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January 20, 1909. TI
not direct the routes of the examiners.
According to Deputy Comptroller Kane
any bank on the list of a certain examiner
may locate him at any time on the
route and anticipate about when he will
reach that bank for examination. Under
a per diem basis it is the theory that an
examiner vrill vary the order of his examinations
so that it will be impossible
for a bank to knew when to expect a
visit from him. Placed UDon a salarv
basis, it is believed, also, that the tendency
to superficiality in examinations
will be removed in large part. Despite
the increased cost to the banks under
the change suggested a great many
banks have recommended it. Deputy
Comptroller Kane said there were some
advantages to be derived from changing
an examiner from one section of the
country to another, but that he believed
they would be outweighted by the disadvantages.
For Better Care of Dependent Children:
Spontaneous and universal approval
has been accorded the movement
initiated by President Roosevelt recently
in calling a conference to meet in the
national capital on January 25 and 26 to
aiscuss me proDiem 01 caring ior me dependent.
children of the country. Letters
and telegrams from prominent men and
women in all parts of the country expressing
their deep interest in this important
problem have been received here.
The president has sent James E. West,
of Washington, secretary of the National
Rescue League, to New York city as a
member of a committee to learn the
names of men and women who are thor_
oughly conversant with the cares of dependent
children, and who are to be invited
to the conference. It is exDected
that President Roosevelt will announce
the official lists in a few days. Every
phase of the problem of bow best to deal
with this class of children toill be considered.
One of the most important
themes will be the advisability of establishing
a national children's bureau, one
of whose objects shall be the collection
and dissemination of accurate information
in regard to child-caring work, and
needs of children. The desirability of
establishing a permanent organization to
carry on a propaganda will be discussed
with a view to securing better laws, better
organizations of child-caring agencies,
better methods r?f relief nnrl a\A t r\
children.
The Cruiser North Carolina to be used
by Taft: Preparations are under way at
Norfolk, fitting out the armored cruiser
North Carolina for the trip to be taken
aboard her by President-elect Taft and
a party of six engineers, to the Isthmus
of Panama the latter part of this month.
Stores and supplies of all kinds necessary
will be taken aboard there for the
entire trip and the coal bunkers filled.
Mrs. Taft is to go with the presidentelect
and also the latter's private secrecy.
Before leaving for Charleston, S.
C., the cruiser probably will take a run
outside with her sister ship, the Montana,
which is to act as a convoy of the
North Carolina on the trip to Panama,
for the purpose of thoroughly testing the
engines and seeing that everything is in
readiness for the voyage to the isthmus.
Captain W. A. Marshall is in command
of the North Carolina.
iE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU1
FOREIGN.
England?A Clash with Brazil: The
English foreign office demanded of the
Brazilian legation last week an explanation
of the seizure of the Great Western
railway, operated in Brazil by a British
company, by striking employees. The
Enelish mlnistor of du t? 1 ?
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asked to supply full details of the affair.
Four thousand employes of the railroad
seized the rolling stock and are
holding the terminals. Riots between
the police and strikers have occurred.
Two men were killed and a hundred
wounded. England will hold Brazil responsible
for the loss.
France?New Elections Endorse the
Government: The election of senators
whose terms will expire nine years
hence, was held last week. Tney resulted
in an endorsement of the government,
jthe majority gaining fifteen
seats. Most of the retiring members
were reelected, including Premier Clemenceau
and Baron d'Estournelles de
Constant.. The latters success idicates
progress for the policy of international
peace. The feature of the campaign was
a statement issued by M. Clemenceau, in
which he said that he had striven for
progress and the evolution of the rem.kltA
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i/uuui, ?v uicu uaa Deen endangered by
clerical reaction and internal disorder
and revolt. "The representatives of
clerical domination are always menacing
and do not fear even to put into play
the flame of revolution and make us run
the horrid risk of civil war?all this to
bring about every chance for the bloody
return of papism and the monachy,"
the statement concluded.
The Death Penalty Renewed: The
first inflictions of capital punishment in
. France for a number of years nast w?r<?
witnessed In Bethune today when four
murderes wer decapitated by the gullotine.
The executions were public and
took place in the presence of a large
crowd. The acts for which the men
were executed were the murder of Abel
Pollet and his brother and two other
men named, respectively, Canut and
Perm. The French parliament recently
passed a resolution In favor of the retention
of the death penalty in France
and the cabinet a fortnight ago decided
to carry out parliament's ruling. There
remain today eighteen persons in France
under the sentence of death.
Italy?Miraculous Escape: Stuart K.
L.upton, the American vice-consul at Messina,
was in his room at the Vlttona
when the building was demollshe'd. His
escape was a miraculous one. Wearing
only his trousers and carrying his shoes
and his overcoat in his hands, he groped
his way along the ciuay. knee deen in
water, towards the American consulate.
Clambering over the ruins of the consulate
he became conscious of the fact
that his feet were bruised and bleeding.
Then he wondered why he had carried
his shoes in his hand. He continued in
a state of bewilderment until he estaolished
himself on a British ship. Hater
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u? us'"n came usuore ana raisca tne
American flag over the new consulate
in a damaged, but one of the few remaining
building in the outskirts of the
city. Then Mr. Lupton began an industrious
search for Americans. Mr. Lupton
is the son of the Rev. J. H. Lupton, now
in Winchester, Va., and formerly at
Clarksville, Tenn., and Leesburg, Va.
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