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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1893)
I Is IS r 11 Kl II . I IHKflK! H V V I !l I 'I Si : i 0 EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPH IC PRESS REPORT. VOL. XL. NO.-. 198. ASTQIUA, OEEGON; TIIU11SDAY jHOBNETG, AUGUST ill, .1893. miCE, FIVE CENTS, I ma u If You Want To' save money, don't now going on at C. If You Want To buy goods at less than wholesale cost, go to .0. II Cooper's. If You Want To trade to advantnge suit of clothes, go to If You Are And short of (Msh, 'he at (). II. Cooper's. If You Want Fir.st-class goods in clothing, furnishing goods, hats, caps, shoes, etc., go to C. II. Cooper. ' Midsummer Sale iow going on. C. H. itillin the Front! FOR SILVER CBF. MARSHALL'S IT IS THE BEST IT IS THE CHEAPEST GOOD FISHERMEN USE IT FOR FALL FISHING FOR SMALL The sttving powers of Marshall's Twine are superior to those f f.nv other evr used on the Columbia river. ON HAND: io-riy no's S-'PJy 40's 15-Piy oO's 7-Ply SiVs 9-Tlv 30V miss tho great reduction sale H. Cooper s. and save from $5 to $10 on a C. II. Cooper's. Hard Up little you have will go farthest COOPER. SIDE FISHING - T AMERICAN LABOR MAKES IT MESH NETS FOR LASTING QUALITIES .12-Ply 40's 14-Ply 10's FRED DOUGLASS IS BITTER He Bewails the Wrongs of His Fellow Countrymen. THE SOUTH HATES ' YOU." Says Hie Ainericnn I'enple Have Not Lived ni to the tJonntltutloli in their Treat ment of Illi Race. Frederick DougJass with his custom ary dignity and dramatic eloquence, loosed a bitter tongue against the Am erican people yesterday the white American people. He was scoring the World'sF air management for their slap in the face of the coored people, and while his sarcasm, was bubbling rampantly for the directors he made a switch adn scored the whole ftorth, calfed its people unchrnstian In their treatment of the negro and unpatriot ic to the constitution In roughly crowd lng the black man from all the. best professions and trades. As he poured out his convictions he ran his hands through his flowing locks and with a tragic. pose declared the iror.-hearted czar was softer to his freed serfs than were the American people to the un shackled negroes. The one started his new made citizens with land and a mule to work" It;, the Union simply turned out the wealf and the strong, Frederick Douglass. the old and the young, all penniless and none with a possession save the jeans and shirt on his back. This cutting arraignment he made before 3,000 visitors at the fair on col ored people's day. They cheered and pounded until It seemed the very pil lars of Festival Hall must fall out. Be fore him were at least 2,000 o fhls own race,- whose worship of him is bat lit tle short of a subject's devotion to a king. They were the best colored citi zens in the country, professors, teach ers, bishops, and musicians. The fac tion which stayed away because it was afraid the celebration woul dbe a wa termelon gathering probably detracted nothing from the Bplendld showing the audience made. "The South hates you," continued Mr. Douglass, addressing himself to the white northerners before him. "It was the South that kept the cdlorde race from a share in the glories of this great exposition. Fourteen states have abandoned their courts and judges and juries, and a wild mob Invariably sits as a burlesque dispenser of Justice to the colored men. These same states were your enemies; they fought to trample In tho dust the grandest re public the world can ever have. Why, in the name of bare Justice, are we not treated with us much consideration as were your foes? We gave legs to your lame, shelter to your shelterless and tenderly bound the gushing wounds of your sons, riauiea ana lorn wun reDei bullets. Yet in your fawning upon" these same cruel slayers you slap us in the face, and with the same shallow pre judice which keeps us in the lower rank in your estimation, this exposi tion denied mere recognition to eight millions and" one-tenth of Its people. Kentucky and the rest objected, and thus see not a colored face In a single worthy place within these grounds. Give us only as much as you give your unforgiving enemies and we will cease to raise a voice in complaint. Treat us only as you do those who despise with unrelenting spleen your very selves and the colored man will begin to take a place he hopes by brains and education to- acquire. The sunny south does not love you; It never. We do. Tet why In heaven's name do you take to your breast the serpent that stung and crush down the race that grasped the sabre that helped make the nation one and the exposition possible? . A torrent of applause followed each period. Old men arose and waved their canes, and old women shouted. The row of distinguished vice-presidents cried "bravo," an dthe white people added their approval. For sev- The ' -telegraph wires parted some miles the other side of Clifton at 9 o'clock; last night, and in consequence The AsuSrian, for the first time in many m6nths, Is- printed" without Its telegraphic report. eral moments the white-haired patri arch stood speechless In the din. Not even the shouts for the queen by the thronging Britons nor the "h6chs".,of the enthusiastic ..Germans, nor the wild huzzas of the Norsemen for Os car equaled the enthusiasm the grand hall saw at the conclusion of this sen timent. Every man used his lungs; ev ery woman her hands, and with canes rattling, the floor, the .cheering seemed never to end. The'fo; n commission ers who were present at the orator's own request looked on in amazement. "Judge Ms not by the splendid Cau casian civilization; judge us now in comparison With the depths from which we have come," continued Mr. Douglass. "Up, up from the bottom, from the lash, and the barbarous mas ters we have come. At the next cen tennlal anniversary of Columbus' dis covery we will rank, with the otler races. We have come from Dahomey to our present standing, but even now we get less recognition from the Fair than 'do the African barbarians. "Thd great problem before the Amer lean people Is whether they shall be. come- christian and loyal and patriotic and live up to the constitution which their acts so tremendously slander. Just after the war you thought a good deal of ub. What lias dimmed your memory Did we not fight and face the bullets and prove faithful lo our country? The bitterness of the South and its resultant outrages are entirely consistent with the barbarous education of the old masters. The southerners are the ones who humili ated us before all the visiting for eigners, and they are the ones before whose wlBhes this fair and this gov ernment cowered and put its friends farther dawn than Its everlasting en emies." ... . This was continued for an '' if and whenever the speaker appea...- a if to--stop la strong appeal to continue was invariably raised. Mr. Douglass explained ithei difference of opinion among the colored people on the ques tion of a special celebration at the fair by saying that the race consid ered itself slapped In the face by the management In the matter of recogni tion. However, It was now no time to sulk and thanks were due for. what kindnesses had been extended. "It Is well," he said, "to le tthe world know that We are conscious of what Is due us as a part of the American people, but It is well also to let others know we can be cheerful even In the absence of justice and fair play. We are not here to assail In violent words the managers of the World's Fair, nor to bewail In gloomy desperation that we have not been permitted to share In' the honor. Considering that we con tribute nearly one-tenth of the popula tion of this country, we Blmply ask the world to witness a practical illus tration of the perennial prejudice which keeps us at the bottom." This speech which was at times bril liant, -was delvered entirely without preparation. The address which 'Mr. Douglass had written lay upon his deBk untouched. From the tjlg throng of his best people he drew Inspiration and it - was the verdict that no such words had ever been uttered on this platform before. When he had done he Introduced - Mrs. Isabella Hooker, a sister of the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." She also came in for a loud re ception. ' It had been announced that the "black Pattl" would sing. She was not present. C. S. Morris explained her absence as due to a hitch between her two managers. The people accept ed the explanation quietly and were charmed with a substitute, Mme. De seria Plato. She sang Meyerbeer's "Ll etl Signor" most remarkably, being unanimously recalled for an encore. However, this did not exactly satisfy the desire "to hear the diva, and Rev. C. L. Work, a white clergyman from Dayton, Ohio, arose. He secured the chairman's recognition and proceeded in a sharp way to move, that the fac tion which Mr. Morrlss alleged had helped to keep the black Pattl away by belittling the celebration was wor thy nothing but the severest contempt of every colored man In the country and every white man in th ehall. Sec onds bobbed up all around, but Mr. Douglass was slow to take the vote. This hurt the clergyman a bit and he put his own motion. A mighty affirma tive vote was yelled out, which did not at all please Mrs. Hooker. She rushed to the edge of the stage and In her usual animated way demurred. She Insisted that a vote of thanks should be sent the "miscreants" for giving the colored people a chance to show that they had "may more than one Pattl." Later on Manager Pond telegraphed from New York that his star did not appear, because the guar antee money did not reach him by wire until too lute on Thursday to get word to her at Asbury Park In time to catch the last train to Chicago. She has offered to come for concerts Mon day and Tuesday nights. Chicago Ilcra!.!. THE 1IG YERKES TELESCOPE A Manel of tennity To Be Shown .at Chicago. LARGEST IS THE UNIVERSE It Will lie Without a I't-er Aiming the Great Kellertoia of the IHnVront Aa tniiKimlea! Rlntluiia. The "opening exhibit" of the forty Inch Yeres telescope at Chicago this week Is an occurrence of no little in terest to the general public." To both the lay and the scientific mind astron omy is a fascinating study. The stu pendous magnitudes with which it deals and the brilliant beauty of Us phenomena attract while they bewil der.. It offers, moreover, a field of In estimable richness for research and for the enlargement of human knowl edge. But this is a field whose culti vation depends, more than any other, upon the Implements used. Invention is vain; speculation is futile; calcula tion waits on data. Actual observation through powerful Instruments alone can give results and promise of results, and so progress In astronomical knowledge must be measured by the progress made In the manufacture of astronomical Instruments. How much further pi-ogress will be niade, or can be made, In this direction, he would be rash who would attempt to say. No such limit yet apiears as has been reached, for example, in microscopy, and, with the requisite care and skill In casting and grinding glasses, there seems no good reason why telescopes should not be made by far exceeding In size and power the greatest of those now projected. ; . It Is one thing, however, to plan a huge telescope, and even : make Its tube and exhibit It to admiring multi tudes; but It is another and a far dif ferent thing ' to make the lenses and to put the machine Into use. The Lick telescope Is smaller than the Yerkes, yet what a task it was to make Its ponderous objective! Disc after disc of crown glass was cast, at great expense and labor, only to he rejected. Some got broken, some contained flaws, some were spoiled In cooling, some were ruined In annealing. After more than thirty attempts, success was at tained. Then It was the task of more than a year-to grind and polish the disc, and the cure bestowed on the packing and transportation of it was such as no cargo or diamonds ever received. Thla was nn objective thirty six inches In diameter. That of the Yerkes telescope Is forty inches, nnO proportionately more difficult to make. When this great instrument is fin ished, It will be, In bIzo, without a ri val; and though the efficiency of tele scopes does not Increase In equul ra tio with their size. It ought to excel all other In powe. Its nearest com peUtor In size Is the Lick telescope, with Its thlrty-slx Inch disc. Russia boasts one of thirty Inches.' England's largest, In the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, measures twenty-eight In ches, the same as Dr. Draper's largest, and that at Yale. The great telescope at Washington has a lense of twenty six Inches, and that at Princeton of twenty-three. There are other much larger tubes, but they are reflectors, not refractors an entirely different type. Mr. Commons, at Ealing, Eng land, has a superb thlrty-slx Inch re flector. There Is one of forty-eight Inches at Melbourne. The famous Her schel reflector also measures forty eight Inches, while Lord Ross's mighty tube boasts a speculum no less than seventy-two Inches In diameter. How the Yerkes forty-Inch refractor will compare with these may In part be reckoned from the fact that after care ful consideration, the builders of the Lick telescope preferred the thlrty-slx Inch refractor to a proposed seventy-: two-Inch reflector. A possible rival to the Yerkes telescope, and the only one yet heard of, Is the great reflector which M. Deloncle proposes to build for the Paris Exposition of 1900, and which Is to have a speculum a hun dred and eighteen Inches In diameter, and a tube a hundred and thirty-two Highest of all in Leavening power. latest U. S. Gov't Report ! - i - ABSOJJUTELY P2KJ I feet long. But until it is constructed, the mighty Instrument on exhibition at Chicago will be supreme. The following report of Western Or egon weather and crops comes to The Antorlnn from the Portland weather bureau: The weather during the past week was dry, clear and warm, with light to fresh, northwest to northeast winds. The mean temperature ranged from 60 to 68 degrees. The sunshine In creased to above the average, and there were no cloudy mornings. The smoke from forest fires became more dense In the Willamette valley ami In the southern counties. Harvesting and threshing of full wheat in compli-te In many sections. Late sown spring train is being cut. The straw Is short but the heads appear to be well filled. Some spring) wheat In the Willamette valley has been threshed with favor able results, yielding beyond expecta tions. The yield In the coast and south ern 'counties of the state average about twenty bushels per acre, which Is below the, average. In other sections of Western Oregon the average yield Is reached. An average, crop of oafs will be secured In most sections. Some, being sown late, failed to mature and Is being cut for hay. More oats have been cut for hay In Clackamas county than In other sections. The potato crop requires ralri to make an average yield. The crop has suffered most In Bouthern counties. It Is believed .a good rain would mature a large crop in northern counties. Vegetables are plentiful for home consumption. The dry spell failed to Injure vegetables growing In low ground. In dry, elevated places, the drought caused them to fire and burn. Champion prunes Bre ripe and are being shipped to Eastern markets. The muBkmelon crop will not be a suc cess. More favorable reports have been received from Jackson county concern ing the corn crop than from other counties. Under the Influence of the warm, sunny weuther fruit Is matur ing rapidly. There will be an abund ance of plums, pears and prunes gen erally over the state, and In interior counties, the apple crop Is large. Ap ples continue to fall In the northern counties, principally due to the Injuri ous work of the codlln moth. The ap ple crop, as a rule, Is not up to the average. Pastures are falling, and Btock are not looking well. In the coast counties butter making has received a check owing to falling pastures. Re gardless of unfavorable influences the hop crop promises to mature well. It . is estimated that they will be ready to be picked about September 4th. The damnges of hop lice have been unlm portant. There Is also noticeable ab sence of mould. Tho burrs are thickly set. Light frost, which Injured tender nb.nts and vines, occurred on August 2Mh In some sections of the Interior counties. PERSONAL MENTION. Rev. David Dunlop of Portland, went lp the river on the Ocean Wave. Mrs. J. A. Brown .came up from tho beach yesterday and left for her home In Portland, on the Ocean Wave. Mrs. Rockwell and her daughter Mhm Cornelia Rockwell who have been vis iting here for some days, left for Port land on the Ocean Wave yesterday. C. R. F. P..U. NOTICE. Regular monthly meeting of the Columbia River Fishermen's protect ive Union will be held at their read ing rooniB, on Tueslay, September dth,. at 7:30 p. nt. sharp. Members In good standing are re quested to be present and to have their book or receipt along. SOFUS JENSEN, Secretary. . COUNTY ASSESSOR'S NOTICE. The Board of Equalization will meet at the office of the coun ty clerk and publicly examine the assessment rolls of Clatsop county for the purpose of correcting all errors of valuation or description of lands, lots or other property. , It Is the duty of all persons to ap pear at that time If they wish correc tions made, as no corrections or alter ations can be made by any otneer after che adjournment of the board. The board will meet on Monday. August 28th, at 10 o'clock a. m.. and close on Saturday, September 2nd, at 5 p. m. Astoria, August Dth, 1893. B. F. WORSLEY. County Assessor.' A CHANCE FOR HARD TIMES. J. W. Crow Is now prepared to sell the handsomest grades of Wall Paper In the city at the lowest ruling prices, and guarantees good goods. Give him a call before buying elsewhere., Note the address 537 Third street.