Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — Different Temperaments. [ARTICLE]

Different Temperaments.

The value of self-control cannot be overestimated. Rage exhausts to a great degree the vitality of the blood. In fact, it frequently creates bad blood. With some persons, and more particularly such as are endowed with giltedged hair, passion and emotion are rarely ever checked, consequently such persons are apt to lose their heads. They are the class of lunatics who encourage their passions to burst out into flame whenever a suspender button comes unglued without warning, aud then it, the passion, not the suspender button, surges through the blood like u torrent of fire, instead of taking some friend aside to some secluded spot, aud asking him to take a pin and anchor the buttonhole of the suspender securely on the site of the missing button. Other persons remain calm and collected under the most provoking circumstances, as for instance when they endeavor to borrow a dime of a friend, and are told that the latter is not doing a banking business. There are others who, while outwardly calm, are inwardly a blazing furnace. With their blood raging at fever heat, they will maintain a placid exterior. They never become excited, so frigid is their nature, and maintain the same steady composure when they are invited to an oyster supper that they do w hen they are told that their immediate female relatives are no better than they should be.

There are several modes of curing a bad temper. If, for instance, a person throw's out an insinuation that you are a fool, do not allow your mind to dwell on a remark in which there may be a great deal of truth, but just ask him if he has heard recently from his uncle who is a fugitive from justice. Then he will turn the conversation into more pleasing channels. Children should be taught from earliest infancy to control their loud cries, by turning their thoughts to some other object than the one desired. They may be quieted by holding up a picture, or a flower, or a boot-jack. The latter object is the best. It should be held behind the infant and moved rapidly backward and forward until the desired effect is produced, although a boot-jack is apt to develop corns on the parental hand that wield;* it. —Texas Siftings.

Commercial Capabilities of the Congo. In regard to the commercial capabilities of the country Mr. Stanley says: “It bears within itself nearly all the products required by the necessities of Europe and all the elements that might be needed for its conversion from bemg an unproductive waste to be a material and moral profit to humanity. Within its bosom it contains abundant copper and iron mines, valuable forests producing priceless timber, inexhaustible quantities of rubber, precious gums, spices, pepper, and coffee, cattle in countless herds, and people who are amenable to the courtesies of life, provided they are protected from the attacks of lawless freebooters and the murderous wiles of the slave-traders. If 200 tusks arrive per week at Stanley Park, or, say $1,300,000 per annum, it would still require twenty-five years to destroy the elephant in the CoDgo Basin. In my opinion, however, ivory stands but fifth in rank among the natural products of the basin. The total value of ivory supposed to be in existence in this region would but represent 107,500 tons of palm-oil or 30,000 tons of India-rubber. By the most trifling labor of the able-bodied warriors living on the banks of the Noviyoke River, more of either palm-oil, rubber, gum, orchilla weed or cornwood could be produced in one year than all the ivory in the Congo Basin is worth,”