Secrets of Gypsies
'Born in a gypsy tent." 'Br'olight up
caravans with the broad King's
ithway as his home. Sleeping out
nder the stars. Often hungry. his
sals depending on his ability “l
aptain in the British army. to the
ulpit as evangelist. addressing mill
bus in Europe, America. Australia.
That is the life story of Gypsy
' ummer resident of Darlen.
young. handsome. Gypsy Pat
ith’hss taken over the Manse of
Darieu Methodist Church for d
h rt. time. He heard that the Rev;
“WW. Morgan had not had a vad,
In in four years. and so he gave
it part of his own vacation in order
. at another man of the Gospel
.flltht have a holiday. '
.‘ China of the World.
1!! Barton he is drawing such
lcrowds as were never known. He
preach this Sunday. and the lit-
all will not accommodate the
a,‘lhousands who pour out tto
r this remarkable young man.
'ypsy by inheritance. Scotch by
h. and citizen of the world by in-
ation, this evangelist sat in the
over an English cup of tea.
'After I leave here 1 will preaich
a later in the season at the Ner-
on Presbyterian Church and. after
3"“ 1 am going to speak in a big
it in Stamford " ‘ ,
,Tentst First. Bypsy tents. then
s ldiers’ tents—and now evangelist‘s
t to. Pat Smith has known them
a . and the sermon that always at.
t. eta more people than any other is
it own life story. ms- conversion to
C rlstianity.
It ,was December :11. 1893. .Cilas-
;g w. the drunkencst town In the
rld, where six “pubs" are reputed
do a. flourishing business next door
one another. was celebrating the
it
t
lgiestest of Scotch holidays. It was
w Year's Eve. ‘
lOutslde. in the cold. occasional
p ersby staggered.“ while 'within
t e warm public houses the more
i" tunate beings celebrated
, p on Vinegar Hill, the- {air
_ g undo of Glasgow, it. was mostly
' a dell Occasionally. in he night.
' the' strains of "A Bans
, @flllsgow war lite s‘eo
aw Year in in regular Scottish
_ nor with joined hands;
rare Blood W'
hen. from a. meagre gypsy tent
amiss edge of the fair ground. came
a. walling cry. Over the stillness it
floated—Gypsy Pat Smith .wlaborn.
v, _An0ther life in a world full of lives.
13% one that was to carry the mos-
. '7
of the gospel around thawloh‘c.
. om of a. family of armies-ego"
bi ed Romany, the child 3-rew. up
ill strange world. During the day-
tints his parents were away from the
p—selling horses, telling..,fer-
,"i‘inding" things. The small
dren and the old drones stayed
' . camp. and from the. old ones
.8111 Us learned to lisp the first words
”of that strange unwritten language—-
Romany.
e evangelist recalls but few in-
lrtgfather brought him a tiny'toy
hammer 'and. with infant muscles.
he attacked a. atone-and broke it.
' an achievement—«omehow- it
Ms stayed in his consciousness.
Wut responsibilities of life begin
Daily in a gypsy family. and Bat
lth soon began to take part in the
gaping of a living. His first job was
go bog breakfast for the family.
Eda“. appealing, he had much mord
he‘s or melting the hearts of the
tiles or gorgios'. as all persons
Romanies are known. Soon he
the added task of begging the
flipper also.
3 "-‘Ono of my earliest reeolleetiohs,".
Smith today. “was coming home
§‘the camp with some bread and
see that I had begged. This was
bored nut. and I was given a small
rtion of the cheese. As I sat.
sady to eat. the cheese dropped into
tea. spoiling them both. I must
, *beon very young then, bar i
remember what a. great J‘oks'ft seem:
’ 0 all the grownups.
“finding" Things.
"All I grew older. I- Was sent oul
n the afternoons to 'ilnd' things—a
pay never steals anything; . he
1! do' it."
ut back of the boy was some-
hing that rebelled at the idea's
in somewhere he had a sense of
:"moum and teum" that held him
ck.
“My father frequently.'.beat~ me.
~ I returned empty handed.
it make the lesson more complete.
was sent. night after night. to bed
thouf supper. At least, that en-
,ured that I begged a. good with
not in the morning."
Reing a failure. as a ‘ffindar" of
articles. he went into what
. new. calls .the "timber. toads."
m was more honest. for 4min-
renal-ted in selling the product
(
a
Ewe
’Joseph Dams
._ “-49 North Wm
South Norm (loan.
llrpm that. through the war as s' '
at Smith. famous evangelist and ‘
ts of his young childhood. .Onoe '
.had asked him to go to church.
' Ename was known as an
so
‘ gent-Mists in shi'erlea—snd than
i
ypsy Pat Smith of D
Evangelist to,;_.Preach
M E. Church Sunday
. n in Glasgow, He Fought Way Up From
werUsual Life of Tribe—Hero 111 World War-—
Helped Raise~Victory Loan Here—Tells
"Pure Romany
uvrsv PAT sauna.
of -'the camp—clothes pins for the
most‘part. Soon the output of
tinkers was added, and sauce-pan
lids became a good part of his stock-
in-trade. Even here. however. the
futui'e evangelist failed; He couldn't
lie 'well enough.
"'1! people. and especially women.
liked the truth. perhaps I might
s’tlll‘be selling tlnware. But people
liked to he lied to. They Would
know that much of our stuff was
not hand made. but bought by the
gross. When they asked me if it
was hand made, knowing a hand
made article was the boat. I was
forced to tell the lrlltll. and say it
was factory made. Then they
Wouldn't buy." ~
A strange Romany this. who
wouldn‘t find things—who wouldn‘t
lie about pan lids. His father. the
head of the family. began to look
upon him as an ugly duckling. He
had tried beating—the first recourse
of the patriarchal ruler. He then
triad caiollng. Little Pat must grow
up to be ‘a real honest gypsy. and
the. gorgioo were merely made for
the .glpslea to live on.
Became Herso Doctor
ISo Pat wsawput inanotller “line
of the business," and learned "cop-
ping."5 or horse .docto'rlng. At last it
seemed that he had found his stride.
Hey/as ‘intelligent. and had a way
with animals. He could take a bra-
ken down horse. and soon‘ turn it
out perfectly sound—at least. sound
for enough length of flats for the
tribe to move into the next camping
spot.
"Our usual work was on broken.
wind'cd horses. We could doctor
them up so that no one could tell
the difference and the horse would
be sound of wind for about three
days—that is. unless the customer
gave him a. drink—then the broken.
wlndedncss showed sgain.’
But three days In that time a syp-
sy is far away. He is hard to trace.
and changing names is a simple
matter. From. Vinegar Hill’over the
Moors to the Nottingham Goose
Green fair. From the cowslip cov-
ered Downs to Grimsby Feast and
then to Poole. Locations were all
thesame. and as for names—Pat
bore dosens of them. , _
"I can remember more than twen-
ty that I had at different times."
And then came the»word of the
gospel. 3
"I was in Glasgow at die time.‘
recounts the evangelist. "and had
become the leader of a gang of
toli‘ghs or hooligans, whosd chief
delight was to fight the,unlverolty
students. We often fought. without
too much animosity—all in a. spirit
of friendly rivalry as the 'Irishman
said -when he- killed his- opponent.
One day I fought a student in a
pitched battle. and it endednin a
draw with both of us badly beaten.
rim to know him. and we became
' minds of a sort
"His father was a wealthy busi-
lic'sa‘ man. and his mother. Was ail-
ing. Cine night. I met him. and he
said his mother was ill. and that she
I
knew nothing of churches—I had
never heard of Congregationalism or
Balm-ts. or Methodists. 1 divided re-
ligion into two, classes. Protestants
and Catholics. The only difference I
could see’ between these was that
'Catholica went to mass before break-
fast. and the Protestants didn't go
at all.
Lic‘ Worried flint
' "We went to a mission hall. and
there a preacher asked my chum if
he had given his heart 30 Christ. He
lied. and said, ‘Yeil.""1 lied too: and
aaid that I had done mat the same
Mme—as my chum did.
”want the lie horried me. I thought
it over all week and the next Sunday
. M a holy creep intotthe church—I
his my heart to Christ."
The step was taken. No more duk-
lterlng (telling fortunes), no more
finding things. no more horse cop-
pings-it was all gone. And his fath-
er glowared at the utly duckling in
r'flle tribé. Then came the climax.
His father walked into the tent
one evening. He placed a pistol by
the boy’s temple. and said that he
must. either lose this Christianity or
his brains would be blown out.
"I loved my life. and I loved my
Matter too," Smith says. "so that
, nlsiit 1 left. I gave my life to Chris-
tianity. and at 20 I was famous. My
evangelist
all over Great Britain."
’ ’61! August 6. 1916. he put his bag-
p the liner-:49. sad for a
war was declared. The next day,
manuals“
m overlaid acumen—so. NORWALKIOONN.”
arien Tells Life Story
Gypsies Me a mysterious men.
They have a language all of their
ewn. Here are a few pointers
about gypsles. war and religion.
from I. [Hill/3
All persons not I‘tomanles are
Gentiles or gorglos.
' A gypsy never steals anything“
-—he “finds" it.
1 divided religion into two
classes. Protestants and Catho—
lics. The only difference I could
see was that the Catholics went
to mass before breakfast. and the
Protestants didn’t go at all.
‘ I have found only one camp or
real gypsles in this country. The
others were not Romanles. '
There is no gypsy who can
read 'your hand or head. There
is not one vestige of truth in
dukkerlng (fortune telling).
All women can be told the
What Gypsy Pat Smith Says
same fortune. Tell a woman
she's fond of travel. ambitious. -
loves music. not Wt‘llltlly now but
she will get some unexpected
money later. and she'll. say,
“How wonderful.”,.
Men are harder to tell for-
tunes to. They want facts.
The prefix "Gypsy" is a title
to be proud of.
Men were thrown away during
the war. In the battle of the
Somme they should have let us
go half way across during the
night and dig in. We might
have reached the enemy trenches
then.
Horse capping. is doctorlng
horses. — We could.maloe a brok-
on-wlnded horse sound for three
days at least. By that time. the
gypsies Were miles away.
I am not discouraged with the
present modern trend. God’s
still on His throne.
Evangelist. Smith became .privutc
I’at Smith of the Fighting l“lllll
Northnumberland Fuslleers—a regi-
ment of the line.
"This strange private. however.
wasn't long in the infantry. He could
whisper words in iho car of a horse
and make him behave. No one knew
how he did it. but years of horse
copping and trading had given him
knowledgethat surpassed that Of old
cavalry sergeants.
So soon, it was Sergeant i’ai Smilh
of the cavalry.
But men. and more men was the
cry. Pat could move mobs. and he
was detailed to recruiting service.
But a little while. and he had raised
1.500 men to serve the King, and
then. it was "Leftenant" i’al Smith.
New “canon—Gas.
And then—over there. Franco,
warfare, and Yprcs. ’i‘he "Wipers"
on that day of April, 1015. when the
Germans opened up with a now won-
pon. Gas!
That battle when the path was
open to the sea, when French col-
onial troops fled before the unknown
horror. and thousands of Canadians
charged with naked bayonets into
the mystery. and died—facing the
East. And Lieutenant Pat Smith was
their-choking but still fighting.
Through it all—to the first battle
of the Somme—1916. when the
flower of the British army fell. Then.
it was Captain Pat Smith. And on
the lot of July. leis-tho day of the
first. “big push" of Kitchener. Four-
Snliih crouched in a. trench. muddy.
weary. and it was zero hour.
Over the top as the sun came up—
with 700 yards to go to the German
lines. One hundred yards passed. and
half the regiment was gone. Two
hundred. and the attack wavered.
and then rallied. Machine, guns chat.
terad. shattered.
"it is a funny feeling to hear those
machine guns. When each bullet
seems to be saying—Pat Smith, Pal
Smith. When.you bow your head, so
that your steel hat will cover a little
more of you body. Why didn't. they
let us go out out at night. and dig in
halfway to the German llnes.'t We
might have get across them—but as
it was. we never had a man reach
the German lilies."
Not one man. Six hundred yards
out. Captain Pat Smith looked
around. Where was the fine unbrok-
en rank—the echelons—the Lewis
gunners—the bombers.
Bullet I'lerced Bis Log.
Six hundred and fifty yards. and the
top of the German parapet was alive
with flame. Six hundred and slab.
and Captain Smith fell. A bullet
pierced his leg. and as he lay, an-
other drilled through hls arm. mak-
ing a pin prick where it went in.
and a hole that you could put an
egg in where it came out. Both the
arm and leg broken, with shatter-
ed bones.
Only eight iu the morning. and in
a horrible nightmare. Pat Smith
waited for the rest of the attacking
wave to pass him. it never got that
far. and the sun crept up In the sky
and lingered at. noon.
Hours. hours hours passed slowly-—
slowly. hours of torture and thirst.
and the sun slid down into the west.
At 11:30 that night with no relief
parties, Captain Smith knew the at-
taclt was broken, and he began to
creep in with his broken arm and
broken, leg. At 9 the next morning.
,a figure rolled into the trench where
828 men and 28 officers had started
the morning before. Only 114 men
and 5 officers ever got. back. and
they were almost all wounded.
To the hospital. Operations—wait.
lug—more operations. months more
waiting. and. after 19 months in the
hospital, and 9 operations. Captain
Smith with his left arm 3 inches
shorter than his right. was offered
a discharge and a. pension. He took
neither but.welit back to the troops.
He neve‘r‘was a chaplain. but he was
nearer to'the men than a. cha‘plain
wall. He- knew them. and he brought
the gospel to thousands in the mud
of Flanders.
And then the armistice—when
Smith was an acting major. He was
discharged. He set sail for America
as though no war had been. Here he
helped with the Victory Loan. and
himself raised two million dollars. as
a letter from the Secretary of the
Treasury shows.
” Meet Karin Tisder,
His "evangelistic campaigns went
on. and then. romance for the Re-
many. l-le met Karin Tiader, daugh.
ter of the‘ late Richard 'TJader, s
{ameuargame explorer and hunter
who was with Roosevelt on his Af-
rlcan' trip; They became engaged and
married. Over the world they have
gone. addressing thousands. and this
Gypsy still passes on the word.
Away from the Gypsies. one
soon sees that Smith is inordinately
proud of his Romany blood. Here are
a few of his words of Gypsies.
"Gypsy. is not my name. but rath—
er a title. It is a title of honor to a
Romany who becomes well known.
It is almost like the term Doctor.
There are four Gypsy Smiths who
are evangelists. There is Gypsy Rod.
nay Smith. now 66 years old, his
a‘on. Gypsy Smith iii. who is new in
Wflapsyluaen- Salsa.
thirty in lhr: morning. and Clllllalll'
Though their name is the same. they
are from a different Smith family.
They are as! English gypslca. I am
fl'oru the Scotch Smith family.
"'l‘hv gypsioa here, are not real
gypsics-—lhat is. they are not [to-
monies. The acid test of n'Kll‘i-y is
his ability to speak Romany. and l
have only found one camp in tim-
country where that language was
understood.
, "Seine ppovle say lhe gypsles are
the lost tribes. There is much to
support this. Like the Jews. in no
matter what country we are, we are
still Ilomanies. There is a legend
among the gypsles also. that they
the lsiuaciites of the 16th l'huptel
of Genesis. This is what the Bible
says of the Ismaelltes: l
"And his bond shall be against
every man, and every man's
against him.’
"That is true of llomanies. The
Gentiles or Gorglos are against them.
They are spurt from all other raven.
’i‘hclr language can 110 spoken. but
not written. George Borrow. in his
‘llomauy Rye, and ‘l. uvengm.’ is the
only man to come near phonetically
spoiling the tongue
Asked as to fellune telling. this
Romany l‘lye, as Smith is called, or
Romany Gontleltlan. to translate (or.
if termed a plumber, llotnany Run-
chl) says nothing is true in it.
They Read Your Full.
“There is no gypsy who can read
your hand or your head. But they
can and do. read faces and eyes.
They are merely well trained in \in.
ual work as one would say in the
humor of trying to read humps of
the head on Saturday night in that
lOWI‘l. V
“A woman can always be tom the
same fortune. Tell her she's loud or
travel. ambitious. lO\CIll’ill1‘li', not
wealthy now. but later she will re-
ccive great wealth from an un ex-
pected uourco and have ill-r umbi-
tions realized .and she'll gladly pay
her for and say. ‘How Wonderful.‘
"’l‘his fits meet any woman, 'bc-
hand 1
i
cause Women blind castles
air.
I was born on December 81.
111 the
"liicn. hen-ever. are different.
They build cottages .on the ground.
They want facts, and are harder.to
'dukker.‘
Not Discouraglul.
“As to the present modern trend.
1! am not discouraged. The world in
general reminds me of Giascowm
whole that is lots of sin. But Paul
said.
doth nluch more abound. '
‘Where sin ddlh abound. grace
"God‘ a still on his throne. and as
look-
ng forward into a New Year. 1 op-
timistically face the future always
n that spirit."
Immigration Law
Cuts Hawaii Aliens
'HONOI.U1.L', July nit—(AP). The
mlnlgralion act of 192‘ has result.—
ed in a cut of more than fifty pf‘l
cent in the number of aliens admit-
ted to Hawaii. '
United States immigration officials
announced yesterday that during the
first twelve months in which the act
was affective. the fiscal year ended
lune 30, 2.280 aliens entered the ter-
ritory compared with 5.256 the pro.
vious year.
Took Rebate on His.
Insurance and Is Fined
SPRINGFIELD. Alana. Jilly 30.—
l.-iI‘). llltrry Saltzuuln was fined $25
in District Court for accepting a re-
train on an insurance policy and ap-
pooled.
tried here. Ulldt'l‘
against "splitting premiums"
ourance agents. which holds
the recipient of such a bride is co-
ually culpable with the agent.
The case is the first mci‘
the law aimed
by in.
that
WANTS ll. 5. TO
KEEP HANDS on
THE FARMERS
Head of Milk Men
Fears Bureaucratic
Rule in Co-opcrative
Marketing .
PHILADELPHIA. Julyaao (AP).
—A protest against any attempt to
"folat long distance bllrlfllllflsllif
control" upon the co- ~0persilvl's hyf
the l'cdcrftl Governmtnt was vamd‘
yesteiduy before the limelicull Insti-
tute of Co-operatlon by John I). fill-
ler of New York city, president of
the National Co-operaiivd’ Milk Pro-
ducera' Federation and vice-presi-
dent of the Dalrymcnfl League Cu-
operatlve Association.
“Co- operative malketing assurin-
iions seek no government subsidy
and ate unalterably opposed to bur-
eaucratic control. ': asserted the
speaker, "Whenever bureaucracy
has had its own way it has left‘all
indelible record of lethargy and in-
efficiency. Incapablo ill itself it pre.
vents the exercise of initiative of
those engaged ill commerce and in-
duatrloe.
"Farther than this it is gradually
and insidiously changing the form of
government itself in that we are be-
coming more and more a govern-
ment by bureau instead of a gov~
(-rnment by Congress. a government
THURSDAY, JULY 30,19
of bureaucratio' rules instead of a
government by law.
"if the Federal Conglcss or any
of the State Legislatures in tho eX- '
cruise of their Judgment deem it Ch.
pedit'lli. to attempt to establish 11k,
any form governmental control of'
concerns engaged ill commorco..|ot
lllcm first it it out on the old linol,
tommelcinl concerns and not upon
inlenl with the co opelativo market-
lllg association.
L. 1‘}. McKay of Memphis, decimal
ad that co-operatlve cotton market?
mg Mus beginning lo offer a. new
hope for the Southern tenant farm—l
er. ' '4
"it. 0""I'li a lllnclllllcry to rescue'
him from lilo lhruli of the credit,
system," lil: said. "It makes of him
a man who takes pride in his own
communlly rather than one Who mi.‘
grain. annually from farm to farm‘
and toutily to county."
French Count Starts
$100,000 Slander Suit.-
FRANCISCO. July 80.—
(Jount liolmrt De Ciairmont,"
O
only
(.il‘).
French nobleman, alleging he had
lliJUD t-lanrlcri'd in the presence of
lhe Countess lie (:lairluout. has
lilod suit in Superior court here for
“00,000 damages against George
Aguilar. wealthy importer. '
The complaint reciles that Agni-V
lal' told relatives and friends of
Count De Clairmont that the noble-
man had blackmailed a woman in
New York and [lit]! a “'lll‘l'lllll wns_ *3
sworn out for his arrest. The count 3
is in New York city.
Count De (.‘lairmout was purchas-
ing agent for tile French govern-
ment during the World War anti ,
later came to this country to en-,
gage in business as representative
of French business houses.
shirts
$1.55
lars ~
Men’s $1.00 Neck-
wear
2 for $1.00
Men’s Straw Hats
% Brice.
'vMea’s $1.00 Balbrig-
gan Shirts rand draw-
7508 each
Men’sm $1.00 fancy
1-2 Hose 750
Meli’ s 20c linen. col-
51.00 D...
’5. .3 it ‘1'le
Reduced!
Furnishings
Men’s $2. 50 Fancy
and white neckband
and collar attached
Never before have we maintained
fore llas merchandise been so desirable—Hence the unusual values‘
now offered in our greatest sale.
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Never Such Values
In Many ‘Months
Starts Friday, July 31$t
Seldom have we approached such tremendous sweeping reductions—
Men’s suits formerly
0 $35 $40 $50
New
$19.75 $23.75 ; $29.75 $34.75 .
suits age 8 to ‘18
$13.50 $16.50 $22.50
Now
$8.75 $12.75 $15.75
Men’s Palm'
quality so zealously—Never be-
Beacb Suite
815 $16.50 $18
Now
a
$12.50
Boys’ Palm
Beach Suits
Formerly $8.50
' Now
$3.75
Juvenile Suits
Ages 3 to 8
$3. 50 Now $1. 75
THE EARLIER YOU BUY
THE GREATER YOUR ADVANTAGE
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