Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-12-10
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| Of camp meeting 1t is necessary to at
tend one held in the mountains OF
North Georgia or South Carolina. Those
| nearer the cities have too many frills
| to be really enjoyed. The tent holders
| are always hospitable and kind, ana
no one need go with feeling of gone
| ness in the gastric regions. And such
eating! Fried yellow-leg chicken, Dig
| fat chicken pie, baked turkey and
everything good. To a hungry soul the
| invitation, Turn up yer plate and help
yerself," is generally accepted without
| further ceremony. The good people
want YOU to eat, and eat plenty. This
| Is always part of the program that
is seldom neglected.
Frequently some bold and daredevil
mountaineer, without the love of the
Lord or the fear of revenue officers III
| his heart, will open up blind tiger
| a short distance from the ground,
where mountain dew of Illicit make Is
| sold to his neighbors, or to any one
else with the necessary price. Occa-
sionally these blind tigers get their
neighbors into trouble, but not often,
as the mountain people have way pc
culiariy their own of standing by each
other in all matters relating to the
liquor question. Many of them regard
a little spirits as necessary, even at a
camp meeting.
At camp meeting in Lumpkin Coun-
ty few years ago the writer heard
former dispenser of corn juice give his
experience. He said:
II came through just seven years
ago, IL I'm spared to see September
comm, just erbout shutdown at Bald
Knob. Preachers could preach in them
days. had laid by my crap, an had
nothin' special to do, an, thinks l, I'll
go to camp meeting an sell er few pints
er ticker. But / soon scel l was lost
accordin' ter Scripter, Gu' somehow or
somehow else felt powerful pestered.
just hauled down my coiors an give
right up, an 1 hain't sold 40 Ticker
sense. / done forgive everybody, even
old Brother Latham, who owes fer two
quarts er Ticker bought at camp meetin'
eight years age"
At this point Brother Latham
thought It time for change in pro-
gran. and asked that all unite In
prayer, while large rumber of the
young people made for t.c spring.
Young folks can get mighty thirsty
at camp meeting. Frequent trips are
made to the spring by the bellies and
beaux, AMI It is also q noticeable fact
that some of the couples had pressing"
business which caused them to remain
away from the arbor, but those inter-
ested IN their souls salvation usually
returned TO the arbor in time to fall
into line when the parson extended the
invitation for penitents to come to the
anxious bench.
Services are held almost continually
during the day and late into the even
ing, and when the pine knot lights on
the platforms covered with dirt around
the arbor begin to flick and fare and
cease to cast their shadows the older
people retire to their beds within the
tents, while the younger set are given
an opportunity to make love and say
sweet nothings while they chew sweet
gum gathered from the trees near the
springs.
To those reared amid the refining in
fiuences Of cultivated society such de-
corum may seem strange, but when
the environments and isolating circum-
stances surrounding these people are
taken into consideration 1t is altogether
excusable. No class Of people on earth
have higher regard for truth, virtue
and the Christian religion, and they
are happy In the ignorance Of the gay
and frivolous ways Of TIE upper crust |