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Show Boy Freudian Outdone. Maj. Perry, the illiterate and Ignorant Edgefield county, S. C, negro, who, while in what appears to bo a trance sleep, preaches learned and eloquent sermons, ser-mons, is still attracting a great deal of attention, and several enterprising citizens citi-zens of Edgefield county now have the human phenomenon ! in charge and are exhibiting him to largo audiences. The modus operandi is as follows: Perry goes to bed and lies outstretched in full view of the audience, and by the time the spectators have assembled is fast asleep. After a few moments of apparently ap-parently sound slumber his muscles begin be-gin to twitch, his limbs to contract, and his body becomes contprted in unseemly shapes. This spasm soon passes off, and then he begins to preach. lie takes bis text from the Bible, naming book, chapter chap-ter and verse, all the time lying flat on his back, with bis eyes shut, and for half an hour or more preaches, using strictly grammatical and even eloquent language. lan-guage. At the conclusion of his sermon he sings a hymn to an old air, but the words of it entirely new and of his own composition. Then comes a proyer, and he dismisses the congregation. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, |