Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04

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casket, and all of the clothes of the
deceased. Anything that they have
touched in their last sickness is either
burned, buried or a casket is made
large enough to admit of the body
and the clothes. We have been able to
trace those two customs of body
cleanliness to the Orthodox Jews in
Palestine, and have as yet not been
able to trace it to any other nation.
Gypsy Has No Religion.
The Gypsy has no religion; he be-
lieves in first cause. He does not
know whether this first cause is a
person or spirit, but believes that
some day this first cause will reward
those who do right and punish those
who do not. So there are certain laws
that persons have handed down to
him which he tries to obey. For in
stance, he teaches his children not to
whistle on the Sabbath; he wont go
on the Sabbath to the brook with his
horses to water them, unless it is i'm
possible to get enough water on Sat-
urday to last until Monday; he won't
go to the woods to gather sticks for
his camp fire. on Sunday, he tries to
get enough wood on Saturday to last
until Monday. That custom can sure
ly only have come from the Jews, for
we read that when the Israelites had
received the Ten Commandments one
of their men on the Sabbath day went
out of the camp and gathered wood
for his fire, and when his tribe saw
him they went to Moses and Aaron
and said "what shall we do with this
man who is breaking the Sabbath law
Observances?" and Moses and Aaron
did not know what to do, but they
said "we will go and ask Jehovah, ;"
and Jehovah said "take that man that
has broken my Sabbath day, take
him out of the camp and stone him to
death, for he has broken the Sabbath
day." Now, the only place the Gypsy
could get that from is from the Jew.
Marriage Customs.
Up to sixty years ago the Gypsies
observed no law on marriage, only
the old Jewish custom. If man want
ed to get married he must be twenty
one, and his sweetheart must be
twenty-one, which was according to
the old Patriarchal form of govern
ment too, for boy was not man.
among the Jews until he was twenty
one. Then after he had received the
consent of his parents he built her
home on wheels, for a Gypsy girl
does not believe in light housekeep-
ing and then in the presence of his
parents and her parents she went into
his tent and became his wife.
Gypsy Morality.
Just word now about the good
qualities of the Gypsy. The late Mr..
w. T. Saetd, who went down on the
Titanic, and was one of the greatest
editorial writer's that Britain has
known in the last fifty years, said of
the Gypsies, after making life time
study of them, that morally they had
no peers in the world. Have you ever
picked up a newspaper and read of
a Gypsy committing murder? We
have been in England for hundreds of
years and are yet to have our first
murder case. Have you ever read of
a Gypsy committing suicide, or break
ing into bank or putting his hand
into another fellows pocket on a
winters day to keep it warm? I will
tell you something that you have
never heard of, and that is, you will
never see one of our girls on the
streets peddling her virtue, or find her
in one of your segregated districts.
A Gypsy learns from his cradle that
he must grow up to honor and protect
womanhood. You think of race of
people without any God, or schools or
churches, or Bibles or teachers, and
vet you have no murders or suicides,
no bank robbers, no fallen women in
your vice districts. do not mean to
make them out paragon of virtue;
they have their faults and God knows
they are bad enough, but how would
you like to live in population OF
say forty thousand population, for
that is the number of Gypsies we have
/ in England, without any God or
Christ, or schools or Bibles, and yet
there has not a single denomination,
as far as I know, who has ever sent