The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1910-02-03
Things That Must Come to Philip

already in Philip not so desirable.
They are here probably to stay
but there will be made big effort
to eliminate some of them at the
beginning of this the new year
1910. How many will succeed in
the process of elimination depends
upon their will power. The be-
ginning of every new year is the
season of new resolutions. This
young man is going to cut out
smoking, another one will stop
chewing and another one who has
had painful swellings of the head,
is going to cut out drinking. They
all know and feel the baneful ef-
fects of too much use of these
deadly narcotics and intoxicants,
and desiring to prolong their lives
they feel the necessity of putting
on the brakes and curbing the
tyranny and despotism of habit.
SO at the beginning Of the year,
contracts and pledges are signed to
cut them out. but after about
thirty days their will power tizzles
out and the old habit gets back on
his throne and the man is an
Obedient slave to his former master
for the rest of the year. The use
of these drugs and intoxicants
would not be so offensive and OBJ
jectonable were it not for their
intemperate use. We believe they
all have their uses and are intend
ed for the benefit and happiness of
man. But how many abuse them
and abuse themselves and families
by too much use. Most of the
troubles of the human fami Y can
be traced to that weak vaccitating
will power that couldn't resist the
desires of an unnatural appetite
created while he was young and
tender. A boy in school who
smokes ci cigaretts is doomed. He
will never graduate for he can't.
His brain is supplied, his will
power gone and his ambition and
pride forgotten. The parents of
that boy are wasting their money.
If he doesn't die early he will exc
ont a miserable life and fail in
everything he undertakes. He
will be hired man all his days,
going from pillar to post unable to
hold any position Of trust and re-
sponsibility.
If Darwins theory of evolution
is correct and a great many of our
best thinkers and reasOners think
it is, then youth is the time to be-
ware of what you learn and what
impressions are made on your
plastic mind. Baneful things
when acquired are the hardest of
all to unlearn and eradicate from
the human system. AS the twig
is bent the tree inclines, and habits
acquired in youth generally stay
with the boy when he becomes
man, and they will be his bosom
companions all along down life's
journey. The suicidal mania that
is now spreading over the land ]
firmly believe, is the direct result
of baneful habits acquired in
youth that, like barnacles on the
bottom of a ship, drag their VIC
TINS down to an untimely grave,
and the suicide believing his case
hopeless and that there is no silver
lining in the clouds for him goes
and does the sensible thing, which
is to sever his diplomatic relations
with world where he is persona
non gratia.
Tne thought is repulsive to all
intelligent thinkers, for death is
; the severest penalty administered
to the worst criminals of the land.
To those who want to die, death
has no terrors, and it must be said
that it is condition almost in
comprehensive. What a fearful
state of gloom and mental deqener.
alton that drives a man to take bis
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