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A HEATED CONTROVERSY. Divine Healers in Wilkes, N. C.? Daughter Docs a Trance Feature. Cluulotto Observer. "Yon ought to lt<> in ihe slate of Wilkes," said ;i traveling man lo an Observer reporter, yesterday. '"What's doing in that neck of the woods'?" "They are entertaining the divine healers. Yes, sir, over at Moravian Fa I is, where If. Don Laws edits his Yellow Jacket, they have, had warm times* A lie\ Mr. and a Rev. Mrs. Ktter and their adopteu daughter, at least that is what they say she is, are dividing the people of that country into hostile camps, the divine healers anil their disciples and the ant is, who are led by lte\. IVr.tue ??.? Maptist ot Moravian Kails. Mr. am' Mrs. Miter. especially the latter, d<> the preaching and Miss Ktter is the trance artist. They have just close 1 a three weeks' meeting at Moravian KaIN ami will l?e?ri 11 a protracted preaching at Wilkesho:.? Hi;., week. Heals the Sick, the Halt and the Blind "The uUi is the 111 i^t ' Uteres ii one .if the trio. She heals I In- sick, I he halt an.I the blind. One man, who had m-| seen mil . im eve f?>. years, came frem awr, hack in '!:? moiietains and 'lie you-*.*' woman ni i him see. catne ?*.;? Mar.'vian halls with an ,ye hand 'tred and shaded by a bine irlass but before he loft after consulting the girl. he threw away his chills and hi..', glasses and went his wav rejoicing. a man who had been ill f-?r months w.*.s enred A lnmberinan wtie had >>.* ;> caught under a loir and mushed wi? made s*< ??d i.u'ain. lie e mi crun lies hut wen' j away 11si11?_r i .. legs. "These tv'igx haw stirred the mountain dw< Iters as inching has <i?..ic for years, '.{real erow.l? flocked to hear and see and consult the divine healers. I'ii.se that go *nd are :*oi cured are i.smisscd a.-, men and women of no i.iith, Oie fellow, w.n> has sullered tor years with rheumatism. was told lo cast aside his slicks and walk, lie obeyed, but before lie lind '40 ne far In1 wa- taken wit it pain in Mie small of Cm back * cried lor his .M ulches This ease. I In* young w?!i:r*: said, wis hopeless hecause the : ?;; 1 had hut '"'tie faith Women go Into Trances. "Why, man I wish you could have been there when the meeting was in full blast. A number of girls went into a trance there one night and fell upon the stand where they remained till morning. The healers stayed with tlieni until they came to and were able to return to their homes. These young people, it was claimed, had seen the spirit through the medium of the adopted daughter. "I was there lliat evening lor the serivce and saw a good part of what took place. "Mrs. Ktter did the preaching. She is a woman of considerable size, and sense. She reminds tne of some fat. portly inn keeper that 1 have seen on my rounds. Her voice is sharp and strong and her tongue limber. There is no hesitancy in her speech. She rattles right along. "On this particular night, when in the midst of her sermon, she was interrupted bv her husband, who sal by and as she turned, the girl?Miss I'd lor, 1 guess they call her. rose and began to wall her eyes and twitch her fingers. A deathlike silence fell on the congregation. As the girl straightened to her full height her face became pale ami sad looking. While the crowd held its breath she began j to speak and it is said that she used iseven different languages. How true this claim is 1 cannot say, but Don Lawst who is a man of learning and wisdom, thinks that that particular claim has been exaggerated a little as he listened closely one night when it was claimed that she gave tongue to four of the seven and lie was unable to distinguish but two." "What seven does she pretend to use ? was asked. "I don't know, but one ??f I'hctn is AI rican: I know of 110 sueh language. I have heat.I of the Atighani-tan toiigue but of no down ri:ht African speech. I he ne.;n>es in '.his country use the same language that the whites do. "But. anyway, she gibbered in something that 1 could not understand. I Ij she is not the real thing she can act well her part. I looked at her in amazement tihat day. When she began to go into the trance Ihe preaching stopped. And, I found that she was the chief attraction. The preaching is ordinary, L:it her stunt is a feature. Trouhlo Arose in the Town. .. "Hut there arose discord in the little village over the Ktters. As I said in the beginning the population took sides. After the meeting had gone on for sometime and many had professed conversion Rev. Mr. Perdue, the Baptist minister of that coraraun>V'-i -iV', :,r ' ' A- . . > >.<$& ; it.v, wrote a piece for the Chronicle of Wilkesboro, sayin.tr/lhal he had searched his Bible but could find no authority for woman's proaching. He saw no place where she had been commanded lo preach. "If. Don 1/aws took up the battle for the divine healers and made reply to tilie minister through The Patriot. lie contended that Mr. Perdue was wrong and cited quotations from the Bible to prove it. He argued, that, if a woman could not preach the churches should quit sending them as missionaries to foreign fields. "The controversy aroused the people to while heal. Fverybody was expect-aut. "The following Sunday after Don Laws' piece came out, Rev. Mr. Perdue trot up iu his pulpit, with a Patriot in hi.s hand, and gave Laws a thorough going over, lie look the editnr's mill rihut ion as a text and delivered :i spirited lecture. In closing he dee tared that if any one would show him in t.lie Bible where woman was commanded to preach he would throw his Word of Clod in the ocean.! "The Fillers and Don Laws were j present :iiii| heard this sermon, .M is. j Miters pundualed Mr. Purdue's remarks with enthusiastic 'aniens,'j much to I he surprise of all, for ' amen' j generally means 'I agree with you.' j Don and Mrs. Etter Make Reply. "I know Don Laws and when I heard that ihe preacher had taken I him to task that he would hear from i him in return. I was right. Thai same afternoon the healers had a meeting a| which Laws and Mrs. Utter spoke. Mrs. Filler went after Preacher Perdue with gloves off. She argued that lie did not know what he was talking about. Laws said that he had' been misrepresented by Ihe minister, i "It has been a war of words and j after each attack the camps have been driven Ian her apart. I am anxious to, know that will happen at Wilkesboro before the month is over. From Wilkesboro Ihe Filers go back into Ihe mountains where they will preachtin ring A ugusl. "About the last and only thing I ever heard of Mr. Filer doing was lo I instruct some of their disciples how' to lake up private collection for the trio. He told him to ;i>k for .$10 and if lie couldn't gel that lake if"") or even +-.">()." "One Ihiug you did not make clear" said the reporter. "What does Mrs. Filer do while Ihe girl is iu a t ranee.'' "Why, she just stands there and fans her." REVISING LISTS. Opinion by Attorney General in Barnwell Case.?Strong Letter Written by Minister. Columbia Stale. Attorney General Lyon has written Gov. Ansel an opinion on the right of a community lo compel a county board of registration to revise the books containing the names of the qualified voters. I'iu: ( <"se came up I'r un Barnwell county, where a petition is being circulated lo permit a vote on the dispensary question and it was claimed by those who circulated Ihe petition that the necessary one-fourth of the names had been secured, but the fact that the books have not been revised in 1* years gave a ,o'*il of :>V( r ">.000 names. Of these, about, one-third were really voters, the rest having died or moved away. Mr. Lyon slates that the acts of 1002 provide that the registration books shall be revised 10 days before each election and the fact that this had Tii?! r.ceu done .11 il years would make an action of mandamus proceedings lie. One of the interesting letters received from Barnwell county was the following from Uev. 0. W. Garner, pastor of the Baptist church in Barnwell, and a mover of the petition: "In accordance with the CareyCothran act we Tiled with the suitervisor of Barnwell county petitions containing S17 names for an election on I he dispensary question. "The supervisor has declined up to ! d.ife l<> i all the eb'elion, owing lo Ihe .condition of the resist rat ion books. Gavin::- looked into the condi'.ion ot' ! the 'looks we find that th'MV lias been no !v\ iu for the p;< ' II y ?:u\-. The names of all voters who have died or moved away still appear and other names and a great many of tlieni appear from two to five times. "In addition to these facts Ihe present registration board have been registering negroes, who, to our certain knowledge, are disqualified, have been issuing certificates out of office hours and have also delegated men to issue certificates for I hem and much of the lime with only one member of ihe board present. As the books now i sland, with all of Ihe foregoing irrcgjularilies. they contain nearly 5,000 ' names. ' "We feel well assured that our peI tition contains a sufficient number of ' t ? i;-. . - . . .. \ j tlio qualified voters to call the eleej tion and furthermore it' it ever comes jti> a vote we are sure that our efforts will he crowned with sueccss. The county supervisor ami the majority of the hoard of registration liave thrown their personal influence and the weight of their oflicc against the elect ion.'' BIG NAVAL DISPLAY. Secretary Mctcalf Gives Out Statement, Saying Manoouvro is not Political. Secretary of the Navy Victor II. Mctcalf, in an interview, confirmed the report that a large part of the united States navy will he seen in Pacific waters next winter. ICighteen or 'JO of t lie la rices t battleships will come round Cape Horn on ii practice cruise and will he seen in San Francisco liarhor. "Many false impressions have ! gained circulation aliout the movement.'' s:ii<! Secretary Mctcalf. "I ! have held all a Ionic that there was ! practicallv no significance to this movement from :i military standpoint. 1 mi'-cht have stated before lea\i Washington exactly what I am sa\ i : I now. Hut I -Jit I lull us the news! concerned the people of the Pacific; coast, today would he an appropriate! time io announce the plans. "It is the policy of (he navy de- j partment to keep the fleet in American waters as much as possible. Ii is also our policy to keep as laruc a number of battleships logo their :>is possible. We might as well spend the money in American ports as abroad. In the past we have sent squadrons to various European nations with ic<s advantage than by keeping them at! home. "I have planned this cruise around Cape Horn for the practice of the! squadron. How Ionic the ships will re-1 main here I can not say. I can promise the people of Oakland and San I'rancisco that they will see one of the. lineal i ivaI speelaei?\- e\er witne.--ed j in Pacific waters. "I hope the talk of Japanese troubles and of international differences may be dropped by the newspapers.! i There is nothimc to produce any tVcl-l ing except this talk of the new^pa, pers. The story that Ambassador Anki' | is in disfavor with his own government. 1 beelieve, is purely an invention. I know of no reason why Japan! : and the I nited Slates siiould not he j i on the frieiulliest of terms." I JAS. HENRY RICE. There is Some Doubt as to His Age. Made Himself Famous in Newspaper Work. Greenville News. i Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr.. who for jlhe p.ist bait century or :ii*>re, has i been such a familiar figure in the new>pap.?r life of South Carolina, and and who i.- now devoting the unabated energies of hi< declining \ear< to the i worthy couse of the Audubon society, I was assaulted in Greenville yesterday j by his thirty-ninth hrithdav. There ;are some woe think that it must have | been his thirty-first and others who gunning their estimates by contemi poraneous historical events within j the memory of the oldest inhabitants, I set it down as the sixty-second. The | records having been destroyed by Cornwallis the archives are of no avail | and Mr. James Henry Rice will have I to pass for being just as old as he | feels and looks which is young, distressingly young. Hence the following j effusion: j James Henry Rice, James Henry Rice, since we were first acquent, : The years have swiftly come and gone and I am old and bent, j My scanty locks Are silvery o'er, my step is not apace With stride that Time saw fit to set when we began t.he race. For me the staff, the halting gait, a quiet chimney seat With phantoms of the past at play around my tired feet. ! Hut as for you, James Henry Rice, vonr form and face betray No wrei-k of Mine. i -.r -a-d) of years to give your aire awav. The line athwart your portly midst is comfortably taut. t?ur eve is clear, your head erect, the battles you have fought Have left you skimpy on the pate, but stoadv on vour feet. : And you would scorn with fine contempt the peaceful chimney seat. You say that you are only thirty-nine I reckon sixty-two, But have it as you will my James, for after all 'tis true ! Thai as we feel so are we aged, yet I would ask, forsooth, (Where lies the well from which you drink the waters of your youth? Barbecue. The undersigned will ?ivo a first j class barbecue at Bethel Academy, J near Pomaria, on Saturday, .Juiy *1 .7 " = V ' ^ \\ . \ , 13th. Everybody is invited and a first class dinner in every particular | is guaranteed. J. A. Graham j II. M. Wicker. i . CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA RY. Schedule in effect June 9th, 1907. Lv. Newberry(C N & L.) 12:40 p. m. Ar. Laurens 1:52 p. m. Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. in. Ar. Greenville 3:40 p. in. Lv. Laurens 1:58 p. m. Ar. Spartanburg 3:30 p. in. Lv. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 3:40 p. m. Ar. ITendcrsonville 0:25 p. in. Ar. Asheville 7:30 p. m. Lv. Laureus (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m. Ar. Greenwood 2:50 p. in. A r. j\IcCorniic|{ 3:55 p. in. Ar. Augusta 5:40 p. m. , Pullman Chair Cars between Au-' gusta, Laurens and Asheville, t.t'i- j weekly. Leave Augusta Tuesdays. Thursday and Saturdays ;leave Asheville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Note: The above arrivals and departures, as well as connections with ther companies, an: given jis information, aim are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams. Con. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. | Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. C . I Gen. Agi., Arrival and Departure of Trains. Schedules of passenger trains in and out of the Union Station, Newberry, S. C. Southern Trains. No. 15 going west 8.50 a. m. No. 12, going east .. .. 10.32 a. m. I No. 10. going west .. ..1.25 p. m. ! No. 18, going east . . . . 2.05 p. m. No. 11, going west .. .. 4.30 p. m. Nn. 1(5, going east .. .. 9.50 p. m. C., N. & L. Trains. No. 85. going west . . . .5.19 a. m. j No. 22, going east 8.40 a. m. No. 52, going west . . . . 12.40 p. m. No. 53, going east ri. 10 p. m. No. 21, going west 7.25 p. m. j No. K-|, going east. . . . 7.25 p. m. ' rile foregoing schedule is only for J Analytical Vic (Greatest Combination Complete Common S Greatest Cash and Pa Insurance Company. Protectio Afforded. O a NonForfeitur ? Privilege 15 u Maturity X2 Settlemei s o O Special Privilege . Policies Continuing on whole Life, limit Pacific Mutuc It will pay you to call to s( before taking out a policy. Office over o!d Post Office. information and is not guaranteed, is subject to change without notice. G. L. Robinson, Station Master. * CHEAP RATES Via Southern Kailwav. Jamestown Ter-Ccntennial Exposition, Norfolk. Va. On account of the above occasion* the following instructions will govern the sale of round trip tickets to Norfolk, Va. from Ntwberry, S. C. Season ticket?$19.55. This ticket will bo sold daily April 19th to and including November 30th, 1907, final date to leave Norflok returning December 15th, 1907. 00 day ticket?$16.30. This ticket Almost everybody wi has some preference in This I recognize. 7" hen likes A Falcon pen, I ha folding I have a stiff peel! and makes a better c I have a special point; fc pens that make fine line These pens are mad size of the gold pen die cause as the pen increa rel increass in ink ho the whole increases in vest, at the first simmei you wonder what you wi there is only one thing t iw of the Comb of strong Insurance f ense, Practical Policy fc iid up Values Written in People's Peerless Polic 1. Cash Weekly Incc abled by Aeeidenl 2. Cash Weekly Inc< n abled by Sickness 3. Cash Annual Incc disabled by Any C 4. Cash Payment, Fj sured 5. Cash Annual Inco turity of policy. 1. Paid-Up Insurant 2. Extended Insurar 3. Liberal Cash Loar e 4. Automatic Extern ticipating, by apply s miums. 5. 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