The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-09-07

A MORTGAGE In the whole range OF
sacred and profne literature, perhaps
there is nothing recorded which has sucn
staving properties As good healthy
mortgage
a mortgage eau he depended On to stick
closer than 4 brother 1t has mission to
perform which never lets up. Day alter
day it is right there, nor does the Slight
est tendency to slunber impair is vigor
in the least. Night ami day, and at holi-
day times. without a moments rest for
sickness and recreation, the biting of
spring OF its existence goes ON.
The seasons may change, days run into
week 5, weeks into months, and months be
swallowed up into the gray man of ad-
vancing years, but that mortgage stands
up in sIeepless vigilance, with the inter
est a perennial stream celseltssly run
ming ON,
Like Il huge nightmare eating out the
sleep of some restless sumbercr, the un-
paid mortgage rears up its gaunt front in
perpetual torment to the miserable W ght
who is held within the miserable clutch.
1t holds the poor victim with the reent-
less grasp of Il giant; not one hour OF rec
reation; not Il moments evasion OF its
hideous presence \ genial savage of
modifying aspect while the interest is
paid II very devil Of hopeless destruction
when the payments fail.
Other liabilities may be evaded or
smoothed aside, but 4 mortgage hangs on
with the pe1tinacity Of Il bull dog OF Il
blacksmith's wise If the interest is not
Il t,, AII t. If
the principal. and holds up its horrible
front with harder seeming than before
1t will have the pound of flesh which IS
nominated in the bond; and more terri
bile than the fearful witches in Macbeth,
the threatening tiend Foreclosure rears
up its dreaded menace with the crushing
weight OF hopeless despair
Pity the poor man who has the grim
liend in his household. Every hour of his
life is traught with one intact enduring of
misery and dread. embittered with II
grievous load he is powerless to shake
away.
POPULAR AIRS BY A FEATEIERED WAR
BLEK A musical mocking bird ut Charles
Heads California fruit store, on Fourth
street, near Jel1erson attracted y great
deal Of attention and excited no little
wonder and merriment among the pass
ers-bv yesterday. He is really Il songster
Of an improved order and gives II con-
cert with Il programme of u few ttvorite
airs, every hour in the day when he is in
a singing mood Yesterday he was in Il
gleeluI mood and several times sang. IN
clear, round notes, the airs Dixie, "St.
Patrick's Day in the Morning. n"Oyer the
Fence is Out" cold Scissors to Grind, y
and Yankee DOODLE
Celebrated composers it is said have
produced some of our finest music, taking
for the base OF their structure chance
note or two from some unconscious war
bier Of the forest But instances wherein
the bird has caught the sound again when
put into harmonious strain are exceeding
ly rare. Parrots may mimic language quite
naturally without the exercise OF conscious
ness or judgment. But to sing or whistle
requires the exercise OF memory and taste,
Il circumstance the least to be expected of
Il mocking bird, for the reason that its lit
tie throat is an instrument brlmmlng full
and always running over with music. 1t
makes no false notes when giving natural
vent to its lungs. 1t is all music, lacking
only in harmonious order 1t is only When
trying to put his notes together with that
fine, discriminating taste which belonges
only to human intelligence, that the hap
py little warbler makes an occasional dis
cordant sound.
The bird mentioned is but Il young
scholar. He has been taking lessons from
his master. and is perfect in st. Patrick $
Day in the Morning" but makes Il false
note or two in "Dlxie." His "Over the
Fence is Out" is perfect, but in Yankee
Doodle" he needs a little more training
And at any rate his effort is worthy OF
praise, and while it amuses, suggests the
lesson that in the great dispensation OF
wisdom men and birds may be to some
degree dependent upon each other. Lou.
isvlle (Ky.) Courier-Journal july 2l
Professor of Rhetoric.-''What impor-
tant change came over Burns in the latter