Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-29
BRITISH GYPSIES.
The Irish Have no Use for Them.
The UnIucky Territory.
A DIFFERENCE IN SCOTLAND
The Most Idyllfc Form of Gypsy Life Re
naming NAV be Found in Wales.
Superior ty OF the Aneri-
Gypsy.

Spetia. Core pondeuce o. the Gazette.
LONDON, ENG, No., IG.-uaging wan
der"u an.ong gypsies in America for more
than = quarter OF 4 century, and for the
past five years having gwen much Zine and
attention. to 4 study of the gyps.CS rs
have found them III different parts of Ire
laud, Scotland and England, | feel that
something like Il survey of these British
uuwaus. with lew points OF contrast be-
-wr-u them and Their American brethren,
would have interest 10 many American
rrldc $
AT the outset l am forced to confess that
MY good friend, George Smith Of Coalville.
j. u' rested in gypsies IN vastly broader,
uon.er and more evangelical way than my
self He seeks them out and finds them at
heir worst. and the worst of them, IN
eAr'hng the horrors of theiriveS in and near
large cities: and then. burning with desire
4ur determination that tuey sinai lie made
good citizens. rouses all England with his
rugged elOquence, insisting that the very
world stand still until laws are passed for
'.a.r complete sanitation and civilization.
am not worthy to i've in the same CEN
furry with this hero philanthropis., when
0'iye and labor for gIpSieS are measured
] Ia theirs and they are mine IN America,
because with them | have found such
".~' ana peace as the world has elsewhere
never -iveu. IfecaU sc with them the
warm heart beat of nature has come ten
DERBY near Because among them there
a4ye been condolences, earnest friend
ships 'rue and loyalty sacred. Because
wherever ! -. by hill or dale, by town or
civ, the love word they gave me long ago,
"tiHr-io Char goes with me rs the seal
sad rrruu der of ten thousand endearlng
eyn,rieurns, ard thrills me- that l have j
uace In 50 MANY hearts, hearts of wander
erS though they be. ARD because, perhaps,
There is the faint Of gypsy blood in my own
veins that
BRINGS NE TO Nj oNN.
an theirs and hey are mine in this
.nuu because rOugn and uncou,n men
lave received me e erywhere as brother
"., IN houOreG guest: haggiSh SpaewiyeS,
'n heads awry, : II to catch every
'r.ab.e uttered. have listened with kind
Ling eyes 10 the word l have brought
j.em from kindred across the sea; great
a.ug youths, hearing with open-eyed
ven .sr. have been nerYed with hope for
o'',,r land and life; blooming gypsy lasses,
with arms across their mothers shoulders.
and Yet with the ever-winsome reStlessneSs
Q. Eirlhood, have stolen glances 1t the
-ar -rr, seeming to look beyond him with
e -4!ng eyes TO his lair, far country, where
:, .S.eS ride IN wagons like palaces
a.I eat from plates of silver: while
'.>tful gypsy children. Juggling at
"ly knees, have searched my scant pockets,
Duard INTO my arms and fallen asleep,
'... instinct as TO the stranger proving,
.--ar al. tie truest sesame 10 the gyps-es'
IRIS and homes. Ii is always in this
so@sh, unevanGelical way that l have
Known ia all lands the outcast Romany
e, ana because of it l have not over
areh evil to record OF them.
There are not. all told-aud this includes
sa..6.ng ely ROmany, unknown in their
,yNu vocations as members of the gypsy
-aea-gpwaris of $500 gypsies in ireland,
O. whom barely 1000 follow the precarious
e. .1.rantic life of the road. Irish Catho-
-..~. and particularly the lowliest of the
= a~autry. without exception. hold them in
S.-atliug like a terrible detestat.on.
Ina gypsy Sp2e-wife or fortune teller
once slip into an Irish cabin and begin any
e .tr Ulack AIT conjuriugs, the smoke OF
W. uwill At once rise above that spot.
S--.uE on all the category of saints IN one
sa..L and mighty breadth of appeal the
Irish mother will treat this gypsy cheat
10 such ! whirlwind of eviction as may
bs heard for half Il league away. The
very matching would be pulled from
he roof if necessary, TO speed and force
lie oattle for the home against the grew
some wiies. And my gypsy friends the
world over know this fact so well and Bit
ter'r hat universally with their race Ire
AID Is termed, in recognition of its bar
EaaGess for their purposes, sallah lodlie, or
lie unlucky and
Accused TERRITORY.
There is a marked difference in Scotland.
in proportion TO its population there are
more eypsieS in the Land o Cakes than in
t.as.and. Scottish traditions and literature,
especially the ballad poetry Of Scotland,