The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-23
Religious Fervor Drives
 Devotees 10 Strange Antics
Pentacostal Baptism Will Begin Work at Pratt CyProm- inent Woman of Iowa Arrested for Disturbing Peace
 in Course of Religious Manifestations
BY j. B. KEELING.

power. affects the children easily, for their minds are very imaginative, and they naturally lose their self-control quicker.
 The meetings have been discontinued at North Birmingham. but will be continued at Pratt City and some other missions about town. A tent will also be erected at Pratt City and the leaders believe that many @baptisms" will occur there. Pratt City is much more compactly built than North Birmingham and he streets are much narrower, and the question has aris- en among a number of people as to whether or not the concentration of this power" into small space w..i cause 1t to have a stronger effect upon the per son receiving the baptism
 An Ioea of the seriousness of the st- uation in Des Moines can be gathereu from the following dispatch sent out from that city:
 A.rs. Scott M. Ladd, wife of Justice Ladd of the Iowa supreme court, was arrested here tonight for disturbing the peace at the peculiar religious services over which she presides.
 At the religious services which Mrs Ladd has been conducting the devotees writhe on the floor like epileptics, leap into the air, chatter scream. gnash their teeth. or beat themselves over the head
 Staid religious circles of Des Moines HtlNc Deen pfOlOuHuly Snocheu by lne rev citations concerning this peculiar religion.
 Aroused to the necessity for action by rumors of neglect of children and inhu- man practices, Probation Officers Lillian Mathews, Dr. w. A. Guild, and the Rev Boynton Gage of the Highland Park Presbyterian church attended a meeting at Mrs. Ladd's missoln at Fifth and Mon roe streets yesterday.
 Two hundred persons were packed in the lou pailinprad mic Tho was intolerable. Shouts and cries deaf ened the religionists. Five persons lay at full length on the floor and beat them selves and uttered gibberish.
 Smiling serenely, the wife of Justice Ladd sat back and watched the proceed ings. At her feet was stretched out 10- year-old Earl Miller. He was llvid. His hands twitched and he seemed as one stricken in epilepsy.
 The sounds of chattering and gnashing of teeth came from the floor where Miss Ethel Wallace lay at full length. The women around her fell back as she sprang to her feet. With her hair disheveled and her face contorted as if in pain, she rushed straight at the "skeptics," where Dr. Guild sat. She seemed about to scratch his face. She began vertical jumps that increased In speed and height With her muscles tense she sprang high CT and higher, all the time uttering strange, unintelligible gibbersh with a volubility that dehed the listeners. This lasted for three or four minutes She seemed In terrible anger and evidently was rebuking the doctor for his temerity.
 Judgment judgment on nim!' cried some one, and the crowd seemed about to make things warm for the doctor. Then the girl weakened and sank back on the ground. Water was poured into her mouth, she was famed, and the power left her limp and helpless and breathing fast When she awoke she admitted, "l am a physical wreck"