The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07
poFF HATS TO OHIO.
Source Whence All Our Blessings,
Including Presidents, Flow.

the Ohio Magazine, Whlcn Oh %
must know.
In Columbus they make more bug
gies than anywhere else on eartn'
Also, wherever one sees an Amer-
can citizen resplendent in regalia or
a uniform, or even wearing a modest
little badge, the chances are ninety
nine out of a hundred that his adorn-
ment came from the capital city.
In Toledo are vast enterprises In
manufacturing, of the type commonly
called industrial, and there Is also
made the finest cut glass produced
anywhere.
AT Marion are made the steam
shovels that have developed the IN
terror of Siberia and South America
and are now busy with their great
Jaws uniting the two oceans across
the Isthmus of Panama.
The little city of Coshocton turns
out more advertising novelties than
any other place in Christendom.
Compare these trihes with the iron
horses from the shops of CollinWood
and the vast products Of steel and
iron from Lorain and Ironton.
We turn to art in the unrivalled
Rooliwood potteries of Cincinnati
and the fine and useful ware pre
duced at East Liverpool and Zanes
vile.
The little town Of Delaware is not
counted as an active volcano on the
map. but II won immortal fame and
eternal gratitude by giving the Della
ware grape.
Springfield is noted the world over
for its agricultural manufactures. but
Il is even entitled to greater re-
nown because it produces more now
ers than are grown in any other one
place on both hemispheres. Millions
of roses and other flowers go annually
from Springfield to brighten the gar
dens and the homes of the world. -
Perhaps half the boarded wealth
Of America is in safes made in Cam
ton and Cincinnati.
Akron gives the world the greater
part of it's breakfast food, and In
worlds rubber supply.
Down in Chillicothe and Circleville
they can one.fourth of all the corn
preserved in the United States.
In Newark and Piqua are turned
out sto,Is innumerable to warm the
households of the land and teach the
rising feminine generation how to
cook.
All along the lakes we build ships
to carry human and other cargoes,
but in the thriving town of Washing
ton Court House the people content
themselves in promoting another and
an earlier form of carrying trade, by
maintaining there one OF the largest
horse markets in the world.
Shoes in Obio are turned ont by
the millions, and the list OF shoe
factories and the towns they largely
support is endless.
In Sandusky they make as good
wine as is produced in the United
States and rival the foreign article
with the excellence Of their vintage.
As for beer, the breweries are still
legion, Notwithstanding the drFness
Of the period Meanwhile in Newark,
Tor the accommodation of these and
other industries are made more bot
ties than anywhere else on earth or
in Mars, so far as we know.
At the same time the volume Of all
this business-and the greater part of
the volume of the worlds retail bus
iness-is recorded in the cash regis
ters that are made in Dayon.
Revcrting again to Toledo, do they
not astonish the world with their air
ships? Let it not be said that To-
ledo is up in the air, because she is
| not; but her inhabitants are destined
to get there first in the evolution or
aerial navigation.
The rural town of Millersburg, in
Holmes county, raises more Demo-
Gratis to the square inch than are
produced on any other spot beneath
the cerulean concave; and in War
rem, the thriving metropolis OF Turn
bull county, the same annual crop
is raised for the Republicans; while
in Cleveland, under Tom l.. Johnson,
they manufacture all kinds OF poll
tics while you wait. Last, but not
least, Xenia, the county seat Of
Greene county, challenges all Amer,
ica and a part of Africa in the pro-
duction of "coOns."
But after all is said the crop Of
which Ohio is proudest and for which
it is most famous is its babies, A
poet has declared that the hand that
rocks the cradle rules the world;
but it is not so IN Ohio, with all due
respect to our noble motherhood.
When the Ohio baby passes the ma
ternal care he becomes President and
does the ruling himself.
Indeed It is a great state-the
greatest If you please. It is the best
place that God has given man TO
live in, and as for the leaving 1t, each
and every one of us who was foe
tunate enough to be born a Buckeye
can only say, with Lucien Seymour,
who has so gracefully expressed the
truth OF the situation:
NEhan tha hurdans nf life I avn oaIYaA