The Winslow mail., 1897-02-13

of camp meeting it is necessary to at
tend one held in the mountains OF
North Georgia or South Carolina. Ihose
nearer the cities have too many frllls
to be really enjoyed. The tent holoers
are always hospitable and kind, ana
no one need go with feeling OF gone
ness in the gastric regions. And sucn
eatingl Fried yellow-leg chicken Dig
fat chicken pie, baked turkey anu
everything good. To hungry soul the
invitation, Turn up yer plate ana help
verself." is generally accepted without
further ceremony. The good people
want Won to eat, and eat plenty. Thls
Is always a part of the program tnat
Is seldom neglected.
Freouently some bold and daredevh
mountaineer, without the love OF the
Lord or the fear of revenue 0fncers Ill
his heart, will open up blind tiger
n 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-
sionalIy these blind tigers get their
neighbors into trouble, but not often,
as the mountain people have way pc
culiarly their own of standing by each
other In all matters relating TO the
Bouor question. Many of them regard
a little spirits as necessary, even at
camp meeting.
At a camp meeting in Lumpkin Coun-
ty a few years ago the writer heard a
former dispenser of corn juice give his
experience. He said:
81 came through just seven years
ago. If I'm spared to see September
comm, just erbout sundown at Bald
Knob. Preachers could preach in them
days. l had laid by my crap, an had
notEin' special to do, an, thinks l, I'll
20 to camp meeting Al sell er few pints
er Ticker. But L soon seed l was lost
accordin' ter Scripter, au' somehow or
somehow else l felt powerful pestered.
I lust hauled down my coiors an give
right up, an 1 hain't sold 40 Ticker
sense. done fergive everybody, even
nld Brother Latham, who owes fer two
eight years ago"
At this point Brother Latham"
thougbt II time for a change in pro-
gram. and asked that all unite in
nraver while n large number of the
xoun.r people made for tie 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 a 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 flare 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 it is altogether
excusable. No class of people on earth
have a higher regard for truth, virtue
and the Christian religion, and they
are happy in the ignorance of the gay
md frivolous ways Of the upper crust