The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-03
DryySYLYANIA'S DUTCH.
,r COLONY WITH STRANGE
co a. AND TRADITIONS


or.,,er Has Disappeared
Thle ~ the Dutcaman Holds to HIS
Ent[s,, "a Curious Language OF
Old H. A Good-Hearted, Whole
his CIV" acknowledgements
Domestic Life.
,,.,,, TIE Yeu York World :,
r,Ta PA, Aug. "a Are we all
49, now ~ oulred the youthful son
governors -,o" s,on after the Pennsylva-
' -o@eral e'eotion CT 1859 Ii, +so
Fi' gem, :e-''I oojv me und Pop" replied the
-'al =. If the governor-elect. Whether
F''l W." -, resnlt Of this JOINT tenure OF office
'a' Law but ctr.ain it is that the
Go !" had g better governor than the
,oro honest. obstinate old farmer 80. Sosop ~
a.e"r' Pennsylvania Dutch was then al
49, tigbe,t infuerce; Ritner It's trues'
H's Ia who are the Pennsylvania
Ege, Wa read of the Quaker IN his
u'O'' oro told that he settled the state,
tory We va are left to assume that ne
and tu5n bocthone of its greatness to-day.
ioT us wv natter of fact, to people ali un-
ell a. q q anne. a Dc )ple more interesting,
known s W .Sl sites more sharply Defined
With opi.tont than the creoles OF LOUISIANA,
and pel2 Imy nearly 4000, 900 souls, belongs
pun Del V ~ ~ forming the policy and char
Tue 80 80 tbe second state of the Union.
#acLer " L,, ND, cd and seyenty-two years ago
Ole -a u'al't. month the Quaker assembly OF
tIilS p1ronia ordered That none but En-
ems .'I.orinc- immigrants should be the
pa If naturaliza ion. Not satisfied
suoJ0t tSo workings of this law tne same Dody
VIZ o--iJed few years later that every Tor
& 49, TO N the English government arriving
- ef5ar the passage of the act should
"ar dntv OF 40 shillings and swear aile-
81 dr;s,ca 10 Great Britain and the province
Shasa and other measures dlscouTaglng TO
nrosDectives immigrants VINO IelI "lOhlh
81 30 COMA were all aimed at the Germans,
yi S ior some re son or other, seemed pos
81 80 81 If wild ambition to land on the
e se.Sta snoro Of the Delaware. Prior to
Fl W. ,oar 1927 more than $4,000 of them
80 snngly established in the quaker prov
49, In spte of these laws more were
coming by every ship, and the followers of
n Penn we're disturbed in spirit.
TIRE QUAKER HAS VANISHED,
Strange things have come to pass since
8 +bsn The Quaker has vanished. There
d re1noins nothing to tell the story of his
s. form or greatness but the quaint old bury
q ;n, ground on Arch street, and a dozen
faded sbadbellv coats, heirlooms in as many
4 p II delphia garrets. He persisted in no
great tumut of arms, nor by the march of
sny residence. He was neither INDECENT
nor lacking in shrewdness; he did not starve
4 TO death, nor did the Germans so much As
4 crowd him. lie died simply because he was
too good to live-a melancholy warn
ing which has not been lost upon
n his successors in Pennsylvania poll
Il tics But the prescribed German
ssoldy bided his time. He came, paid his
dutv and stayed. He took possession of the
8 rich farms along the Susque anna, the Ls-
4 high, and the Juniata and filled the glori-
Gus valleys which lead down to the rivers.
He began to have things his own way, and
when new order was established after
tie revolution he held in his hands the
political power of the great state which he
had turned into garden where the gods
might dwell. The most timCrous Quaker,
fearful Of German ascendency, could
i scracey have had provision of the COM
pee triumph attained by his Teutonic rival
at the beginning Of the present century.
The Quaker was already little more than a
memory the German the potent factor of
the social and political order. But lol
when tie victor proclaimed his conquest it
was in strange tongue; he no longer
thought nor felt as German. The father
land was not beyond seas, but here. Ger
many was no moro to him than it was to
Patrick. He had become a Pennsylvania
Dutchman.
The Teutonic immigrant brought with
him to Pennsylvania only the limited
Vocabulary of German peasant nearly 200
years ago. His pronunciation of the native
tongue was often lnaccu ate, of the English
worse; and the deviation from the YER
nacular has increased with every genera
ton until all semblance of the original is in
many cases lost Topper meaning.
hurry; fat" forward; "nooner.n under:
"fattish," done or finished, are a few
examples of many words not easily
accounted for. Neither German nor an
EnShSnlnsn would make much of ''croom-
nsera'" lac former would say Eurto6eL
Iae later potato. But our Pennsylvania
Du'C"man examines the tuber and after
NUN smelling and tasting deciies that it is
berry. IF it isn't a berry vas der
ueiolnker Is ltN said one of them to me- the
o.oer cay, and ''croombeera,n he calls If
touDneSs led to his word, III spite of nv
nIenus explanation, through foggy recoI-
iec Jio OF his remote ancestors, who named
"U'e 9Funaolerne, the ground pear.
W., ESSENTIALLY A PEASANT.
81. "5'u words denotlng hesitancy or do11ht
/ - Wy. IetHuSylVama Dutchman is well pro-
80 GsIa from o'er the Rhine, but when he
ISLES 70 express the idea of certainty,
p'obipVlless or quickness of perception. he
Sa TTn,ssu 70 use the language of his Anglo
ahont a LIZ uoof, from whom he learned
tho -or sI lie knows of these qualities To
fantv SOU &c also does he go for his pro-
puV mat, perhaps, proves nothing ono 81
al 'te other. The English is. after
~n' tne only language in which a
sa ,t. can swear and get anything like
bs ,,saac.ion' The proyerb which bids ms
goo .Gt ~ sne Jury OF the patient man. is a
II he l go ~ remember in dealing with him.
over.nio 90" 10 wrath, it is not bee ,use he is
4 durab ai ', JUS IN that charity which en-
too sio, ai' Vnlngs, but rather because he is
catcS ~ GU heavy in his perceptions TO
WS ,N,i u Vne fleet AID insidious ipnuendo
hood Of 30. oUIer tempers in the neighbor
onco o IL ~ Fahrenheit; but when he il
eI,e 70 "I,oqSed, however, there is NOTHING
hin o" o ouC 70 move into another town
over wall until the hurricane blows
and dI es IS essentially peasant; in its original
Aas no v o,lenSlVe meaning, a boor. He
will and ~ lsniotlng courtesy. In good
Etts I s,,i lrIIendliness he abounds: of the
sEcn amenities and court graces
chg----- 20 much to the life of all other
examnIa f|oPr he knows nothing. For
geners iH ;A44~t1cugz it may be stated as a
EagIjSbl A asu ~ FL of them can sneak
prove on, dbssaclation SAL hem is likely To
their lan%nalraSSlng if y0S do not know
guest at atuts5u niee; You may h. an nyited
among ' tsar house. but all Conversation
own Dutch o 'nies will be in their
gle, to I Won without translation or apollo