New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
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vaudeville goers the performers being brought
from the cities for this purpose.
rs this feature of the bush meeting generally
approved?' was asked of a gray haired native.
Some says it's right and some says IT amt"
the judicial response. But them that thinks
theyseIves scandalzed by IL don't have 70 witness
it. Sech like listen to the temperance takers.
and a-tween talks they can be meetin' their
friends and folks which mostly they amt saw
sence the last bush meetin'.''
On the two religious days-Saturday and Sunday
the expenses are not so heavy, as the vaudeville
features are cut out and only the peripatetic evan
gelist and the professional quartet receive pay.
Sam Jones used to be the star attraction on these
days but it is explained that his charges got a
'1eetle too stin for these times and so less ex-
penstve though none the less exuberant exhorter
in the person OF Brother George Ste"art; oE oEs
Tennessee was engaged Local eNho5Iets I ootl - ~
the regular and imprOmptu kind, render abundane
aid to the evangelist. and whenever the quartet OF
vast crowds take Up the refrain and send a wave
of melody rolling down the Appalachian Range .
But the people the costumes, quaint talk and
ways the really interesting feature OF the
soil. They are the sons and daughters Of Mosby's
night raiders II was in Loudoun County mat ina :
devfIs now old and bent and gray stu live in the
Surrounding mountains and foothills, and most OF
them manage to atterd the bush meeting one or
two days and fight their battles over again
''FeHo there Jessg' is the most common form OF
greeting among friends who haven't met since the
erway (ponting), but 1 didn't know whether you
had come in 1t or had lent iU out
Fix is the bush meeting generic for ali sorts
and shapes of conveyances. Be 1t a broughan, a
victoria sidebOard, buggy spring wagon. buck
board farm wagon or what not 1t becomes a ''tX.
in the vernacular of LOUdOUn when spoken OF in
the abstract. Hence, What kind OF a fix was he
in?' has a radically different significance in the
I.Oudoun Valley from that in which the term is
used in any other part of the cOuntry-pa
/ in all those benighted parts where there have
| been no bush meetings at which the demon rum
/ has been failed within an inch OF his crapulous
i life.
| Hey, there. AudyT' shouts bronzed, lanky and
Il mn mo a
/ other mountain and whom he hasn't seen for a
/ year. "'HOw's your fOlkS2
/ Jus toler'ble, Jim. thank yer Hows yoursg
''WeH, jimmie aint been none too well since har-
! vest time. Had too many hands to cook for,
reckon Course she had to come to the bush
meetin' and I'm bound she'll almost eat herself 10
4 death to-day. We've punched baskets with Ed
Ruddins folks to-day
/ ''Bunching baskets means that two more
families pool issues at the dinner hour and eat to-