Whiskey--Eulogy of Tobacco--Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods--Rev. Charles Deems--Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil--The Man Christ. SUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE. (1892.) Reply to the _Western Watchman_--Henry D'Arcy--Peter's Prevarication-Some Excellent Pagans-Heartlessness of a Catholic--Wishes do not Affect the Judgment--Devout Robbers--Penitent Murderers--Reverential Drunkards--Luther's Distich--Judge Normile--Self-destruction. IS SUICIDE A SIN? (1894.) Col. Ingersoll's First Letter in _The New York World_--Under what Circumstances a Man has the Right to take his Own Life--Medicine and the Decrees of God--Case of the Betrayed Girl--Suicides not Cowards--Suicide under Roman Law--Many Suicides Insane--Insanity Caused by Religion--The Law against Suicide Cruel and Idiotic--Natural and Sufficient Cause for Self-destruction--Christ's Death a Suicide--Col. Ingersoll's Reply to his Critics--Is Suffering the Work of God?--It is not Man's Duty to Endure Hopeless Suffering--When Suicide is Justifiable--The Inquisition--Alleged Cowardice of Suicides--Propositions Demonstrated--Suicide the Foundation of the Christian Religion--Redemption and Atonement--The Clergy on Infidelity and Suicide--Morality and Unbelief--Better injure yourself than Another--Misquotation by Opponents--Cheerful View the Best--The Wonder is that Men endure--Suicide a Sin (Interview in The New York Journal)--Causes of Suicide--Col. Ingersoll Does Not Advise Suicide--Suicides with Tracts or Bibles in their Pockets--Suicide a Sin (Interview in The New York Herald)--Comments on Rev. Alerle St. Croix Wright's Sermon--Suicide and Sanity (Interview in The York World)--As to the Cowardice of Suicide--Germany and the Prevalence of Suicide--Killing of Idiots and Defective Infants--Virtue, Morality, and Religion. IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT? (1891.) Reply to General Rush Hawkins' Article, "Brutality and Avarice Triumphant"--Croakers and Prophets of Evil--Medical Treatment for Believers in Universal Evil--Alleged Fraud in Army Contracts--Congressional Extravagance--Railroad "Wreckers"--How Stockholders in Some Roads Lost Their Money--The Star-Route Trials--Timber and Public Lands--Watering Stock--The Formation of Trusts--Unsafe Hotels: European Game and Singing Birds--Seal Fisheries--Cruelty to Animals--Our Indians--Sensible and Manly Patriotism--Days of Brutality--Defence of Slavery by the Websters, Bentons, and Clays--Thirty Years' Accomplishment--Ennobling Influence of War for the Right--The Lady ana the Brakeman--American Esteem of Honesty in Business--Republics do not Tend to Official Corruption--This the Best Country in the World. A REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH. (1878.)