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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

E. P. WESTFALL,

MANAGER.^

BUBSCRIPTIOK PKICK, 12.00 A YKAE.

FUBIJCATION orrxcK,

r«. 20 and 22 South Fiftfc Street, Printing House Square

TERKE HAUTE, DEC. 28, 1889.

CO- OPERA TI Vh HOUSEKEEPING Mr. Edward Bellamy's article in the current number of Good Housekeeping entitled "A Vital Domestic Problem," will arouse a diversity of comment it shall have the effect of exciting intel Ugent consideration, discussion and better still, action in the premises, •may do a world of good.

He divides household service roughly into three general departments: laundry work, chamber service and cooking. The problem of the family washing would be easily solved by a co-operative laundry. The objection to the present laundry system is that of expensiveness. This could be avoided by a laundry which would have the regular custom of a number of families and be conducted for convenience instead of profit. A number of ladies should unite, appoint a manager, solicit pledges and proceed to work. If, as must incontestibly be the case, a given amount of washing can bo done with steam power and machinery as clioaply as by Bridget on tho old fashioned washboard, then a cooperative laundry that will turn out work at exactly the cost of doing it will not increase the expense of washing the family linen but will diminish it.

As to tho question of chamber work aud connected branches, the author of "I/joking Backward" proposes a cooperative employment agency similar to the co-operativo laundry. Each lady would have tho use of a girl for a given time each day who would be furnished and paid by tho agency. There should be nothing very difficult in carrying out such a scheme.

It remains to dispose of the cooking und dining room service—admittedly the most difficult branch of the whole problem. The suggestion is of course to iiavo the meals prepared outside the houso and brought in. That this is already done in tho matter of serving refeshments to large parties. The caterer is an expensive luxury, but that is because he makes a largo profit on his work and has an irrogular and widely separated clientage. Again we may say that if food may be supplied more cheaply by buying in largo quantities at wholesale prices, rather than by retail, the

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All this looks feasible enough and has »beon substantially talked about times without number. Yet the plan has been .given no adequate trial, at least not in .this country. tfTomen go on wearing out their bodies in domestic drudgery, and wearing out the nerve# and patience of their husbands by the rasping temper which comes of over-work and exhaustion, but they make no serious effort to «oive tho domestic problem outside their households. Thoy «eem either to lack faith in the practicability of doing so, or else they lack the ability to put the plan In operation, although some (Torts of the kind are being made here and there, as we noted last week. That something must be done soon to relieve the domestic machinery in some way cannot be doubted. If women can not or will not do it thea men ought to undertake the work for purposes of profit, for we believe that good returns await the use of money, skill and energy In the performance of hoimehola service outside of our homes.

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After demonstrating that the present •system of household service is essential fly undemocratic because of the relation of personal servitude which it involves and that for this reason it is falling into lower and lower hands and must even tually die out altogether, Mr. Bellamy /goes on to show that a system of co•operative labor should and must take its place, if wives and mothers are not to be relegated to a condition of domestic servitude that Is intolerable.

kitchen, doing its work

in a wholesale way, ought to operate for "the pocunlary advantage of its patrons. Here Is Mr. Bellamy's plan. A number of families guarantee their patronage and omploy the best caterer and cooks to bo had. "In order to give the caterer the best advantage for buying at wholesale and to avoid the wasta which would result from the necessity of providing for contingent demands, a point should be made of receiving all orders for meals 'twelve hours in advance, with extra •charge for delayed orders.. The kitohen 'being run to pay expensed only, everything of course should bo absolutely at cost. Does anyone doubt that such a kitchen could and would be able to buy food at far better advantage, to cook it -with far greater skill, and serve it with far greater precision and elegance than •the average housekeeper could purchase it, the average domestic cook It, and the •average hired give serve it? and do the whole with as great a saving to all concerned, in nerve-wear as In money?"

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ex-iournaUftt, having spent several v&tn* th$ oditotW dwk that b® fai 38 V«*R» old, and was not fiunous until he wtote "Looking Backward" that h* &)«> has a brother who has written sev­

storiea. This is something, but whv doesn't someone who knows, tell VJH "whether Mr. Bellamy Is married a«d whether or not he has applied the .co-operative plan to hi* own household?

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A COMING CONTEST.

It is announced that the American Federation of Labor, which embraces most of the labor organizations of the country, except the Knights of Labor, will make a determined effort next May to secure an eight hour working day. The fight will he on in all the large In dnstrial centers of the country. Leading men in the labor movement have carefully considered the probabilities of such a struggle and are satisfied that the prospect of success is much better now than,when the big fight was made in 1886. After along and disastrous struggle at that time the working men were defeated.

Conditions have materially changed in the last three years. The discussion of the labor problem has spread from the ranks of labor Into the general literature of the country. Bellamy's great book has gone into every nook and corner of the land, provoking thought and discus sion. The newspapers, magazines and periodicals are full of the question. The pulpits have spoken freely and aggressively for larger rights for the workers. The effect of all this has been to create a public sentiment vastly different from that of 1886, and vastly more favorable to the working classes. It is very evident that the strikers for an eight hour day would now receive aid and sympathy from many thousands who were sternly opposed to their demand three years ago. Public opinion has undergone a change on this subject which amounts almost to a revolution. And this change, there is reason to believe, is going on with increasing swiftness, so that if In May, 1890, there be a general demand that eight hours shall constitute a day's work, there will be a strong sentiment in favor of granting it as a mere matter of justice and expediency. But evidently the l^or people do not expect to be accorded the eight hour day without a struggle and are preparing to fight for what they believe is their right.

TEMPERANCE RESULTS. We all believe in temperance and in its promotion and increase. But views differ a good deal as to the best ways for bringing this about. Even the W. C. T. U. people cannot all see the matter in the same light and eminent workers in the field of temperance disagree as to methods ot work. Francis Murphy, than whom no one perhaps has accomplished more for the temperance cause by moral suasion, is not convinced that the enactment of prohibitory laws is the bost way to extirpate the drink evil. And in Pennsylvania, it is said, the temperance' women are tending in the direction of non-partisan work in the way of educating the people, rather than legal prohibition. The opinion has long prevailed, and is increasing in some quarters, that a law is of little benefit unless the general community in which It exists is favorable to its enforcement. Laws that are dead are worse than no laws. Prohibition is good, is the best thing, where it can be and is enforced, as it is in many communities where local option prevails. The mooted question is as to whether the general average of mankind Is yet up to the prohibition standard. That it will ba some day we have no question that Is now in spots Is undoubtedly true but that it Is so in general seems not to be supported by the facts.

If this be so it would seem that very valuable and practical temperance work could be done in educating it up to that standard. And no work could be better than that upon the young in teaching them to abhor the liquor habit.

NEW YEAR'S DAY.

It has come to be the custom to ridicule the making of good resolutions on New Year's Day, btscause they are so seldom kept. The people who "swear off," as it is called, so soon get back to their old bad habits that it seems useless, if not ridiculous, to have sworn off at all, and it is held better by many not to make any good resolutions on- New Year's day than to break them after they are made. Abetter way is to make the good resolutions and then keep them— to swear off from bad habits and stay swore off. That will be, much better than ridiculing the making of good resolutions by others.

We cannot see the years come and go —as they do with increasing swiftness as we grow older—without thinking of the final end of our brief work in this world and wishing to make it somewhat better and worthier. Even the best of it is poor enough and for the worst of it, God help us!

Of course an evil habit, a vice or a sin, is to be divorced from us at any and all times. But there is a peculiar fitness in thinking to leave these bad things with the Incoming of anew year. It is somewhat like turning a new leaf in the book of our lives and beginning the clean page with purity and aspiration in our hearts. Surely no man or woman is ever worse from trying to be better however much they may fall short of attaining to their ideal.

A NOTAM.K suit in spiritualistic circles was recently settled in New York. John C. Bundy, publisher of the Religio-Phil-osophical Journal, of Chicago, a paper devoted to the propagation of spiritualism, charged Mrs. Elixa Wells, a professed spiritual medium, of New York, with being a swindler u.d using trick cabinets and confederates in her seances. Thereupon, Mrs. Wells brought a suit for libel, laying her damages at $@0,000. It appears that Mrs. Wells has for years been doing a lucrative business in giving exhibitions with a dark cabinet, to which she charged an admission fee. She was backed by several prominent people of New York, who believed In the genuineness of her performances. Her •nits coming on for Mai, an effort was made to empanel a jury but the answers

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of the veniremen gave so little encour agement to the plaintiff that she dismissed her suit and Mr. Bundy was allowed $200 for his expenses. |p

A MOVEMENT is on foot in Chicago that ought to become general throughout the country.

A

number of leading citizens

have arranged a series of "Economic Conferences," as they are called, which are public meetings^ open to all, and are for the discussion of all the various questions pertaining to the interests of capital and labor. The meetings are held on Sunday evenings and are attended by rich and poor, learned and ignorant, and the discussions are participated in by bankers, merchants, lawyers, wage workers and in fact by all who imagine they can throw any light on the com-*' plicated problem. These conferences are undoubtedly destined to work good results by bringing the different elements of society into abetter understanding of their mutual relations and obligations. It is probable, too, the thought and discussion of these questions may assist in reaching practical solutions of them.

AMUSEMENTS.

THE STREETS OF SEW YOKK.

On Monday evening Boueieault's great melodrama, "The Streets of New York," will be presented at Naylor's. It is a comedy-drama of the sensational order, and will prove a very strong attraction. The scene of the play is located in New York City and the story has considercble interest in itself, and is very dramatic. As a relief from the strong dramatic vein, specialties and musical features are introduced ad libitum, and these help to make the performance a decided go. The piece is better than the ordinary sensational plays and has the advantages of a goocl company and special scenic and mechanical effects. The engagement will be at popular prices.

NEW YEARS DAY ATTRACTIONS.

The attraction at Naylor's on New Year's day will be the German comedian, Mr. James Reily, and a capable company in the successful comedy drama, "The Broomnlaker of Curlsbad," a piece

which,

although new to the theatre goers

of this city, comes well recommended. Two performances will be given on New Year's day. The house will no doubt be crowded both matinee and evening.

FREDERICK WARDE.

It has frequently been asserted, and not without good reason, that the stars of the dramatic firmament are not partial to good support, and generally carry a company with inferior merit that not infrequently destroys the pleasure of an audience who have paid a good price in anticipation of a fine performance, warranted by the eminence of the leading actor or actress".

A notable exception to this rule is Mr. Frederick Warde, who will be the attraction at Naylor's opera house Thursday evening next, in his new romantic play, "The Mountebank." His supporting company has invariably been spoken of in the highest

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of praise and this

season will prove no exception to the rule. Such names as Miss Stella Rees. Mrs. Henry Vandenhoff, Mr. Clay Clement, L. F. Rand, Frank McDonald and Wilfred Clark (a son of the eminent comedian, John S._ Clark, and a nephew of Edwin Booth,) area sufficient guarantee of excellence without naming the subordinate members, numbering in all not Jess than eighteen, and when directed by such a master of his art as Mr. Warde is acknowledged to be, no fear of the character of the performance need be entertained.

It is by such actors and companies that the dignity of the American stage is maintained, and their support is an obligation that no good citizen who has an interest in the true, and noble in the dramatic art can afford to neglect.

The advance sale opens on Tuesday evening at Button's. A MKTXJORAMATIC NOVELTY. "The Stowaway," with Its startling mechanical effects, beautiful stage pictures and sensational story, perfectly dramatized and told in the most delightful manner, will appear at Naylor's Opera House on Friday evening, January 3rdc It comes with the reputation gained in the principle Eastern cities of being not only one of the most successful, but also one of the most artistic and popular melodramas yet produced on the American stage. One of the features in the performance will be the "cracking" of a real safe by two genuine and noted burglars, named "Kid" McOoy and "Spike" Hennessy, who come on the stage with their kit of tools, and when everything is ready they start to work. The drill, and "jimmy," and finally the powder and fuse is used. Then a match is applied, and the safe-door is blown from its hinges with a detonation that brings the hero on the scene. But this is only one of the many startling occurrences which occur in the play. The company is composed of first-class artists, including Marion Elmore, Grace Thorne, Sara Holmes, Frank Losee, Jos. Slater, Harry Booker and a number of others just as prominent for talent and popularity.

Mr. wid Mrs. Robert Wayne, formerly of the Agnes Herndon Dramatic Company, are in the city visiting with Mrs. Wayne's father, Mr. Peter Katzenbaeh. Mr. Wayne is now engaged in organizing a company of professionals to present the four-act social comedy, "Rene,** during the remainder of the season. The cast will organize here, and the many friends of Mrs. Wayne, who knew her best as Miss parrie Katxentach, will be pleased to learn that the first performance will be given in tills city on January 9th, Mrs. Wayne has now been on the stage four years, having made her initial appearance in Fogg's Ferry In 1885. The new play in which she will star is said to be a very pleasing one, and appeals to the patriotic heart by its de­

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fense of the national flag. In the production Mrs. Wayne'will wear her magnificent wardrobe, comment on which has been made by the press of other cities. The company will go from this city on a southeastern tour, and Mr. Wayne says every prospoct is that they will meet with success.** «s

Ovide Musin, the great French violinist who ranks with Wilhelmj, Sarasate, and Joachim as among the greatest living violinists, will play at the Opera House February 17th. He will be supported by three eminent vocalists and a very fine piano soloist. This troupe gave fifteen concerts in three weeks last winter in San Francisco to packed houses. Their appearance here will be a rare treat to the music lovers of the city*

The* actress Lotta was born in 1847. Marie Prescott is playing Iago in "Othello" with success. "This is a particularly dull part of the season in dramatic affairs.

It is said that Richard Mansfield lost $8,000 on his three weeks' engagement of "Richard 111." in Philadelphia.

Mojeska smokes cigarettes. She says she doesn't care who knows it, and she knows many society woman... who have also contracted the habit. •,

It is said that Mr. Bailey, of the Bar-num-Bailf.v firm, has arranged to bring from England next April a ballet spectacle for which he will import 300 female dancers.

Mary Anderson, according to the London correspondent of a Manchester newspaper, is studying the part of Miranda and planing an elaborate spectacular revival of "The Tempest." "The Prince and the Pauper," a dramatization of Mark Twain's novel, in which Manager Frohman is to star Effie Leslie, will receive its first production this week at the New Park theater, Philadelphia.

A correspondent writes from' London that Mr. and Mrs. Langtry have made up their long-standing differences with kisses, and that when the Jersey Lily opens at the St. James Theater, in that city, her brawny British lord will have charge of the box office.

Mrs. Kendal, the actress, is auburnhaired, velvet-eyed and vivacious-man-nered. She isasister of Tom Robertson, who wrote "Caste," and has acted in some fifty diflerent pieces, and made it pay and yet while she was the origTnal "Galatea," she can tell a story unaffectedly and even jolllly, and she has eight children.

Stein fe Hecklesburg still have a few pairs of slippers left for the New Year trade which they will close out at exceedingly low prices. Remember this and make your purchase. Perhaps you have some friend still to remember with a present. Perhaps your father is still to be surprised. If so do not iorget that Simpers are one of the most appropriate presents you can give. The stook of shoes on hand very complete.

Here is an instance of speedy adjustment of fire insurance that deserves to go on record. On December 19th the property of W. W. Quinn, at Thirteenth and Poplar streets, was badly damaged by fire. The insurance adjustor was here, made a satisfactory arrangement with Mr. Quinn, and the loss was paid on the 26th, all within twelve days. This speaks well for the reliability and promptness of the companies represented by Mr. Slaughter, and should lead you to insure with him. Both life and fire insurance carried. Dealer in real estate also. 329 Ohio street.

$50

down and $ 12 a month buys anew 3-room house on North Ninth street. Possession given February 1st.

RIDDLE, HAMILTON A Co., 20 South Sixth street.

The Best Oysters.

When you want something extra nice In Oysters, fresh from the salt sea, go direct to headquarters, E. W. Johnson's, 615 Wabash Avenue.

Call and see the display of Tile Hearths at James T. Moore's, No. 657 Main street. The stock includes a great variety of designs. Grate Baskets, Ash Pans, etc.

Fur Robes and Blankets!. seasonable arrival is an elegant line of Fur and Plush Robes and Horse Blankets at Peter Miller's, 605 Main street, which are being sold at very low prices. -Irti

Lots in "Cottage Place" will be sold for $100 and $125 this winter on easy monthly payments. This is the best chance ever offered to secure a home T. H. Real Estate and Improvement Co., 652 Wabash Ave.

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gnecMion to J. P- MUchler. Having bought out P. P. Mischief's north Fourth street Meat Market we solicit continuance of his trade. We will keep all kinds of choice meats, sausage, etc., at most reasonable prices.

C. A. PRICE, W. C. BROW*.

,"Cottage Place" is convenient to Car Works and Nail Works. Lots only $100 and $125 on monthly payments. T. H. Real Estate and Improvement Co., 652 Wabash Ave.

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Gas Ftxturee, Globes and Engineer** Supplies. oos Ohio Street. Terre Haute, la*

Great Annual

Linen Sale!

Commences Thursday Mornings January 2ml. .Housekeepers, Hotel and Restaurant Keepers and to all those who wish to replenish their stock ot Linens, Towels, Bed Spreads, Muslins and Sheetings and Housekeeping goods generally are invited to be present at this sale and see the many grand good bargains we have store,

The best Towels ever sold at 5c, 8c, 10c, 15c. 25c up. The best Red Table Damask ever sold, at 19c, 25c, 38c, 50c up.

The best Hand Loom Damasks ever sold at 18c, 25c, 35c, 50c, 68c, up. The best Barnsl^v Damasks ever sold at 48c, 68c, 75c.

The best Bleached Damasks ever sold at 40c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 up. The best 5-8 and

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Jobbers and Retailers. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

G- E ]NT E INT

While you see flaming advertisements of promises of Cost regardless of Cost, Half Price, 50 Cents on the Dollar, etc., etc., a good dollar is only worth a hundred cents. People have found out that poor, shoddy trash goods are dear at any price, but good, well-made Clothing is what gives value in return to the purchasei Now our counters and shelves are full of good, well made Clothing, Men's Suits, Children's Suits and Overcoats a specialty. Gloves, Underwear, Knit Jackets, at the lowest cash value and prices. We don't misrepresent anything in price or quality. Give you just what we promise you—ihe best goods in the market for the price you pay. Don't be deceived or buy till you see our stock and prices. We invite your inspection. Either ready made or made to order.

J.T.H. MILLER,

Clothier, Merchant Tailor and Gent's Furnisher, 522 Wabash Ave., near Sixth.

FUNERAL DIRECTOR.

Cor. Third and Cherry St*., Terre Haute, Ind. Is prepared to execute all orders in his UiHT with neatness and dispatch.

FUllng' of Toeth a Speciality. Office—Corner Seventh and Main streets, la McKeen's new blook, opp. Terre Haute House

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Bleached Muslin at 4c, 5c} 6c, 7c, 8c and 10c a yard. They cannot be matched elsewhere.

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Successor to

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Offlee-Southwest corner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entranoe on Fifth street.

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