Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-01

few other important heads of clans took
steps to secure something like Gypsy
census. 1t was taken on one day
throughout all Spain. Where wandering
tribes could not be reached they were ac-
counted for. Rude as was the system
measurably correct result was secured.
The following is the classification:
Drom raiahs (road lords), or rowing Clip -oo
Kair rajahs (town lords ) or city aipsos 10000
Total Gipsies in Spain IL, 900
The rowing Gipsies include all wander
ing bands, whether or not they nave
temporary city or town habitation, with
all Gipsies of whatever occupation, out
side of those permanently living in cities.
Those having, in occupation, apparently
blended with the rural population COM
prise a surprising number. Diligence
drivers and guards, stablemen, male
solutions, often walters at country inns;
and many of the guardia civile, are now
Gipsles. A no mean number are
farmers in the northern prov
inces, and are getting on ia
and ponies. At least one-half of the
muleteers of all Spanish territory north
of Madrid are Gipsies, and the Maragatos
OF Celtiberiau descent, whom travellers
describe so pieturesquely as controlling
ali that class of labor, have had to give
way to this singular encroachment. A
large number Of guides are now Glpsles;
while even the Gallegau peasantry who
formerly exclusively reaped in the mar
vest fields of CASTLE and Portugal, have
now important rivals in this harder,
DETER and more agile race.
The kair rajahs, or town Gipsies who
are always held in the greatest contempt
by members of rowing bands, are now IN
Spain, as in America, developing aptl-
tude for labor in many of the lowly call
| ings of the town. The street harplsts,
! the public guitar players, she with the
tamborine or castinets, are Gipsies.
THE BALLETs HAVE THEM.
| Those who travel from door to door
! selling gew-gaws and relics are Gipses
| The Jockeys at horse markets; every
tinker in Spain; many of the cocheros
and footmen; the rat-catcher, the bird
trainer and many of the sellers of sweets,
the dulceros, are Gipsies. The "ShoW-
| Gipsies'' of Granada and Seville, thou
sands in number, are genuine members
of the race, but are held IN greater
| lOaL0lQg
own race than by the Spaniards them
| selves. Another vocation, always most
popular in this country has attracted
the attention of spanish Gipsies. There
are thousands all told engaged in varlou:
capacities about the hundreds Of bull
rings of Spain. They are the eXpertest
known chulos, banderillerOs, plcadoFs
and even matadors and espadas, of the
present day.
l inquired searchingly concerning thu
old Gipsy tricks-the buena ventura, o.
fortune telling; chiving the drao, or an
imal poisoning; the hukni, or great trlci
of swindling superstitious folk of Iarg
sums of money by changing package
containing the same while incarnation
were being said, or ''spells were beini
worked; the querelar nasula, or casting
the "evil eye;' ustilar pastesas, o
'fstealing with the hands, by JuggllnE
with money received in change at shops
and that most detestable OF female clips.
, deyiltrv. the dealing in love philters an
similar vile charms. The answers Wer
honest, humiliating and hopeful. The
, demonstrated provement. Yes, all thes
: things were still practiced; but to sur
prisingly less extent. Respectable Clip
, eies had foresworn these things absolute
, ". To illustrate, no woman in this ban
had told a fortune in a dozen years
SwindIing through ell forms of Gypsy jug
gIery was now confined almost wholly
: the town Gipsies, and to a limited NUN
her of these. They confessed this Nigh
be less q moral than q selfish evolution
: The great mass of Spanish Gipsies wei
;. beginning to emulate those who like Fan
q. cho (whose credit with merchants an
= bankers here at Barcelona l find exceed
y one hundred thousand dollars) had be
- come traders, and, in way, bushes
, men. Their ambition to become othe
than s'Gipsy dogs'' had been arouse
:, through Gypsy example. Precisely as
America, Spanish Gipsies within the pa
= fifty years have become the middleme
between the raisers of cattle, horses ar
y mules, and the city markets. Booi
were still unknown to them; but Il
. friction OF affairs and the dignity
~ ownership and responsibility brought II
a creased morality and intelligence.
=, have had more ways than through Clip;
friends to prove the truth of this. But
- asked Pancho Tomas if he could give
= the real reason for this tremendo
> change since Borrow bore away so i'll
: report of the Gitani. 1 confess his a
- syer gave me thrill of qualification,
= for twenty-five years / have contend
- that there was some good to eventual
-, come out of this outcast race.
% ssHunt men with laws and guns III
wolves, and they will become mo
:. dreadful and savage than wolves. Gil
- sizes are not wild beasts. The same u
=, made them men and women that ma
~ you. That is the best L know or C
of say!" EDGAR Il. "AkEMAN