The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1878-03-08
BOB INGERSOLL,
Devii-The Man who GIOiies
I'm His Hatred to
Christians.

From Washington Letter.
That cherub devil of a fellow
known as Bob lngersol is attract
ing attention at the capital. His
check5 are pink, and they puff out
like the inflated cheeks OF Raphael s
cherub3. His eyes are big and blue
and innocent, and his lips pout out
0lantilc pleasure at the Christian
worId. His hands are fat and dim
Piled. He wears a ring with a big
set in it on his third finger /; he has
a clean, white, bald head that looks
like a WELL washed California tur>
nip, and California diamonds glislen
on his breast. This handsome meath.
en- said 10 me that his daughters,
both grown, had never heard a SER
mon or been to church in their
lives. That they had never heard a
blessing asked at the table but once
whea they were visiting at the home
of a deluded Christian relative.
When grace was said. the lngersoll
family had hard work to keep their
faces straight. Most persons even
devoid of ordinary religious fervor
would not see anything excessively
funny in a man who believes in a
supreme being thanking that Father
for food ; but to the lngersolls it
was sideespliiting. Not only does
the paterlamilia5 not believe in
God, but he don't believe in churches
or schools. an schools pupils
study geography for years. A per
son VINO has no sense has no use Of
geography, anyone who has sense can
learn al The geography they need
in fifteen minutes" said the start,
ling relormer. In arithmetic eve-
rything is studied wrong. Geom-
etry should be the first form of
mathematics. You studied a cube
rool before you knew what a cube
was-what it looked like, how it
was drawn-didn't you? Very we'll,
That's all wrong. In grammar a
scholar don't want hut one lesson.
Verbs and nouns, adverhs, pronouns,
and every irregular verb ought TO
be scratched out OF the language
irregular verbs do all the damage,
cause all the trouble"
Not alone does this free.thinker
oppose churches and schools, but he
is a disbcliever IN the old notion OF
waichrulnesS on the part of parents.
SNEAK after your children
watch them through the key-hole,
aud they will slip into rurgatory
before your eyes"
Now, for a man who "believes
not in he'll or its anie~room pur>
gatory, the statement that if you
watch Ia child too closely be will
enter a place that has no existence,
is an IngersoIlian syllogism whose
conclusion a derived IRON Iuger-
sollian premises not laid down in
the rhetoric now in common use.
But ingersoll is o law unto him.
self. He does not stick 10 rules
laid down in the books. He believes
in nothing but what is capable Of
proof. He believes nothing but
what can be demonstrated. Several /
aides were di'cn- sing Ingersoll.
He believes nothing but what 1
5 capable Of demonslrauon," said 1
,right-eyed woman.
Docs he believe that he has a
faculty 2 asked a quiet
Invalid.
"Oh, yes of course"
How does he know it? he has
ever felt it, or smelt il. He cans
Iot measure its width, nor depth,
or tell its color or texture. Every
hing existing can be demonstrated.
ngersoil's mind is not capable of
emonstration. therefore, IngersolTs
lind does not exist.