Bringing Them To Time

Ihere i;no foohshness aboutsome of the tatuers of Dubuque county, Iowa, who have marnageable daughters, and iluy know how to precipítate business when the fruit is npe for plucking, and baDgswa(i.iL' lts sweetness, when it should bc plueked Matters were brought to a climax with a rush at a certain farmer' s residence in Vernon township, recently. A young tiüer of the soil had for mnnths been paying most as-siduous attentioas to one of bis dauKhtw but he wa? such a bashful, modest chap,' never having been much n the companyof girls, except thi.s „ne, that he had never been able to raise Lis courage suffioiently Mith to pop the question. He i had gone to the houe in wliich the lady lived at least on twenty diffreot occasions resolved to know his fa te, but when ushered into tho presence of the fair one, in whose kecping he had placed his heart, bis courage would invariably "go back on him," and he would return to his lonely room in greater suspense than before. Upon the evemng id question he had determined that come what would, he would teil his Mary that he loved her. Ie would, onco fpr all decide the matter, but, as upon each Ibrmer occasion, he could not fret the proposal further that his throat. There it stuck and he determined to gulp it down and eivè up the seige, when tho door oponed and in walked the girl's father, who advanced to where thcy were sitting and thus addressed tnem : vv ,„., uu pui siop to this foolishness. It ain t courtio' ejtpeusea tbat I'm looking at for coa] oil i cW and wood ca b? hJ ior tbe haolm', but I'm slok and tired of this billiu' and cooin' iike a pair of sick doves, keopin' me awake of mghts, and lts pot tobe stopped riht here. ntry h!mVho Htíliry wel1 eaouh t0 " Wby father, I- I- you muKt" btopthat sillyfoolishin1," yelled the oíd man. Answer, yes, or no, and be quick, loo. It s got to be settletl now or never. "nVe'hbu-t' ""'..JoQ-t j-ou know-if you 11 only wait, and- ' " Dry up ; answer yes or no. Speak ! " roared the old gent. "Weli.then yea! There, now," and Mary again hid her (ace. " Tbat's business ; that's the way to talk. INow, John, look here- look up here, or III shake you all to pieces. Do you want that gal o niioe lor a wife. Speak out Iike a " Why Mr. , ain't this rather a -I meao can t you - " "Speak it out, or out of this house, you 11 go, hcad foreuiost. I won't wait á minute Jonger. There's the gal, and there ain t ahkelier gal in the tuto, an' you iust heard her say that she wanted you. Now lohn I won't stand a bit of fojlin'. Oncê lur all, yes or no ? " " Well, yes, sir. I have been uresumntuous enough to hope that I-" settled now. You two fool.s would huve been six months more at the job that I have done in five minutes. I never saw tuoh ioohn as there is among people nowadays Ain t Iiko when I was young-nn' now, goodmght. 1 ou can talk the thiog over an youan me, John, '11 go upto townaud get the license to morrow. Soon be tima to get to plowin' ; no time for lovo-makio' then. Good niht, good-night; r hope I wasn t too rough, but I was determined to hi the thing one way or t'other," and the old man went back to bed. Now that the ice was broken the youne people laid all their plans for the future and John feit just a little bad at the comfort ne had lost, when Mary looked up to hiiu o shyly, and paid : "This would have been all right months ago, John, ïf you hadn't been so skeery. I knowed all the tiuie that you wanted to a-k me, but it was not my place to say auythimr you know."