The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-29

ance around him, no need wear nc
clothes except a ha pennys worth
OF Bingham or a palmleaf, he need
not worry about his supply of coal
Tor the winter for there is no winter
and he can build his house from
Macca leaves and have shelter from
the rain-tl1e only shelter ne needs
IL the white man has money-llo.
necessarily a big forrune, but enough
to get himself a small plantation TO
produce some caco, coffee and the
eats" for his own use--rhe coffee
and the cacao bringing in perhaps
white man can forget everything ex-
eept swearing in TaIkee -Eall1ee at
his niggers and coolies and Javan
csc, as the case may be. The rest
will take care OF itself and of him
IF the white man goes in for MIN
Ing, or for cleaning busa" with a
view of starting a plantarion) then
he had better think twice and. then
he had better decide not to do it..
For that is where rhe trials and
trtbulations come in.
But the big fortunes of Holland
were made out of SURNAME before
the days OF Napoleon l.. who, be-
cause he found he could not hold
Louisiana and the West Indies, from
which to get his supply Of sugar,
subsidized his chemists to make ex-
periments for the production of
sugar out Of beets, and before the
adjustment of slavery. There are
today hundreds OF plantations in
SURNAME, along the dig rivers,
which have practically gone back to
"wirrie- wirrie"-just jungle - so
much so that one cannot see them
at all-and yet have explored some
old mansions, solid,y built from
masonry, with imported red Rutch.
tile roofs, copper -spouts, mar
bic floors-deadly Oroocoocoos and
wicked scorpions and tarantuIas
crawling over the floorsf vegetation
choking the windows and doors, de-
cay, miasma, death, everywhere
the scenes of past splendour, tho
origin Of fabulous weaIth-tl1e Dutch.
when they got cold feet. got very
cold feet and they left everything
behind-even their wonderful canal
and irrigation system, their dykes
and their .sluice gates all solidly built
and ndestructible-and these plan
tations can be bought for a song
their value is in the canals, which
need only cleaning oJt-and in their
wonderful. fertile soil, wn ch needs
OF course, thorough cleaning of the
Wirrte-wirrie, but lass than virgin
oush-the houses, the sugar fac
tories, the laborers-(slave) quar-
ters-all these are Of no yalue-eA-
cept that would love to save the
red roof tiles and some of the cop
per and brass work-the rest is junk
and must be destroyed-but one
can soon have a little farm with a
little income, alongside some big
liver, with a climate which is simply
forget telephones, sub
ways, the ticker, the extras" the
loise and the hustle and hubbub and
nerve wrecking civilization (God |
ave the markD of the Grand Old
y. s. A. .-ea...
Climate Superb, But
Climate superb? There are those |
Who will call me a liar-and far be |
t from me to blame them-fcr Dutch |
Guiana has the reputation Of being |
ne Of the worst fever swamps |
;nown to manlsind-and French |
Guiana runs a close second-Devirs |
sland and all-and yet say and !
maintain that the climate Is superb |
will accommodate your
elf to the climate and cut out two
hings or three:
Item 1, booze, no matter under
What guise.
x-ss-1 2, S~seS.
Item 3: Work. tried to work, got
tredl Of the slow niggers, wanted to
how them how we do things-near-
Y Killed me-never tried it again
lever will try 1t again-no work for
ours truly-never. Just he a gen |
leman and boss things-the only
way.
zone must be severe with ones
elf in the matter IF cleanliness and |
Il food and drink and then there is
bsolutely no dangeT-for there are
10 mosquttos-such as we know in
he United States-.there are flies,
nd bugs and spiders and scorpions |
nd the ever present 81, 900 different |
'arteties Of ants and lizards and !
Vhistling frogs and snakes and |
yasps and wild bees. and the fnred |
ermin Of the cat family. and mon
.eys by the million and parrots and |
naccaws by the biAion,-and it
would take another moon to talk,
bout the fauna, and yet another to
ak about the flo-a-and then we
you'd just about get fairly started !
o begin to describe the wonderful
h-n1ysterious, fascinating, tenn
ng with life and yet harboring
cath steaming with heat, miasma
nd rotten vegetation, and cold of
lights for two heavy blankets and
weet beyond description with it's
lyriads Of butterflies and orchids.
Say, Old Man, it is red time.
food night! Let me hear from you
yhen the spirit moves.
obi MasraE