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THE VILLAGE PKIZE. A TALE OF WASI1INUTON. In one of the loveliest villages in Virginia there lived in the year 175 , mi old man, whose daughter was declared by universal consent, to be the loveliest maiden in all the country round. The veteran, in his youth, had been athletic and muscular above all his fellows; and his breabt, where he always wore them, could show the adornment of three medals, received for his victories in gymnastic feats when a young man. His daughter was now eighteen, and had been ."ought in marriage by many suitors. One brought wealth another line person another this, and another that. But they were all refused by the old man, who became at last, a by-word for his obstinacy, among the young men of llie village and neighborhood. At length the nineteenth birth-day of Annette, his charming daughter, who was as amiable and modest as she was beautiful, arrived. The morning of that day her father inviied all the youth of the country to a hay-making frolic;. Seventeen handsome and industrious young men assembled. They came not only to make hay, but also lo make love to the fair Annette. In three hours they had filled the father's barns with the newly dried grass, and their own hearts with love.

Annette, by her father's command, had brought the malt liquor of her own brewing, which she presented to each enamored swain with her own fair hands. " Now, ray boys," said the old keeper of the jewel they all coveted, as leaning on their pitchforks, they all assembled round the door in the cool of the evening, "now my lads, you have, nearly all of vou made proposals for my Annette Now, you see, I don't care anything about mon ey or talents, book-laming nor soldier-larning. I can do as well by my gal as any man in the country. Hut I want her to marry a man of my own grit. Now, you know, or ought to know, when I was a youngster, I could beat anything in all Viiginny in the way o' U'aP'nS- I Sot m" old woman by beating the smartest man on the Eastern Shore, and 1 have took an oath, sworn it, that no man shall marry my daughter without jumping for it. You understand me, boys. There's the green, and here's Annette," he ad ded, taking his daughter, who stood timidly be-' bind bun, by the hand. "Now, the one who jumps the fnrlherest on a 'dead level,' shall marry Aflnette this very night." This unique address was received by the young men with applause. And many a youth of trial, cast a glance of anticipated victory back upon the lovely object of village chivalry. The maidens left their looms and quilting-frames, the children their noisy sports, the slaves their labors, and the old men their arm-chairs and pipes, to witness the success of the victor. All prophesied and wished that it would be young Carrol. lie was the handsomest and best humored youth in the country , and all knew that a strong mutual attachment existed between him and the fair An- j nette. Carroll had won the reputation of being the "best leaper," and In a country where such athletic achievements were the sine rjua mm of a man's cleverness, this was no ordinary honor. The arena allotted for this hymenial contest was a level space in front of the village inn, and near the centre of a grass-platt, reserved in the midst of the village, denominated the "green." The verdure was quite off at this place by previous exercises of a similar kind, and a hard surface of sand, more befitting for the purpose for for which it was to be used, supplied its place. The father of the lovely, blushing, and withall happy prize, (for she well knew who would win,) with three other patriarchal villagers were the judges appointed to decide upon the claims of the several competitors. The last lime Carroll tried his skill in this exercise, he "cleared," to use the leapers phraseology, twenty-one feet and one inch. The signal was given, and by lot the young men stepped into the arena. "Edward Grayson, seventeen feel," cried one of the judges. The youth had done his utmost. He was a pale intellectual student. But what had intellect to do in such an arena? Without a look at the maiden he left the ground. "Dick Boulden, nineteen feet!" Dick, with a laugh, turned away, and replaced his coat. "Harry Preston, nineteen feet and three inches. Well done, Harry Preston!" shouted the spectators. "You have tried hard for the acres and homestead." Harry also laughed, and swore he only jumped for the fun of the thing. Harry was a rattlebrain fellow, but never tho't of matrimony. He loved to walk and talk, and laugh and romp with Annette, but sober marriage never came into his head. He only jumped for the fun of the thing. He would not have said so, if he were sure of winning. 'f!liarlv Simms. fifteen feet and a half. Hur ra for Charley! Charley will win!" cried the crowd, good-humoredly. Charley Sims was the cleverest fellow in the world. His mother advised him to stay at home, and told him if he ever won a wife, she would fall in love with his good temper rather than his legs. Charley, however, made the tr al of the hitter's capabilities and lost. Many refused to enter Ihe list al together. Others made the trial, and only one of the leapers had yet cleared twenty feet. "Now," cried the villagers, "let's see Henry Carroll. He ought to beat this," and every one appeared, as they called to mind the mutual love of the last competitor and the sweet Annette, as if they heartily wished his success. Harry stepped to his post with a firm tread. His eyes glanced with confidence around upon the villagers, and rested before he bounded forward. UDon the face of Annette, as if to Slch therefrom, that spirit and assurance which the occasion called for. Returning the encouraging glance with which she met his own, with a proud smile upon his lip, he bounded forward. "Twenty-one feet and a half!" shouted the multitude, repealing the announcement of one of the judges, "twenty-one feet and a half Harry Carroll forever! Annette and Harry !" Hands, caps, and handkerchiefs waved over the heads of the spectators, and the eyes of the delighted Annette sparkled with joy. When Henry Carroll moved to his station to

strive for the prize, a tall, gentlemanly young man, in a military undress frock-coat, who had rode up to the iniii dismounted and joined the speclators, unperceived, while the contest was going on, stepped suddenly forward, and with an accustomed eye measured deliberately the space aeeoniplished'by the last leaper. He was a stranger in the village.- His handsome face nnd easy address attracted the eyes of the village maidens, and his manly f-iiu wy frame, to which symmetry and strength were happily united, called forth the admiration of the vounir men.

"Mayhap, sir stranger, you think you can beat that?" said one of Jie bv-slanders, remarking the manner in whieh the eve of the stranger scaned the arena. "If you can leap beyond Henry Carroll, you'll beat ilk! best man in the colonies." The truth of this observation was asserted to by a general murmur. . ( . "Is it for mere amusement you are pursuing this pastime?" inquired the youthful stranger, "or is there a prize for the winner?" "Annette, the loveliest and wealthiest of our village maidens, is to be the reward of the victor," cried one of the judges. Are the lists open to all "All, young sir!" replied the father of Annette, with interest, his youthful ardor rising as he surveyed the proportions of the straight limbed young stranger. "She is the bride of him who out-leaps Harry Carroll. If you wTH try you are free to do so. But let me tell you, Henry Carroll has no equal in Virginia. Here is my daughter, sir; look at her, and make your trial." The officer glanced upon the trembling maiden about to be olfered on the niter of her father's monomania, with an admiring eye. The poor girl looked at Harry, who stood near with a troubled brow and an angry eye, and then cast upon the new competitor an imploring glance. Placing his coat in the hands of one of the judges, he drew a sash he wore beneath it tighter round his waist, and taking the appointed stand, made apparently without effort, the bound that was to decide the happiness or misery of Henry and Annette. "Twenty-two feet and an inch!" shouted the judge. 1 The shout was repealed with surprise by the'spectators, who crowded around the victor, filling the air with congratulations, not unfningled, however, with loud murmurs from those who were more nearly interested in the happiness of the lovers. ' The bid man approached, and grasping his hand exultingly, called him his son, and said he felt prouder of him than if he were a prince. Physical activity and strength were the old leaper's true patents of nobility. Kesuminof his of)t.. the victor sought, with his eye, the fair prize he had, altlio' nameless and unknown, so fairly won. She leaned upon her father's arm, pale and distressed. Her lover stood aloof, gloomy and mortified, admiring the superiority of the stranger in an exercise in which he prided himself as unrivalled, while he hated him for his success. "Annette, my pretty prize," said the victor, taking her passive hand, "I have won you fairly.'.' Annette's cheeks became paler than marble; she trembled like an aspen leaf; and clung closer to her father, while the drooping eye sought the form of her lover. His brow grew dark at the stranger's language. "1 have won you, my pretty flower, to make you a bride tremble not so violently I mean not myself, however proud I ought to be," added he, with gallantry "to wear so fair a gem next to my heart. Perhaps," and he cast his eyes inquiringly, while the current of life leaped joyfully to her brow, nnd a murmur of surprise ran through the crowd, "perhaps there is some favored youth among the crowd who has a higher claim to this jewel. Young sir," he continued, turning to the surprised Henry, "methinks you were the victor in the list before me I strove not to win the maiden, though one could not well strive for a fairer but from love for the manly sport in which I saw you engaged. ; You are the victor, and as such, with the permission of this worthy assembly, you receive from my hand the prize you have so well and honorably won." The youth sprang forward and grasped his hand with gratitude, and the next moment Ann"tte was weeping for pure joy upon his shoulder. The welkin rung with the acclamation of the delighted villagers, and amid the temporary excitement produced by this act, the stranger withdrew from the crowd, mounted his horse and spurred him at a brisk trot through the village. That night Harry and Annette were married, and the health of the mysterious nnd noble hearted stranger was drank in overflowing bumpers of rustic beverage. In the process of time, there was born unto the married pair, sons and daughters, and Henry Carroll had become Col. Henry Carroll of the Revolutionary army. One evening, having just returned home after a hard campaign, he was sitting with his family on the gallary of his country-house, when an advance courier rode up and announced the ap proach of Gen. Washington and suit, informing him that he should crave bis hospitality for the night.. The necessary directions were given in reference to the household preparations, and Col. Carroll, oidering his horse, rode forward to meet and escort lo his house the distinguished guests, whom he had never yet seen, although serving in the same widely extended army. That evening, at the table, Annette, now become the dignified, matronly, and still handsome Mrs. Carroll, could not keep her eyes from the face of her illustrious visitor. Every moment or two she would steal a glance at his commanding features, and half-doubtedly, half-assuredly, shake her head and look again to be still more puzzled. Her absence of mind and embarrasment at length became evident to her husband, who inquired affectionately, if she were ill. "I suspect, Colonel," said the General, who had been some time, with a quiet, meaning smile, observing the lady's curious and puzzled survey ot lus features "that Mrs. Carroll thinks she recognizes in me an old acquaintance." And he

smiled with a mysterious air, as he gazed upon ! profligate youth often becomes the most absurd both alternately. I and drivelling devotee. Nature overworked and The Colonel started, and a faint memory of the j exhausted in one direction has to lie fallow and past seemed to be revived as he gazed, while the recuperate. Thus man oscillates between execslady rose impulsively from her chair, and bend- ( sive indulgence and excessive abstinence, between

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and nn eye of intense, eager inquiry, fixed full upon mm, stood tor a moment with her lips parted. s if she would speak.' I anion me, my dear madam, pardon me. Colonel, I must put an end lo this scene. 1 have become, by dint of camp fare and hard usae, too unwieldly to leap again twcnly-two feet and j one inch, even for so fair a bride as ono I wot of." The. recognition, with the surprise, delight and happiness that followed, are left to the imagination of the reader. General Washington was indeed the handsome young "leaper," whose mysterious appearance and disappearance in the native village of the lovers, is still traditionary whose claim to a substantial body of bona tide flesh and blood, was stoutly contested by the village story tellers, until the happy denouement which took place at the hospitable mansion of Colonel Henry Carroll. WHAT IS TEMPEEANCE. The manner in which the word "intemperance" has become exclusively appropriated to the abuse of spirituous liquors is perhaps an unhappy proof of the frequency and perniciousness of this class of violations of the law of health. But it is a sad corruption of terms that it should be thus altogether monopolized. To obtain a full and proper view of the case we must have a better understanding than is commonly possessed of what temperance is, the former term including every violation of the latter. Temperance really consists in so restraining all our propensities and impulses, whether of the body, the intellect or the affections, as not in any way to injure ourselves. Locke described man as at first a blank sheet of paper, on which, by education or habit, you may make any marks you please, by beginning early enough, marks wlucli can never be effaced. We would rather consider him as a bundle of impulses, tastes, passions, affections, and active propensities, all of whieh may be fostered or depressed by education or training above or below the normal type, but existing in all, though varying in degree. It is clear, then, that ihese various impulsions, may bo so gratified as to conflict with each other, and especially by some present over-indulgence cause a great deal more pain than pleasure to a man on the whole scale of his life, by depriving him of more valuable enjoyment; or these desires may be so barmoniously developed and indulged that each impulse complied with shall render a man only more capable of other and future enjoyment instead of less. This is temperance. For instance, a man in business may, in the earnest pursuit of his occupation, work so hard as to break down in live years, a constitution which with care would have lasted fifty; or he may so regulate his love of business, and temper it with exercise and domestic enjoyment, that he shall do just as much work as he is capable of performing, to preserve the recuperative energies of his nature. In this last case he is temperate as a man of business, and receives the reward of his virtue, that he is able to enjoy his labor, to perform it better and longer, and, to partake of a thousand other blessings of life also among his friends, or in the improvement of his mind. Of all these enjoyments he would have no conception, had he made himself the mere drudge of one pursuit so exclusively as to injure his health. . Or a man may be so fond of a thousand innocent amusements as not to devote the proper time and attention to the occupation whieh yields him daily bread. Business loses its charm and its impulsive force, the sense of pleasure in it is dried up, and he becomes intemperalely devoted to frivolous pursuits and abstinence from his business duties. The student also may, by uniting study, exercise, and fresh air? live long, and enjoy keenly the sense of daily acquisition of knowledge, and continue to grow mentally stronger to an extreme age; or, by excessive devotion to some one class of intellectual pursuits for a few years, he may shoot off like a rocket, splendidly, rise high at first, and seem at his perihelion as if about to illume the whole horizon or attain the dignity of a fixed star. But iust as this hope blazes out the lustre dies, light and h6pe expire, and the wornout empty case of that aspiring spirit drops powerless to mother earth. It is, however, a life of pleasure, so called, (as if all life rightly and temperately conducted were not a life of pleasure,) that affords the most melancholy illustration of intemperance, because, where mome'ntarily happiness and not duty is made the end of life, excesses of all kinds will so crowd excitements into one part of life as to clash with each other, and soon deprive existence of all enjoyment. A man may so eat, and drink, and sleep, and recreate, and go into society as to make his mind only clearer for the duties of all his succeeding days, preserve his health, his friends', his reputation, his relations to society, the approval of his own conscience, and his communion with his Maker. This is the temperate man. How few do this perfectly ! All have some besetting intem perances. It takes daily watchfulness, a strong resolution, and much experience of lite to keep them in subjection even by the best. Yet every deviation from this law is intemperance, and. what is more, it renders, as a matter ! of course, an opposite deviation almost inevitable. : He who is excessive in eating to'-day will be proportionably diminutive in work to-morrow. Ac- , tion and re-action belong as naturally to the moral as to the physical world. He who at one period ! of life falls into one extreme, at another often falls I into the opposite. j But no one class of derelictions from the straight path, has a right to monopolize exclusively the I term intemperance. Indeed we half suspect that it arises from the desire to make one that ten thousand more fashionable and common departures from the true laws of life are not intemperance, that men by common consent have so completely given it a one-sided application. The

over-exerlion and idleness, while but the tew walk in the m'uld!,; path of temperance. Philadelphia Daily Xtus. Hoops. The old English Fashion of Hooping Ladies of Fashion is now coming into vogue in the East, and will soon exi.-nd iiM If to Hou.-ier-dom. As the history of hoops may bo of interest to those ladies who will be most likelv lo

adopt the fashion, we copy the following from the New York Tribune, on that subject: The Merry dames of Elizabeth's Court, in a wild spirit of fun, adopted the fashion of hideously deforming farthingales lo ridicule the enormous trunk-hose worn bv gentlemen of that perioddetermined, if not successful in shamin" away the absurdily altogether, at least to haven preposterous contrivance of their own. The idea was full of woman's wit. But alas ! they were caught in their own snare; precious stones were prolusely displayed on the bodices and wkirts of brocade gowns, and vanity soon discovered that the stiff whalebone framework under ihe upper skirt formed an excellent show-case for family jewels. The passion for display thus oralitied, me lartningale at once became the' darlin of I lAni'l.nnellim,. i ,1 I i w w v., ,m ,ls ongimu shape continued m feminine favor till the reign of Queen Anne, when it underwent the modification lately revived for us, the Hoop. In vain did The Sj,cr(atur lash ,m.,u,u,Cuj mills -unnaiural (lisguisement; ' in vain did grossest caricatures appear and wits exuaust, men- invention in lampoons and current . I . . i epigrams; in vain even the publication of a grave pamphlet entitled "The Enormous Abomination of the Hoop-petticoat, as the fashion now is;" the mode, for once immutable, stands on the page of folly an enduring monument to feminine persistency. ' . Encouraged by the prolonged and undisputed sway of the farthingale, the hoop maintained an absolute supremacy through the three succeeding reigns, though often undergoing changes which only served to make it more and more ridiculous. The most ludicrous of these alterations were the triangular-shaped hoops, which, according to The Spectator, gave a lady afl the appearance of being in a go-cart and the 'pocket-hoops,' which looked like nothin" so much as panniers on the sides of a donkey we mean the quadruped. Quite a funny incident is related by Bulwer, about the wife of an English Embassador to Constantinople in the lime of James I. The lady, attended by her serving-women, all attired in enormous farthingales, waited upon the Sultana, who received them with ejery show of respect and hospiialil y. Soon, however, the woman's curiosity got the better of her courtesy, and expressing her great surprise at the monstrous development of their hips, she asked if it were possible that such could be the shape peculiar to the women of England. The English lady in reply hastened to assure her that their forms in no wise differed from those of the wo men of other countries, and carefully demonstrated to her Highness the construction of their dress, which alone bestowed the appearance so puzzling to her. There could scarcely be a more wholesome satire upon the absurd fashion than is conveyed in the simple recital of this, well-authenticated anecdote. It will be readily understood thai at the outset the English ladies had a plausible excuse for adopting this deformity; if they were betrayed into the permanent establishment of it by the .very pardonable inducement of a gratified vani'y, we may pity their weakness but can scarcely condemn; and in the proud reign of the hoops through a period of unsparing ridicule, we are quite forced to admire the unflinching tenacity with which they were adhered to, much as we may deplore the perverted taste which could at any time have consented to their introduction. But what excuse can be offered, what palliating circumstance advanced, to justify a revival of that abomination by the ladies of the nineteenth century not betrayed into its adoption on the score of novelty, but deliberately dragging it out from the dusty past with all the accumulated ridicule of ages clinging to its skirts? So far from affording the motive claimed by the ladies of the olden time, our Broadway beaux arc more tightly dressed than ever; it now becomes almost a necessity with them to procure a manifestation of existence below the waist by some trunk-hose contrivance, since their slender extremities are foolishly concealed under the spreading cloud of a companion's hoop. To see one of these unfortunates escorting a fair dame of fashionable dimensions on either arm himself en btiste, for the rest of the man is effectually suppressed is one of the most funny sights imaginable. A French paper gives an amusing account of a lady who went to a cathedral to "confess" in a hooped petticoat; of course it was necessary to enter the tiny confessional and prostrate herself before the iron grating between her and the priest. ' In vain did she make vigorous efforts at the door to compress her unyielding dress; it stoutly refused, swelling like an air-bed, in all sorts of ludicrous tumors, at every new endeavor; until scarlet with confusion, the lady turned and hastily made her escape unsluived, with a few additional sins of impatience, anger, and wounded vanity to enumerate on her return. This is only one instance in a thousand of daily occurrence, in which annoyance, mortification, and serious sacrifices of lady-like self-possession, to say nothing of modesty, arc experienced. Let ladies have the good sense, the good taste, to banish the blunder from their wardrobes. A Fact for Farmers. Every inch of rain that falls on a roof yields two barrels to every space ten feet square; and seventy-two barrels are yielded by the annual rain in this climate on a similar surface. A barn thirty by forty feet yields annually. 864 barrels; this is enough for more than two barrels a day for every day in the year. Many have, however, at least five times that amount of roofing on their dwellings and other buildings, yielding annually more than four thousand barrels of rain water or about twelve barrels or one hundred and fifty ordinary pails full daily. Gcr. Telegraph.