GENERAL GRANT ON TOBACCO.
“THERE are very few tobacco-users who would commend their example to the young. They are ready enough with excuses for their own course; but they would shrink from advising bright and pure boys to do as they do. A great deal of prominence has been given to the fact of General Grant’s love of cigar-smoking. Now it ought to be made equally prominent that on his recent visit to Girard College, he expressed the hope that the boys there were not allowed the use of tobacco; for if kept from it while under training, they would be far less likely to indulge in the practice when they went out. It may well be said to the boys, concerning these men who use tobacco and advise others not to: ‘All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.’”—S. S. Times