Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-07-30
CAP'fI Err
By JOSEPH c. LINCOLN
Copyrishi. 1904. BY A. s. Bsnes G. Co. Pub
LLbers, 80 Fdsh Aveauc. New Yost-
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BY JOSEPH c. LINCOLN

swered. Then she said slowly: well, |
I'm s'prissd you amt asked that afore. !
haven't said much about myself !
sence I've been here, for no p'tic'lar
reason that / know Of except that
there wasn't much TO tell and it wasn't
a very interestin' yarn to other folks.
My husbands name was Jubal
Snow
You don't sayv' exclaimed the cap
tain. "Why, Jerry used TO know him"
Il shouldn't wonder Jubal knew a
lot OF folks on the Cape here. He was
a good husband-no better anywheres
-and he and / hadfa good life tOgeth-
er long as he was we'll I've sailed a
good many Vyuges with him and l
}feel pretty Sigh as much at home on
the waterras DO on land. our trouble
was - eame that good many folks
AQXn~AWe didn't carlate that fair wealth
81 tonidnt last all the time, that's all.
A|It wasn't bis fault any more than
mine. We saved a little money,
iut lot enough. as Il turned out. Well,
he was took down sick and had to give
up goin' 90 sea- and we had a little
place over in Nantucket and settled
down on it. Fust along, Jubal was
able TO do a little farmin' and so on,
and we got along pretty well, but by
and by he got so he want able to
work, and then twas harder. What
little we'd saved went for doctors bills
and this, that and t'other. He didn't
like TO have me leave him, so l couldn't
earn much OF anything, and fin'lly we
pou1a 70 yt-lpra anrna+biu' Eo1 to ho
done right away, and we talked the
thing over and decided to mortgage the
house. The money we got on the mort
gage lasted until he died.
"He had little life insurance, not
enough, Of course, but little. He was
planniu' u take on more, but somehow
it never seemed as if he could Gle. he
so big did strong, and we put it off
until he got so he couldn't passrthe
examination. When the insurance
money come took it to Jedge Briar,
mighty good friend of JubaPs and mine
and the one that held the mortgage on
the house, and told him l wanted to
pay OFF the mortgage with it, SOS I'd
have the house free and clear. But the
jedge advised me not to, said the mort
gage was costn' me only 6 per cent,
and why didn't put the money where
twas likely to be a good investment
that would pay me eight or ten per
cent? Then I'd be maxim money, he
said. I asked him to invest it for me-
and he put. it into the Bay Shore Land
company, where most of his own was"
"Sho. I want to known broke in
III I
had some there, too, and SO did Perez.
Precious few families ON the Cape that
didn't"
Yes, he thought twas the safest and
best place he knew of. The officers
bein' sons of Cape people and their
fathers such fine men, everybody said
twas all right | got my dividends
regular for awhile, and i went out
nussin' and did SEWN and got along
reel well. l kept thinkin' some day Ii
be able to pay off the mortgage and
put away what little l could toward it
tbut then 1 was took sick and tina
money went, and then the land com
pany went up the spout"
The captain nodded. The failure o
the company had brought poverty t
hundreds of widows. Mrs. Shows cas-
was but another instance.
''Let me see" said the lady; "wher
was I? Oh~yes; the land company
failin'. Well, il failed, and the insuI
ance money went with it. 1t was dis
couragin. Of course but / had m
house, except for the mortgage, and
had my health again, and, if l do sa
IT. l amt afraid of work. so l jes
made up my mind there was no us
cryin' over split milk and that l mus
git. along and begin to save all owe
again. Then ledge Briar died, and hI
nephew up to Boston come into til
property. l was behind IN my pa!
ments little, and they sent me wor
they should foreclose the mortgag
and they did"
"Wen, l swan! The mean sculpin
Didn't you have nobody you could s
to-no relations nor nothin'T sa
"Ive got brother out in Chicag
but he married rich, and his wi
doesn't care much for her husband
relations I never saw her but ono
and then one OF the first things 81
asked me was If It was true that the
was more crazy people in Nantuck
thaA in any other place of its size {
earth and afore / could answer 81
asked\ me what made 'em crazy.
told her didn't know unless it W,
answerNn' city folks questions. 81
didn't like that very well, and L hay
rot heard from Job-that's my broth
for a long time All my other net
relations are dead.
so they foreclosed the mortgage al
gave me notice to move out. 1 pack,
my things and watered my flowers
had qvite a pretty flower garden-f
the last time and then come in al
set down in the rocker to wait for 4
hos