The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-02

Gourd Than Finest Cut GIass-HOw
the Original Copy of Judge FaIIi-
pant's Song "The Man of the
twelfth of May Came Back to
Him-Judge Tviggs Talks of the
Midwife Murder Mystery.
TAX about your gilded glasses,
carved and trimmed and richly stained,
Beaming bright as smiles of lassies
At some feast where pleasure reigned;
Filled, perchance, with rosy claret
or with wines the rich afford,
But. their charm is naught, 1 swear it,
To my dipper made of gourd.
among the other good old fashioned
customs which are gradually playing out
on the farms of the south is the use of
the gourd dippers which in the old days
we're so abundant in the cabin homes"
remarked Bay street merchant yester-
dav who was himself brought up in the
good old way on a Georgia plantation.
Il have never lost my attachment to the
pourd dippers we used to have in the
country" he went on to say, "and 1 keep
2 little gourd dipper in an old fashioned
cedar bucket in my office on the Bay to
this day. Water seems to drink better
from a cedar bucket and a gourd dipper
than from the finest cut-glass. 1t takes
a fellow back to the days of youth when
the little gourd dipper dangled on a nail
at the cabin door on every plantation
above the bucket of cold spring water
which was joy and comfort of the family.
Talk about your old oaken buckets and
the like why the oaken bucket idea never
dreamer who sang the praises of the old
oaken bucket which hung in his daddy's
well evidently never had any experience
like the average Georgia country boy, who
had to bring the old hallelujah mule in at
noon time from the sultry field after plow
ing in corn rows a mile long, and draw
water in that old oaken bucket for the
beast. He would have had all the senti-
mentality knocked out of him if he had
undergone such trying ordeals in his as
sociations with the old oaken bucket.
But, there is some sentiment in a gourd
dipper. No man who was raised on a farm
can drink out of one of these concerns
without going back in memory to his
childhood and cOnjuring up a million
thoughts. The gourd vine growing out
there by the door, the hooking birds sing
ing their sweet songs in the old apple
tree, the cedar bucket on shelf by the
cabin threshold, the waving fields of
wheat and corn-all those visions come
back, and he wants to be a boy again.
The gourd is purely a domestic affair. 1t
grew, nine times out of ten, within ten
feet Of the water bucket. 1t is different
with respect to the old oaken bucket.
That came from some big city factory,
and really has but little sentiment con-
nected with home. The gourd dipper is
home institution. That's why favor it,
and that is why 1 keep one, and will con-
tinue to keep one in my office as long as
/ live"
The gentleman in question is one of the
wealthest naval stores merchants on the
river front, but he deems it the greatest
token Of hospitality to greet friend in
his office and offer him a drink of cold
water in a genuine old fashioned gourd
dipper.
Il have never taken much faith in the
arrest of Morris for the Sprintz murder
at Midwife" said Judge H. d. d. Twiggs.
Judge TWiggs was engaged sometime ago
for the prosecution of DR.. fitzpatrick, who
has also been accused of the crime.
have always been of the belief that
fitzpatrick is the man and although he was
tried in hatched-up trial and turned
loose 1t has been my idea all along that
he is the guilty party, and it has been the
aIIaigned to answer to the charge of muir
dering Sprintz.
FROM the beginning, 1 have been of the
opinion that the arrest and trial of Norris
VINO had been the marshal of the town of
MidliIe, for the killing, has been put-up
Jop 70 throw aside suspicion from Kilpat-
LlcK' have thought that Kilpatrick's
friends We're behind it, and that it was a
ulck. l do not believe that Morris Is the
guilty party"
Inc trial Of Morris resulted in binding
nm over to the next term of the superior
court or that county, which has been a
surprise to Judge Twiggs.
ms turn In the case will awaken great
81 interest In the Midwife affair than was
manifested prior to the arrest and preli-
mlnary hearing given In the Morris case.
Lne mystery of the murder deepens in
stead OF clearing.
Ihere will be a monthly meeting of the
georgia Historical Society tonight in the
easement OF the library building. The
suy meeting was never held, there being
~ quorum present. The night for the
meeting was July s. and owing to the
oilpt dllon OF the fourth of July on that
Eay 1t Is probable many of the members
ro-eot the appointment. There was no
taIueular business before the members
iHg"eVer and they failed to call any spec
"a meeting during the month to make
. 1.r...| NNN9AoLA AHts lhlleQ 10 nOlQ. II Is
..HeVed that there will be a fun atten-
e1ll.e tonight and that the work of the
s'siely will be taken up with a heartier
49, "I'er skipping one month. There
"t4 ue no particular business brought up
~ special interest Il is thought, unless
sone individual member should spring
,9''".lhlhg Of importance on the spur Of
wig moment during the session.
orr, 'e original copy of the famous song,
a., en-, Man Of the Twelfth of May" writ
ny Judge Robert Falligant during the
ave war, or a copy so close to being the
'Nal mat 1t may be taken for A. has
M ,g 'o hght Not long ago the history
Nm .'ns was printed in the Morning
con- telling how Judge Faligant had
Vbet write IL, and how he had lost
I',I thought TO be the original copy on
nae,.,' .neid This was printed IN con-
h t,. WIN request having been sent
ne e Judge 70 send the original COPY OF
Rlc5r,ss 70 the confederate museum at
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