Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1875 — Evil Habits. [ARTICLE]

Evil Habits.

It is related that an Indian once found a young lion and as he seemed weak and harmless never attempted to control him. But every day the lion gained in strength and became more difficult to manage. At last, when excited by rage, he fell upon the Indian and tore him in pieces. It is thus with evil habits and bad passions. Have you an' Ungovernable temper ? Do you get so angry that you cannpt, or think you f cannot, “ contain" yourself* If so, you have an untamed lion. Is your appetite for stimulants or narcotics so overpowering that you become almost delirious without them? The lion has already got the mastery and will bring you down unless you cast him off. Look into our jails, prisons and poor-houses, and see the miserable victims there with mouths full of filthy stuff and their bodies reeking with the stench of whisky or tobacco, and you willkee how much more .there is of the animal than of the Godlike human in such perverted and fallen creatures! The lion has them by the throat and will not let go. He has crushed them to earth, apd they lie in the agony of faithlesb

and helpless despair. Reader, do 1 you rathefr admire the fragrance of a nice “ Havana?” Do you like to see the lads indulging in the weed? And is the sparkling wine so delicious and exhilarating? Look out! The lion grows upon that which feeds it; and though you are master to-day you may be slave to-mor-row. What are your habits? Look out! —Phrenological Journal.