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? TftK OBXim GTt*8T ^ ^ .">? \ .', ;V; ',' f . > Hut ul Remarkable Race in the tniled State* V > ? . | x. "Ujiv? you ever seen a Gyp?y?" Afck. almost anyoiw that **d you will \ |?tl thi reply: ? MYet?, a k l ea ? many." ? thut ivwr f rp!i' *.ht m i am astonished, they eottldj r-iM?V4tV b*v* m-e*e more than yftc ??r ? two,il?s thfrjv are not owe hundred real JsTyjP**^ on :hv whole North Ame.iean continent, all of these being soatteiv i ill .smit-i groups from Florida Can ; ada. " j A* a mauler <?f fa<',.ihat i>fctura*-{ ? jue but very uncleart. a*d oh,-: un*' > cusfworthy person, with the ram -.hak-e i*ago? and the Ugly and un washed children if' of every ra^e under j the ?un\save and except'"? the' one - whofti' jnahie. .un...carried. The reai-j KVi'sy yoSi. will, almost never *? e, a'nd'| if you do sec- him you art apt ??>] elass him as the impostor. A real gypsy belongs to a distinct :ace. The term has been usfed to sig nify a wanderer. , but what it really means is ''Egyptian" and that ts whi. true gypsies always call themselves. The language is one of the oddest and best preserved in the world. It was a language pretty much a* it is now when the Pharaohs sat on the throne of Egypt and these original Egypt ian?, driven out by the Pharaohs, were off in Arabia with all their horses and jewels and treasure*, for which the rave is still famous. The genuine 'gypsy can trace his lineage for you back a casual thousand years ax so. To prove that h?* knows what he is talking about he will often open some secret place and show you what ?ooks like some (if the new art jewel ry that we are beginning to make. Imitations of the rare old handmade piece? of the rraftxrnen of the Europe :j$ <?-ntui?but hi- will n??? he imitations. The fortune.-. :t. ..iid jewelry p4&se&a< <*d by the genuine gypsy family in credible. My .friend Georgia 11j?s we'll. ? ?*>e of the mt.-f sn'tevv-tH-g ??f th- un ?'dui'te-rati'd gypsy people now I<*ft ..alive; has coral oji-. tm.-f.'- 'fb* >v}ilch.| Von tine offered her Jx.ooo. '1 i-.t- oral ' las. tin ned the- wonderful that , rily t'<?.tur.es ?f.human u.?e <t> un j part. It is in a great treeklafv w?*> j hr-aci-lels and some eai'-dl <>p>- M'-.m be.rw <?( the Luvell family ??f Se-'llan.l] gave theipieee* t<> th?* ' tu i undrvd y? ar< ago a- a tn.uk <?f friendship. The r-hrap and vulgar fortune To}t r.g which is done >?y the ^jfftrio\is ;r.vp y i replace d, in tin hands of the few real gypsy women who still "dukker." by Work that is done pray erfully and with a deep sense-of the responsibility thereby involved. The real gypsy woman i- the proud est piece of womanhood on this earth, Well she may be. For untold thou >and> i?l years she has had what even the pr?iud Saxon woman has but re cently won, and that with difficulty? complete equality ut!K The men of' he*4 race. The ffypay voiMR, in fact, ha even more than t^U. She ha* vu- : primacy.' Sh? is the one to whom gorgio (?ther than gypay > education \f. auihis been given. On* of the oUl-.| est w umni <}t tht race, and one tff r??il culu^r? i?) hri1 youih, <ixty-years agv was s'em'U* one of thip mv?s exclusive c nvt-rv s-hwls :n Kraitg?, The pre*-! en'; 4ay generation what there are of ? *n t'oHow tnrs -rrndtiivn. it is the. r}> vih'o go u> ou* . colleges and] ' ch - ??. fl<". the bOne uf thv i?\ti<resim? of the - "posh ad and-half) of 'he Hoswejl'< 'tarns'y ?.<. a gr,?.i!i.-ue- <.*f thv Univer i *.?? of Toronto, . It ic the vvr-nvaji. too,. who "dui kers*" ?.---??? Thi.- im-uiis a great deal muVv ihaii ?..?? ordinary- Jortuno-teiling.. U con veys the :<iva of the priesthood?the femintpe priesthood. To the real gyp?y it is the woman who is the sa cked sex and who must have all sa 0 ert^i offices. It i? not customary for men, for instance, to be allowed to touch a newly born baby or to handle raw meat, or to lead in prayer. In this country there are only two fa rr: iu$ women who "dultkcr" who are the true gypsy race. and in Canada only two. 1 have known intimately two of these women, and I can testify to the fact that both of them approach a day 01 "work" by the path of prayer, and that at the end of the day they are of-^ t*n physicaUy and spiritually ex hausted, having: healed human hearts and solved problems throughout all the hours of it, with a devotion and intensity of selflessness which I have never seen equaled. I have lived and traveled with the gypsies in this country who are real, and I think that I know them as no one else on this side of t,he water does. 1 have the great honor to have th'.' persona! and close friendship of many of thein. 1 am s.uie that I know.more of their jealously guarded lives than any one else. For one thing I am prepared to give it a* my own slowly formed opinion that the occasional u.\ |'~y woman, ami especially the four "of whom 1 have spoken, have genuine x-ruit knowledge and power. It is w .'-t)i nothing that not one of them \*...! make this claim and that never, undei ans circumstances, have thev ' n willing to take money for the ?. mf -? when they have seemingly used '.Mat power. Gypsies know ail classes of society; Th'i-y ate eivtrusted with secrets that . wn-uKI" never even be breathed- to ^others; they often know all the de tails of crime before it is committed. When thjs happens to a true gypsy he takes pains that the authorities shall hear about it. The spurious gypsy is often a consort of the crim inal. and the confidence which the criminal classes feel in all gypsies is due to the fact that they have never distinguished between the real and the false. In Kngland, to be sure, the real gypsy families art- so well EnoWU and fo respected, and are so. closely connected with the better classes, that this it ndt true, but in hi* county if is.,, ' ? The gypsy woman, although the man is always hovering near to pro> teet her, is the one who meets the public whenever necessary. She is the jne who knows every aspect of lift*, it thought "unseemly" that a n^an should be allowed to face the tempta tion of thv world. It is a boy wht> U sheltered, and the girl who, early Partis how to handle all sorts of pt- > pie and conditions. This j.s not be cause the boy is valued more highly, but because the gypsy idea is closer ; to the truth than ours. He belongs to the "frail" sex, and as such must ^have his mural* guarded. The purity of -tW girl and her wisdom and her MJ&f H.jity to her brother are never i questioned in the true gypsy family, and this is one of the tests by which the genuineness of any group may b;* tested. A gypsy, by the heritage of count less thousands of years, is without at tachment to country, to law or to places, but it is to be borne in mimi that those who have been long in a country will defend it when neces sary. In the late war there were eighteen of the scanty number of real gypsy men in the armies of England and three in our^army. One of the Boswells was a second lieutenant and won all the medals that were to b< had for gallant action. i *~ No real gypsy was ever jailed in I either this country or the British j Isles. No real gypsy woman was ever I a woman of even . slightly dubious ? morals. As far stealing children? j why, no gypsy would .willingly take | our blood into the tents! The "kaulli i ratti" (the black blood) is considered ; by them superior to any other in the ' world, and even a "marry out"?to i marry one not a gypsy, though he or , she be of the highest in the land, i> considered a great misfortune. Stealing of any kind Js simply un thinkable by true gypsies. In all count vies the true gypsy has preserved the tradition of being th>* aristocrat that he claims to be. llo will always be fourM seeking, the friendship and the protection of the very highest in the land, where he ha> chosen to sojourn. I The well kaovvn "Gypsy Smith", fo" ( instance, while not a t-rue gypsy, ne.ver called himself that. As a mat ter of fact, he belongs to what the I jryp^if^ call "members," "diriikai"' j with thi^ marked difference -that* the | "member" sells baskets and other ; handicraft and his women do not } "dukker," he sometimes deals in horses, but is no such wizard wi'h them as is thq true gypsy, who is far >uperior to the romantically "horsey" Arabian of tradition.?New York Herald. The temperature dropped to 42 de grees below zero at Canton, N. Y., last week. Shot Down Glenn Young, Dry Klan leader of Herrin, III., who was shot down in the latest riot ut that place. He leaves a blind widow, who lost her sight in rioting last year. The town is again under martial law. "OLD SALT' DEAD AT 108 Had Forty Years Adventure On The .Seiienuite&h. New York, Jan. 29.?"Age 55; hair black; occupation, seafaring," was the description broadcast by police in their efforts to identify the body of a man found last Monday morning on a bench in Battery park. ? The old salts identified the body to day. They said it was that of their crony of more than half a century? (apt. My.roft C'rozier, 108 year old skipper of the barge Empire, whfb since last Sunday has been missing from his pilot house. The'body was claimed by friends and word was sent to descendants of the ancient mariner at Honesdale, Pa. where he was born March 21. '1817. lie imbibed "a ration of grog'' oh occasions but he swore off tobacco in 1835, and to these two rules of con^ duct he attributed his lon>; tenure on earth. His thick hair was black aiid he wore no spectacles. The span of Captain Crozier's life lime brought many changes to his country. To him it brought two wive-, i"> children and 85 grandchildren. It brought him 40 odd years of adven ture before the mast on the seven >eas, and 50 years more of compara tive placidity at the wheel of a barge irt-New York harbor. Ten years ago he buried a. son who wan 80 years old. Five years aj^u, it-is related, he engaged in fisticuffs with a skipper half his age, and sent the fellow to a hospital. C. A. Yates, who claims that he is the representative of a press associa tion, was arrested at Gaffney Tues day on the charge of attempting to pass an alleged forced check on an express company. While investiga tion was under way *Yates left for Spartanburg on foot, but was over hauled and arrested. Are You Satisfied With the Crops You Have Been Making? II' No 11 AYE Vol' CONSIDERED THE REASONS FOR YOUR FAILURE? ' DID Vol- CSE THE BEST FERTILIZERS OR JUST THOSE YOU COULD BUY CHEA BEST? ? ? Farmers who used Congaree Fertilizers made away above the average crop last year THIS ? ERTIL1ZER IS SCIENTIFICALLY MADE OF THE VERY RBST--MA? TERIA I S AND WILL MAKE A CROB IF ANYTHING WILL. ASK ANY FAR MER W1K i HAS CSED IT. HAD YOl' NOT B.ETTER 1-5FY IT THIS YEAR? WE "ELL \i L GRADES < >F CONGAREE FERTILIZERS AND WILL MAKE YOU <' I.< 'S L !' iB ' ES. SPRINGS & SHANNON (INCORPORATED) REALTY TRANSFERS. Chan#** of Real hint ate an Recorded in County Auditor's Office. Laura A. Watts to t\ P, Watts, 40 . mar Brthune, $5.00 and Iovij and afjfection, , ? ? " ('. ]'. W&i.t* tu Laura A. Watts, 40 acres, near Rethune, $5.00 and love and affection. I jo-. M. iJ.-ouii u> Paul B. Mctint, ! 1 lot, Chestnut Mivi-t, Camden, $800. Claud Bim-kwell to Ethel M. Houaer ? 1 lot and building, near. Kershaw, j-$ 1250. Lp E. .Jones to E. B. King, 01 acres I near Bothune, $5?00 etc. Half interest. |(i. H. Scarborough to E B King, 01 acres near Bethune $5.00 etc., one half-interest, Bessie Sutton to - Rebecca and Lil lian Suite.n, 1 lot and building, Mar ktt $treet, Camden,^$1.00 and love and affection. Mrs. M. A. Horton to Deacons Tim rod Baptist Church, 3 acres, $5.00 otc Whjter Sorrel! to R. L. Branham 28 acres near Logoff $400. Kate M. Mobley to E. K. Ray, 100 acres near Lugoff, $4,000, G. C. Welsh, Sheriff to Gregory Live Stock Co., fl45 acres near Lib* erty Hill $500. B. B. Clarke, Master to Southern Land Sales Corporation, 190 acres WeBt Wateree, $1,500. Samuel Sullivan to W. E. Elliott, 61 acres near Bethune, $850. L. L. Clyburn to J. K. Clyburn, 1 lot and building, Monument Square, Camden, $5.00 etc. Bank of Bethune to 1>. M. Melton, 134 acres near Bethune $2,500. J. M. Neal to W. T. McDonald, 2 lots near Kershaw $28.00. Sarah*A. Smith to Charles H. and Ella E. Baker, 1 lot dnd building, upper Broad street, Camden, $4500. " B. B. Clarke, Master to Farmers.& Merchants Bank, 50 acres W Wateree, $200. B. B. Clarke, Master, to L/ C. Hough, 2 lots town of Bethune $340. Sallie A. Anthony to Lula M. True* dale, 1 lot and building at Westville $1500. B. B. Clarke, Master, to J. P. Lewis and J. E. Christmas, GO acres, near Marshall* Church,' $510. I?. I>. Clarke. Master, to E. G. Junes, 780 acres Flat Rock township, $5500. Mary Belle James to R. L. Jones and A. K. McLaurin, t38 acres near Bethune $500. A. M. Horton to Ella Thomas, 74 acres Buffalo township, $500. % The Great Falls Bridge There is now a large force work ing on the grading and making ar rangements to start working on the erection of the 800-foot bridge across Catawba river a few hundred feet below Fishing Creek power plant, about two miles below Great Falls. It has been unofficially stated that this bridge will cost something like $150,000. This bridge will connect Chester and Lancaster counties, and will be a very important link for the two counties. While with the com pletion of this bridge by the South ern Power Company will mean- more power development for this company, however, as to this development for future is not known to the public. A large force within a few days will commence on the new road, which will be an extension of Bungalo\y street through the Gladden property purchase by the Republic cotton mills several months ago. The road will come into the -old road near the Great Falls store, which will give Great Falls a wide road in the direction of Chester without going through Westend, as this business j section of Great Falls is a very busy place with very narrow streets through the business section. While this new street will l>e a gravel street for the present, however, as soon as it has settled sufficiently it will be made a hard surface street. On this new street is where Robert S. Meb ane, Jr., is having his home erected. Lancaster News. Married Mr. John A. Thorne, of Camden, and Miss Ruth Isabella West, of Jef ferson, were married in Camden on Saturday, January 31st. Judge of Probate McDowell officiated. '"" The National Flag;Corfe committee, representing more than 200 patriotic societies, are up in arms charging the. 1 "flags made in Japan are of suci cheap material that, when they be come wet, the colors runs and the re .-u.t something that look* more like the !< ? flag of Bolshevik Russia than ihi f'.ag of the United States." FINAL DISCHARGE Notice '.s hereby g.ven that one m. r.ia f/om this date, <>n Monday, >\ibruary 16th. \U2T>, I will make to the I'robnte Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administratrix of the pstate -of Samuel Page, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said CourLfor a final discharge as said Administratrix. WILMER BRANCH PAGE, ' Administratrix. Camden, S. C., January l^kk, 1926. By W. I^? McDowell, Kinjuir? bate Judge. \yhereas, H. C<> Garrison, Jru m suite to in? to grant hitn Administration of tlu Estate 0(1. effects of Mrs. Harriet fl'Jor<W These arc, therefore, to cite ?< admonish all and singular the kin^ and creditors, of the said Mrs. gj riet K. Jordan, deceased, that t! be and appear before nn, in Court of Probate, to be. hold at dt\n. South Carolina, or SaturJ Frbruary 7th ,next afu 1 publi^a! thcivof, at 11 o'clock in th fored to show cause, if any thej have^jl the said administration should not | granted. Given undejr my hand, this 23. day of January, A. P. 1025. W. h. Mel)OW K\\ Judge of Probate for Kershaw Count Published on the 30th day of Jag ary and the 6th day of Februai] 1025, in the Camden Chronicle u published at the Court House dot for the time prescribed by law. * ~~ citation Slate of South Carol]rut County of Kershaw. ?PMP ? - - - (In the Probate Court) A NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND , CREDITORS All parties indebted _to the <??ti Of G. S. Higgins,"riecease<f, are h? by notified to make payment to t undersigned* and all parties havi claims against the said estate present them duly attested wii the time prescribed by law. H. S. HIGG1NS Administrator Est. G. S. Higgim Camden, S. C., {January 27th, 1925. Nome, Alaska, has a diptheria epi domic, and several deaths have al< ready occurred. To add to the st-! riousness of the situation serum mutt come by dog- sledge from Anchorage* which is 600 miles away. There it; only one physician in Nome, and new cases are appearing every day. - i.. - - ?^? I ? . . Ji Palmer W. Johnson was elected mayor of Maridn Tuesday, defeatiaj the incumbent, George G. McKerralV by a vote of 338 to 330. Hayes Bus Line - CAMDEN TO Columbia, Bishopville, Hartsville, Kershaw, Lancaster, Charlotte. Fpr information Phone 181, Camden Hotel Dr. Wade Hampton OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN i Will be at the Commercial Hotel Wednesdays ?and Sunday? Starting Jan. 11th Telephone 175 for appointment Dr. C. F. Sowell DENTIST (Office Over Brace's Store) * CAMDEN, S. C. A. R. COLLINS .? j Undertaker and Embalmer AMBULANCE SERVICE Carrtden, S. C. Telephone?Day 41; Nifcht 3M N. R. GOODALE Plumbing, Heating and Roofing Contractor Any work needing special attention in this line call Phone 49-W, Camden, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian ? ?? ** Day Phone 30?Night Pfc?*e 114 CAMDEN, S. C. DR. G. C. TRANTHAM , DENTIST First Floor, Crocker Bailding PHONE 450 PIANO TUNING Lewis L. Moore 242-W PHONE or 4C , ' CAMDEN, S. C. -CC_ 1