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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-29

TEE ANGEL GAVE ABEL THREE SEEDS.
as lady's slipper and lady's tresses.
were Our Lady's" before abbreviated
by time. Our Lady's thistle received it's
name from legend connected with the
fight of the holy family from Bethle-
hem. AS Mary nursed the Infant by
the roadside a few drops of milk fell
on IL plant at her feet, and the leaves
retain to this day the vouchers for the
story. The virgins bower, marigold.
maiden's hair and all like titles were
originally named for the Virgin Mary.
The fritillaria. or checkered lily, be-
fore the crucitiXion was pure white.
with upturned cup. 1t stood proudly
erect during the suffering until dark
ness enshrouded the earth, and it saw
that all nature but itself was grieving.
Then it bent low its head and donned
garments of mourning and began t.
weep. Still it hangs it's head in SOM
Der attire and still each petal sheds a
pearly tear.
The veronica gets its name from
resemblance TO the imprint of Christ's
features left ON st. Veronica's han
kerchief when she pressed from out
the throng and wiped the persplration
from the Redeemers brow.
1t has never been decided what tree
or trees furnished wood for the cross.
Bede says the cypress. the cedar, the
pine and the box, but st. Chrysostom
quotes from Isaiah TX. Is, THE glory
of Lebanon CEDAR shall come unto
thee. the fir tree, the pine tree and the
box together to beautify the place of
my sanctuary" The four woods are
considered symbolic of the four quar-
tiers of the globe over which the in
1uence of the cross shall finally extend
There is an old English legend carry
ing the cross back to the days of our
first parents. Adam sent Abel to an
angel to petition him to show them the
path back to the garden of Eden. The
angel gave Abel three seeds and direct
ed him to plant them. saying that from
their trunks would spring the path to
paradise. The seeds were planted. and
one tree at least was flourishing at the
time Solomon erected his temple. This
tree was cut down to furnish a ridge
pole, but after it was brought in it was
found to be too short Then it was
cast aside and lay waste by the pool of
Bethesda until it was taken to form
the cross. which. according to Chris
tianity. will guide MS TO the paradise
lost to US by the weakness of the first
man.
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afford to get sarcastic about the giver's
mind. You don't appear to have enough
of your own to enable you to open an
egg properly" AS he said this he rose
angrily. Now, you need not be sur
prised that these young people were so
foolish as to quarrel about the proper
way of opening an egg. We can all re-
member how carefully the historian of
the Lilliputians has recorded the events
of the cruel war that ragged between
the big Endians and the little Endians
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-29
AY HARTLEY

AY HARTLEY
was fond of
saying that she
was mot like
other girls" and
Harry D e a n e
agreed with her
e n t / r e ly. In
deed, he went
much further in
his belief than
she did, for sh>
meant that her
usual way of
d DING things
W a s different,
while he not on.
ly thought that,
- -
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And that was

al, : all except MR.. DUBBs PICKED UP
that the pup was THE rof.
dropped out of second story window.
the lights turned down and the clock
wound up. and as the deceivers slept
they dreamed and moaned and mutters
cd. and Easter day was no more 70
them.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-29

ASTER comes in
the springtime
burst of plant
growth, W b e n
both cultivated
park and wood
land glen invite
o ur attention
anew to the
marvefs of the
floral W orld.
Our odd pagan
ancestors We're
as observant Of
these phenome-
ma as we are,
and at about
the date upon
which we cele-
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-29

neck and neck.
AS they stood in
the door of the
spare room they
saw the dog. He
was still chew
ing away. but
bad nearly fin
ished. On the
bed and floor
were strips of
bandboxes and
pieces of hat
brim and hat
crown. and min
gled with them
We're ends of
ribbons. bits of
stra W and glass
ornaments and
torn velvet. The
pup had done his
best.
My Easter
bonnet.' walled
the wife.
"My Easter
hiatt" shouted
the husband.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

contempt for law. Such outbursts of
criminality as have been witnessed in
most of our large cities recently can
not have been fortuitous; they are
rather the result of the mistaken idea
of government that has possessed a
certain class of our citizens. So wide
spread and SO persistent are the evil
dences Of this criminality as to warrant
the belief that the contempt for law
and it's enforcement has reached alarm
ing proportions. If the cause to which
this degeneration and misconception
of law are here ascribed seems at first
somewhat novel, it is believed that up
on consideration it will be found to
be correct, and that the explanation
here offered for the increasing indif-
ference shown for the enforcement of
law is founded in good reason.
! The enforcement of law, especially
| in our cities, has for a long time been
left almost entirely to local police. 1t
has been their duty to preserve order,
to protect the property and persons
of citizens, and to keep the criminal
elements under control. The police
certainly cannot complain of the place
that we have given them, for we have
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

profit in the note-fssuing of the banks,
the very sections of the country that
are least able to transact their bust
ness with the deposit credit issue of
banking are deprived of the only other
source which they have of transacting
such business, and that is a proper
amount of banknotes issued from time
to time as the needs of the commercial
conditions of the various communities
In this country require? What do you
see when you base a banknote issue
not upon profit, but upon the price of
government bonds? What do we wit
ness now? A demand for currency?
The banks taking out currency? No!
The banks of every large city and
many small places are retiring their
currency and selling their bonds. Why?
Because the price of bonds in the mar
ket insures more profit than does the
issuing of banknotes against the bonds
deposited with the treasurer of the
United States.
Certain banks had a circulation ac-
tually issued in excess of the circula-
ton permitted on the bonds of 52.6 per
cent, 526 per cent in excess of that
issued on the bonds which, under the
mitted to issue because of the deposits
of bonds prerequisite to the existence
of the bank. What was found in the
states of Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri, with the exception of st. Louis) {?
1t was found there were 264 banks,
with a capital of $25,O00,000, with a
permitted circulation, if all had been
taken out, or $22,000,000, with a circu-
lation actually issued in excess of the
circulation permitted on the bonds,
which it was prerequisite they should
deposit, of but 4.6 per cent, as against
57.6 in three New England states which
/ have cited in comparison with these
In the South there was issued but 39
per cent in excess of the circulation is
sued upon the bonds deposited as pre-
requisite to the existence of the bank
What is the explanation? That New
England needed the currency to cir
culate from hand to hand to transfer
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20
BY Prof. guy Morrison lOalker.

along the border line of open crime
wondering with each day whether it's
setting sun will find them still free.
Taught only in the school, of experience,
their conception of government is linn
tied to police control and their idea
of law to a policeman's will. It is i'm
possible for most of them to distinguish
between the principle represented and
the representative of the principle, so
to their unframed comprehension the
policeman is no longer the arm of the
law, but he is the law itself.
Not only have our policemen failed
to keep the criminal and depraved eie-
ments in subsection, but there have
been an extraordinary number of
crimes committed by policemen them
selves. The number of such crimes
has been out of all proportion to the
comparatively small class responsible
for them. his would indicate excep-
tional opportunities for the commits
sion of crime, and that undoubtedly is
the cause. Our police do not have
enough to do; their time is not suffi-
GENTLY occupied. Their hours off duty
are too long and to while them away
they drift back to the everything
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be invested in government bonds held
specifically by the treasurer of the
United States, not for the benefit Of
the general creditor of the bank, but
for the specific purpose of redeeming
the notes issued by the bank in the
form of promises to pay and circulat-
ing as the representatives of money.
And not only that, but to make assur-
ance doubly sure there exists the same
provision of a first lien upon the as
sets of the bank to secure the note
holder. There is no more danger with
properly constructed note-issuing
system, based upon assets represent
ing commercial value, always more
convertible. as the experience of every
crisis demonstrates, than the bonds or
stock, into cash, than there is in the
note issue of today. And there is the
additional essential element of such a
note being responsive to the needs of
commerce in every part of the country,
for venture the suggestion that the
banker in Oklahoma knows better
than the legislator at Washington what
are the immediate requirements of the
section about Guthrie or Oklahoma
City, and can better answer the ques-
IlO1I DIS " WuClIlSI VI ITO ne can safely
issue his promises to pay to those who
wish to borrow, as against the legisla-
tor at Washington, who, by hard and
fixed lines, says, ''Yous cant have this
number of notes as against a certain
number of government bonds, and you
can only get those bonds by paying the
market price for them, and you must
regulate the amount of currency that
you need in your community, not by
what the merchant orr -theEfarmer or
the manufacturer may fromo day to day
need as you see it, but by what the
source of profit may be for you to is
sue these notes after you have bought
the government bonds in the market
and have sent them on to- Washing
ton" I say that suchii a system is a
detriment to commerce and not an aid
to commerce.
What is, the result? The result is
that, dependent upon the source of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20
By George Earvey.

sance to a business interest. A large
dry goods house cannot move his cour-
ageous spirit by the threat of with
drawing it's patronage, because it has
probably never given it; his soul would
not tremble for the loss of a full page
advertisement, for his paper might
never have had it.
In world which would rather keep
a good conscience than not, men COM
monty behave as righteously as they
think the conditions will allow. But we
must not forget that it is mainly the
conditions which decide, if they do not
actuate, conduct. The weekly press, we
will admit, if we must is drawer and
better than the daily press, but that is
so because it can be so with less en-
barrassment and detriment. 1t is to
the advantage of the weekly press,
which is mainly responsible to it's sub
scribers, and not to it's advertisers, to
keep itself uncommercialized. 1t will
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

property more than Missouri or Kansas
or Nebraska or the states of the South?
No! The explanation is that under
our existing system there was not a
sufficient profit in note circulation to
warrant the banks of these sections,
where commerce and trade must need
1T, to take out the note circulation or
to have note credit as against the
banknote credit taken out in the states
of New England which have enumer-
ated.
In a word, this conclusion: That a
banknote currency, based upon assets,
is safe currency, properly safeguard
ed by the government of the United
States, with proper agencies for re-
demption; that 1t is responsive to the
needs Of commerce; that it is a source
of profit to the banker and a still
greater source of profit to the borrow
ing public; for as. against the profits
of the banker through his discounts
and loans, the profit is infinitesimal as
against the profit of the merchants
and the manufacturers who, through
the utilization of bank credit through
the agency of the bank, are enabled
from one period to the other to carry
on the great transactions in which they
are engaged and in which is the maxi
mum amount of profit as against the
infinitesimal amount of profit which
that transaction gives to the banker
1t is, therefore, safe, responsive, scien-
tific, accOrdS with the commercial
needs. and, having such prerequisites
of safe currency, it is better than a
currency which has the simple sole
requisite, essential as that requisite
may be, of simple safety without hav-
ing any other of the requirements nee
essary in the banknote currency issued
in accordance with the requisites of
commercial conditions, the only requis-
lite upon which the currency of a great
people engaged in manufacturing and
commerce ought ever to rest it's COM
merce. Let us not be visionists. Let
us think. Let us not think that, be-
cause in the past there were failures
of banknote issue issued against
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

haunts of wickedness and mingle as
citizens with those among whom they
have so lately moved as guardians of
the peace. This has been most strik-
ingly exemplified in the recent race
riots in New Orleans and New York
\ In both these cases police officers off
duty were active participants in the
demonstrations, and in several instanc-
es they were the actual leaders and in
cfters to mob violence.
Among these classes particularly
does familiarity breed contempt, and
tit is ID this familiarity between the
police and those they are supposed to
control that we must attribute the COL
lapse or failure of our police system
when tried by the extra stress of strike
or riots. 1t is too much to expect
that they will drive or club, if resisted,
a mob made up of those with whom
they have personal acquaintance. 1t
is the absence of this personal element
and the fact that they recognize in the
mob nothing but an unlawful gather
ing that makes our militia so effective
under similar conditions. Too much
stress cannot be laid upon this point
of nom familiarity or personal intimacy
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

sentative of the press and young
lady athlete and graduate, who spoke
of their coach in quite as fiippant terms
as any man in any college could posi-
bly, have done, declaring that her own
wise head devised the correct diet
while the young women were training,
by ignoring the directions of the coach
and adopting fudge and chocolate
soda water" as the proper diet, and
manifested much braggadocio that
they had won out on this nutritious
diet. We could imagine the manners
of any young woman so thoroughly
absorbed with such fancies, and found
it difficult to reconcile that sort of
thing with the delfcacy Of womanly
woman, or as at all desirable in the
future wives and mothers of the COM
ing generation. 1t would have been
much more in. keeping with our ideas
of accomplishments in women if the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

clothed them with uniforms, represent
ing the dignity of the law; placed in
their hands clubs, representing the
might of the law;E armed1 them with
weapons for use in extremity, repre-
sentfng the severity of the law, and
then sent them forth to maintain the
law. Day after day have we paraded
them up and down our streets as the
representatives of the principle upon
which, our social fabric is founded. 1t
is not surprising, then that to the pop
ular mind the. policeman has become
the embodiment of order, the physical
manifestation of law
1t is hard to realize how large a
place in the popular mind the police
man occupies as the representative of
government. 1t is necessary to get
out among the plain a. people, down
among the submerged third" and see
how much their daily lives are regu-
lated by the policeman on their beat.
A large class of our citizens really
govern their daily conduct according to
the dictation of some police officer
Especially is this true of the keepers
of public resorts, street-walkers, sport
ing men, and all that class who walk
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

people, nor to make a gift; but they
will be issued just as a check is issued
or the draft is issued or the present
banknote is. issued to a borrower, if
you please, or to a man who has prop
erty to sell; issued because of value
therefor received in exchange. And
say that as an economic proof and as
banking doctrine fortified by the expe-
rience of every great commercial coun-
try, it is an impossibility, with a prop
er system of redemption, to keep in
circulation more banknotes than the
requirements of commerce call for, and
that banknotes issued against assets
on the part of the banks will not re-
main in circulation a single day longer
than the commercial requirements of
the people demand, because immedi-
ately when those demands cease, either
those notes will be taken to a redemp-
ton agency for immediate cancella-
ton and redemption, the process being
hurried on by other banks to get the
notes Of their neighboring banks re-
deemed, but in addition the man who
receives such notes in exchange for his
property in the cancellation of his debt
will Immediately present those notes
to his bank to secure a deposit credit
so that thereafter he may use deposit
currency instead of banknote curren-
cy, while the banknote so deposited
will be received by the bank and i'm
mediately sent to the redemption agen-
cy for redemption and cancellation.
There is as much danger in an over
expansion of deposit currency as there
is danger of an over-expansion of over
issue of banknote currency issued
against assets What is your bank de-
posit credit which you use from day to
day in the city, but which cannot be
utilized in the country, but a credit
system of the bank holdings such de-
post for the purpose of facilitating
trader And is there not as much dan
ger of over-issuance of bank deposit
credit as there is of banknote credit,
the difference being alone in the VOL
ume of transactions carried on by the
bank deposit credit and those carried
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

on by the banknote credit Get into
your minds the basic idea that the
bank is an instrument for the purpose
of utilizing credit, for the purpose of
selling credit at a fixed rate of interest,
causing a source of profit to the bank
selling such credit; then couple with it
the idea that the bank deposit credit
does not differ from the issuing
credit, and you find yourself in this po-
sition: Either you must admit that
the vastly greater volume Of bank de-
post credit is source of continuing
danger to the people dealing therein
and accepting hereof, or else the note
issued in smaller volume, which is but
an incident resting upon the credit of
the issuing bank as rests the deposit
credit currency upon the credit of the
bank. Why? If a bank holds itself re-
sponsible to pay you upon demand
thirty millions of deposit credit, and
the men VIII have that deposit credit do
business upon the faith of that institu-
ton issuing it day in and day out at
hand and thousand miles away, why
is it that If that is safe the lesser VOL
ume of banknote issue becomes men,
ace to the people and a disturbing ele-
ment when you have back of 1t, as you
have not back of the deposit credit
currency issued by the bank, the strict
er supervision, the accumulated taxes,
the aggregated fund for the purpose of
Immediately redeeming upon failure
the notes SO issued by bank? In adj
dition, it has been suggested (and the
suggestion is based upon the truths of
economic history and the experience
of commercial people, that such a
banknote must be lien upon the as
sets of bank as against the bank
deposit credit which the general. cred
itors of a bank represent. 1t is argued
that that is giving an unfair prefer
ence. What does the banking act, as it
now exists, do? No bank in the ma
tional system can exist at all, whether
it issues currency or not, unless first
is taken out of it's assets the assets
upon which the depositing creditor
must rely, portion of those assets to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20
By Mrs. John ri. cogan.

and physically in rational and useful
way.
For boys there is nothing more bene-
fetal than course in military tactics,
and comparative statement of the
results of training in military tactics,
and in that of base and football would
beyond question be to give preponder-
ance in favor of military training,
while the exercise could not be better
The cultivation of a spirit of pride and
nattness in appearance in the military
is much more to be desired than the
slatternly abandon and untidy appear
ance of players of baseball sprinting
and other games that are in vogue in
these days, not to mention the patriotic
spirit inspired by marching and drill
Ing under the flag they might some
day be called upon to defend We have
not heard of any of the cadet corps
coming off the field with broken bones,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

with those to be controlled. It is rec
ogniZed in armies and navies as vital
in governing the relations between of
f1cers and men, and it is of much great
er Importance that the police should,
as far as possible, be kept from social
or personal contact with those they
are to watch and hold in subsection.
If the police are not confined to regu-
lar barracks, they ought at least to be
compelled to live as far as possible
from the scene of their duties. The
exercise and training just suggested
would, if required, give our police
ample work for their hours of Idleness
and do much to remove from them the
opportunities and temptations to crime
which come so easily to those who
have nothing else to do.
Let our army of peace be composed
of men trained to the service, men who
appreciate the high character of their
duties; but, above all, let them be
Americans; for as kingly prerogatives
suffer when exercised by unworthy
hands, so have American laws and
American principles been degraded by
their enforcement at the hands of an
alien police.
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say it, although it is right and true
We do not like to imagine too lofty
motive in the weekly editor, while con-
scious of virtue in ourselves above all
such anxieties, and we will therefore
not claim for him a magnanim-
ity which it would be difficult to verify
In any given case. But we may invite
the inquirer to observe that it is not
only the greater time for reflection
which stands the weekly EDITORS
friend. He is less subject to the inf1u-
ence of the advertising interest than
the daily editor, because his periodical
is less sensitively responsive to the de-
mands of the advertiser, less dependent
upon the advertiser for its prosperity.
He may more fearlessly consult the
tastes and opinions of hisesubscriber,
his reader, who may prefer an honest
difference of mind in him, and may like
sincere expression on some matter of
public concern, better than complai-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20
By j. g. RiddIer.

best said" With Arrago, I believe
outside of mathematics, he who pro-
nounces the word impossible is want
ing in prudence" And with Humbert,
l consider 'Paul's spiritual body SCI
entific probability"
In Spencer's definition of God as
"the Unknowable, Absolute, Uncondi-
toned Cause" l recognize the highest
conception of Gods divine Being or
Esse" and a firm ground for Christian
faith. In short, from secular sources
could compile a theology, while finding
nothing that invalidates divine inspi-
ration or supernaturalism when prop
erly understood.