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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-18

the clergy and laity regard the Colo
nePs polemic efforts and the effect his
teachings are having on the rising
generation.
ooh don't care to talk about the
man, said Dr. Talmage, as he dry
washed his halds as if TO be rid Of a dis
agreeable subject. "a few years age I,
delivered q series of sermons and lee
lures on Ingersolism. Read them and
you will learn just what l think"
II recall the sermons, doctor, but
have forgotten everything but the fact
that you denounced his teachings as in
furious"
'Perhaps 'denOunCe' is too strong a
word. / tried TO show that the man
was threshing old straw, that the at
tempt 20 overthrow the Christian re-
ligion had been undertaken by far ADLER
men, and at q time, like the French
Revolution, when the public mind was
unhinged and ready for any new issue.
Yet Christianity has advanced in a mar
vellous way, aud the names Of the Op-
ponenJs are known by reason Of their
failures. The harm such men as lnger-
soil do, is not in influencing the reason
of men. If he set men thinking all
would be well, but there is large class
OF men eager TO disbelieve in religion,
in order that they may find an excuse
or ease the conscience as to their own
mIsdeeds. Then there are the young,
with minds susceptible and eager for
novelty. who are won over for the time
by the specious arguments and attract
i've rhetoric of men like Colonel Inger-
soil. If you carefully study his ad-
dresses, the effort won't tax your brain,
you will see that be is a rhetorician
rather than a logician."
Then you think the Colonel has done
nothing to disturb the faith of the peo-
ple?"
"No; be may have changed or rather
confirmed men who were already Of his
way OF thinking, bat have yet to hear
of a Christian man who has renounced
his allegiance to Christ by reason Of
ANYTHING that Colonel Ingersoll has said
or done. lit were rot for blasphemy Of
such speakers the church might well
welcome them as allies. Let the agita-
ton 60 on. All meu have to do is 10
seek and they will surely find; to ask
ask and it shall be given; to knock at
the door OF inspired truth and 1t shall
be ODened INTO them"
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THE NEW EUROPEAN RIFLE
Its Penetration and Deatractivones
Something Awful

It's Penetration and DeatrUotivoness
something Awful
Dr. Dsmosthenes. head surgeon Of
the Roumanian army, where the Mann
licher rifle is being tried, reports, says
the European editor TO the New York
Herald. some results as follows: AT
200 or 400 meters, distance which
III. DsmOsthenes did not exceed on ac-
count of the difficulty of hitting a sin
gle man 90 500 or 200 meters, be noted
complete perforation Of the Uranium
with multiple fractures, and simultan-
eOus rupture Of the stomach aud intes-
tine. with living horses at.tha same
distance the nickle-steel covered ball
OF the Roumaniau Mdnnnlicher Of six
and a half millimeters went through
the Uranium aud neck, grinding the
vertebrae 90 pieces.
Az shorter distance, a fracture oil
the Uranium means that 10 bursts into
about twenty pieces; at 600 meters the
bail went through three placed one
behind the other az an interval OF hall
q meter striking them below the knee;
the tibia of the first was found In four
teen pieces. while that OF the second
showed thirteen. If 90 this we add the
fact that balls striking the bones with
this terrific force break themselves into
innumerabIe fragments, tearing the
flash coming out OF different places,
and leaving tn the tissues lot or metal
lie fragments, some idea can be formed
OF the immense, gravity or these
wounds. and OF the butchery that a
battle of the future is geing TO 5e.
And this is not all; a new danger
hitherto unknown in wounds by ire
arms goes 20 complete the terrible de-
structivs power of these new weapons.
7 refer TO hemorrhage. Wounds inhict-
ed on living horses show that not only
the large vessels, but even the arteries
az small caliber are opened as by knife,
giving rise 20 great loss OF blood. A
horse struck I'm the temple and killed
i'm two minutes lost bright req blood 10
isrs from the wound. a soldier killed
accidently 40 target practice al bucnar-
est and who had merely been shot
throuqh the apex of the lett lung,
without any important vessels being
o,ened. was found 20 have four litres
of blood in his Dleural cavity
such are the wounds with which
army Surgeons are going to have todeal
I'm the future. To master this hem
orrbage. TO handsle and set without
too much pain or damage TO the limbs
of which the skeleton is reduced TO
fragments. VIII the good will courage
and devotion, as also the inexperienee
ord lack of Skill OF the ambulance at
PENDANTS, be enough? Inc surgeon
aid will be necessary.
Unfortunately the range OF the arms
Of the present day will expose them %
being killed 20 no purpose. Inc mos
that can be done will be to protect tne
wounded soldiers from any lurtnei
damage. while the first sanitary line
Win have 20 be $500 or 1000 meters
back of the battle line
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-18

"Have you seen him? Have YOU seen
bim?" with a sort OF dramatic action.
AT length they come 90 the dais, and as
they ask "Where is He2' there comes
the reply, "He is not here, He isrison.
and the sudden outburst OF sound is the
grand choir chanting the anthem or the
Resurrection" in reply.
Then follow marchiDgs and counter
marchinRs, c0auts and responses. Then
comes q gorgeous procession of ecc.es-
iastics. swinging smoking ceusors 2nd
bearing candles iunumerab.e. Nearly
every person in the cathedral has
white taper, and al the proper time
with one accord the taDers are lighted,
until the vast church is an undulating
sea of ught, above which tbe dim smoke
of the incense hoyers iiae an autumn
mist.
The first part is over 40 two o'clock
in the morning. Am around the sacred
edifce long rows Of pasahkas and CO.
lftchies, cl0tted cream and currant cake,
ore waiting 90 be blessed by the priest,
before their owners can sell them. As
you leave the church high up over the
blazoned windows cO.orsd panes rears
the form of gigantic cross Of ire, and
from brazen arms on the cathedral tow
srs. wave tne tall flames in the keen
morning air. Faint, sweet, tender as a
dream, comes the sad music OF the dis
tant bells, filing The air with thro0s OF
melody EDWARD HILDANE.
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cupancy of the White House "by the
will Of Quay"
at Is about time that you and many
others should cease to worry me with
such REQUESTS" said tho President
"And you might as well understand
now that I am President OF the United
States by the will OF God"
Matt" Quay was not prepared Tor
such q shock and be staggered out into
open air. On the portico OF the Execu-
tive Mansion he met Col. Robert G-
Ingersoll.
"Heno Mat what are you looking so
blue about? One would think you had
Just come out of an indigo factory In
stead Of this whitewsshed mansion"
The Senator mournfully related his
grievance, not emitting the PRESIDENTS
ingratitude in attributing his success to
the Almighty.
What" exclaimed Col. Ingersoll.
The President says the Lord elected
him to office? Well have said some
pretty rough things, but I never charged
the Lord with doing such an act as
that"
Among my papers l had copy OF
Colonel Ingersolrs powerful and elo-
ouent speech when he nominated Blaine
10 1876, and applied TO him the name
"Plumed Knight" which stuck and
subsequently became the rallying cry
of the Republican party, and fertile
theme for cartoons and caricature. Sub
sequently, as they say over in Jersey,
Blaine "soured on" his champion, and
he gave the first intimation OF II in the
following way. The story is In the main
correct:
It so happened that shortly after
Blaine's installation as Secretary oil
State, Colonel Ingersoll was induced by
4 warm personal friend to accompany
him TO the State Department and inter
cede with the premier TO facilitate .
pending matter of public business. Arm
| ia arm they entered the edihce, aud
| full of confidence Colonel Bob proceed
ed with seven league boots to enter Mr..
/ BlGine's official sanctum. saole-hued
messenger halted the gallant Colonel
and, with bows and scrapes, informed
him that the rules required that he
should first send In his card.
"All right" heartily replied Colonel
Ineerson. "You must do your duty IS
YOU are ordered. Here's my card, and
tell the secretary that am somewhat In
a hurry.
Scipio Afrlcanus took the pssteboard
and disappeared, while meantime Col
onel Ingersoll paced impatiently up aud
down the marble floors OF the corridor.
Minutes long as hours passed when I'm
ally the messenger emerged and COM
municated the fact that 1.-The secretary
begged to be excused as be was en-
gagged"
''Very WE'LL" said Colonel lngersoll,
~ will call again." and he suggested TO
his friend that possibly Mr.. Blaine was
tusy with some Of the foreign ministers,
whose privacy could not be intruded
upon. But" he continued, I'VE will
come back at o'clock, when the Score
tary is about signing his mail, and then
we shall soc him and fix matters.
Promptly at o'clock the twain return.
ed to the department and the process OF
sending in a card was repeated, eul
with no changed effect. The Ssere.
tary," exclaimed Scipio, was busy and
could not be SEEN"
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estv. doctor. would It not be better for
the pulpit to make public his addresses
and to answer them logically. than 70
denounce the man."
~ 90 not believe in denqneiation.
As to giving publicity to Colonel niger
SOILS addresses that is another matter.
Il is easier to SOW the seeds OF malig-
nant disease than to cure IL, and II IS
far easier 10 ask questions than TO an
swer them. The trouble with all dis
cussions on abstract questions Is DIM
Guilty of coming to an understanding as
TO the definition of terms. After all the
universally Of religion shows that the
impulse to worship is innate Inc
Christian creed is not system OF oOg-
ma, but is based on few selI-eViueh'
truths that even Colonel lngersoll him-
self would approve"
Would you advise those seeking re-
ligious truth to read Colonel lngersoir 5
books, or 10 hear his lectures?
ITO that l say no, most emDhatcaily'
II anxious for the health OF my chll'
dren. I should not care to subject them
to the risk of contagious disease. Vol,
taire, and men of that class, "oula
hardly be considered appropriate au,
thors for students Of theology to study
The Rev. William Carey believes
that Colonel Ingersoll, like every other
power is raised up for Divine purpose
The Colonel is an iconoclast, ana IN
his campaign he would destroy the 2a-
mirable with the Objectionable. de
has, however, aimed most OF his blows
at Calvinism, and l can but think that
in that be has done good. His denun-
citation Of Calvin is mastery, and ne mas
called attention to the life and teach
ings Of that bitter enthusiast as no
other man has done. But he has tried
to link the teachings of Calvin with those
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pe1ssisiana KaEsn cathedral and the
oa'hedgal 81 St. Isaacs, the northern
rival Of sac great Roman church, are
tao noti attractive points Az the
latteT. emission can only be gained oy
favor. ahd beneath its golden dome that
shinaG cOnspicuOusiy aiar above So.
Pe.eYSborg there Us q crowd Of the
nobility. She majesty aud the respecta-
biutY OF the Russian Empire. Exactly
under the dome, Is a raised dias, and on
that stands o table, bearing the full
length picture, representing the Lord
in che grave On either side blaze a
forest OF great candles. Men and wo-
men advance TO the picture, aud rever-
emily crossing themselves Kiss &c, and
sometimes repeat the operation. Hand
some young guardsmon in white uni
form, stand up in a long line. The
cathedral is but dimly lighted, TO pre-
figure the darkness OF the tomb, but
even by the iickering tapers, the gigan-
tic and elaborate proportions Of the
church are visible, and here and there
one can see the gorgeous splendor or
the Ornamentation.
Then come the representation Of the
Easter daWB, JUST as tno n0ur OF mi0-
night Is reached, The candles are
lighted, and as by magic, out flashes the
glory of the great cathedral; pillars Of
green malachite supporting the screen,
the blue columns of laDis lazuii on either
side of the gided gates, that concealed
the altar from an imperial frame for the
great mosaic pictures, Jesus Of Nazareth
aud the Mother Mary with her
child, colossal hal0ad saints,
among them St. Isaacs, Of Dali
mata, aud 50. Nicholas, fav0rits Of
Russian saints. This is suddenly In
terrupted by a great burst OF song
from the choir, which stands before the
altar, arraYed TO blue and yellow vest
ments. The gates open, and beyond
the steady glare OF the candles, and di-
rectly before the ai,ar, in the eastern
window, is the gigantic figure Of the
Risen Chrsg and a thrill of JOY goes
through the crowd. Then the gates
close again, and the singing continues
while a procession OF banners, preceded
by an antique lamp and cross, pass dawn
the nave 90 the further end OF the
church. They go down the cathedral,
then pass around 10, asking everywhere,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-18

LAWYERS, but Mr.. Griffin, handsome
young man Of thirty, associated with
the Colonel, and the secretary are the
only persons in the Offices who
appear to be busy. The freedom that
prevails at the Colonel's house extends
to his Office. There is no sending In OF
cards or waiting for an audience, the
latch-string is always hanging out and
it pulls easy.
had heard .he Colonel on the plat
form but had not met him personally
for many years, so that be at first re-
garded me as a stranger. There were
three men smoking and chatting In
that front Office. one OF them was the
secretary and all the others wore hats.
One of these men sat with his feet on
chair in front, his hat pushed back
from a massive forehead, his ueck-tle
askew and his hands buried in his
trousers pockets. The blneish gray
eyes told of kindness, but the
nose is combative and the chin denotes
force. WANT to interview me, en-?
Well. sit down and rll see about it. "
The colonel is In the midst Of story ne
is telling the Hon. Dwight Townsend,
who represented the First New York
district during the war. Mr.. Town
send. by the way, is quite as full Of
anecdote and Renaissance as the COL
onel himself. The secretary lights his
pipe aud joins in, as he would be sure to
do il the President of the United States
we're a caller, for there is no hero wor-
ship permitted in the Coloners office.
The Colonel is discussing orators, and
be is giving his opinion of Grattan,
when the door opens and stability
dressed old man comes in with the apol-
ogetic manner and obseQuious bearing
of a man about to ask favor. We'll,
what is it?" asks the Colonel, brasQue-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-18
MYSTERY OF DREAMS.
Theories as 20 the Action of the Mind
During sleep

Theories as 90 the ACTON OF the Alu4
During sleep.
"Dreams," says Homer. descend
from Jove." There are thousands OF
intelligent people who stiil entertain
that belief The opinion commonly
held by physicists is that, 81 the whole
brain Is locked up To- sleep, there Is no
dream ia porJ0u of 10 is enamel
pated, thoughts peculiar 90 that portion
arise. and those thoughts are dreams.
According 90 Dr. David Hartley, they
are nothing but the imaginauons, fan-
cies or reverias of a sleeping person,
and are due Co some peculiar state of
the stomach or brain, % Impressions re-
ceived while awake, OF 20 the effect Of
association.
Ito the same vein Andrew Baxter de-
clares that most of the representations
offered 90 The soul in sleep are not only
not produced by it, on, there is no con-
sciousress OF any action OF the will 90
Introduce them. They are invoiunta-
rily obtrudod upon TO- He cannot con-
ceivs of anything more absurd than 90
suppose that the soul, as in night
mare, would lay a plot 90 brighten
Itself. To- reply TO the argument OF
those who contend that dreams indl-
cate the activity OF the soul separate
from and independent of the body, DR..
Priest.v asked: Why does not this in-
dependent entity contemplate the state
Di the body and brain during sleep,
which might well afford 10 matter
enough for reason and reflection.
So, too, dr.. Cromwell in his work on
"The Soul and che Future Life as
serts that dreams take place only when
the sleep is uusound and arise from par
tial returns of activity on she brain it,
self. These views fairly reflect the
consensus OF opinion regarding the
origin and character OF the phenomena.
on the other hand, there Is authority
as eminent for the belief that all
dreams cannot be satisfactorily eX-
blamed on the grounds above stated
that there is a something left out which
lt IS Of the highest consequence
10 understand before q positive judg-
ment can be pronounced. The stu
dent OF NenOphOn win recall the
remarkable passage which the historian
nuts into the mouth OF the dying Cyrus
The Elder. "NOr do ] feel convinced
tbat the soul will be devoid Of sense
when it Is separated from the senseless
body, butit is probable that when the
mind IS separated, unmiXed and pure,
Ii is then also most intelligent. When
tbe frame of a man is dissolved, every
mart of him is seen returning
40 that which is OF the same nature
az itself, except the soul, which alone
rs seen neither present nor departing.
Reject, too, that nothing more closely
resembles the death Of nan than sleep
but &c IS in sleep that the soul OF man
appears most divine, and 30 is then thai
Is forsass something Of che future, f0I
rhsn, rs it seems, Dc IS most at liberty.
The LISTERS Of She great Euler 90
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sence OF several minutes, the man re-
turned aud handed him q card on whicn
was legibly written: Mr.. Blaine can
not see Colonel Ingersoil"
"Hellr' exclaimed Colonel Bob.
But you say there is no hell, " inter-
jected his friend, who felt badly be-
cause he had been the innocent cause OF
this contretemps.
"Ain't there!' retorted the agnostic
Robert. This is hell and no mistake!
and the smell OF sulphur could have
been strongly detected In that atmos-
phere, sure enough.
Is we'll known that Henry Ward
Beecher, to whom Colonel lngersoll
bears a striking resemblance, was .
great admirer OF the famous agnostlc.
To one OF his Pensioners who was de-
nouncing Ingersoll, Mr.. Beechsr said
Brother, the foundations Of your
faith must be knock-kneed and you
ought 70 be obliged to Ingersoll or any
man who would sweep them away.
True faith and true love cannot be dis
turbed by logician, infdel or inconoelast.
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The Reverend DR.. Leman is not so
sure that Colonel IDgersoll is 8 weak
COPY Of Voltaire, Paine, Rosseau and
Hume as is Mr. Talmage.
''Of course, I deplore Colonel Inger-
SOILS course" he said, when questioned
on this subject, "just as we deplored the
course Of the many trained and able
army officers who felt il 70 be their duty
TO 90 with their States at the beginning
OF our civil war. I think Colonel Inger-
soil is radically wrong in his teachings,
and that he is fostering religious discon-
tent and working harm. But unlike
many who oppose him in the press and
pulpit, firmly believe in the honesty Of
his purpose, the purity OF his private
life, and his marked ability; indeed, as
an orator / regard him as a genius. II
Agch q man were 70 devote himself to
tHs cause Of religion be would do Infinite
gbod, as it is he takes away from she
heavy Of heart their only hope and sup
port, and he gives them instead-nOth-
inE."
f'C0ncading Colonel InEersaIPs hon
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At another time q gentleman was re-
latlng q story OF IngersolPs egotism.
An admirer OF this gentleman desired
him TO visit his moth or, an old lady or
seventy, who was an ardent Presoy-
terrain. Mr.. Ingsrsoll declined 90 the
plea OF not wishing TO unsettle the be-
lief OF so venerable a matron.
The arrogance OF supposing himself
able to show an old Christian Ike that
the error Of her ways" said the critic
with sneer.
81 don't believe be ever said II, " sud
Mr.. Beecher, with some irritation. rs
is not in harmony with his character.
III the lies that are told about public
men could be materialiEed they would
wall in and roof over the whole earth.
There are some who believe that Colo
mel Ingersol's sole purpose In lecturing
is to make money, and that be, lawyer
like, would be quite as ready 30 talk on
the other side II he found 10 profitable.
III" said a gentleman TO me, Colo
mel Ingersoll were not an lnfdel, thsre
is no position within the gift OF the
American people TO which be could not
aspire with good chances of-N'
The Colonel once had such
he says:
"When ! was q young man bad an
billions. have found that the carer
which come TO q man In a place Ike
that OF President OF the United States
are enormous. After Garfield was nom-
mated said TO him one day, Garfield.
YOU are going 10 be elected President
hope. but by the time you have been
President month you'll wish
you were running an ice-houso
in Hades.' Well, saw bin after
he had been President little While, and
said: We'll. Carried, how does u
Ro? And he answered, i dont know
but I'd prefer the ice house business
/ tell you the hardest thing q young
man has TO endure ia this world Is sue
cess. Success TO young man, coming
TO him when be Is young, Is one OF The
hardest things he can have 20 stand and
keep his polso. Fame? Why, think
how few, how very few. OF the Damesof
the great, grand men Of Rome have
been waited along down 70 Us across tue
centuries. And the men themselves,
where is their fame? Who Knows them2
Who thinks OF them? The men Of this
world, how fast they 90, how little they
leave behind them. And ! tell you,
when man grows 10 DO great man,
then does he begin 70 feel how little DO
Is. The greater he IL. the less be
knows"
The colonel returned TO me after i've
hours and then, without word OF apol'
oRy, said: "pve got client who wants
this room. Come 10 a. any time and
make yourself right a. home. on, the
interview; that's ell right vel hr 10
mn In GOOD shape. 10 never does %
hurry. The anecdotes, sh? Well, All
the anecdotes, good and bad, are, Of
course. true. But let me tell you, !
don't want my biography written till
am dead, aud as / am only sixty and IN
good health. am not anticipating that
event very sooB."
ALFRED r. CALHOUN.
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Away went the two gentlemen, Col
onel Ingersoll feeling somewhat annoy
ed at his failure to reach the "plumed
knight" A consultation was held and
the next day Colonel Ingersoll went TO
the department. and failing TO obtain an
audience through the same excuse,
sent a card on which was penciled the
following:
"Will the Secretary Of State please
indicate when he can see Mr.. Ingersoll?"
Colonel Bob was red 10 the face when
be handed this card to the messenger,
but be turned llvld when, after an alb
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-18
COL.ROB7.GINGERSOLL.
VARIOUS OPINIONS As TO Els ABILITY AND
SINCERITY.
Sketch Of The Nan in His Every Day Lits-Whai
The Rev. T. De Wit Talmags Dr.. Leonard,
The Rev. William Carey and Others Have to
Say as to Colonel Ingsrson and BIS Remark
able Teachings.
Ar Rigst, Rss~vsi By the Wa'sa Pres svnat-

Az Riglt, RsssrVsl By the Wilssa Pres spaai
cate.
In getting some interviews with Col
onel Ingersoll, no easy matter, by the
way, for though the most accessible, he
is the busiest Of men, have had excel
lent opportunities TO study his peculiar
tiles, his intensely strong individuality
and those physical manifestations OF
character by which ali men are Impress
ed. As preliminary 70 the interviews
in question, have tried TO learn now
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$50 YOU used to be In business for
vonrself. chou asked the business man.
s,How does tt happen that you are look
ing for emplOymentP
81 guess wasn't ~ 10 business
wavs. " answered the applicant Every
time / failed / made failure o. It,