The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-01-30

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You are horn into tlIs world with sweet
breath, A a proper age you aequirsR good
SEA Of teeth, You hope 20 have aswessheart
or perhaps have already got one. Now "
yoi dare 10 insult one Of these blesssd orea-
lures by kiss that Il aeampoand Of nicotine
slobbsr and puiresceni sKhalation you ought
u be shot, II is the fainie Of skunk. DO
you know that chewing tobacco isa nasty,
sinking, disgusting habit thut he faithful
description would exhaust all the filthy adj
ieetivoa Of tho language aud spoil the nd
jeeiigea themselves for an further useP Vet
you 'aii get ia lhe habit of chewing You
will chew, and squirt, and ejheulate those
horrible quids, and mako yourselves disgust
ing 10 al your -asq-aintaures. You will
smoke cigars and pipes, until your bedroom
or your shop cannot be brenihed ~, and until
your breath Il rank like the breath af foul
beast, and your clothes smell as n they had
lain In the sewer over night. and hung In the
barn 10 dTy Some Of you take snuG4-Vsam
the fiery weed up your nostrils TO irritate
that subtle sonae which rarcst flowers weEe
made 10 feed lin all this working against
God, abusing nature, peryerting sense, injur-
ing health, planting the seeds Of disease, and
insulting the decsnces Of life and ihe nosrs
Of the world.
80 much for the nature Of the habit. and
! would stop here but for the fact that am
IN earnest. and wish 20 present every motive
IN my power 10 prevent young men from
forming the habit, or persuade them to aban-
don H. The habit, Of using tobacco is expen-
siye. A clerk on modest salary has no
right to be seen with a cigar IN bis mouth.
rhrse -eigafA a day, at Eve cents apiece.
amount to more than fifty dollars q year.
Can YOU afford Up You know you cannot,
You know that To do this you have either
got to run in debt or.steal Therefore say
that you have no business 10 be seen with n
cigar IN your mouth. II II prcsumptiye
evidence against your moral character. Did
Il ever occur so you what you are. what you
are made for, whittier you arc going7 That
beautiful body ofyuurs, IN whose construction
infinite wisdom exhausted the resources cfiis
! ingenuity, Ia the temple Of a soul that shall
live forever, companion Of angels, search
or into the deep things OF God, a being allied
in essence TO the divine. ! say the body is
the temple. OF the tabernacle; or the tavern,
Of such being as this, and what do YOU.
think Of amniing the front door Of such q
L,.illiag zen tii,.s .-slss lc.lls
that you con fnd. or set,ipg q slow match 10
Il. or hlling The chlmncyS with snuff n
looks to M, more like an epdcayor To smoke
J nlL Lie -icnnIi. or 10 insult him IN such q
manner as TO induce him TO qultthe premises.
You really ought to.be ashamed Of such be.
Ihayior a clean mouth, sweet breath, un-
stained teeth and moiTcnsive elathing--are
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throw away tobacco and all thoughts of il
at once and forever. BE a man. BE decent,
and be thankful to NE for talking so plainly
10 YOU. NN
But there are other bad habits besides th\
use Of tobacco, There is the habit Of using
strong drink,-not the habit Of getting drunk
wtrihtIaoIt snlng men, but the habit oftakiug
drink oecasionlly in It's milder forms, OF play
I ing- -Ssith-a- -Enah- appntito-ihat only needs
I sufficient playing With to mike YOU demon
or dolL You think you arc safe know
you are not safe, 10 you drink at ALL and
when you turn up your noses at the good
friends who warn you Of your danger, know
YOU are q fool. know that the grave
swallows daily, by score, drunkards, every
one of whom thought he was safe while he
was forming his appetite. But this IS old
talk. a young man in this age who forms
thu habit OF drinking, or puts himself in dam
] ger. Of forming the habit, is usually so weak
that i doesn't pay to save him. .-
! PASS by profanity. That is TOO offensive
and vulgar a habit for any man Who reads Il
respectable newspaper to indulge in. pass
by this, Isay, 20 come to a habit moro des-
tructiye than any have contemplated
Young man! you who are so modestin the
presebce Of women,-t-so polite aud amiable
| YOU who are invited into einilios where there
are pure and virtnons girlsi you who 30 TO
church, and seem to be such pattern young
man you who very possibly neither smoke,
nor chew, nor snuff, nor swear. nor drink
you have one habit ten times worse than all
these put together,-a habit that makes you
a whited sepuloher, far without, but within
full Of dead mems bones and all uncleanness.
You have habit OF impure thought, that
poisons the very springs Of your lifes Ii may
lead you into lawless indulgcnccs, or It may
not So fur as your character is concerned,
it makes little difference. A young man who
cherishes impure images, and indulges in
impure conversations, with his associates, is
poisoned. There Is rotteaness in him. He
is not TO be trusted. Hundreds of thousands
of men are living in inhappiness and degra-
dation to-day who owe their unhappy lives to
an early habit Of impure thought. To a
young man who has become poisoned in this
way, women all appear to bo yicio1s or weak ;
and when young p,an loses his respect for