A AA&V 'WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC " PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY J WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW. BY; JOHN G. GIVEN. EBENSBURG, -THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1810. VOL. G.-NO. 3 ,jlir1 'T When Fortune Beams! When Fortune beams around you, When hearts with pleasure leap; f Awd hopes and jo.ya burround you Forget not those who weep! When friendship's smile invites you To bless and to be blest; ' When every charm delights roa--O think of the distress 'd! When golden pales betide you, As if by heaven decreed, And plenty stands beside you Forget notlhoae who need! When pleasures cop iseras endlojs, Ob, piove it without end; By being to the friendless In every hour a frieud. MISCELLANEOUS , 7 r , i, ,,,, ,, ,., , i. , . i, , , The Little Feel; OB, THE AM VTEUR SHOEMAKER. - DV MEtTA TICTOKIA FULLEfc. CHAPTER I. Won't you take away your admiring gare from my pretty feet, Clifford, dear? I durst not go to sleep for fear you will carry them off, and I shall iawaVe foot lets!' The speaker was a roguish and elegant young girl, nesding down into the rosy pillows of a lounge. As she spoke she drew up her delicate feet beneath the rust ling folds of her dress. Your little feet, indeed!' was the reply of the young gentleman, taking up one of his sisters beautiful brown tresses from the pillow where it floated. My little sis, I fear you are spoiled such complacent vanity is amusing.' 'Then let the responsible thought be yours that you spoiled me, dear; how should 1 know my feet were so fairy-like, if you had not told me so ten times a day. Are you not always quoting Mrs. Osgood's: Her foot is like a fairy's foot, Su dainty and to flem." Well, I know it, but I cant help it, for they certainly are the prettiest I ever saw. And 1 am sure,' he continued, his dark eyes growing more thoughtful than the oc casion seemed to warrant, 'if I have spoil ed y6u, you have returned the compliment with interest, else I should have been mar ried before now. Twenty-eight, and nev er been engaged to a woman yet, for the very reason that in looking at my little sis's feet so much, my ideas of the beauty of uch articles have grown so perfect that I have never met any other lady who pleased me. I should be ashamed of you, Clifford, if I thought you spoke in earnest. You forget, do you, a lady's grace, beauty, goodness and intellect because her shoes are a trifle "larger than your sister Grace's?' 'Don't reprove me sis, for I philosophise upon the mother; I want a woman with heart, and soul, and intellect to love and be sensible; but if her head was full of thought and her heart full of affection, how can they be properly balanced? how, I ask, can they be spiritualized . unless the feet that uphold them are fashioned in theper feclness of lightness and grace?' .You had better enlarge upon your won derful theory, and give the world the ben efit of your scientific and philosophic ar guments" in three quarto volumes! said Grace with meek gravity, raising herhalf- -V 11 lKn till Via v-nii-lKfiil floch rf li O T OUUI ScX3il0 lllft - I1JC lllllllIIUI liatri large eyes met the half-comical,, half-serious look of her bachelor brother. 'It is so provoking! when I have absolutely the most charming friend in the world, whom 1 had selected for.you, and expected you to be grateful and delighted but, alas! her feet are positively large. Continuing your theory, though, I should suppose that it was - necessary 'they should be large to support the immense amount of sensibility, goodness and grace of her soul. . . What is her name?' " , "Madeline Mellen. .She lives in Phila delphia. She has spiritual eyes.' 'Hush, hush, I do not care about her eyes I shall not go to see her you need not pout, sis; you had no .right to be so beautiful yourself, and make me so particular.'- - i snau say notnzmrrnorc to you xnis ai ternoon, sir Bachelor,' murmured theyoung girl indignantly. ' ;-2 ' '.' Wherewith she nestled her flushed cheek closer to the pillow, .tossedfcack a .curl that had crept over to silence her lips, and shut her eyes determinedly, notwithstanding the slight quiver of the. light. lashes. - viimutu - t ens -smiled upon his sweet pet; and rising from the easy chair, paced slowly to and' fro through the luxurious parlor. v As his thoughts quickened so did his pace, till at length so absorbed was he in his new ideas, thai he" ran over an otto man, and, when -startled by the sound. Grace opened her sleepy, snowy, eyelids, j- ner elegant and dignified brother was Kissing- a rose in the tufted carpet, evidently a little astonished himself at the gallant feat. Has some charming shoe been pressing that flower?' asked the mischief, with a laugh so merry that it made Clifford blush at his own expense as he rose to his feet. 'Now, to punish you for laughing, I shall not tell you what I was thinking of when I stnmhled over that ottoman,' said he. 'Only just this in the evening train of cars I shall leave for Philadelphia, and you will not see me again very soon.' Why, Clifford, I shall be so lonely.' 'Perhaps, then, you will not tease me so much when I do return. We will see whether there is another foot in the world like my dear pet's. Good bye, dear.' Good-bye! Perhaps you are going to see Madeline Mellen,' said Grace, gaily, for she thought her brother was only tea- sniff her. Oh! Madeline Mellen! was the impa tient reply, 'but I am really going now, sis. You shall hear from me in a day or two,' and kissing her beautiful forehead, the fanciful bachelor hurried away on the project, the thought of which had caused him one stumble, and the realization of which might cause him another. CHAPTER II. In a shoe store, in a fashionable street in the city of Brotherly-Love, a clerk was leaning upon the counter, heedless of the lady-customers that thronged the establish ment. Many proud eye3 looked with sur prise at the refined and aristocratic air of the handsome clerk. But his earnest glance was bent upon a la dy who was passing on the opposite side of the street. There was an exceeding grace in her manner, as she glided quietly along, and as the gazer regarded her with intense interest, she crossea the way a few paces below, and in a moment entered the store. Have you fine French gaiters?' she in quired in a sweet voice, blushing unac countably at the earnest gaze of hwnhirk eyes unaccountably, for why should one accustomed to admiration, blush at the re gard of a clerk. The young man glanced at her hand it was exquisitely small, and handed a pair of number ones. The shoes were small enough, but her foot was rather peculiarly shaped, and they would not fit nicely. 4Did they make shoes at this establishment?' If she would have a pair of gaiters made, he would take the measure' and seating her in a furnished recess, she dis engaged her foot from its dainty slipper; and the young clerk kneeling with tape in hand, took its delicate dimensions' - Oh, yes! the handsome shoemaker, with the dark, peculiar eyes, and thoughtful, elegant air, in deferential manner, was kneeling before the young girl to 'take the measure of her foot! But as, interested and suprised by his faultless demeanor and earnest, intellectual face, the beautiful girl regarded him with wonder, he had much rather have whispered to her the burning secret of his heart while bending thus low ly before her. In the attitude of adoration, yet he dare not adore! It was not the ex quisite grace of that tiny foot no! no! he had remarked the sweet blush upon her cheek, and the deep, pure, spiritual light in her large grey eyes; and the mere shoe maker," as if he had been a-man of the world, and had moved all his' life in socie ty, studying its mind and motives, under stood the gifted and fair girl, and would have. his. laid his heart at her feet the lit tle feet that looked too sacred for him to touch". That would have been ridiculous, would it not? For the soulless admiration of exquisites, the formal affection of grave men, the deep love of gifted poets had been offered her and would not the words. m which the youug clerk might form his feel ings, have sounded strange. to her aristo cratic' ear? . Oh! the very height of first love! madness that would have been! So the shoemaker thought nothing, except to tell her that the shoes would be - finished the next day; but he thought all the more; and if I should say that thd radiant young, girl went out of the , shoe-store w'ith the most 'perfect image of manly .perfectness impressed indelibly upon; her heart, this would be quite a French story," would it not? but I do not say so, neither tempt you to draw the inference! ; '.. Busily the young shoemaker fashioned the tiny gaiters that were to be called for on the morrow. . "Though the; proprietor of the "establishment thought him more ap propriately'oceupied in the show rooms", yet he ivould make every inch r of those precious shoes.':, With every, stitch he. sewed in a burning thought, and if the soul of the maker could have any influence on the wearer, the dreamy young maiden with the pensive eyes would have ohly visions of love,' and ' poetry, and bea uty, "while those haunted shoes bound her slight feet. '' CHAPTER III. - . 1 don't t'w er much fUttcrrd bv o.nr reception, Madeline, mine,' said Grace Wells, the evening after her arrival on a visit to the pensive eyed friend she had selected for her runaway brother; 'here Clifford must start away and leave me to indulge some wild caprice, and now that I have come to you to be consoled for his absence, and 'perchance to find him, half this" evening you have been sitting with your eyes fixed on the floor, utterly re gardless of your poor deserted visiter.' Why, Grace have I? said theyoung girl with a blush, drawing a low seat to the feet of her friend and leaning her beau tiful head on her lap as she looked up in her face. ' ' , Grace's Hide white hand looked charm ing as she laid it amid those ebon masses of hair, sweeping over the pure forehead and heaving upon the young, poetical Madeline. That proud, particular brother would have had the heart-ache sadly, if he could have guessed how dovingly those young girls were sitting there, and he so far away. And if he had looked upon the bright spiritual face of his sister's friend that face so eloquent with its exceeding pureness and sweet smile the peerless forehead and the large, beaming pensive eyes that seemed to ask for tenderness and trust, the faintly-tinted, softly-dimpled cheek the rich, proud, tender lip, and, over all, the ineffable expression of the soul perhaps he would have forgotten what Grace told him about the foot, at least he would have been more surprised than you yet know a reason for. Grace, too, looked very beautiful, with her placidly pleasant face, that was gentle and faultless and a little mirthful her slight, elegant form, and her white arm ly ing carressingly amid Madeline's dark tresses. She was a year or two older than the fair girl at her feet, though she was not quite twenty. Will you tell me what made you so thoughtful, if I will not complain of your neglect?' she asked with a slight smile. Oh! I am sure you wrjuld laugh at me, Grace, I was thinking of of a shoemaker that I saw to-day.' " Grace did, indeed, laugh merrily. 'Really, my fair poetess, can your glow ing imagination conjure up no more ro mantic ideal than a shoemaker. You, my little fastidious onewho shrunk awav from stony dignitaries and curl your red lip at dandies, and shudder at fortune seekers yon, who talk about cultivated soul, refine ment blended with intellect, about the 'sta ture of a perfect man' have you descen ded to love at first sight and shoe-making? You must have a vivid fancy, my bright dreamer?' You are not in earnest, Grace; you are trying to fret me just as if I loved this shoemaker because I thought of him. I was wondering how one evidently so ele gantly, exceedingly refined, so handsome and so intelligent, should have been in such a station. It . caused me to reflect that perhaps there were those worthy of more than indifference and scorn out of this aristocratic circle, where I see so much to despise. Grace dear, don't you think there is?' . -.-i : ? Probably he was wealthy once,' was the reply, 4and has met his change of po sition with' a good grace. That is certain ly a great virtue. And I think it would be as great a virtue in you to win him away from his present situation, and place him here in this 6plendid home, which is so much better suited to his taste besides you know you are lonely with only grand ma and aunt Effie for companions.' Oh! I shall get angry with you Grace, if-you 'do not stop teasing me,' said the sweet girl, blushing "crimson. 'But I do think it is sad for him to be there among such companions as clerks.' Alas, my foolish brother,' sighed Grace to herself, ybu and Madeline are certainly lost to each other. I never wills. try - to brinj; about another match. How does he look? she added aloud; and then con tinued to herself, I wish I had not told him that story about her foot; but I wan ted him to love her : for- her , beautiful soul.' . ; - - -' .. '.) I am sure I cannot tell;' said Madeline, I only know- that he was singularly hand some and had such eyes as I never saw before- they were deep and changeable not blue, nor hazel, not black they were too eloquent to have' a color.' ; - 'Indeed!' was all Grace said as she fell into a musing : mood ' immediately. ' ; A thought had occurred to her that awakened an Interest in the young clerk ' as deep as her friend could have' wished. ' 'I shall go with you and see this prodigy to-morrow' she said at length, and, perhaps, we will have "a. romance yet,' such as we have some times dreamed Of. C . I 7 ; . The-next day the "two young, ladies cal led at the shoe store. ! Grace entered, sho pulled her veil down over her face. The clerk was there, and the gaiters were fin ished. A dainty delicate pair .were they, and fitttod those little feet to a nicety. As JVlmlclinc took out her purse to pny for the shoes, she asked her companion in a low vioce in Italian Is he not beautiful? Grace pretended not to hear, so as to make no reply; but a flash of mischief lighted up the face of the clerk, so bright and irresislable that the color on the spea ker's' cheek grew rosy and that color grew rosier still when he replied in the same language, with a slight bow Thanks, dear lady. Smiling at her own blunder, and quite confused, the young girl turned away, and, followed by her.fnend, crossed the side walk, and was in thejstreet; too much ab sorbed in he wonder and embarrassment, of hearing the terrified voice of Grace cal ling her back, of whom she was a few spa ces in advance. A span of frightened horses with a car riage attached were rushing directly to wards her. They were but a few leaps from the beautiful girl, when she heard the cries of many and the crushing of the ve hicle. Tu minor her head she beheld them leaping and rushing so near il seemed as j if she was already beneath the feet of the j terrified animals. She could not fly, but j stood suddenly slill with her hands clasped. Deaf, blind, and motionless with sudden terror, she heard nothing till alow, earnest voice uttered fervently 'Thank God!' Opening her eyes she met those deep ones of the s'ranger, and fainted in the strong arms which had grasped her from destruction. At this moment the carriage of the Mel lens came up, and stopped, as the ladies had directed the coachman to call for them there. The clerk lifted the insensible girl in, and also Grace, and then by invitation, entered himself, and the coachman drove towards home. So absorbed was he in his lovely charge that they had nearly arrived there before the stranger noticed who was in the car riage. I will not betray you,' he heard a low voice say, and for the first lime remember ed that he had seen his companion before. Why, Grace Wells, how came you here? I did not 'Hush!' she interrupted him, putting her small hand over his lips, I will keep your secret,' just then the long lashes of the swooning girl unclosed. The motion of the carriage had revived her, and though she was very week from fright yet she was able to sit up with the assistance of her friend Grace, and to thank her preserver with eloquent lips, and yet more eloquent eyes. When they were at length arrived, and the clerk had assisted Madeline to the door she looked pleading at Grace, who smiled encouragingly, and then asked her preser ver to come in. 'Not how,' he said, 'till you are rested, you must feel very weary Miss "here he paused. ' , 'Mellen,' murmured Madeline, and as she spoke the name, Grace glanced with a look of triumph at the stranger. '1 will call, Miss Mellen, when you have recovered from the fatigue, and bring with me the shoes which you lost in your terror,' said the clerk wPh a smile, and re tired. He did come that evening. The ladies were by chance alone. Never was -an eveninjx passed so happily between stran gers before. J?eside the intelligence, beau ty and refinement of, all - something would speak out in the glowing cheeks and timid eyes of the young. Madeline, and in the eloquent face of her preserver, that told a great deal more than their lips told. -:':- " ' . If he is a shoemaker, he is a true, noble man, murmured the sweet maiden as she nestled to sleep on the bosoni of Grace. "Oh! yes!' was the sleepy reply of tl that young girL And perhaps this story will be kind of French after all. CHAPTER IV. . Twilight was stealing into the back par lor of the Mellen ' mansion, " The" lair friends sat in an open window, watching the crimson tints melt away frgm the edge of the distant forest.- ; .' I 'This is a sweet evening to love and be loved,' said Grace pensively, looping the silk curtain still further back as uie. dark ness came up from the distance and drew near. .'. . : ; . , ' : . , While she spoke the door-bell rang,"and a voice was heard in the hall that made Madeline blush and "start. 'Good night for the present, taid Grace gaily, hurrying from the room" by one door, just as the visitor came in at the other. Come ' back, ' dear Grace,'- cried the young" girl, but Grace - did not come back, for she knew that the call was not in car nest. ; ' - ' ."- ' The visitor came and sat down in the window where Grace" had sat. He did not speak, not even to fay good evening; but looked into the drooping face or Mad eline with his earnest eyes. . Her heart throbbed tremaously beneath his glance, and while her own waseoncealed by those dark lashes she murmured in a low voice with an effort to subdue her embarrass ment Who is - there that will not be happy such a glorious night as this? There is one that is not happy,' was the earnest reply. 'Oh! to love to love with the whole soul a being like thee Mad eline so pure, so rare, and spiritual, and beautiful to thrill beneath your smile to listen to your words to look upon your loveliness to drink from the waters of your fresh 6pirit yet be kept by fate, by circumstances, by poverty, from" pleading for your love Oh! Madeline. Who thinks of gold where the heart is' was the almost whispered reply of the j'oung girl, while her lashes sunk still do er in her cheek. You do not cannot love mc, Made line?' Theeloqucnt eyes of the maiden were raised till the intenaeness of their full, lov ing light burned down into the heart of the lover. 'My Madeline! may I believe those eyes?' The young girl dare not reply. 'If I may believe them, deaicst if you do love me, let me kiss but once that young forehead, my Madeline.' The fair brow was bent to the touch of his quivering lips a bright tear fell upon his bosom as he folded her there. What was fate or fortune to'the communing spir its who sat there the kindred spirits the delicate high-bred heiress and the shoema ker who fashioned the shoes upon her dainty feet. Sweetly and tenderly their voices mur mured together, making rare music, the music of the heart. It was, indeed as f Grace had said, an evening to Jove and be loved. 'But will your friends, aunt Erlie, your guardian consent to your marrying one sa lowly as I?' asked the lover as the evening wore away. 'Alasl I fear not; they do not appreciate you as I do.' And if they will not then?' he asked earnestly. I will share -our portion, ni3'dear one, i even if 1 should bind shoes bv vour side:' t was the replv of the enthusiastic young creature, as her loving eyes laised upon his. Bless you Madeline, bless you for your truth and love, I am not worthy of you. I have a sister, a mother and a heme in another city. There I can bear you, and if there is splendor there is comfort, kind- ncss and overflowinof love'.' Then with you I would be happy.' I hat night (jrrace was sleeping soluy when Madaline stole to their chamber, but the happy yet trembling girl awaken ed her and sitting amid the curtains on the bed-side, she told with eloquent cheeks and hurried words the events of the even ing. 'Is it not right that I should wed him, when he is so gifted aud so good, even if my selfish aunt does object;' she inquired eagerly. 'I think you should by all means, was the energetic reply of theyoung confident which advice being disinterested, was of course entitled to respect- The next day or so Grace went home. CHAPTER V. urace nau been at home but a lew i weeks when one morning she said coax ingly to her mother Mamma,' may I give a party? Do you wish to verr much dear? ask ed the parent kindly. 'Yes, mamma, very much.' Then 'ou cori my love, certainly.' Oil! thank you, mamma,' and Grace kissed hef mother's cheek. - The night of the party came the rooms were magnificent the visitors brilliant, and Grace beautiful as a star. She seem ed unusually happy and a little more ex cited than her wont; she was usually so queenly and 'self-possessed in society. She was as restless and as brilliant as a caged bird, and glanced so much at the hall-doors, that her mother at length re marked it; and coming up, inquired who she was expecting that made her so un easy. Just as she was about to reply she heard a voice in the hall, that Caused her to leave the question unveplk-d to, an i ran away quite undignified A traveling carriage 100! before the illuminated o o ' mansion. We are are at iioiik, deares one--at home now,' said the young husband as "he lifted Madeline from the carrriaga.- . ' 'What do you men? 1 am bewilder ed,' murmured the bride, as' he lifted her in his arms and bore her into the hail, Avhere crying and laughing, and happy Grace ttoa to wrjeome bride. her brother s 'This is my sister, Madeline.Ornce wel come your friend, I hare Come home'oow to bs ag;ood boy, I shall not make any more shoes this year; I am resolved. But where is mother. ' Wait moment, Clifford, deaf, don't you see hoe gitated Madeline ist she must come to my : room and rest a moment and chabgo her dress, while I take the responsibility of telling; mam ma.' . Madeline did pout a little and declared she would go Lack to aunt Effie -but Grace kissed away the little frowns and smoothed the brides hair; and the gentle mother came in and folded her to her heart much kinder than her cross aunt, thai she concluded to stay. Was not the parties in raptures with the beautiful young bride? 'I believe I did make that match, after all, said Grace to herself, though with what reason no one knew. . Mrs. Clifford. Wells always Vepta pair of half worn gaiters put carefully away in htr cabinet or curicsltias. And when Grace was scclded fcr'tha falsehood sho told about the feet of her, friend, she always said she meant they were 'positively' large, comparatively to what they were when she was a baby; though to be sure they were superlatively small for a full grown woman. KTracfcen's Experience. Tell us about the fight Jo.' Why you see, boys, it was one "of the tightest places I was ever in JaCK, give us a light, will you? I never seed pre zactly as many men around one poor fel low afore; an' I wouldn't cared much then if it had been in a place whar I Knowed the ropes; but I never had see Louisrillo afore that: but some how, I thought cf I was to get into a fight, I'd show soma of them chaps that M'CracKen could put in some right tall 1;cks. So I taxes off my homespun, rolls up my sleeves, when nil at once suthin strucK me. 'Who was it?' 'Who? I'd noticed a tall fallow on th outside of the crowd, picK up a focK but it wasn't him. for he threw it down again another fellow, a Major something, he'd an eternal big hicKory sticir in his fist, and-,! Was it theMajorJ' No, I'don't believe it was, as be walncd away before the SKurmag commenced: and I didn't see him any more; besides ho did'nt Iook Uku a man what would mal. treat a stranger; but as was saying suthin i strucK me.' Wherabputs did it hit you Jo.' 'On the head. As I was saying, Iliad Ijut got myself peeled, and had sort o singled out a pop eyed loo&fng feller , jost afore me, and was thiiiAin' to my :. sen your my mi'.t, sure, ' siruec me,' when suthin' Did it A-nocA: you down? 'Hold cn fellers, don't be in such a squmticn no, it didn't AuocA- me down; but Sort 'o staggered you. 'No caut say it did much, but as I was sayin the pop-eyed feller IooAed as ef he thought he was about to catch ths orfullest cowhollepin he'd ever seed in his born days; and I'd jest doubled up theso perlater grabbers calculatin' to plant cno on 'em on the lip of his ncse, nnd An or k both his eyes bacAr inter their nateral po sition, when as I said before suthin' strucA me. Was it the pop-eyed feller?' No Sir-ee! I Accw from his build I was a quicAer motioned man than ht was and I had jest sort o sot my upper lip stiff, and drawed in a Icng breath, when suthin' strucA me. J fell what teas it?' Why an idear, that I'd better be tnaA iu' tracA-s from them diggins fast; if you'd only been about thar that inornin youi seed old M'CracAen a inaAin the fastest time fur two miles and a leetle better, as ever was made in Jefferson! Whoop! aud ef you've got any mere of that bald face, pour it cut.' A Prescription. Some years since, as old Doctor G. was returning to his resi dence in Worcester, fro:u a fire which had broken cut in a neighboring far mer's barn, he was accosted, rather un ceremoniously,' by a cocknej- of the first water, and withal, a journeyman txlor. thi us: ... f Doclnh, how far have the good citiz-ns ! of Worcester succeeded in extinguishing j the luminary that is consuming the poor yeoman s barn. Wi'h an expression that struck terror to the soul cf tie dandy the Doctor re plied: - . ... r - .Yminfman vou had better taice a dose of physic!' 0No fewer than'twenty thousand Aus trian soldiers are said to bare perished 4 in Hunr"rv from m