The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-03-04

the Jurors anu omcerS OF the court we 1eel
truly as if the days of johnson, O'Neil, Munro,
Whitner and other pure men Of the judiciary
had returned.
For tho Times.
Physioguomy Of the Hand.
The hand cannot be offered a complete sub
stitute for either the head or the face in the de-
termination of character, but II is q ready aid
in the study of those more important parts
We do not think, reason and invent, because we
have hands but our hands ore the necessary
result of an organization calculated to think,
reason and invent We cannot fail to recognize
and admire the adaptation Of the hand to the
mind, at all ages and under various circum-
stances in its purposeless and playful move
ments in childhood; in the gradually increasing
strength and steadiness rs the intellect ripens
in the light and delicate touch Of the lady in
the iron grasp of the artisan in the open hand
edness OF the liberal man, and in the close fsted
ness Of the stingy. Thus, the hand becomes the
organ of expression and an index Of character.
What would not the nervous young gentleman
in the morning call give to be quit of these
tale telling members? or what would he do
without hat or a stick to amuse them? How
effective to the orator is n wave Of the hand
Some men seem to owe the efficiency of their
defamation rs much to the hand as the tongue.
general law governs the human form, in COM
mon with the whole animal creation, each part
corresponds with every other part and with the
whole. 1t follows that hands subject TO the
same classification heads aad faces. Accord
ingly, we have the long bony hand which belongs
to the motive system, the short aeshy hand with
the vital system, and the small slender hand
with the mental.
Professor Owen, by seeing single bone of an
animal, can construct its entire orseous frame.
work. Professor Asassiz is able to do the same
from single scale of fish, Their power to do
this depends upon law Of comparative anatomy.
IL it be true, then, that animal forms generally
are homogeneous, is there any difficulty in see.
ing that the human form is homogeneous in oil
its parts? If the practical botanist or pomolo-
gist can determine from single leaf the charnc-
teristic form Of tree and Of the fruit also, is
it too much TO believe that may be able to
tell tho shape of persons head or face by in
specing the hand
Only few examples will convince the observer
that the lines of the hand are something more
hand. One who is kind and sympathetic,
with little intellect, will have tie line Of the
iona- sui. iaa ,Aps .os
vitality will have the line Of the head we'll
marked and the line Of life short or broken ;
one with large vitality and small moral and rea
soning faculties, will have the lines of the head
and heart short and the line Of life long; aud
80 it is with al the other lines Of the hand they
are marks Of character and correspond with tho
| head and face. The art Of chiromancy, or divi-
nation by the hand, has been practiced for ages
Those who professed to be expert in it were sup.
posed to be able to foretel the future history Of
person, and to discover the natural peculinri
ties in the disposition, from an examination OF
the lines of the hands.
| This subjuct has been examined and discussed
at considerable length by NJ. Desbarrclles, Rich.
ard Beamish. of Europe, and many others.
There is sufficient in Phrenology and Phys.
iognomy to evidence character without reference
to this system (; yet every one may read, observe
and judge for himself
Each faculty, sentiment and propensity, of the
human mind has its natural language in action,
There is significance in the different modes ,f
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| gle act can do, the character of the person.
How much do we learn of man or n woman by
the shake Of the hand? Is the grasp warm, ar.
dent and vigorous so is the disposition. Is i.
cool, formal and without emotion? so is the char
acter. Is it magnetic, electrical and anmating?
| the disposition is the same. AS we shake hands
30 we feel, and so we are. Much of our true
character is revealed in shaking hands.
But why do we shake hands ut oil ? 1t is O
very old. fashioned way of indicating friendship
We read in the Bible that "Jehu said to Jeho-
nadab: Is thy heart right as my heart is with
thine heart ? If it be. give me thine hand"
Time was. in the old country, when aristoc.
racy ieigned to extend q single finger, or, ut
most two, to be shaken by humble democracy.
| Even now we hear of instances in which the Of
| fense is repeated. 1t is an indignity which no
| true man women will either offer or receive
Refinement and true gentilty give the whole
hand and respond cordially, IL Mt all. This is
| equivalent TO saying, you are welcome or when
parting, Adieu God be with you.
| +. A. G..
THE BANK RoBBERY.-Mr. G. Frazer Wilson,
who was arrested on Sunday for abstracting q
Of fha nf Cav -al ocl