The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-28

said:
HE parted frownig from me- as if ruin
Lesped from his eyes"
There is 1.-The moist eye, with which |
the Chief Justice charged the profligate |
Falstaff; ''the raging eye, OF the bloody !
Richard the III, and the eye of Corio- !
| lanus
Red. rs twould burn Rome"
There are the eyes of Cicero,
such ferret and such fiery eyes"
The eyes of Cleopatra, with April in
them, and
| THE sober eye Of dull Octavia."
There is the elder Hamlet's eye,
IAN eye like Mars, to threaten and com
marld:
and, on the other hand, We have
1.-THE one suspicious and one dropping eye
OF his Villainous brother.
No part of the man has the man made
himself Even the impulses to culture,
improvement. self-control, for which we
take 50 much credit, are themselves he
reditary. 1t is as difficult for one indi-
vidual to be idle as it is for another to
| be industrious. The man who said he
was born tired doubtless told the lit
eral truth No man by taking thought
can add 4 cubH to the stature Of his body
or his mind.
| How curiously and strikingly do we
see the features of parents and grand
parents reappear in the new generation.
If the countenance OF dozen genera
tions could be preserved with iife-like
fidelity, keen eye might parcel out in
the child the share contributed by each
here an eyebrow, there an eye, here
the curve of the mouth, there the bend
of the nose, here the color of the skin,
there the shade Of the hair. In this
way We might attain, as it We're, to a
chemistry OF the human face, and dis
solve it into its original elements.
Behind these differences of the face
which are due to ones individual an
cestors within few generations, there
/, are larger and broader distinctions
which tefl Of race histories, and carry
US back in the pedigree for thousands Of
years.
Tribes or clans probably originated in
the first instance in one individual.
BolLer than his fellows. like Abraham.
when he went forth from Ur af the Chal-
does, he takes bis wife or wives with
him. peuetrate5 into the wilderness, sets
UP his tent or his hut, and maintains
war for generation against wild beasts
and wilder men He leaves behind him
a vigorous progeny who grow to the
limits of the food-supply OF the region;
each bearing the stamp of the strong
original founder of the colony. These
inter-marry and perpetuate the domi-
nant traits of the family. For, as man
n has q million ancestors in SIX hundred
o years, so he has, during the same space
: of time many million Of collateral rela-
tiyeS Hence in isolated communities
the whole people are of one blood. knit
together by millions of ties of kinship.
Hence not only the clans of Scotland,
t for instance. had each distinct ply
= siognomy, and distinct body Of mental
3, traits, the recognition of which passed
into proverbs; but there came to be a
distinctivelv Scotch cast Of cOuntenance
as contra-distinguished from the En-
l-glish, and again from the Irish, the
e French or the German face.
OfI But there is recorded in the faces OF
ee men an even profounder history than
ID this, and one shat dates back far beyond
r any written secrsls of the race, back
Il even of the regi',D of legend and fable.
= The begga@ on the streets has in che
- lneamenis Of his countenance 4 story
older than that of the pyramids. If he
is fair-haired and blue-eyed, these traits
tell of Gothic descent. under whatever
0 race-name he NAV known; for there are
o. Goths in Ireland and Italy, and Cells ii
~ denmark and Norway. His fair hail
Y and blue eyes testify to thousands Of
years of ancestral bleaching under the
cloudy and stormy skies of northland
to thousands Of years of battle with
s beast and blast, under which the weak
B lings persisted, leaving only the strong
3 and conquering race to multiply beyond
the limits of food-supply, and to be al
last driven forth to invade other lands
If, on the other hand his skin anC
ewes are dark, his hair black or darE
brown, his nose acquiline, we have be
~ fore us palimpses, written over, per
> haps, with dirt and hardships, but which
reveals plainly enough the story o
T.. tropical skies, of people tanned b!
perpetual sunshine, and Swallowed per
! haps by malaria, (Which of itself black
ems hair and darkens compleXIons), o
a q movement of races nOrthWard. Look
4 ing in the beggar's face, we see the his
8 tory of the Arab population along tn
8 south coast of the Mediterranean; w
\ can see the prehistoric migrations 0
4 that curious Iberian or Basque race
1 their intermingling with a Gothic stock
: constituting the Celt-Iberians; we cal
her see these wandering hordes in thei
Tor Undiscovered wicker boats daring tn
pa winds and waves. the Columbuses of
ay coracte, crossing from France and SPAR
ay to the coasts of England and Ireland
Do d and again migrating from Northern
F Ireland to the mountai of Scotland
the wales of Dalecarlia or the inhospita