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

ms necessary. Everybody speaks
everybody must speak it.. 1t is Loot
per cent more than just pigeor
English-for 1t is made up Of Eng
! fish. Dutch, German, French, Span
ish, Carib, Congo, Portuguese and
| some portions of the Papiamentu
| language OF the Curacao niggers
which 1t far surpasses however, be-
cause Of its greater flexiOiltty and
wider application. The Javaneat
| talks it to the CaTib Indian, the
| Dutchman, if he cannot talk Eng
| fish, must per force talk it 20 me Il
! | cannot talk Dutch lit is currency
| that passes all around and while
taboo in society-3h yes! fhere is
! society in Paramaribo! On the sly
society finds talkee- talkee most
convenient and mich less hard work
than swearing at a lazy servant in
any OF the civilized tongues.
This is just mere outline sketch
"a few strokes in the piCture-of
Paramaribo. 1 spent only my lin
between times" in town, where
had a large house, and where my
wife held forth. Ny life was in the
bush. ..saaa- @
None Can Define "The Bush"
Roosevelt has written about the
"River Of Doubt"-and OF course he
does it well-and there have been
others-but none Of them can tell
what the bush is like. went into
1t with some so niggers-Dutch,.
English (from Demerara and Trini-
dad) and French (from Guadalupe
and Martinique)-the only white
man in the outfit. i had letters Of
introduction from New York friends
to white men in PaT1martbo. but my
luck was against lie. One-the best
Of the lot-died from fever a few
days after had landed-I never
saw him alive-but went to his
funeral. The other one ! found to
be a rollicking fine Trishman, whose
mother was a French Creoie-and he
lover his booze, ana that tells his
Lnish-the third was a half-breed,
but he had gone lalf-blind from
fever and some BUSH poisoning-an
that Will be about Illl-except that
had g. letter to our United States
consular agent who had the Jew
name of Hirshfeld, out was coal
black niger who had never been
outside n of the colony and didn't
know the difference between the
Declaration Of independence and al
piece Of chs. Well, it seemed like
IL was up to little Albert to get up
his own privately and personally
conducted safari into the Interior
which he did.
"Here is where you hear some
thing about the lure Of gold-I prom
tsed it Anon" I had--or found
some fairly good ground. But II
never reached the real good ground
had neither the time nor the mon
ey-in fact hadn't known anything
about it until got into the bush
within a hundred miles og it-hadn't |
prepared for it-couldn't prepare for |
it-but will get to it some day or
bust a ga1lus.
Ready to Gamble.
II am not given to seeing things"
don't enthuse Very easily about |
gold" I have been stuug several |
times in my life, but I want $4,000 |
to get up my own party for the |
which divide Dutch |
Guiana and the other Guianas from |
I'll bring back fifty mil
lions in gold or leave my bones for |
the vultuTes and ants to clean, and I
have no idea that the filthy black
bird scavenger or tho miserable little /
pests Of the tropics will get the
chance. For ! know whereo + I
speak, and I am not trying to sell !
any stock in my enterprise and am
not going to sell any stock in it but
will gamble my own money and my
own life-what there is left of it to |
gamble with. g
1.-THE French-who by one of the !
many shifts in boundary lines, due
to some diplomatic legerdemain, or
some river-the Marrowijne-gone |
On a.. rampage, found that their one
best bet, viz: La Compagnie des /
cerred to the domain Of the Neither
lands, have quietly and consistently
for about 90 years now-pand some /
30 per cent dividends on an enor-
nous capitalization to their Paris
and this after the in /
Siders in the colony had stolen and
10 steal to this day, as much more,
Il not double as much, for their own
little private graft-and these I
French are working on one end Of
the territory am heading for-be-
cause they could get at it by way Of !
4 big river-and I must go through
the bush TO get at the other end
which is the real old Dorado Of the
Spaniards. (Please note that I do
not say Ell Dorado, mistake many
newspaper men make when they |
speak Of ''the Ell D2rado"-i. e. the
Oorado.)
q Is Life of Trials.
1.-THE life in the tropics is a life
If trials and tribuIations-and it is
L life Of peace, tranquility, ease and
'estfu1ness-if you arrive" 1t is a
Paradox If you are poor-and
will be in helI-if you are
poor and black-you will be in
leaven. No need to work-the white
nan cannot work; he can't stand it
the black man doesn't have to
work-a1I his food grows in abund-