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of this region, employment is provided for a 

 large number of the people. About 1,500 are 

 employed in the leading iron works, one of the 

 best-equipped plants of its kind in the United 

 States. There are also manufactories of steel 

 and brass products, and the city has extensive 

 silk mills, knitted-wear and shirt factories, and 

 breweries. The immense waste of the coal 

 banks of mines in the vicinity is converted into 

 electricity, the generating station having a ca- 

 pacity of 25,000 horse power. This power is 

 distributed throughout the surrounding terri- 

 tory within a radius of fifty miles by steel 

 tower and pole lines, and has given the town 

 the local name of The Power City. 



Hazleton has several fine public buildings, 

 notably the city hall, the post office and the 

 buildings of the First National and Hazleton 

 National banks, and of the Markle Banking 

 and People's Savings trust companies. In addi- 

 tion to two high schools, the city has Hazleton 

 and Saint Gabriel academies, a business college 

 and a library. The state hospital for miners is 

 also located here. H.H.F. 



HAZ'LITT, WILLIAM (1778-1830), one of the 

 greatest of English essayists and critics. He 

 wrote of nature and of art and the characters 

 of men; as a critic of the drama he has prob- 

 ably never been equaled. He was one of the 

 most successful controversalists and a master 

 of epigram and sarcasm. Born at Maidstone, 

 he started out to study for the ministry, but 

 abandoned this for portrait painting. Then 

 he turned his attention to literature, his first 

 publication being an Essay on the Principles 

 of Human Action. His Round Table, a series 

 of essays on literature, men, and manners; his 

 View of the Contemporary English Stage; his 

 Lectures on the Poets, The English Comic 

 Writers and The Dramatic Literature of the 

 Age of Elizabeth; his Characters of Shake- 

 speare's Plays and Table Talk these sustain 

 his reputation in the field of English letters. 

 His autobiographical essays, however, are per- 

 haps the most delightful of all his works, with 

 their quiet humor and leisurely style. 



HEAD. The head is the seat of the brain 

 and the chief organs of special sense the eyes, 

 ears, nostrils, mouth and tongue. It is the 

 most important part of the body. We often 

 speak of the head as the mind. When we say 

 that a man has a good head we mean that he 

 has a strong mind or strong brain power. An 

 injury to the head affects the entire body, since 

 the brain controls to a greater or less extent the 

 functions of all the other organs. 



The chief parts of the head are the cranium, 

 formed by the skull, and the face. The skull 

 is formed by the union of eight bones, the 

 frontal, two temporal, two parietal, the occipi- 

 tal and two sphenoid. The skull encloses and 

 protects the brain, and its bones are formed of 

 three layers, an outer and an inner layer, both 

 hard and compact, and between these a porous 

 layer which aids in protecting the brain from 

 shocks in case of a fall or a blow. 



The occipital bone rests upon the upper 

 vertebra, with which it forms .a joint that 

 enables the head to turn in any direction. The 



BONES OF THE HEAD 



(1) Occipital 



(2) Temporal 



(3) Parietal 



(4) Sphenoid 



(5) Frontal 



(6) Malar 



(7) Nasal 



(8) Ethmoid 



(9) Lachrymal 



(10) Superior Maxilh 



(11) Inferior Maxilk 



(12) Zygomatic Arch 



greater part of the weight is in front of 

 point of support, and the head is held in 

 erect position by the muscles of the neck, 

 one falls asleep when in a sitting position, th( 

 muscles relax and the head falls forward. Tl 

 is why a person nods when he is sleepy. 

 FACE; SKELETON. 



The term head is often used to denote 

 We speak of one as being at the head of 

 class or at the head of a column. The ter 

 is also used to indicate leadership, as in tl 

 expressions, "the head of the house," or "t 

 head man." W.F.R. 



HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER (1805-1868), 

 British colonial administrator and writer 

 art, at one time lieutenant-governor of N( 

 Brunswick and from 1854 to 1861 Goverm 

 General of British North America. He was 

 graduate of Oriel College, Oxford, in the ch 



