sionally invested in "gold bricks," he has in later years thoroughly learned that "gold bricks" cannot be used in his business. By means of the telephone and the rural delivery of mail, he keeps in touch with the outside world, and is familiar with current events.

But the use of labor-saving machinery is not the only advancement made by the Ohio farmer. He has learned that the vast industry of stock raising is capable of almost unlimited development. He has learned that the feed consumed by poorly bred stock, would be ample nourishment for well bred stock with a value many times as great. Accordingly, a great change gradually took place. The chubby, blocky horse has been disposed of, and in his place is a powerful draft horse or a beautiful fleetlimbed driving horse. The milk cows and beef cattle are no longer crossed. The Jerseys are kept for the dairy, and the larger, lazier breeds for the butcher. A lie improvement has taken place in sheep, hogs.nd other stock, and, as a consequence, to-day, the value of the live stock of Ohio is many times what it was but a few decades back.

The isolation of the Ohio farmer is already a thing of the past. In his modern carriage, with his thoroughbred horse, he drives out in a style that kings would have envied but a few centuries since.

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OHIO'S PRESIDENTS

ITH but one exception, Ohio can claim, either by birth or by citizenship, all

the presidents of the United States elected since Lincoln. Each of these presidents won fame and honor serving the nation in the war of the rebellion, thus assuring the public of their patriotism and loyalty.

Ohio was yet unknown when Washington took his seat as the nation's first executive, and her settlements were few when Adams was elected to that same high office; but during the administrations of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, Ohio was admitted to the Union and slowly started on her pioneer way.

The East was a region of wealth and culture, with a vast commerce and numerous factories. The South was a region of wealth and leisure, where the slave toiled that his master might enjoy that "ease and luxury" which vanished with the kingdom of slavery. At the same time Ohio was an undeveloped expanse where the early settler was engaged in a desperate struggle for existence, with the wild animals and Indians.

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It was in the numerous wars with the Indians that William Henry Harrison, Ohio's first president, won a large amount of fame. He was not only the first presidential candidate from Ohio, but the first from the West, and it was in answer to an eastern jeer that the log cabin became a leading factor in the campaign. coon skin and barrel of hard cider became party emblems, and log cabins, built on wheels, were drawn by numerous horses in each procession. Though the Ohio people had never known of the wealth and luxury incident to the East, they knew their own strength and were not ashamed of their manner of living. The day that closed the campaign and elected Harrison to the presidency was a proud one for Ohio, advancing her as it did to the rank of presidential states.

"But the President pays dearly for the White House." The grand old man who had endured so many hardships on the field of battle could not endure the strain and worry incident to his exalted position. Gradually his strength began to fail, and in a few weeks the nation was called to mourn the death of their Chief Executive.

Twenty-eight years had passed. The Whig party had disintegrated and the Republican party had come into existence. A plain man from one of the states of that Northwest Territory out of which Ohio had been the first to be