to history Ten years later Ohio became English territory Thenceforward it was th th Indi Indians Indiana ns alone atone instead o of tho French that the Ohio men had to fight And their Indian wars lasted until long Jong after af- af atel af after ter tel tho the Revolution In 1774 1714 England annexed Ohio to C Canada ma a. a 1111 THE n 01 OP PRESIDENT Ohio became a a. state In 1803 Be Because Because Be- Be cause of bf It Its many buckeye ye trees it Is 13 s known as the Buckeye state During the first t ten years Tears of or the nineteenth century Its population increased b by more than tOO p perr pel r cent From rom the tart start no obstacles had been able abIe to retard its wonderful growth By Tay 1840 18 it was the tho third largest state in the union in na national na- na loli politics les for tor W. W IF Ir Harrison a favorite son Eon o of Ohio was as elect elected d President ent of ot the tha United States Slates Ho Ie was wa but the first of or a line litre of oC chief chest executives e that gaffe the Buckeye ee stat slate its sobriquet the time moth mother r of resl Presidents dents a dents a line that Included Presidents President Hayes Garfield McKinley Benjamin Harrison and T Taft t. toor For the civil war Ohio furnished th thee thet union with troops and It wa was waa the scene of ot Morgan's Morgans wild rai raid In Since the tho close of or the civil ci war as for a half halt century before it It Ohio's history has been out ono o of stead steady swift advancement and proF The o offspring o or of Johnny frontlet frontier Ton tIer neighbors havo have girdled d th the tho world with their commerce T They Tiey have hae sat eat at in the Pr Presidential chair they the have lid led li d In politics and andin in every event Industry Tho rhe story of 0 Ohio Is Js s th the to story of Or progress I |