The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26

mean man-has no >xedeeming trait and is therefore a social unit, which could be withdrawn and never would be missed. Indeed, his survival and perpetuation would seem to combat one Of laws of md ture, which seek to eliminate the unfitteSt-a fact, which suggests an inscrutable purpose in his existence. But we will not probe for purposes, nor quarrel with the hidden designs of nature Whether she pre- sents us with a by-product, hybrid or a moral and social degenerate, in the mean man, he is an ever-present and ineradiCable element of human life. Like the pestiverous insects, venomous reptiles and other useless creatures of animal life. we have this human thorn in the fiesh," to serve some end in the singular dispensations of the unknoWable.
 The typical mean man has been pictured in Darwin's Origin of Species" where, every lineament of the face, head and general physiognomy place their unmistakable seal Of craft, cunning, duplicity, cynicism, suspicion and evil designs. so plainly, that The ethnological student can read his char acter with perfect precision Dissimu- lation. guile, deceit, hypocrisy and un- truthfulness are written in clear and merciless outline. The veil of pre- tence, chicanery and clever legerdemain is drawn aside, and the clean-cut visage of the harpy and shylock is dis played There are the eyebrows which meet and droop down to the root of the nose, indicating a treachar- ous nature, full of subtlety and artifice. This is generally accentuated by pair of cunning dark eyes, which peep fercely from underneath the shaggy eyebrows, with a sly and willy mean ing. The malignity of these small round eyes is increased when, op"ssum- like, they grow close together, as if each was suspicious of what the other
 was doing. Most frequently these features are accompanied with q 'snubby nose, covering like, with snarl- ing wrinkles. which seldom disappear all of which plainly indicate cupidity and d-heartedness, mixed with vicious sarcasm. A 6mirklng mouth naturally follows, showing coarseness and ill., breeding. or natural grossness and rudeness. The general contour of the head is never symmetrical. It will either be narrow between the temples and the hair creep down over the fore
 head, showing sensual. unfeeling and brutal instincts, or else from normal width, will spread out below into vicious lantern" jaws, which always show the basest preclivities of cruelty and brutality. Thie is generally re- inforced by thick ears. with heavy ex- tremities, that are ever found in the cheat, imposter and thief. No small amount of the true character of the mean man can be read by his hand not the wrinkles and contours shown by palmistry-but the evolution it shows from it's primal uses-the last trace of it's original grasping habit, when our ancestors quilted the woods and commenced to walk on their hind legs. He retains. in a most emphatic sense, the Latin derivation of 'manip- ulation." while the irregular form of his hand--hngers too long or too short | lean or fiabby--indicate only partial reclamation from the savage state | This defect is further illustrated in the hand shake, which is never one Of those frm. wholesome grasps. indiea- tive of sincerity and friendly candor'
 but is either quick. lackadaisical or careless. if not with a lingering hold that would suggest sinister designs. These physiological and psychologi- cal traits of the mean man will vary, according to the development or spe- cial predilection of the individual