Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-13
EDITORIAL L nOTES.
The Bobbin trust has burst. So they go.

Judas Iscariot was arrested in New York the other day and fined s5 for peddling without license.
 The treatment of the consolidation matter by theeommon council and the aldermen doesn't indicate that the city fathers, or the city children, are crying for more territory. They are not.
 Dr. G. NJ. Gould, in the Medical News, asserts that the electric light is not injuri- ous to the eyes except where workmen and experimenters are compelled to stand pro- longed exposure at short range. The diff fused light Dr. Gould believes to be harm less.
 A toper's club is a novel organization of Kyoto, Japan. It has twenty-three members, each of whom, before being admitted to mem- bership, had to prove his ability to drink seven bottles of any intoxicant at one sitting. At a recent meeting, it is said, a member drank during the initiation ceremonies eight sho of sake Sufficient to i'll about twenty brandy bottles) and his associates think he deserves to be made president of the society. Ballot reform continues to find favor. The Arkansas senate has passed bill framed upon the Australian system At present the county judges name the election judges in each town, and the law is amended by lodging the right to appoint election judges with board of commissioners for l each county, appointed by the governor au. ditor and secretary of State. The extreme penalty for ballot box stealing is fifteen years.
 Discussing the political influence of the oficeholders, the Chicago Times says: The ] influence of patronage is overestimated. It l is true that much of the political activity of the country of practical and telling l kind is based on hope of reward, and when | the people are indifferent concerning an election placemen are able to make strong impression at the polls. But there are more than Il, ,00e, 900 electors, of whom not more | than 5000 are likely to hold or be disap- pointed of places, of which there are not to | exceed 150,000, many of them subject to civil service rules. When a question of 1 policy is before the people, the half million cannot sway the 100000.
 | In the current number or the JournaI or the Military Service Institution is the prize essay of Lieutenant A. 0. Sharpe, Twenty second United States infantry, and the
 Honorable mention" essay of Major William Sanger of the New York National guard on
 8 national reserve of military forces. Lieu
 tenant Sharpe reviews the past efforts te
 maintain militia system, and then devel
 ops plan for dividing the country into
 twelve military districts. Each year con-
 gress would provide pay and substance fol
 62, ,000 reserve troops in State camps, tel
 days each; for 8, 900 troops in district en
 campments, fourteen days each; for 5000 il
 a national encampment, twenty-one day.
 each, with five more days for travel. Tn
 annual expense would be something abov $3, 100000 The essay of Major Sanger
 which stood second highest on the list, an,
 had one of the three votes of the judges fo
 first place, recommends that the army shoul'
 have 8 reserve of it's own by adopting sys
 tenn of short service with the colors, fol
 lowed by period in the reserve. Then tn
 localized system of recruiting should be es abolished, as in some foreign countries
 Finally, 8 national reserve should be ere
 ated, having it's largest unit battalion, bu
 only serving perhaps four weeks in year.
 Anna Maria Goldsmid, who died in Londo