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3‘. a I use. But between arms and ammuni- tion, which are clearly contraband, and dress-goods. which are not, there are many articles, such as coal, provisions, etc., which may or may: not be contra- lxand, according to the quantities sold ani the port to which they are des- tined. In this ccnliliau, it is the right of each belligerent to prescribe a list of articles. which it will treat. as centra- banl for the guidance of its own au« thorities. such list lzeing conclusive up- on neutral nations, however, only in the absence of any disregard of treaty engagements and of internationai law. When goods are seized on board a neu- tral vessel, the prize court of the cap- tors passes upon their character, and it (cant to be contraban'l they are con- fiscated. but if not. uni the seizure was unwarranted, they are restored, an! damages may be awarded against the cap-tors. With respect to the right of search, the warships of a belliger- ent may un'ler the laws of naval war- fare, stop and examine any neutral vessel on the high seas; or in the neu- tral waters of either belligerent, to ascertain its nationality and seek for contraband goo-:18. If the latter are found. the vessel may be taken under a. prize master to the ngares: port, the contrah,:n'i goozls condemned by a prize court, and confiscated, and the ship set free. If. on the other hand, the vessel’s papers are regular. and show the neutral character and destination of the cargo, the fact of the search is noted on them, and the ship ailowed to go on its 'way. As any resistance to the right .of search exposes a ship to confiscation. and its exercise must in the nature; of things prove a serious annoyance to neutral powers, the chances of complications with such powers sare many. It will. therefore. be the duty of the American Government toso direct its ( ruiser service as to make the war as little onerous as possible to other powers. Burning 1 mil Within" sailoikr and a “real mum; in ti'uiisumplimi. The Berlin correSpondent of the Lon- don Times has given some particulars of a new invention by one Carl Weg- ener, which has for its object the elim- ination of smoke from a furnace, ac- companied by a notable saving in the consummion of coal. This invention. we are told. is shortly to be brought before the British public in the form of the usual limited company. The suc- cess of the system depends upon feed- ing the furnace with powdered coal. instead of the “well-screened" lumps which have hitherto been regarded as the most advantageous form of such fuel. The coal-dust is fed into the fire from a container in front by means of a tube which terminates in a. revolving sieve. This sieve is kept in motion by the draught. and has the effect of scattering the fuel over the furnace in such a way that it is at once inflamed without smoke and with very little ash. Coal of comparatively low quality can be economically used in this powdered form. and the only drawback to the process seems to be the necessity for using a separate ma- chine for grinding of the coal to pow- der. On the other hand. the slack or dust which forms a necessary by- product of the coal industry will find here a field for employment which will he lush appreciated by owners of lb- eld merchants generally. ItbsCh'mele EDITORIAL NOTES. SEIOKELESS FIRE). i It was ahorseman riding towards i them as swiftly as the broken ground .would permit. A messenger from the 'army. thought Anerley; and then 38' he watched, the sun suddenly struck ithe man on the side of the head. and 'his chin flamed into gold. There could ; not be two horsemen with beards ot= such a. color. It was Merryweather. the engineer. and he was returning. | What on earth was be returning for? ; -He had been so keen to see the gen- eral. and yet he was coming back with his mission unaccomplished. “"218 It that his pony was hopelessly founder- . ed Z it seemed to be moving well. Anerâ€" 193’ picked up Mortimer’s binoculars. and a foam-spattered horse and awea- ry koorbash-cracking man came can- tering up the center of. the field. There L- A. l l l l l l l i l | l l 7 It was a 'broiling afternoon, and those thin frills of foam round the black glistening necks of the Nile bowl- der-s looked delightfully (-001 and al- luring. But it would not be safe to bathe for some hours in come. The air Shimmered and vibrated over the bak- ing Stmwh of sani and rock. There was not a breath of win 1, and the (iron- ing and piping of the insects inclined one for sleep. Somewhere above 11b00- p09 was calling. Ane'rley knocked out his ashes and was turning toward his couch, when his eye caught someihing [“0va in the desert to the. south. 'v--.-'D “r v-v â€"v was nothing in his appearance to ex- Dlain the mystery of his return. Then as he watched them they dip- ped down into a hollow and. disappear‘ ed. He could see that it was one of those narrow khors which led to the river, and he waited, glass in hand, for their immediate reappearance. But minute gassed after minute, and there was no sign of them. That narrow gully appeared to have swallowed them up. And then with a curious gulp and start he saw a little gray cloud wreathe itself slowly from among the rocks and drift in a long, hazy shred over the desert. In an instant he had torn Scott an'l Mortimer from their slumbers. "J ” And Renter not here!" cried the two veterans, exultantly clutching at their notebooks. “ Merryweather shot! Where '4 When? How!” . In a. few words Anerley explained what he had seen. “ You heard nothing 9” “ Nothing.” “ “fell, a shat loses itself very eas- ily among rocks. By George. look at the buzzards!” _ Two large brown birds were soaring in the deep blue heaven. As Scott spoke they circled down and dropped into the little khor. one for a commander. 'lhe other with his spectacles and his stern face soon had the servants in hand. “ Tali hennal Egri! \"hat the devil are you frightened about? Put the camels between the palm trunks. That's right. Now get the knee-tethers on them. Quies! Did you never hear. bul- lets before? Now put the donkeys here. Not muchâ€"you don’t get my polo-pony to make a zareba with. Pick- et the ponies between the grove and the river out of danger’s way. These fellows seem to fire even higher than they did in ’85." "That’s got home. anyhow.” said Scott, as they heard a soft splashing thud like a stone in a mud-bank. “Who’s bit then 2” “ The brown camel that’s chewing the I cudo,' 0 As he spoke the creature, its jaws still working, laid its long neck along the ground and clmed its dark eyes.” as ML-L -LL-‘ -A-L n..- etch“..- “Act-(‘5 ’9 “ That shbt cost me fifteen pounds,” said Mortimer, ruefully. “How many of them do you make ?” “ Four, I think.” “ Only four Bezingers at any rate; there may be some spearsmen.” “I think not; it is a little raiding party of riflemen. By the way, Anex- ley, you’ve never been under fire bo- tqre._ have you 2”‘ are all _ex_pe1j§nceg n'ecessary‘ poi makje “Never,” Enid the young preasman. who was conscious of a feeling of war was elation. i “on0 and_ poverty and mr. th_ey An Done (“79" thin you are undeming, far 0531mm; :13: camels you are as safe; as 1 yo sitting in the back room of the Auth- ors Club.” b1 .. “ As safe. but hardly as comforta e. ‘ m A 1â€",...» and With a boom like a dinner gong 3. Remington bullet had passed through the kettle and a cloud ofl steam hissed up from the fire. A wild: about came from the rocks above. “The idiots think that they have “The idiots think that they have blown us up. They’ll rush us now as sure as fate; then Lt will be our turn to lead. Get your revolver. Anerlfiy (5.” “I have tfiis double-barreled fowl- lug-piece." “Sensible man! it’s the best weapâ€" on in the world at’ this sort of rough- and-tumble work. What cartridges '?’ ' Swan-shot.” ‘ . “ That will do all right. I carry this big bore doublebarreled pistol loaded wiLh slugs. You might as well try to Stop one of these fellows with a pea- shooler as with a service revolver.” - “There are ways and meahs,” said Scott. “ The Geneva convention does not hold south of the first cataract. It’s easy to make a bull mushi‘oon; by a little manipulation f the tip 0 it. When I was in the broken square at Tamaiâ€"” “ waig' a bit.” cried Mgrumer. ad- Justing his glasses. “ I thlnk they are coming now.” “ Th‘é time,” said Scott, snapping Up his watch, “ being exactly seventeen minutes past four.” Anerley had been lying Lehind a camel staring with an interest which bordered upon fascination at the rocks Ul’l’UfiiLe. Here was a little woolly puff of smoke, and there was another one. but never once had they caught a glimpse of the attackers. To him there was something weird and awesome in these unseen persistent men who, min- ute by minute, were drawing closer to them. He had heard them cry out when the kettle was broken. and once imme- diately afterwards an enormously strong voice had roared something which had set Scott shrugging his shoulders. “ They’ve got to take us first,” said he. and Anerley thought his nerve miE‘ht be better if he did not ask for a. translation. The firing had begun at a distance Of Souls hundred yards, which put .‘t out of the question for them, with their liShter weapons, to make any reply to it. Had their antagonists continued to. keep that range the defenders must either have made a boneless sally or tried to shelter themselves behind their zareba as best they might on the chance that the sound might bring up help. But. luckily for them, the African had not taken kindly to the rifle, and his Primitive instinct to close with his enemy is always too strong for his sense of strategy. They were drawing :11. therefore, and now for the first time Anerley caught sight otaface looking at them from over a rock. It was a huge. virile, strong-jawed head of 3 Pure negro type, with silver trinkets gleaming in the ears. The man raised a great arm from behind the rock and shook his Remington at them. “Shall I fire 3" asked Anerley. . “No. no, it is too far; your shot iwquld scatter all over the place." _ “It’s a. picturesque ruffiafi." said Scott. “Couldn't you kodak him. Mortimer? There's another 1" A tine-featured brown Arab. with a black pointed beard, was peeping from behind another bowlder. He wore the green turban which proclaimed him hadji. and his face showed the keen nervous exaltation of the religious fanatic. “That last is one of the real fight- mg Baggara," remarked Mortimer. “He’s a dangerous man." “He looks pretty vicious. There’s another negro!" “Two more! Dingas by the look of them. J ust the same chaps we got our black battalions from. As long as they get a fight they don't mind who it's for. But it the idiots had only sense enough to understand they would know that the Arab is their hereditary onemv sad we "They seem a piebald crowd." said teeth at the very men who put down the slave trade 1" . “Couldn't you explain I" “I'll eXplein with this pistol when he comes a. little nearer. Now sit tight. Anerley. They're oft!" They were. indeed. It was the brown mm with the green turbnn who headed the rush. Close to his heels was the negro with silver earrings-a giant of a. man.and the other two were only a little behind. As they sprang over the rocks one after the other it took Anerley back to the school sports when he held the tape for the hurdle race. It was magnificent. the wild spirit and abandon of it. the flutter of the chequered galsheeehs. the gleam of steel. the wave of black arms, the frenzied faces. the quick [Jitter-patter of the rushing feet. The lawâ€"abiding Briton is so imbued. with the idea of the sanctity of the human life that it was hard for the young pressman to realize that these men had every in- tention of killing him. and that he was at perfect liberty to do are much for them. He by staring as if this were a. show and he a. Spectator. “Now, Anerley. now! Take the Arab I" cried somebody. He put up the gun and saw the brown fierce face at the other end of the barrel. He tugged at the trigger, but the face grew larger and fiercer with every stride. Again and again he tugged. A revolver shot rang out at his elbow, then anotherone and he saw a red spot spring out on the Arab's brown breast. But he was still coming on. “Shdot, you Scott. “ka it gou fool!’ shouted a furious voice, and at the same instant, \\ 1th a rush and flutter. the Arab bounded over the prostrate camel and came down “ith his bare feet upon Anerley’ s chest. In a dream he seemed to le st1 uggling frantically with some one upon the ground. then he was conscious of a tremendous explosion in his very face, and so ended for him the first action of the war. Again he strained unavailingly at the trigger. There were two more pistol shots. and the big negro had fallen and risen and fallen again. “Good-bye. old chap. You’ll be all right. Give yourself time.’ It, “as Mortimer' 3 voice, and he became dimly conscious of a long spectacled {ace and of a heavy hand upon his shoulder. ”Sorry to leave you. We'll be lucky now if we are in time for the morning editions." Scott was tight- ening his gi1th as he sljoke. _ “We’ll put in our wire that you have been hurt, so your people will know why they don't hear from you. If Renter or the evening penniescome up don’t give the thing away. Abbas will look after you. and we'll be back to-morrow afternoon. Bye-bye ! ' Anerley heard it all, though he did not feel energy enough to answer. 'i'hen. as he watched two sleek brown ponies with their yellow-clad riders dwindling among the rocks, his mem- ory cleared suddenly and he realized that the first great journalistic chance of hislife was slipping away from him. It wasa small light, but it was the first of the war, and the great public at home was all athirst for news. They would have it in the Courier; they would have it in the Intelligence. and not a word in the Gazette. «The through brought him to his feet. though he had to throw his arm round the stern of a palm-tree to steady his sulrnming head. There was the big black man lying where he had fallen, his huge chest packed with bullet marks, every wound rosetted with its circle of flies. The Arab was stretched out within a few yards of him, with two hands clasped over the dreadful thing which had been his head. Across him was lying Anerley's forwling-piece, one barreldis- charged. the other at half cock. “Scott etfendi shoot him you; gun." said a voice. 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If he him midi“: : might have got to the u-xrgsflm I “all, for Mortimer had said lb“, f thirty miles they had thebettero- I_ had 2 “What happened to me!’ “Effendi got cut on head £1 catch bad man by arms and ptfendi shoot him. face bum Anerley became conscious sudc‘l thgt there was a mingling about! 8km and an overpowering mi burned hair under his nostriis‘i Put his hand to his mustache. III 8000.. His eyebrows. too? HUI not find them. His head no don't V617 near to the dervish's \"h’j were rolling upon the ground' 61'. 9nd this was the effect of 13‘ plasma of his own gun. “t? unld have time to grow some! him before he saw Fleet 5mm! But the cut perhaps was a mot“ 0118 matter. Was it enough ‘0 vent him from getting to the‘ graph office at Sarras? The 0315 W85 to try and see. Bglt them was only that POO”. Synan gray of his. There it 51°“ the evening sunshine with a sunk. and a. bent knee, as if its ml work was still heavy upon 11-“ 11096 W there of being 8‘41““ tinny-five miles of heavy 30m“ that: It would be a straw “I“: horse: Yes, if 11:: had only 113““ tmttmg camel! And then. like a,fl M6 Mortimer's “ords: "1‘ ‘5‘ land of beast that the dervifih“61 when they make their lightning}: The beasts the dervishes ride. , Mdfhese dead dervishes ridden.‘ an Instant he was clamberipfl “a rocks. with Abbas preteen a heels. Had the mo ”Eritrea“ . - t . 391111!)th cases camght h. hid! 013.85. gleam 110111 a ----- . Remngton cases caught 1‘15 e showed where the enem)’ 11:: co owning. And then he ' ‘h‘ Shouted for joy. for there. Int 10W. some little distance off, high graceful white neck and ga-nt head of such a mm“ 35 qover set eyes upon hkfi. beautiful creature. “10 rough. clumsy baggie: I The beast was may”? ' a: shelter Olithe rocks “it "I and bags of doom M”3 d shoulders. and its forelegs “4' Arab fashion “1th a ’0 We! knees. Anerley threw hisleg?‘ fmnt pommel “1111 Al’b‘ssllpp. the 00rd F or“ ard “9w town-(ls thb creatute'5 .necxiv‘ violently backw ard ' anything which mlgbt save 6‘ than withajerk “hich nearL‘ d‘ hisloins,he wasthrWn {Sfié‘ .. I But the camel ‘ and the young seated upon one “U Luv LII-“‘- ‘ " and the you pressma desert. It was as gen“ . swift. wdit stood 056”13 nook and gazing round bmwn e as, whilst 9*” "pr ran away. One got shot Five different kin Cans 1n stuck. Our assortm't of Granite and something extr If you \\ ant a WHIP exztmi: quuuuby ()1 H UH! carding and Sin be done at ransom same as at factm‘v or Trade ‘Will 1w quantity Of “'0‘ A LARGE A550 IMPLEMENI W Ii! be had in exchz GBOCERIES 1x um: _0f Blankets ”a. Ready-mad The 11 '6 are are 00L ANTED count SEC 0‘ Rae an l n