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devastated and the value OF the stock which
persisted was not less than E2.6OO.OOO.

devastated and the value Of the stock which
persisted was not less than E2.6O0.000.
The Danish Government. after institutine
exhaustive inquiries. declares there is
no disease whatsoever In the country.
No case OF foot-and-mouth disease has
been traced to any cattle imported from the
Netherlands and. as q matter Of actual fact
fourteen years have elapsed since the lynx
eyed inspectors at British ports have found
any Dutch beast suffering from that disease
or from pleuro- pneumonia. The Dutch
Government maintains that the disease has
been absolutely stamped out In Holland.
and that there Is no country In Europe where
such stringent precautionary regulations are
applied and with 80 much success. 1t has
been further brought to Mr.. Chaplin's notice
to-day that mot only 10 the Netherlands d.
vlded into zones a. In England. but should
animals be attacked BY disease the farm to
which they belong ia surrounded by Gordon
OF gendarmes or police. and no cattle or per-
sons are allowed to leave II until II has been
ascertained that the disease has been stamped
out or did not exist. In the same manner the
police and customs officers keep strict watch
on the frontiers. and drovers from Germany
and Belgium are not allowed on any Dutch
farm or market In addition to the standing
precautionary measures Instructions are from
time to time sent to the burgomasters by the
Ministry Of the Interior and vigorously en-
forced.
But these asseverations and denials do not
disturb Mr.. Chaplin. who has found the long
desired pretext and is determined to make the
most Of It The only European countries now
able to send live cattle to England are Sweden.
Norway. Spain. and Portugal. and It will not
be surprising II Mr.. Chaplin should soon dis
cover that they. and possibly Canada also. are
infected sources Of supply. II the present
outbreak OF disease be prevented from spread
ing British farmers will have . good time. for
the boycott will not be removed for
long time after the cause has disap-
peared. Already stock Is selling at
big prices in the country markets. and the price
Of meat has gone up Nobody has to worry
about the thousands Of drovers and others who
have been thrown out OF employment
The royal commission on labor drags on
wearily but occasionally some amusement is
obtainable from the reports Of its proceedings
Yesterday. for instance. James Keir Hardie.
President Of the Ayrshire Miners Union. aired
his views upon naturalization Of the land and
. variety Of economic subjects, upon which he
talked with delightful self.assurance. Here is
an extract from his examination BY Mr.. Gerald
Baliour. NJ. p. one OF the commissioners:
Q.-Would not your principles carry US to
this. that all mankind has q right to the
whole Of tho prairie value Of all the land in the
world7 Ain their own respective localities.
yes.
Q.-But II I. simply in respect Of being q
human being. have an equal share with any
body else to the prairie value Of land. why has
not Russian or German or Frenchman
equal rights with me in any spot OF the habit
able globe Ale has claim. just as I have
claim to that part OF the sunshine which falls
| upon me here.
Q.-Your abstract right applies Just to tho
| very spot of land on which any man may be
standing or sitting at one given moment. A
| II you choose to reduce the matter to the
ridiculous. that is so.
Balfour-That Is all wish to do.
1t is announced that Messrs. John Shaw 4
| Sons. engineers at Coventry. have completed
remarkable flying machine constructed on the
lines OF the flying fox. The material used il
| chiefly hollow Steel and the machine. in
c1uding' thresshofse.pow9F electric motor,
weighs about 700 pounds. Each OF the two
concave-shaped wings has q sweep OF twenty
four feet. and Is expected to make fifty strokes
| minute. The machine has not yet been
tested in actual flying. but Major Moore Of
course has no doubt that he has solved the
long-studied problem. Nothing has been
heard lately Of Mr.. Maxim's flying machine:
80. presumably. there has been some kind OF .
hitch in that confident inventors scheme.
Mr.. Llyn Nicholas. brother OF Mrs Parting.
has communicated to the newspapers here a
letter from that lady denying that she had
given her entire fortune to the prophet Har-
ris. at Fountain Grove. She adds: THE money
I brought here lent to Messrs. Lay. Clark 4
Co. for the extension OF their wine business,
they having the management Of business
affairs connected with the society. As secu-
rity hold first and only mortgage on this
estate. which Is worth six times the amount
Of the loan. Mine is not an exceptional case.
All the people here sold their own property.
Other statements OF Miss Chevaller are
equally untrue. especially with regard to the
exist only In her own morbid Imagination.
They have no place In Fountain Grove"
Last week there was q big mill fre In Romo.
and King Humbert went to see it put out He
has since been raging at tho incompetency OF
the Roman fire brigade and talking OF sending
q special commission to London and New
York to find out how things are managed in
those cities. There is certainly room for i'm
provement In Rome. Upon the occasion re-
ferred to the 6remen did not put In an appear
ance until an hour and half after the first
alarm. BECAUSE a. IL was AIterWard ex-
| planned. some Of the men were hav-
| ing their evening meal while others were
| visiting their families: and there was much
| gesticulation and some weeping when King
Humbert wrathiully declined to accept the
| explanations as satisfactory. Ono steam
engine was capsized on the way and never
reached the scene. and the others might as
we'll have stopped away. for they were OF little
use. thanks to hose that leaked or pumps that
would not work. The fire practically burned
itself out, and 100000 francs will scarcely
cover the damage DONE
Gen. Booth has returned to England like a
conQueror from the wars. He has had
one continuous ovation His reception at
Southampton was royal His appearance
in the public procession in London this
afternoon gave unbounded delight to his
followers and to the public generally. It was
display such as they rarely see. The martial
effect OF the pageant was somewhat impaired
| by the nervousness OF the Salvatonists ON
horseback. and the procession WAS occa sion