The daily Alaskan., 1913-05-05
OF 5IPS-ES
These Queer People Are the Same
 AII Over the World.
A RACE WITHOUT A NATION.

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 They Arc Natural Roguss. Without
 Lave, Literature or Religion.
 The gypslcs are the most uuchanglng
 mco Iu Che world. Wherever they are
 lOuud-und they are found everywhere,
 from Persia Co Mexico. from central
 Africa to sl5erla-t they are the same, a ruce of outc1sts, despised by the peo. pie among whom they dwell, yet keep. Ing their own ideal unchanged, true to tHelr barbarc law, Jealous Of stran- gers, clever enough to make a living
 from che weaknesses and f0olishneSses 0l he people who desDIse them. GIL mate seems to make no difference to them
 In uu environments they remain un- changed. the same sharp faces, the same black. keen, lnscutabIe eyes, the same bronzcd skin; change In food or conditions of living make no mark on chem and they only take on the GUS. toms or beliefs or costumes of other races in order tbe better to cheat and fleece hcm-a race without national. ity. without laws, without a literature, without religion, for it .s said that In their tongue there Ls no word for God. none for Che soul, none for lm. mortality
 Where did they come fromi From Bohemia. say the French, but they are not rcuuy Bohcmiaus nor more mo mcrous there than elsewhere; from Egypt they sometimes say themselves, to get better price for their sooth. saying Bot there Is nothing genuine. Iy Egyptian about them lu reality they came from india Their strange language shows that JeaIousIy guard ed from the Knowledge of strangers, it has yet been learned lldc by little, and comparison shows it is fulI of Hin. du words. words Jhat you may hear even now an over India
 Surprising. perhaps, at drst blush. that there should be millions Of low caste or outcust Hindus scattered an over Europe and even wandering through tle byways Of America, but only strange because We do not think about lt In reality Europe ls ruN of Asuuc peoples For long centuries they came pouring ln especially through thc gate between thc Oral and Che Caspian sea The bitter 0r0vurb. Scratch Che Russian and you fnd Che Tartar" may remind us that rhc great Tartar Invasion, un. der Che grauds9us or GbcngIs Khan. cou0ucrcd aU eastern Europe and set. tIcd tho Tartar trIbesmcn gIl down the vast yoIga valley, across Che steppes and along Che shore of Che Black sen
 The Buns aud che Turks are also Asi. aucs as are oIucr peoples, lIEe the Films So an eastern Europe Is so0k. ed with AsIauc blood, and if so many peoples came from northern Asia why sh0uII It be incredible tHu, one mce should come from southern Asiu3
 It seems probable chat Jhp gypsIcs drIfted Into Europe in tbe wake ot Bou Ehans Invasion. when he came down on Russia with his vast locust swarms Of Tartar horsemen, 50O000 in The gynsIcs came from cen- traI Asia. whlther they had been driv- en from India by che lmD0acuble and destructive Invasion or Mghmud of Ghuzul about 900 years ago It was about I235 ghut Bat Eban and bis Io. cust swarm began Co devastate Eu. rope. And a century later rowing bands 3f uypsrcs were scattered through east aru Europe WaIlochia, Mo.duvIa. BuI. rarIa. By IHI7 horde of gypsIes made thelr appearance in northwestern Ger many. claiming Co be Christian piI. gr.ms from Little Egypt" but their Christianity was about as genuine as their Egyptian origin Their thievish, yacubOud character was already man. fest then. and they were driven from northern Germany to begin their per Detu0l wgnder,Dgs through every Eu. ropcan country and In due time to cross over to America lu the wake 0t ,ho wbIte races
 But tho grcat bulk Of chem sul re- main ln the Danube valley. where they Grt appeared some six centuries ago. In R0umania there are between D quarter and a half a million of them In Pennsylvania there are a hundred more. while Servia and Bull surla and Macedonia have from thirty .o a hundred thousand each. Tho con. lluon of Che gypsIca in che valley Of .he Danube Is In some respects pc ,u'lnr, with considerable differences in .he different countries. ln Servia the eveIlng power of Turkish rule exert. ad century after century, had the ef- feet ot bringing che gypsies closer to .he condition of tbe mass of the peas lutry. In Scrvia, therefore, though they are sHll an Inferior caste and are lot allowed Co exercise che rights and powers of citizenship. tbe gypsles are perhaps less widely separated from .ho Deos1ntry than In any other c0uu. try In Europe In R0umanil the gyp. 3lcs were terribly oppressed They were captured and held as slaves and were treated with savage brutality They lived In utter squalor and wretch 'dncss and misery, nakednesS and 1Tfh lower fhrn many of the lowest