Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-06
The Head.

The Head.
The "Fat Contribute" thus dis
courses This is doubtless the most
important "organ we have. We lose
our hearts with impunity, but let man
once part with his head, and the jig's
up. A lost leg or arm can be supplied
but when the head is once of there Is
an end of it. Not but that we have
wooden heads enough among us, but
they were born so. Art has never sue
cessfully supplied wooden head where
the original article had been carried
away.
No one can expect to get ahead in
this world if he hasn't head to start
with. Yet having a good head at the
outset there is danger of losing it if we
are not on our guard. The head is the
receptacle for the brains, and it is sad to
see how much waste stowage-room there
is in some mems craniums. The less
brain man has the more liable he is TO
get the "big head" A man ought to be
tolerably satisfied with the head he has
and make the best of it, particularly as
he must carry it rs long as he lives, yet
we see thousands of poor struggling
mortals scheming and contriving day
and night how to get anead OF each other
and after they get it they ant always
satisfied with it. The fascinating daugh-
ter of Herodias adopted very unfair
way of getting ahead of John the Bapt-
ist. When she danced before Herod,
it was good. by John. She afterward
got ahead of him on a charger, which
shows that her charger was faster than
Johns was.
The head affords employment to a
great many people, of whom the halter
stands at the head, though he probably
isn't at the head oftener than the bar
Der is. Then there is the dentist, who
pulls teeth and nearly pulls your head
off at the same time and the aurist,
who attends to your ear and the ocu-
list, who prescribes for your eye; and
the phrenologist, who will examine
your head when you are ninety years
old, and tell you just what occupation
you ought to adopt in order to succeed
in the world.
There was q popular delusion for q
long time to the effect that when aman's
brains are out the man dies, but it il
not SO. Look at Congress And looi
at some heads of the department.
There are great many kinds heads
Some m en- have heads SO round-bulle
heads-that square idea can never ge
into them. Others have fiat heads, ant
everything is fat that emanates from
them. A few heads are perfectly level
and occasionally one that is square
Hot heads and bull heads are found il
abundance among all classes and condi
tons of men. Finally, my advice is
dear hearers, under all circumstances
try and keep your heads level and cool
/ BAsswooD BARK.-The inner bark o
{ the Eastwood, or linden tree, is in Rus
STA manufactured into great variety O
! articles, including grain-bags, wagon
covers, sails, ropes, etc. A millio
, trees are annually required to suppl
Q the material, the value of the product
amounting to 81, 400, 900. The bark
3 collected by the peasants In May an
D June, when the circulation of the sa
renders peeling easy. The bark of th
{ lower part of the stem, generally use
f for roofing, is procured in pieces abor
n 81 by 81 feet, and is heated and presse
s to prevent curling. That of the upp'
]. part of the trunk is tied in bundle
and rotted in water until Septembe
: when it is dried and ready for weavin,
d The heaviest fiber is sold at the Nishn
Novgorod Fair for S24 per cwt.