The Press., 1894-02-08

let had been fired through the window oi a car, narrowly missing some of the pas, sengers, also that some of the drivers had resigned because of dangerous missiles thrown at them.
 THE Wilson bill passed the house or Thursday by the surprising vote of 2O4 to 40, showing that many who were expect. ed to say no said yes. Only IT democrats voted no, most of them on account of the income tax amendment. De Forest and Piggott of Connecticut voted yes; Sperry no. Seven republicans voted for the in, come tax amendment, all of whom voted against the bill, and favored making the tax a part of the bill only as means oi defeating it. The bill is now before the senate.
 THE fad of wearing as an ornament live chameleon is happily dying out in the large cities before having extensively per- vaded the provinces. The chameleon is repulsive looking but harmless reptile of the lizard family. He is brought a long distance, and is short lived in cap- tivity, and, being of course somewhat ex- pensive, soon the owner has no assets left of the venture save the little chain and stick pin, which are of little use ex- eept to use with new lizard. The cham eleon is lively pet, crawling over the person of the wearer so far as the chain permits. Better go without one andkeep your money for the next short-lived fad, and if you skip that also you will be wise.
 CLOSER and closer presses the grasp of need as the period of unemployment lengthens. He is indeed an old inhabi- tant who has seen times like the present. Many honest, industrious people are in actual need. Don't waste anything that will alleviate this need. Church soclals and society banquets can find places where their surplus food will prove God-send. Little jobs thrown in the way of the needy will save suffering perhaps the most ap- palling form of want-that.of people who will suffer in silence and dread to ill any
 
 always ask aid of the town or of individ- uals upon the merest pretext, always in case of sickness and death, in good times, when often they own money at interest or farms in Canada, such we need not worry about. They will ask for what they want. But we have worthy people with large families who earn but a bare living when work is plenty. A month of idleness crip- ples them. Continued months of idleness mean suffering to them, for the bread oi charity has bitter taste to them. You know of some such. Keep an eye out fol them. Your unostentatious benevolence kindly interest, or best of all work wher you have it to give, in this year of oul Lord, 1894, will be sweet memory to you in the years to come.
 J. B. CARoTHERs, resident of Brook. lyn, N. Y., but several of whose sum- mers have been passed in Belchertown Mass, has boomed that place as loca- tion for the new normal school by send ing to the Massachusetts legislature g most scurrilous attack upon one of the most beautiful of New England villages with design to prejudice members against it. MT. Carothers was, before this letter most unpopular man in Belchertown where he has conducted himself arrogant ly, and been prosecuted for trespassine upon individual rights. He hates the town for it's lack of appreciation of him. self. At present he is sending out his bull letins from Windsor, Conn.,, whining be- cause people in Belchertown threaten to use violence if he returns there. Certain ly he has given them great provocation to do so from one point of view, but from another is a benefactor to the town, his childish attack, with its many trivialties and manifest discrepancies, helping to ad- vertise it and to draw men hitherto unin- terested to it's defense. The state is for tunate if it abounds in places of equal merit with Belchertown, considered as a proposed site for state normal school.
 THE passing of the Wilson bill is better
 
 inevitable. Agitation of tariff change, with prospect of success, is as bad for business as the change itself. And so we may look for improvement when man. ufacturers are able to make estimates as to the basis upon which they may safely do business. For business with cut wages is improvement over no business at all. Wage earners have been told that a lower tariff means lower prices for everything they have to buy. The glamor of this is fetching, when the other side-that they must take lower prices for what they have to sell-is kept from sight. The worst of it is that the majority of those who support the Wilson bill are free traders, and condemn the bill as too pro- tective. With them it is a make-shift- merely forerunner of something to fol- low that is more to their liking. The manufacturers of America will not aban- don their mills. Goods will still be made here. The question is-will the opera lives furnish labor under the conditions of those of other countries. Clearly they must, if the conditions are alike. There are those who claim that the operatives of American mills have been, under the Mckinley tariff, in no more comfortable circumstances than those of other coun- tries. Those who believe this have noth- ing to fear from free trade. How many believe it?
 
 The debt statement, issued Feb. 1st, shows net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during January, of $7 ,830, ,064. B. The total cash in the treasury was $737, ,120, ,153.69. The gold reserve $65, ,650,175; net cash balance $18,431 ,924S S9.
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