Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-01
EDITORIAL NOTEs.

The biggest pension payment on record is said to be that of $15, ,2S9 granted this week to Private Philip Flood of the Forty-second Ohio, whose disability dates back to 1862. As it is not disputed that he is entitled to it nobody win begrudge him his good fortune.
 A Missouri grocer delivers a very effective temperance lecture by advertising that any man who takes two drinks of whiskey day for a year at a cost of ten cents each, can have for the same money at his store, thirty sacks of flour, 220 pounds of granulat- cd sugar, 72 pounds of good coffee, and save $2.50 as premium for making the exchange.
 The monitor Puritan will be an effective war ship when she is finished. Instead of turrets, after the monitor fashion, she will have her guns mounted in open barbette towers The calibre of her guns will be twelve instead of ten inches. Her upper works will be fitted for formidable second- ary battery of rapid firing guns, her armor above the water line will be heavier than was at first designed, and some changes will be made in her machinery. These changes will not increase the expense, but they will make the Puritan a more formidable fighting ship than she would have been if completed according to the original designs.
 Mir. Emile Laveleye urges that a special treaty be made between England and the United States providing for the peaceful settlement of sll disputes between the two nations, and publicly appeals to MT. Glad stone to take the lead in this particular movement at the international arbitration conference which is to meet in Paris during the last week in June. These two nations are better fitted than any others, he thinks, to agree to dispense with force hereafter and to unite upon a plan for adjudicating differ ences. Hence they ought to lead the way in the great and noble scheme of some day put ting an end generally to wars. The idea de- serves hearty support.
 The new compulsory education law which has been enacted in Illinois seems to be gen. erally regarded with favor, save only by the private schools that teach in foreign lan- guage. It compels school attendance at least sixteen weeks a year on the part of children between the ages of seven and four teen years, and parents or those having charge of children are liable to fine in not observing the law. Attendance upon any private day school teaching reading, writing, arithmetic and United States history in the English language, which is approved by the board of education, will be accepted as in compliance with the law. Boards of educa- tion and school directors are required to ap- point truant officers who shall hunt up of lenders, bring them into the schools and prosecute the parents.
 During the last month considerable mum. Der of emigrants have been passing through Montana to the British possessions, travelling by wagon. It has been ascertained that they are Mormons from Utah and Idaho, and tha their destination is the country througt which the Galt railroad passes. Some time ago the Allesta Railway and Coal company was approached by an agent of the Mormon hierarchy with proposition to buy severa thousand acres of the eompany's land in tn, northwest territory upon which to settle colony of the saints. The negotiations hun, fire for some time, but were completed lit tie more than month ago. It is not know, \ what the consideration was nor just hoy