Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-29
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We have two daughters, aged re-
spectively seventeen and eleven years.
Kate, the oldest, being in delicate
health, is little prepared for hard
ships, yet she hopes to be able to
teach in case she secures situation.
She fully understands our condition,
and more than once within the past
six months, have / found her in her
room weeping. Indeed, l am inclin-
ed to think that her own physical
weakness arises, in great measure,
from sorrow and sympathy for her par
ents. On asking the cause of her sad
ness not long since, she replied:
81 wish could help papa he looks
so careworn and thin, know he must
be sick. Why do you not have him
consult some physician?''
''My dear girl" Ireplied, 81 know
your father requires remedial agents,
but they are not of the doctors kind.
Five or six hundred dollars would eff
feet change in him greater than any
physicians medicine can produce"
"sOnly five or six hundred dollars"
she exclaimed, "and if that is all, can
we not hire it,"
''No, he has tried many, many
times, but those who loan money will
not do it without security, and that
he cannot give" said.
''Oh, how cruel! AS honest as
papa has always been and as much as
he has done business with every one
around here, TO think that there is no
one who is willing to help him to that
extent,' she replied.
Yes, it is true. The section where
we live is peopled mostly by farmers
who are not wealthy; and having OBJ
tanned their resources by hard work,
hundred dollars seems to them, to
be large sum, and they are not in
clined to risk anything, even for the
sake of aiding one whom they can but
acknowledge is an honest man. In
his efforts to hire, my husband has
invariably pointed out how unlikely
the lender would be to suffer loss.
1.-The farm" he says, "will pay the
interest, and as we are all only too
anxious to work and exercise the
closest economy, surely it requires
no vivid Imagination to see that we
are likely to support ourselves and
pay something yearly of the princi-
pal"
In case of his death $4,000 from q
Lite Insurance Co. in good standing
would be sure to relieve us from finan.
cial embarrassment, and / cannot but
regard it as unkind and selfish in those
who have profiteds by my husbands
generosity in the past, to refuse te
aid him in the hour of adversely.
1t is not that he fears his inability
to pay that he is anxious and de
spondent, but it is the humiliation
that he has to suffer from not being
able to pay at the time, obligations
when due. He is fast becoming a re
cluse and misanthrope, dreading th'
arrival of the mail, lest it should con
tain call for money which he can
not meet, and from the same cause
anxiously scanning the faces of thos,
who drive to our door. / know b,
his nervous starts in the night tha
unhappy dreams are disturbing hi
slumbers, and by the sad expression
of his countenance in the daytime
what is weighing on his mind. Con
, slant employment affords him relic
from this wretchedness hence, dur
ing the last year OF two, lie has devot
, ed himself almost recklessly to hi
, business.
"Do rest" l often say to him.
II have no time TO rest" he an
, swers. s'These debts must be paid
! and the money must be earned to pa
, them"
f Eyes," reply, "but your credit
ors have no right to rob you of healt
and life. They are able to wait til
you have reasonable amount of tim
to earn the money for them. Do yo
think it right to destroy your health
| and thus deprive your family of you
help, to satisfy your creditors a
once?"
81 know" he answered, "that it
my duty to pay what | have promls
ed, and if by working constantly
can get rid of this disgrace and anxi
ETY., / intend to do it,
And so he goes on, every dolla
that he earns being applied to th
payment of debts, save what is abso
lutely necessary for household ex
penses. Economic The word ha
become mockery. So closely have W
done this, that in the matter of dress
our best suits, at present, would no
formerly have sufficed for daily use
and yet l think we could always CLAIM
to avoid extravaganza.
Such are the results of getting il
debt. My husband was never sued
and few years since he never wait
ed long for an endorser to banl
note of one, two or three hundred dol
lars. Never was one of his note
protested; and yet, to-day those yer,
men who then endorsed, and severa
of whom he has paid hundreds o
dollars for their goods, would no
now endorse a note for him of fift,
dollars; simply because they know b,