The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-10-30
WHICH IS The KNEE
Publishel bY Reanest.

| Which is the king, the Head, the
Heart, or the Hand 81 am the king,
said the Head. G am uppermost.
have to think and plan for the heart
and the hand. ] am the brains-the
orb of thought - everything isd a
thought before it is a thing. / am the
chief end of man. / am the author
of ideas, and ideas are the seeds oi
| institutions. j am an inventor with
out me the Worlds fair at Vienna
would not have been possible. / had
| the locomotive and the telegraph on
the brain before they became ideas in
iron and fire. / think out books oil
verse and prose; indeed, am the au-
thor of all libraries. studied out the
systems of calculation, from simple
/ arithmetic to astronomy. From the
blackboard in the eschool-room, i reach
to that vast ciphering board, the sky
where the stars are the fingers i go
by. Who will deny that I am the
king ?''
The Heart, with f1utter of emo
ton, spoke with a pulse-beat in every
word, and said, g Potato-tops are up
permost, but they are green and per-
ish, and would be of ne account but
for the tuber that is in the ground.
Plans are of no use until they are ex-
ecuted.. / have warm red blood in me,
and 1 send it through innumeFable red
rivers to the brain, and then it thinks.
Feeling kindles into fact through me,
therefore ] am the king. Emotion
gives an impulse to life. am all the
time beating sensations into sense.
There can be no eloquence, no poetry,
no prose worth reading without my
blood in them. / make soldiers brave
in war I prompt men to plan for the
welfare Of the world, Without me
there would be no love, no gallantry
no generosity, no charity. I am the
king, for rule all who love and all
who wish to be loved. am in the
center of the human body-the head
| is at one end of it. am the king
The Hand, tingling to the finger
tips, spoke next: 81 am not to- be
put down as a plebeian by the patri-
clans who have spoken. l should like
to know what the head and the heart
could do without me? They could
nor take care of themselves. They
would starve to death, l have to do
all the useful work. ] wash and comb
| the head, put its hat on in the morning
and put its ni9ht-cap on in the eve-
ming. write out its thoughts.
shape its ideas in metal and wood,
make the locomotives / pave the rail-
roads; l build the ships I stretch the
telegraph wires around the earth and
under the sea | plough the fields and
reap the grains aud grind the corn =
The Heart boasts about its feelings,
/ think it might have some regard for
the feelings of others. Without my
assistance, it could not feel at all. l
am the executive. am physical
force. can put a head on / am
the King, l cast the ballot and shall
vote for myself" .s,tsg4.-f Ii. f.ssf.fs
Here are three claimants for. the
crown and throne, Who shall decide
the question? Which is the king the
head that thinks, the heart that feels
or the hand that executes? Shall we
ask jury of our readers to render a
verdict2 When one of the StuaFts
| lost his head, Scotch woman re-
marked: cit wasna much of a head,
but it was sair loss TO the owner
Boys in the street, and some men, say
when they are displeased, that they
will tsput, a head on a man; some
times they go into figuratiye speech
and say fsmaDs ,rd ROOF" They threat
en- to bestow npon others that which
they have the least of to spare. They
would notilose much and the recipi-
.ents would not get anything worth
| the taking. The head they propose
to add to the shoulders of another has
no brains in it and no heart under it.
A modern writer speaks of s.bulbous
headed men, 3 He must refer to men
who flourish best in the dirt, like
some contractors, or TO groVeling men
| whose heads are in the dust. gold-dust
and not the dust of humiliation,
where they ought to be-, 4afsl..l {
The greatest living orator of New
England Gays that some men wear
muscular. knobs on their necks called
by, courtesy heads If 8 man would
wear a kingly head, let him begin in
his youth to cultivate it. Let him
shun street corner conventions and
| sidewalk cultnres Let him dodge the
places where young men and mere
boys are playing games Of chance be-
4 hind screens and barricades of cigar
boxes. Let him pronounce with en-
phasis the. monosyllable FsNo" when
invited to do an unjust or mean thing
Let him avoid the society of young
men of .'yast moral requirements and
| various misinformation.D5 5ss, i
The heart Eiltnever be king so long
as it remains hard aad impenitent, II
| should be softened by the tears,of sor-
row for the evil of its life. A, good
heart is like a, well, sfWhen yon drop
! words of pity in it the wafer splashes
| into the eyes" The heart has had a
great deal to do in building. asylums
| for the deaf, dumb, and blind in pro-
| viding shelter and food for, the sick
and the lame. The Sunday school
"hum" seems to sound like. the quick
beating of q great good heart. Great
Heart is fine figure in Bunyan's book
When you see a human being lifting
d dowh-trodden man from the nnire
| of destitutions and suffering lifting
him-lifting him higher and higher,
still and still higher, you may rest
assured that he does not do it by mus
cular strength alone. He lifts him so
that his heart may beat above the
ground on which ,hearestsl his feet.
The hand Is the royal servant of a
good head and good heart. will not
say that it works miracles, but it does
wonderful things. The human hand
signifies industry, independence, USE
| fulness. Two hands aud one mouth
signify twice as much work as eating.
and the earning of the bread we eat.
|. Lazy men and boys are like Hermes,
who had q mouth and no hands. He
! worked only with his Jaws. No man
is too good TO work. No. matter how
rich he may be, It is his duty ito work
1 with his head or with his hands La
illness is the fools. paradise" Sloth
and sickness are twin sisters" and
those who do nothing for a,living
need not expect to live long nor to
live well. The true king is the man
who controls himself. ''He is mighti-
er than he who taketh a city,"
1t is proper to add here, that good
ness, not (goodishness) is the true
king. 1t is grerter than intellectual
greatness. The men who can marshal
armies and organize nations, the men
of science who see the stars "as blos-