The Colonel On Cigarettes

Col. Rogers, of the Orchard Lake academy, is a pleasing gentleman to visit. He is dignified, as a military man should be, but courteous, agreeable and interesting in conversation. To a reporter he said, as he sat in the Cook house, Saturday: "I carne over in charge of my boys, as I cali the lads in my care. I love to witness the game of football. It is a dangerous, but glorious sport. However, some of its harsh features have been eliminated, and the game as played is not as dangerous as it was." "Football," said ihe Colonel, "teaches discipline and the value of quickness andcorrectness of thought. A football player cannot afford to make mistakes. He must think with the rapidity of lightning, and think right. This disciplines the mind to aerceive and act upon the correct dea, as nothing else in the field of sport can. A good foot-b;ill player las the material in hini for a good field ofïïcer." Gazing with satisfaction over the crowd of cadets who thronged the Cook house lobby, the Colonel reraarked: "You do not see any cigarettes in their mouths, do you? Well, there is no cigarette smoking among Orchard Lake cadets." "Cigarette smoking," continued Colonel Rogers, "is in my opinión more pernicious, more destructive of health, than the intemperate use of liquor." "No," repeated the Colonel, "there is no cigarette smoking among my boys."