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"There!" The splashing came from across the several hundred yards of the Ohio's deep and silent current. It was repeated until it became almost continuous, and it gradually grew louder. "Rafts!" shrilly whispered Cousin. "They are paddling fast." "No! But there are many rafts," he corrected. We retreated up-stream a short distance and concealed ourselves in a deep growth.
"'It ain't nothin', I says. 'He'll be all right in a minute. "We lets Mrs. Boone off after while 'n' keeps on goin' fur a mile or so till we come to some gates. In gold letters over the gates is 'Ohio's Beauty Spot, 'n' below that in bigger letters yet is 'Lake Minnehaha Park. We goes through these gates 'n' there's the track. More'n half the center-field is took up by a baseball diamond.
It was an arduous undertaking, particularly for the schoolmaster, as it led all the way through woods frequented by alert Indians, and, besides deep rivers there were innumerable creeks, which they could cross only by swimming. Bearing this in mind Henry's thoughts returned to the first boat which they had hidden in the bushes lining the banks of one of the Ohio's tributaries.
He could conceive of no greater one. "There is a bigger one!" his father said. "The Mississippi is the daddy of 'em all the Ohio's lost when it rolls into her banks stretchin' for a thousand miles an' more from the mountains in the north way down to the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans." "And it's all ours?" he asked in wonder. "Yes, and plenty more big ones that pour into hit from the West."
Among those ancestors of recent date of whose deeds he was specially proud, were the great-grandfather, Samuel Rogers, a pioneer preacher of the Church of Christ among the early settlers of Kentucky and Missouri, and the Grandfather Hubbard who took his part in the Indian fights of Ohio's early history.
"I'm a Virginian myself," said Grandma Padgett, warming, "though Ohio's been my State for many years." "Well, now," exclaimed the mover, "if you want to light right down, we'll be all the gladder for that. I saw you stoppin' here uncertain; and there's the ford over Little Miami ahead of you. I thought you'd not like to try it in the dark."
The Ohio National Guard was called out, stricken communities were placed under martial law, civilian relief armies under the command of mayors and other designated leaders organized everywhere, Ohio's motor truck, automobile and other facilities commandeered, and the work of feeding, clothing, cleaning up and rehabilitation carried on from the beginning with astounding efficiency.
On the out-going trip, the Wilderness Road was the more toilsome of the two, but it was safer, for the Ohio's banks were beset with thieving and often murdering savages.
Containing no exhibits except the relics shown by the State Historical Society, the building serves the social side of Ohio's participation in the Exposition. Its upper floor is entirely occupied by suites for the Governor and the Commissioners. The Indiana Building, designed by J. F. Johnson, of Indianapolis, represents a type of modern Hoosier dwellings.
So the red Indian, by Ontario's side, Nursed hardy on the brindled panther's hide, As fades his swarthy race, with anguish sees The white man's cottage rise beneath the trees; He leaves the shelter of his native wood, He leaves the murmur of Ohio's flood, And forward rushing in indignant grief, Where never foot has trod the fallen leaf, He bends his course where twilight reigns sublime.
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