How It Was

The rieh old gentleman didn't want the poor young man to come to seo his diiughter, and he triod varioua plana to stop it without avail, because it happened that the daughter didn't tliiuk of the poor young man as the father did. Finally the hit on an apparent succeas and the young man got no further than the front door, saya the Detroit Free Press. This continuad until the gossips got hold of it, and one day one of them met the daug-hter on the streek "How are you and Fred getting alonj now?" she asked, after skirmishiny awhile. "Boautifully," smiled the girl. "Why, I thought your father wouldn't let him come to see you." "He wouldn't for awhile, but it's all nght now." How did you fix it?" "Well, you seo, papa told mo if I would refuse to see Fred when he called he would give me 10 every time. Fred had been only coming twice a week, but after I declined to see him, poor Fred got so worried and anxious that he carne every night. Of course, I wouldn't see him, and oí course papa had to put up ten every time. At the end of two weeks papa beg-an to crawfish on his proposition and I told Fred how it was, and then he began to come in the afternoons, and it wasn't any time until papa backed clear out, and we made a corapromise to-day by which Fred is to come whenever he pleases, but we are not to think of getting married for two years." "Then she tripped along merrily, and the g-ossip told everybodyol.se how it was, and so it got into the nowspapers.