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'Madge felt certailn that a harsher woa'd than fogey was iln his mind" (though he managed to restrain it; and fogey was had enough. A girl who is thoroughly in love with a man considâ€" erably her swim can laugh at the sur- prise of her friends; twth when she is not quite sure that he is the one man! Stu 'tlhle Wbrld for her. when she has been carried away by the novelty at “mains. and by {the knowledge that a. man who has been all round the world and has tried all life's flavors for fiveâ€" azndâ€"fon‘ty years, seeks as tlhe best gift it; am give him her umtutm‘ed selfâ€"when vanity has dictated her acceptance meme than lava, she is apt to resent General naval experts are testing the reiterated her assurance that. she could never accept him; but slu: liked h'un ' t well enough to have wounding 'm, and in order thch she might not; seem to be doing so without cause, she. at last explaimad that she, was engagâ€" edâ€"prwalely, not even her {arlihckr knew of itâ€"to Captain Lewis b‘rere. At this y‘aimt the rejected suitor's duty was clearly to bow to the hand of destiiny and retire from tihie mmi‘eist with as much dignity as he coqu muster. ’I‘h/is, which he ought to have done was exactly what Philip did not do. He looked aghast, shocked, ilndiginant, and ejaculated almost umcomsciuously; "Euâ€" gagpq to jhat oldâ€"Iogeyl” There was considerable excuse for Lhe indignation she was now showing. Dr. Sewell had the habit of candiolur, and {hie had been indulging in it to the full, uinder circumstances when reticence would have been especially advisable. He had just asked Miss Rentun to mar- ry him; and his requmt beimig refused 'h'e had demanded the reason] Oif her ne- gative reply, and begged her to rec-ion- sidfr it. “At. first Miang ihLl-d merely The girl saL making herself in a. light carnechuir as if trying by the mo- tiiom 'fo keep some mwaafd vexation from finding vent in wards. A faint flush stained he; usually pale cheeks, and her tawny eyes loolked darker wiruh anger. Miss Jammy Birch who had been [known to describe Madge as "a redshalredg whiteâ€"Wed thing,” had never seen her look so beautiful; for it was Miss Rem,- lto'n's wont to go about we world raâ€" ltlher coldly, except when love or [My of anger rolused her soul and her feaâ€" tures to some exc‘iltemecn't. came to Pictom, two years before the day when: Dr. Sewellâ€"a later arrival stillâ€"lost his temper wiLh Madge Ran- t‘xm_a.fter having already lost his heart. He had been in: the army before he came to Australia" and had been in- valided after the Crimean] W'an which; ext once, made him something of a hero. 'He was, moreover, a distant cousin of a. peer who "had once been Governor of Victoria; and it was to this connection tlhnt he owed his presemt appointment, given him when his health seemed so Shattered as to make acti’ve service im- possible. The Australian: climate had restored him to strength, and if one migrhrt judge from expreéo'mn as well 3% looks. to more [hope and energy than he figmeu capable (hf when he Madge Benton, txhe vicar’s daughter, was not the belle of Pictotn; that pre- eminence was claimed by Jenny Birch, the iunkeeper's only ehzildU who had golden hair, and a pink and white comâ€" plexion), and three times as many new gowns as Miss Remit-0n" But tastes dit- far. and though the mitners from up the country and the occasional travelâ€" lem who for any reason. or none, stopâ€" ped at Pictorna all admin-ed Miss Biruh, Dr. Philip Sewell did (not think her Worth looking at when Madge was by. [He Would have been well content to have had this eccentric taste all to himâ€" self; but unfortunately, it was shared by another member of the small comâ€" munity, and that the most important one in it. The Law by common con- sent ranks above Medicine in our social organizationâ€"the newspaper which spoke at "the value of life alnd the sac- redhess nit property" only echoed the public sentiment which has fixed the respective status of the professionsâ€"and tlhough the Church is supposed to rank above elldner, it is to be feared that the lawyer. above all when he is mag- lstratens well, bullks more largely in popular esteem them the parson. At least that was the case in Fiction, where Captain Frere, the "police mag- istrate," was decidedly the greatest man in the place. 'error to EviluDoers C(HiAPTER I. TERROR T0 EVIL-DOERS. in a new country as odd 0mg, he was doing patiernls paid their fees d sheep and grain as of the realm. Yet he The last occasion on which anybody attempted to injure Her Majesty was two days after the thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of \V'ales, when a. youn man named Au-thur O‘Connor approa" ed Her Majesty‘s carriage in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace and threatened the Queen with a (pis- tol. John Brown, who was: then Her Majesty’s closest personal attendant, seized the youth, and took the revolver from him which was found to be un- loadeé. 1n the following year, Lieutenant Pate committed another outrage. but he had no murderous intent. Just as Her Majesty was Leaving Cambridge House Pate struck her over the face with a. cane, and, like Hamilton, was sentenced to transportation for seven Ye‘gsv , Again, in May, on the 19th, in the year 1849, and a. third time on C-‘on~ slitution Hill, \Villiam. Hamilton fired. at Her Majesty. He, however, was only sentenced to transportation for seven years ifor this act. ' . that Mir. Remtom was nervous in his presence; bwt he perceived, and confid- ed to himselfâ€"having no other confid- a/nt whom he could trust with a. disparâ€" aging judgment of Miss Renton‘s fa- therâ€"that the vicar almost cringed to Captain Frere; mud at this moment he glared at his irnoffemding pastor" being suddenly struck whhh the idea that he had forced his daughter to accept the capkaim. Attempts Which lluw [EH-n Made to Assas- slume uvr Majesty. Since she has been on the throne; Queen Victoria. has had several nar- row escapes from assassins. The first attempt on her life was made by Edâ€" 'M’ard Oxford on June 10, 1840. He dis- charged. a pistol at H-er bfajesty when she was going up Constitution Hill. The man was quite mud, and after be- ing captured was sent to Bedlam and themae to Dartmoor, where, after 35 years, he was transported to Australia, where he set up in business as a house painter » Nearly two years later, on May 30, 1842, and almost in the same place, John Francis tired at the Queen, HR was senhenoed to death. for this act, but was afterward reprieved and was transported to Tasmania. The third atteuwt was made on July 3 by a, deformed youth named John \Villiam Bean, but his pistol missedi fire. He was imprisoned for 18 months in Newgute. 7 I THE QUEEN’S NARROW ESCAPES‘ . She was about to combat this opin- 1011, which would probably have re- §u.lted in a new development of the 01‘- ‘I-gmal quarrel between them, when her ifa'hher appeared. The Rev. Mr. Rentâ€" on was am anxiousr-looiking man, Who seemed to feel how little his Oxford iraimi-ng was adapted to VhfiB Austrar- liu'n environment. He had come to the amtipodes first becaluse his health was weak; and when the pure seift air had healed his feeble lungs. he begatn to look for some spihreve of work fin the newlaxnd. [t was in the purest mission- ary spirit that he had mime to Pimtoin ten years before; and iii; was in a mis- sirornary spirit sublimed to a forlorn- hnope that he clung to his post in spite of the bitter consciousness of failure A few, the more aristocratic portion 9f the Pictoln Wumity, came to has church; but the majority of those who cared for religious exercises at allwent to the chapel. Thiis ooinscio-usmess of failure in his life-work gave the parsocn an apologetic air, even before tihose who, like pr. Sewell, ‘Vvererlovyal members of "Dr. Semen how dare you speak 1‘11 such a fashion I" . "I beg you: pal-dun; I am very 9‘91?“ id. I know I have no right .to onuâ€" czise your choice. I am madâ€"3ea_lous, I suppose. But when a man has hxs best hope taken away from him, he"â€" The words ceased, a certain: husky £96.1an that had been in Philip’s throat, slpce the moment Madge said “No” havmg suddenly became so marked as to pre- vent articulation. vevn-t articulation. The girl grew softer when) she saw hmv moved he was. "1 am yeiry sorry: Philip, very sorry,” she sand gently, "but you see 1 am not free, an 5’0.“ mm find somebody else, who wul sunt you better.” H "Never!" he exclaimed stout'ly. Even a boy may know his own mmd, when he is a boy of twentyâ€"six, and I know !that I shall never leave amy one but mlnsideratiom for me. 1 am quhte Pre' pared to admit thlat very young men don’t apprecith tihe qualxtnes of those who have more experience than them- selves; but women, foa'turnately, are £11“ ferant,” said Miss Madge, who had J95; passed her nineteenth birthdaY. “at a grand ai'r. . ‘ "I hope they are! That is, I hope Y0“ agre i{n love with this fellow, Ere”: very deeply any insinuation that, after all1 her prlze is not so very well worth “rimming. She must prove that it is a. [pearl of price; sihe requires to oonvimce [herself of it as much as any acne else; and she is very indignant when anoth- er gives utterance to the doubt that has been lurking half-suspeomed in her her own mind. ' V r flock ‘36", , IUmy’re not? said Philip b111th xceptâ€"that isâ€"except whenâ€"- (To Be Odntjtnued.) Phile did 'not indeed see ed gt rowm men!" as if he began to doubt, and I was puzzled myself. Surely we were rtoo close to the brig, now, I thought, and yet we seemed to have taken the right track, too. I stooped over the side, and gazed into the glassy depths and even as I did so a shadow seemed to rise from the bottom. I grasped the gun- wale and stared into the water. Yes; there it was again. The same shapeâ€" less, yet suggestive, rock I had look- ed at from the brigâ€"the same. "Stop rowing l” I shouted. "BackJ‘water, The idea spem a. good one, and in less than five minutes we were in the boat, two sailors rowing, and the mute and Tom {peering over the gun‘wale on each side, while I did my best to direct the men as I. sat in the stern. We rowed some little distanpe, amd then I bade them turn and come back, but as yet we had. seen nothing. I could seejhg m‘ate glaoncq up once or twice “Look here, sir," he said, coming up to me, "do ye think ye would pilot us somewhere near the spot? Mr. Madiâ€" son tells me ye saw it from the deck, and. 1 should feel more easy in my mind if I could feel sure as there were no puisngke afore ye went down.” \Cl‘en minutes later, 1 went; on deck ready to lope it again, and tire moment. I looked at the men 1 could see that Tom had been as good as his word. There was more curiosity than ever in the glances thay cast at me, but there was a. look of suppressed eager- ness about the mate‘s Lace that conâ€" vinced me he would forward my enterâ€" prise by every means in his power. “Look here, sin" 71w said, coming up “0â€"11,” I said, "of course, we’ll all share, Tom. There’ll be something for everybody if we‘ gun opce get it up.” m, "The skipper would, sure enough," said Tom, with a. laugh, “ quL 1 can manage the others \vlnle he’s gone ashore. 1’11 g0 and talk to the mute now while you get into the Logs again. 1'“ have Lo offer him. a. share, though, I awesat-‘j ,I jumped up and gripped Tom by the hand, as l exclaimed, "That’s what, I say, but how are we going to man- 'ge” it? "l‘hey’ll try to stqp me goâ€" “You‘re dead sure there was no mis- take, Hall,” be said, "it was coin you saw trickling into the. water?” “Sure!” L ejaculated. with contempt. “Should I want to go back again for fun, do you suppose? "Well," he said, after thinking for half a minute, “there‘s only one way that I. can think ofâ€"you’ll have to go down again. l’d go myself in a. Imr ment, old man, but the chances are 1 shouldn’t find. it." - ' V 3) mg.” Tom‘s fame looked puzzled, as if he hardly knew what to think, but there was no hesitation about the captain’s jolly visage as he exclaimed, “Not you, my hearty. That thundering devil- fish has got into yer head, but ye’ll be all right when ye‘VJe had an hour or two‘s snooze.” ' I puit my hand. on ’Dom’s shoulder, "Come on below, old man," I said. “and I‘ll tell you all about it.” The skipper nodded to Madison "'l‘hat’s tatxin’, now,” he said. "Get him to lie down [or a bit, till he gets over it, Mr. Madison, 1 should like to hear about it myself, only I’ve got to go ashore again now. Keep the yarn till 1 come back, Air. H‘all, ye‘ll tell it all the better for a sleep.” . “Now, what‘s to be done,, Madi- son,” I asked, as we sat half an hour later on opposite sides of the table in the little saloon of the br'ng. . I had told the story to ’i‘om just as it had happened, and he had sat and followed it 'word by word without ever taking his eyes off my face till I had finished. Now he looked at me for a moment, or two, as if he was going over it in his mindrâ€"then he spoke with a sor§_0f_gas,p. 7 "The devil, you werel" exclaimed Tom, in a. startled tone. ‘ "\Look here, Tom," I said, as I pro- ceeded to get up, "if it hadn‘t been for that brute of a. fish, I'd have brought gold enough on board with me to convince all hands, and as it is In): going back to get it." “No, Born isn’t Communicative, and it was just about all he could do to speak at all by the time hegot you up. But where do you think you were?" said Tom, with a little more curiosity in his eyes. "within a couple sure.” found Tom‘ GHJAJPVIXER IV. It was a. curious sensation, and a minute or twu passed before I could realize what had happened. Even that ghastly looking object. with its livid arms and mangled, shapeless body and head that now Lay limp and flaccid on the deck, seemed for the moment hard- ly more substantial than a. dream. A!- ber a. few moments I (put out my hand and touched it, and with the touch it all came back to me. "But the gold, Tom,” I exclaimed. eagerly, looking into Madison‘s lace; "surely the native brought up some of the gold with him.” Tom smiled and glanced at the captain, and the captain shook his head. “In the hold of the Spanish galâ€" leon, to {be sure,” I said, promptly. "within a couple of feet of the trear "But eagerly, "surely the gold Tom n A Treasme Ship. Did the [fig :gger tell you Where he [I asked, looking at it from the; deck, more easy In my sure as there were went down." exclaimed, iison‘s lace; Ilf'was aécidgn'tal. ] a lot of other gossip Miss S‘ha'mley, ‘ would say nothfinv \Vhy have you bn Mrs. Grumpyâ€"Jth makes you think that the cook will break her mar- riage engagement with the policeman? Mir. Grumpyâ€"Because the bills show that she is breaking everything she can get new. - :utervening fields had been traversed and the fences torn down, and Tom ran up the steps of the gallows with his hat in his hand. He made a. speech declaring his father, Taylor Delk, inâ€" nooent oi the crime of killing Sheriff Gwyn, for which both father and son have been sentenced three times to death. Tom helped Sheriff IVIillner to adjust the noose and shook hands with everybody within reach. The crowd was~ half crazy with excitement, when the trap was Sprung, and no effort was made to preserve the order. The drop fell at 2.06. and at 2.26 o'clock the physicians pronounced Torn dead. 'l‘oln Delk Executed Before (6.000 Persons In an 0va: Field al Zebulon. (in. Tom Delk, the Georgia outlaw, was hanged at Zedulon, Georgia, on Friday afternoon. He was marched from his cell to an open field and died in view of fully 6,000 people. On the way to the gallows Tom bowed to the men and smiled as he took his but off to the women. He was in good humor and said. as he looked at the throng: H like it was election. day, don’t Fully half an hour was taken up in the journey to the scaffold, the crowds plgckimg’thejvpy. but finally all the it? at the time. I was, however, the hero of the rparty without a. rival from that day forward, and I confess the Lposition was a. pleasant one, as I lay on an extemporized couch under an awning sail, and watched bug after bag of yelâ€" low gold deposited on the desk beside me as it was hoisted out of the hold of the Spanish galleon, where it had been guarded so long and so well by the great devil-fish of Lllolo Bay. AS I had anticipated, the evidence of the gold was irresistible, and even the skqppzer was ready to confess that there might be a cage in which an amateur descent 'was worth the risk inâ€" volved. “'8. moved the brig to the spot, and the task of getting up the treasure proved less laborious than might have been expected. For my own part, Ididn’t go down again. Now that the excitement was at an end I found that the strain had told upon me more than I had any idea of at the time. I was, however, the hero hand, and nodded. Then I let go. \V'e had judged our distance well, for when I felt my feet bomb this bottom, and. looked around, I found than; I was standing once more on the sloping deck of the Spanish galleon. A ste or two, and I7 had reached the edge 0 the hold, and then I paused. A strong shudder ran through me as I looked into the darker depths below, and for a mo- ment 1 hesitated. Then I looked up- wards, and there, surrounded by a halo of coloured light, I saw the boat floatâ€" ing motionless overhead. I could fancy I saw faces peering down at me through the water, and I felt that I was not alone. In another moment I had drop- THOUSANDS SEE A HANGING. MERELY AN ACCIDENT SflWASflER (The end.) you arb amt ssured me you rut that matter. your word? dxop-ped it with which a correcmd and highly magni- fied View of anything at a distance may be selen either at the sides of or over the obstruction, even when the looken is looking through the glasses directly at the obstruction. The new opera. glass attains its object by an arrangeâ€" ment of telesrnpiic lenses in two arms six or eight inches long, which bring a. reflection of the object aimed at M a, point in front of the eyes. THE THEATRE HAT. LArt last the theatre hat is about to be "circumwented," as Sam W!eller would have said. A‘» Ldndon Optician has invented a stetmotelescqpe {which enables a person To see a. performance on the stage, no matter if a woman wearing an Eiffel tower, with acascade of lace, two or three waterfalls of rib- bon, and a whole ornithological and floral exhibition on it, does occupy the’ seat in front of him. The instrument is a. form of binocular, by means of Ghl' \v‘hl tie. 1n that first asserted their independence of Austria. Spain, Latin Hispanla, comes from the Phoenician spahan, a. rabbit, the country in early times abound'mg in these animals. Portugal is derived by some from Portus Cale. the ancient name of Oporto ; others find im the word portue Galilee, the gateway of Gaul. Italy comes eiit‘her from Ita- lus, an early trilbal chief of the counâ€" try, or from; the Greek i‘talos, a youlng bullock. The Greeks mlled theilr counâ€" try H‘ellae, nun-d themselves Hellenes. but the Romaine! named the land from the Graecid, a tribe of Epirujs. Turkey meainzs tributary people; Per- sia, the land of brightness; Arabia. the district of the desertâ€"mam; Hindustan, fixed dwelliIn-g place; Siam, dark land. from the colon of the so'nl, and Ceylon, lions. pran is a corruption of Zip- engu. the name of the country as giver! by Marco Polo; the Venetian traveller, who visited it in the thirteenth cen- tuélly' r A . ' The name Germany is of uncertain origin. B|y some it is smpposed to be derived from Dsc-hermamia, the name qt 3 reginrn in central Asia. The Germam a tribe whose mama means "followers of Buddha," lived in Persia. in the days of Herodotus) Switzerland, gets Its name from Schvwei‘z; the name of THE THREE C-ANTON‘S What make am emperiem-e Because he i 1nd artistic 1 Austria. is Oesterreich, the Eastern Empire. Prussia is the Hand of th Borussi. and Russia is the country the Russ, aSwvedish tribe that over- ran g; part of the, land and founded the eTI’l'Rll‘e at Noggorod. The derivation of Egg p-t is unknown. Morocco is the territory of the Moors, urnd Barbary that of the Barbers. Sm»- (lawn means the district of the blacks. "The Desert of Sahara" is a needless repetition. for Sahara means desert. Gibraltar is "the mountain of Tarif," who, with a Saracen army, built 3. cas- tLe on the! 1103’; in the eighth century. in South flfrira. Transvaal is the :manry beyond the \"aai River, and Natal owes its name to the fact that it was discovered on Christmas, the dies i-nmlis of Christ. equator; Argentine. silver; chill, the lamd of snow; Patagonia, the land 05 big test. amd Paraguay, THE RIVER OF WATERS. Omly men from bleak northern latiu tmles could have named Greenland and The Labrador, the last meam'mg land the. might be mnltivaied. ' The origin of the name Canada. is unknown. Mexico comes from nexitl. the Aztec war god. Hb'ndums means deep water; Costa Rica, rich coast. and Nicaragua, sweet water. Venezuela, meaming little Venice, was so named Everybody knows the axilg‘in of the name Amerlna, but not so many are aware that Europe means broadface in Greek; that Asia is the land. of the dawn, and that Africa. comes from a. Phoenician word meaning a. black mat, amd is literally "the land of the blacks.” The Latin word austraiis, southern, Silves a name to Ankh-Mia, Thle anci- ents knew only the lands around the Mbditerranean, and for this reason conâ€" sidered that sea "in the middle of the world." The Adriatic: is named from the. city of IAdria, the. black town, which was so called because ilt. was built up on the black soil brought down by the was so called because ht. w the black soil brought Rirver Po. ' Meaning of Some Which Are Most Com- monly Known. \VELI NAMES 0F COUNTRIES. of meeting 5 you thimk (in d fisherman? g one of the mo Lars I have eve JD desertâ€"mmn; Hindustan, place; Siam, dark land, of the soil, and Ceylon, is a corruption of Zip- of the country as giver! the Venetian traveller, in the. thirteenth cen- QU A'LIF IED it, does occupy the’ . The instrument ar, by means of mi highly magni~ : at a. distance may loothiy is ~nafigvnja) xvi; tno