The Dalles Daily Chronicle. THE DALLES OREGON. Entered at the Postofftce at Tbe Dalles, Oregon, as second-class matter. 8TATK OFFICIALS. Governm 8 Pennoyer Secretary of State G. W. McBride Treasurer. Phillip Metschan 8upt. of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy IWheU Congressman B. Hermann State Printer Frank Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. C. N. Thornbury Sheriff I.L Cates Clerk J. B. Crossen Treasurer Geo. Ruch CommiSHioners. . . : . I Frutkncafd Assessor John E. Harnett Burvevor E. F. Sharp Buierlntcndent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley Coroner William Michell The Chronicle is the Only Paper in The Dalles that Receives the Associated Press Dispatches. SUNDAY AGITATION. Considerable agitation is in progress relative to the opening of the World's Pair on Sundays. The Independant has obtained the views of ninety-seven Protestant and Roman -Catholic arch bishops and bishops with the result that a large majority of Protestant prelates is opposed to Sunday opening. Fourteen out of twenty-two Roman Cathoiic ec clesiastics would admit the public on Sunday, but only in the afternoon. Out of twenty-five Episcopal bishops two favor Sunday afternoon opening. Their opinions however will by no means settle ' the question and it is safe to say that the big show will be open on Sundays pretty much as on other days. While tbe writer believes that Sunday is the working man's day and that the man who would rob him of it is an enemy to . the race, he has little hesitation in say ing that the present agitation is un American. Much as we are indebted to Christianity for the benignity of our governmental system, ours is in no true sense a Christian government any more than it is an infidel government. A day of rest from active labor is wisely recog nized but its religious observance is purely a Christian institution with which the government has nothing to do. While the true Christian is pro foundly thankful that the day he holds sacred above all others is, by our laws, made a legal holiday he has no right to force its religious observance upon men who are not Christians. To call in gov ernmental aid for the suppression of harmless Sunday pleasures is nothing less than "going down to Egypt for help." The enforcement of the religious observance of Sunday belongs to the pulpit and Sunday school and not to the legislature or other qusi-judicial bodies and were not repelled from rather than attracted to Christianity when preachers and prelates endeavour to place a legal restraint on the innocent pleasures of those who have never submitted to the claims of the Christian religion. GOOD TIMES INDICATED. The report of U. S. Statistician J. R. Dodge for the month ending May 9th, is at hand and is but a duplicate of the ex ceptionally high returns of the previous month. The general average condition of wheat drawn from the consolidated returns of county correspondents is 97.9 and is said to approach full condition wore closely than anv other May report, with one single exception since the de partment first commenced to issue crop reports. It is the opinion of Mr. Dodge that all indications point to positive im provement in farming prospects and render practically certain, a year of gen eral agricultural prosperity. Western prices of corn are more than 100 per cent, higher than in May of last year. Wheat has advanced about 30 per cent, and the different classes of beeves in the Chicago market from 18 to 34 per cent. The report closes with the following statement: The wheat crop, so far, promises to be large. A few weeks will fix the relative rise of it. Ordinarily a large crop would depress prices. This year the prospec tive reduction of foreign crops, which is assured though not yet definitely ascer tained in degrees, will certainly make a demand for any crop we are likely to produce at remunerative, if not rela tively, high prices. The exhaustion of the maize surplus will have its effect in sustaining torn prices during the year. The same is true of the oats crop. Of course a continuance of heavy crops will eventually reduce prices, and this should be avoided by a ' wise diversion to products needed but not produced. For instance, in sugar-beet regions, "to plant or not to plant" is not a question of the relative profit of an acre of wheat or of beets, but one which will help to settle future prices of corn, wheat, pork and beef and of everything grown by the farmer. GIVE US A FAIR DEAL. A paragraph which appeared in these columns a few days ago relating to the number and capacity of the fish wheels between this city and Celilo has received considerable comment at the hands of newspaper men who are not familiar with all the facts. Because a fish wheel is able, under exceptionally favorable circumstances to catch three tons of fish in twenty minutes, or under like circum- stances to catch ten to twenty tons of fish a day, it does not follow that this is done all the time. The fact is all the fish wheels on the river combined, do not catch more than one tenth of the whole product.. Last year, it is said thousands upon thousands of salmon caught by nets on thejlower river were dumped overboard, because of the inca pacity of the canneries to handle them. When the wheel fisheries are so situated they simply hoist their wheels and this murderous waste is immediately stopped. It is all right however, for the? fi sh ermen on the lower river to' string their nets by the thousands from shore to shore, and murder and destroy all they can, but the case seems to be different when it is a few fish wheels among the rapids in Eastern Oregon. JUDAS ISCAKIOT. Th Probable Origin of His NameSome Legends Abont H lm. ; There is no doubt or ambiguity with regard to the earliest part of" Judas Iscariot's name, says the New Orleans States. Judas is merely the Greek or Hellenistic form of the Hebrew "Judah," familiar to everybodv. But "Iscariot" is, as it has always been, a puzzle. At least half a dozen interpre tations have been suggested by philolog ists, but no one of them is in all respects satisfactory. , ; The most seeming of their number is that the word is a condensed or corrupted form of the Hebrew words, "Ish -Ker-ioth," meaning the man of Kerioth," Kerioth being a village in. Southern Palestine, where perhaps Judas or his family had their origin. The naine.bow ever, is of no consequence for our pres ent purpose ; and we have remarked it only to show the mysterv attaching to the man is every phase of his surround ings. " With regard to his birth, legend and myth are as copious as is conjecture with regard to his name. Here are two of them, for which we are immediately indebted to Moncure Conway. In the apocryphal "Gospel of the In fancy" it is related that a demoniacal boy, brought to the child Jesus, strikes him, whereupon Jesus weeps, and Satan comes out of the boy in the shape of a furious dog. This boy was Judas. Ac cording to another legend Judas'a mother had a dream before his birth that her son would murder his father and sell his God. To avert this the child was sunk in the sea, but was cast on shore. He was adopted by a king and queen, -vbo had a son, whom Judas slew. He fled to Judea, became the page of Pilate, and, after the predestined murder of his father learned from his mother her dream. In terror and contritition Judas hears of a prophet who forgives sins. . When he throws himself at his feet, Jesus, recognizing him as his predestined betrayer, accepts him as a disciple and entrusts him with the purse, so that Judas' avarice might be excited and the plan of salvation not fail. Judas thus became heir apparent to the infernal throne, and in mural pictures of eastern churches he appears seated on the knee of a majestic satan. Literary treasures are often to be found in queer places. The manuscript of Robert Burns' famous poem, "Tarn O'Shanter," is owned in South Africa, and until recently was the property of Mr. Robert Graham, of Cape Town. Writes a visitor to that region : "We have seen the eyes of many an enthusi astic relic hunter glisten over articles of historic value but never have we wit nessed such unmistakable indication of undoubted ecstacy as those half dozen quarto sheets of paper, inscriped by Burns, were capable offproducing upon certain otherwise impassive, quiet, steady-going Scotchmen' Ihxluth Trib une. An enterprising churn-dash agent is said to be making a good thing on the east side of the river opposite Corvallis. He manages to sell his machines to a number of housewives for $8.50 and goes on to the next neighborhood canvassing. In a few days he returns to where he has sold first and finds the victims glad to part with their machines for $2.50 each. These he takes on to fill orders at $8.50. The process is repeated and he makes good wages, while, to use his own lan guage he "keeps the money in the country." Corvallis Titties. A letter from Mr. A. Vinson, of the firm of Niles & Vinson, mar ble dealers of Walla Walla, who has been traveling through Morrow, Gilliam. Grant. Crook and Wasco counties, states that he has secured for his firm a contract for the erection of a handsome monument at the Warm Springs agency in Wasco county, to the memorv of Chief Chinook, or Wil liam Parker. This Indian was a noted scout and guide under General Fremont in 1845, signer of the treaty of 1855, and the most widely known Indian in the northwest. Long Creek Eagle. Although his honor, Judge Bradshaw, came to us a stranger, the people of this town and community have, on short ac quaintance, become quite favorably im pressed with him. The judge is a very pleasant appearing gentleman. Prine ville News. Taking pot luck playing a game of poker. REMOVAL NOTICE. FRED DpHI fi .GO. Haw flitted up a Brut-class ' Barber Shop : AND: Bath Rooms At 102 Second Street, next door to Freeman's Boot and Shoe store. ' HOT and COLD BATHS. None but the best artists employed. Do Not Forget the Place. Steam Ferry, tJ A UlrlT lie '8 now running a steam t. U. EM HflO Ferry between Hood River and White Salmon. Charges reasonable. R. O. Evans, Prop. NOTICE. A XL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE TJN . dersigned are requested to pay the amount of their respective accounts or otherwise make satisfactory settlement of the same, before June 1st, 1891, and all persons having claims against us are requested to present them on or before the above date. MacEACHERN & MacLEOD, "Vogt Block, Second Street, The Dalles, Or. CANVASSING AS A BUSINF.SS. One Hundred Thonund at It In This Conntry. Though It Pays Poorly. "You often see advertisements for agents to sell one article or; another promising $ 100 a week to a lively man, but there is no such money in the busi ness," said an old hand to a reporter the other day. "A clever man can clear twenty-five dollars a week as a traveling salesman or canvasser if he has a really first rate thing to dispose of. but that is about the limit. , "Of course I am not speaking of the regularly employed commission agents who drum for large houses and often get big salaries, but of the army of people, probably 100,000 strong, who spread themselves from the big cities all over the United States in pursuit of orders for everything nnder the son that is marketable, from a subscription book to a patent instantaneous mustard plaster. Of that number 50,000 are book agents. It id that line which is chiefly affected by women, who do not hebitate to. employ all the persuasions of their sex in the pursuit of their industry. Opposed to them the male book agent is at a disad vantage, having neither smiles nor tears that would be effective wherewith to ex tort a subscription from the unwilling customer. Besides, a woman is not like ly to be kicked out or have a dog set upon her. f "Undoubtedly the inodetst sex is that in petticoats, but when it comes to sell ing books a woman can usually discount a man every time. Why, I know two in this very town who do not hesitate to go to receptions at private houses un asked and tackle any one with whom they may get into conversation, draw ing from beneath their cloaks whatever volume they may be engaged in trying to circulate. One advantage only that I know of is possessed by the male book agent which his female rival does' not possess, and that is his opportunity of exercising his fascination upon the ser vant women wherever he goes,, who are very much add-ted to buying books in that way. "In the trade there is a distinction made between the salesman and the can vasser, the former selling at wholesale usually and the latter at retail. A travel ing agent seLs either on the installment plan or for cash, or both ways. On cash sales he gets 40 per cent, of the proceeds as his commission; if he sells on the in stallment plan, by which the purchaser pays so much on what he buys, he re ceives 20 per cent, when the order for the article is delivered by him to the firm which employs him. Goods are sent him C. O. D. for cash purchasers; the agent returns the full amount he re ceives, and out of that is given his com mission. Agents are not allowed to sell goods for less than the prices indicated on the lists of the firm, though they are permitted by some concerns to sell for more if they can. "Next to the book agents canvasser for patented articles are most numerous, and this sort of canvassing has increased very largely within recent years. Tea, coffee, silverware and pictures are ex tensively sold in the same manner. Fe male canvassers confine themselves al most wholly to light literature, such as novels books of poems, photograph albums, corsets.' silverware and dress making charts.. 44 S"es, we lose a great deal of money by the dishonesty of people who buy on the installmant plan and do not pay. 1 suppose that we have to put down 7 or 8 percent, of our sales on! that basis as dead loss, but we are reconciled to it by the fact that we charge more for the goods when cash is not paid enough additional, in fact, to recoup us. We can afford, therefore, to take chances. Installment buyers are notoriously slow and delinquent in their payments, bnt mild threats, judiciously formulated, usnally fetch the money where nothing else will serve." Washington Star. Aiming with a Revolver. Captain J. Forman, Thirteenth infan try, says: "It is a peculiar fact that very few men, even accomplished shots, know how a revolver ought to be handled. Nearly all are taught to aim a revolver as if it were a rifle that is, by bring ing the object aimed at and the fore and hind sights into line. This is all well enough for shooting gallery practice, but should never be followed in the field. In training troops to use the revolver they are taught, in aiming, never to look at -the weapon at all, but to keep their eyes on the object . to be struck. In quick' firing, and especially in shooting from horseback, much better results are obtainable in this way. "A man throwing a stone does not look at his hand; neither does a billiard play er sight along his cue. The same rules apply to the use of short weapons. 1 have seen men trained to shoot excel lently at a mark when they could not see their pistol sights at alL Pieces of pasteboard were fastened just in front of the cylinders, which effectually prevent ed . the men from using their foresights, and greatly increased the rapidity, as well as the accuracy, of their fire. Near ly any one can sight a pistol correctly, the inaccuracy of the aim being due to trembling of the hands before the trig ger is pressed. By hiding the sight the temptation to hold too long is removed, and the first aim, generally tho most ac curate, is preserved." St. Louis Globe Democrat. Several Kinds of Beetles. ' In the Argentine Republic a weevil known as the "diamond beetle" is in great request for breastpins and other ornaments. The palm weevil of the West Indies is regarded in that country as a great luxury, fried or boiled. . It is eaten in the larva stage, in the shape of a big white worm; which is found in the tenderest part of the smaller palm trees. The historic poem of Brazil makes V. f astonishing assertion that these worms first become butterflies and subsequent ly mice. A similar dainty in Java is the larva of a beetle which, in the shape of a white maggot, lives in wood and so eats it away that the backs of chairs aud portions of other furniture are often, though apparently sound, actual ly mere'shells. Washington Star. S. L. YOUNG, ' (samcuor to K. BECK.. -DEALER IN- Jewelry, Diamonds, SILVERWARE,:-: ETC Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired and Warranted. 165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or. W. E. GARRETSON. Mn Jeweler. SOLB AGENT FOB THE All Watch Work; Warranted. Jewelry Made to Order. 1S8 Second St., The Dalle, Or. -FOR- . Carpels aufl Furniture, CO TO PRINZ & NITSCHKE, And be Satisfied as to QUALITY AND PRICES. R. B. Hood, Livery, Feed and Sale Horses Bought and Sold on Commission and Money .Advanced on Horses left For Sale. 3FFICE OF- The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Line. aw.ee Leaves -ne Dalles every morning at 7:30 and Goldendale at 7:30. All freight must be left at R. B. Hood's office the evening before. R. B. HOOD, Proprietor. COLUMBIA Qapdy :-: paetory, W. S. CRAM, Proprietor. (Successor to Cram & Corson.) Manufacturer of tbe finest French and Home Made O.A.3ST DIES, East of Portland. -DEALER IN- Tropical Fruits, Nuts, Cigars and Tobacco. Can furnish any of these goods at Wholesala or Retail FtBSH OVSTHtS&- In K-rery Style. 104 Second Street, The Dalles, Or. John Pashek, JHerGtaut Tailor. Third Street, Opera Block. . Madison's Latest System, Used in catting garments, and a fit guaranteed each time. . Repairing and Cleaning .Neatly and Quickly Done. " WBTOHES CLOCKS We are NOW OPENING a full line of 1 Black ani Colore! Henrietta Clous, Sateens, Giitas ani Calico, and a large stock of Plain, : Swiss and in Black and White, for Ladies' and Misses' wear. v A f fin A WTTT T V ttt v- UUU AJiCtEm Uf --- flea's and Boy's Spring and Sammer Clothing, Neckmeap and Hosiery "A Splendid Line of We also rail vonr nt.tAnt.inn i rmr lino Gdgfi?le 8 nd ?y 8 ???t8. ?nd Shoe8 and 81iPPers, and plenty of other trooda to be sold at prices to suit the times. j H. SOLOMON Next Door to The Dalles National Bank. NEW FIRM! toseoe -DEALERS IN- '.'STAPLE '.'AND Canned Goods, Preserves, Pickles, Etc. . Country Produce Bought and Sold. Masonic Block, Corner Third and The Dalles JVLereantile Co, Successors to BROOKS CEjEl:i)fDI5 Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots and Shoes Hats and HARDWARE Groceries, Provisions, 390 and 394 Remember we deliver all purchases JAMES WHITE, Has Opened a Ziunoli Counter, In Connection With his Fruit Stand and Will 8erve Hot Coffee, Ham' Sandwich, Pigs' Feet, ' and Fresh Oysters. Convenient to the Passenger Depot. On Second St., near corner of Madison. Also a ' Branch Bakery, California Orange Cider, and the Best Apple Cider. If you want a good lunch, give me a call. Open all Night . The Ladies' Tailor School of Dress Cutting AT Mrs. Brown's Dressmaiim Parlors, Cor. Fourth and Union Sts., The Dalles, Or. Each scholar can bring in her own dress and is taught to cut, baste and fin ish complete. They are also taught to cut the seam less waist, dartless basque, French bias darts and most every form of sleeve.. yin the dressmaking department I keep only competent help. Dress Cutting a Specialty. Phil Willig, 124 UNION ST., THE DALLES, OR. Keeps on hand a full line of MEN'S AND YOUTH'S. Ready - Made Clothing. Pants and Suits MADE TO ORDER On Reasonable Terms, Call and see my Goods before Purchasing elsewhere. REMOVAL. H. G-lenn has iemoved his office and the office of the Electric Liiht Co. to 72 Washington St. Embroidered and Plaided Nansooks: it Felt and Straw Hats. rf T oJi'mi r- i , . . NEW STORE' & Gibons, '.'FANCY'. Goods delivered Free to any part of the City. Court Streets, The Dalles, Oregc & BEERS, Dealers to Caps- Etc. Hay, Grain and F Second Street without charge. J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO. Abstracters;;;. Real Estate and . Insaranep Agents. Abstracts of. and Information ConcernX ing Land Titles on Short Notice. Land for Sale and Houses to Rent Parties Looking for Homes in COUNTRY OR CITY, OR IN SEARCH OF Bu0iqe00 Location , Should Call on or Write to us. Agents for a Full Line of Leaning Fire Insurance Companies, And Will Write Insurance for on all DE3IEABLE Correspondence Solicited. All Letters Promptly Answered. Call on or - Address, J. M. HUNTINGTON A CO. Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or. C. N. THORNBURY, T. A. HUDSON." - Late Reo. U. 8. Land Office. Notary Public THORHBURY & HUDSON, ROOMS 8 and 9 LAND OFFICE BUILDING . ... . Pofltoffice Box 88, THE DALLES, OR. f. Filings, Contests, And all other Business in the U.S. Land Office Promptly Attended to. We have ordered Blanks for Filings,, Entries and the purchase of Railroad Lands under the recent Forfeiture Act, which we will have, and advise the pub lic at the earliest date when such entries can be made. Look for advertisement in this paper. Thornburv & Hirigon. $500 Reward ! We will pay- the above reward for any caae oC Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, In digestion, Constipation or Costlveness we cannot cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions are strictly complied with. They are purely vegetable, and never fail to give satisfac tion. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing 80 Pills, 25 cents. Beware of counterfeits and imi tations. The genuine manufactured only by THE JOHN C. WF8T COMPANY, CHIGAGO, ILLINOIS. BLAKEIET A HOUGHTON. Prescription Druggist, 17B Second St. The Dalles, Or. 0Cv