The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-04-06

| dlanshiP and prudent advice, as the world wags
II is critical time, that budding into woman
| mood, ior one beautiful as she knew she was
having been told SO every day. But, b.ough
up amid PriTat'ons and dangers, Madeine's ia.
cuitIes were fully developed IN all that, ther
! constituted excellence in woman beside
she could load and fire her rifle as well as any
man about the fort, and could bring down 8
deer in ITS rapid course with as uEerring an air
as the most skiIful hunte: IN the province. She
was brave and daring, endowed with an unusu-
al degree OF courage and presence of mind, and
had seen too many redskins TO be easily fright
ened at the sight OF lomahawk or scaIping-
knife. Though she did not like to leave the
| protection OF The fort, YET she would not suffer
her father to go out into the forests alone Tor
she had always been his faithful companion and
vas, besides, an obedient and dutitu daughter
| Moreover she had a lover there, near 10 whom
she would have preferred to remain but whan
| daty called, like many another noble woman,
! she sacrificed self to that duty. She knew too
we'll the RISKS her father run in his design to
1--we without the protection Of the blockhouse,
and when danger threatened, she must be be
side MN 10 share it. There are many noble
women now, 200, as good, and better, than was
Madeline !; but, where there IS one equal, in
faithful devotion 10 duty, 10 the women OF
''those days days which tried mems souls" and
wonen's hearts and souls too, there are Just sir,
t,he number has been CAREFUL" cacuated,l who
are not worth the powder that would send a
quarter ounce bullet through a redskins
scalp
With the assistance of The settlers The logs
were soon cot down and trimmed log cabin,
the palace ofthe pioneer, erected, and Wilhelm
and his daughter took up their residence 10 the
sequestered nook which has ever since borne
the name, 'WIlhelm's Gap 1t was a de-
ilghlful spot, surrounded by the maisstic oak,
and The silver-leal~d maple, while in the back
ground, the dark, evergreen foliage of the pine
tree, lose up against the Eastern sky, casting
over IT protecting shadow. They soon had
their Int patch cleared and planted with corn
and vegetables, such as they would need, de-
pending upon their riffs for their meat. They
always went out TO hunt together. for advan-
cino civiiszafifJu4nd retirement had not yet
taught the women Of that day how vulgar II
~ day labours OF life. She was healhpn e
noush 10 be able to cook his meals, 10 knit and
darn hls stockings, make and mend his shiIis,
sew the buttons on aud wash them, and to do
are now permitted 10 be mentioned only in the
kitchen, l'hry had no kitchens then that is
the reason suppose, or at the millinery shops,
and these were scarce.
Things went on swimmngly in the gap for
time. Father and daughterrich in each others
love, for Wilhelm loved his daughter, not on!y
for herself, bat for the sake OF her dear m5lhe
whose image was yet as bright in his weather.
beaten heart, as the day when he frs! called he.
his own. Often he thought that, in the hour
Qf danger, her spirit hovpred near them as their
ssda'dian Angel for their many escapes were
to him otherwise ineXplcable
Though the settlers had been startled at thp
recent murder, by the Indians, of Glass, whose
bones st'! whiten an adjoining field, yet Will
helm and Madeline were unnorst-d. They
were under the protection of a chief named
Mukundwa, (pillagpr, as the name is transIated.) J
This chief used TO often come 20 The fort when
Wilhelm vas there, and being captivaied by
a., l. a, 4 Il, 4
energy OF his uncultvated nature. She did moi
then dream of the passion with which she had
INSPIRED hm but, in the Gap, his visits became
50 frequent, and his admiration so marked, that
a modern belle, with all he retirement of the
bsau monde, would hardly be expected TO ig-
more IT. Madeline was a simple child, and,
when man made love to her with his eyes
ard actions, every thing but words, she could
not help understanding it. If she had had the
advantage Of amoeern boarding school education,
her intellect would have been better trained
Nothing short Of, "wil you have ne, pretty
maid," would have made her wide awake.
The discovery of Mukundwa's love, caused
Madeline no little uneasinrss. She loved Ed
ward Shippen, the gallant young soldier, hun
ter, and farmer, By turns, and had promsrd TO
wed him whenever her father would give his
consent. Now, that she was an object OF love
TO this chief whose passion she knew opposition
would only inaame, maybe cause him TO use
violence to obtain possession of her il he could
not 60 SO otherwise, she had good reason to
dread the future. What would that future be I!
Death, likely TO heF father and loyec, perhaps