The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-12-30
RY OF THE DUTCH.
foIf Continues His Articles on the
Netherlands.
RELATIONS 1900 YEARS AGO.
the Growth Of the German People and
4 Development Of Their Power and
Influence TO the Present.

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Typography, topography anc
br features of the Netherland
this letter l shall trace the
tory of the Dutch people.
fhe earliest history that We
se of the nations or tribes that
pabited the Netherlands, France
ii Germany, is given US by the
bman historian Tacitus. This
lstorian tells us that in the year
d. 16, the Roman conquerors
~ound the low countries inhablt.
bd by tribes of German origin
Where existed at that time some
\ forty different German TRIBES
Some of these Gribes were more
numerous and powerful than 9th.
ers; so IN times of great under
takings, the weaker ones would
attach themselves to the stronger
aud so form large armies, which
would then bear the names of the
leading tribes, which was the
case at times with the Saxons,
Tautons, Goths, Vandals and 9th.
ers. In after years descendants
of all the Germanlc tribes were
sometimes called Teutons, or of
Teutonic origin, meaning simply
that they were of German origin.
So, also, the Germans call their
country Teutchland, meaning the
land of the Teutonic. So the peo-
pie of Holland by calling them
selves Dutch or Teutch express
thereby their Teutonlc or Ger
manic origin. Again the people
of England and United States are
called Anglo saxons because part
ly the offspring of the Angles and
Saxons, two German tribes, who
conquered the Britons at one
time and called that country
Angleland after the Angles-now
England. Now, in our day one
may read the statement, that the
people of Germany, part of Aus
tria, Holland Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, England and the United
States are mostly of Teutonic de-
scent.
We read of five tribes occupy
ing the Netherlands. On the left
banks of the Rhine river lived
the Belglans; on the right banks
the Friesians; in the middle on
the island formed by the two
arms of the Rhine, the Bataviers,
and between the Leck and Waal
rivers, the Kaninefatens, Mat
takers and Maresatens. All of
these tribes, along with all the
Celtic tribes of Gaul (now France)
were subdued by the Romans,
and turned into Roman provinces.
For several centuries we ind
the Netherlands In the possession
Of Rome. But we find the Fries
ians were the first to regain their
liberty, the other tribes later on
when the power OF Rome was on
the decline, Now in the third
century a great unrest comes
over the natives Of Germany
Great considerations were form
ed for conquest. So a confeder-
alton of various tribes with the
brave and restless Franks as lead
ers, threw themselves upon Ro-
man Gaul conquered 1t and built
up n most powerful kingdom,
which has endured up to the pres
ent day-we call it France. In
the sixth and seventh centuries,
we find all Netherland ruled by
the kings of the Franks. But as
years pass by these kings would
bestow as rewards, or for other
reasons, sections of these terri
tories, to their favorites, and this
practice was kept up until the
whole country was ruled by many
petty lords and dukes-as we
read of q duke William of Holland
VIII lived in the year 1850. Now
sometimes these little countries
were IN part under the protection
Of the German emperors or the
kings Of the Franks. In 1926
Holland became q German prov
luce under the emperor Louis.
Next in 1889 Holland and Belgium
were consolidated with the Ger
,nan under Maximllian /. Again
We find both cOuntrioa A mart nj