The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-21
Letters from New
York.
[FRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

| IRON OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
| New YORK, Feb. 27, 1879.
| ACTOR AND PREACHER.
Moralists can strike an easy balance be-
tween New York's regard for recreation and
and religion respectively, by comparing ac-
tors earnings with preachers Beecher gets
10000; Edwin Booth, 100000 year.
DIR. Hall, of Fifth avenue, and DR.. Dix, of
Trinity, get $4,000; while f. A. sothern
earns over $3.50. 900 as Lord Dundreary, and
John E. Owens plays thirty weeks annually
for $1,000 Tallmage breaches for $l2, 900,
and Joe Jefferson plays forty weeks at Rip
| Van Winkle and earns $l20.0O0. The
scholarly and gifted DIR. Storrs has $4,000
| salary, and Maggie Mitchell earns $500 to
$50, 900. DIR. Cuyler works hard and faith
fully for SS, 600 year, and DIR. Hepworth
for 5000, while Dion Boucicault has just
finished season as the Shaugraun, etc,
at So, 900 a aoeek, and his managers scold
him Ill the public prints because he would
not play longer at the same price.
DIR. Potter, of Grace Church, has $4,000
and a parsonage the eloquent DIR. Tiffany
has 10000; the once vigorous, now vener
able, DR. Chaplin gets $4,000 while pretty
Miss Nelson makes over $3.50, 900 year,
and Fanny Davenport earns 81 ,OoO week,
every week she plays. Common players
get starvation wages, and SO do common
ministers [ know preachers, within IS
miles, who work like beavers for $500 to
$4OO, while the average salary of American
clergymen is about $500-equal to the pay
of a horse-car conductor.
FIRM OF CHILD PoIsoNEHs.
At Blissvile, L. l., is stable. containing
500 cows who never see the sunlight, never
breathe the outer air, take no exercise, stand
month after month in stall 42 inches wide,
live on hot distillery swill-and furnish
milk to our children. Their food and mode
of life have an effect upon the poor creatures
which dare not describe but it produces
what the sanitary officer calls filth-sod-
den atmosphere which the cows breathe
over and over until their lungs become dis
eased and their bodies heated by a consum
ing fever In manly burst of indignation
this official exclaims:
':Could any device of man or fiend be con-
trived which would sooner or more effectu-
ally depopulate community" The Off
GERS asked to see the sick COWS, and were
promptly told there was not sick one in
the stables. They searched till they were
wearied without finding one aoeU coao ! Sew
eral had pleuro- pneumonia, others had :e-
yer, all kidney and bowel trouble. The
cows never leave the stables after entering,
until, giving no more milk, they are sc fat
tened" driven to the slaughter house-and
we eat their poisoned bodies Previous at
tempts have been made to suppress this aw-
full business, but the firm is immensely rich,
and our, local laws proved '' Ineffective"
Now the Governor has taken the case in
hand and the Legislature will be asked for
necessary authority. Indignation finds no
words scorching enough to apply to the men
owning and operating these stables.
ANOTHER OPENING TRADE-HoNEY.
England was startled few weeks ago by
the arrival of so tons of American Honey in
the comb, which was landed in good condi-
ton and sold at fair price. No attempt
had heretofore been made to export honey
in comb, and this successful venture is due
to the enterprise of Messrs. II. K. & F. B.
Thurber & Co., the leading wholesale groc
cry house of New York. From them |
learn the surprising fact that bee culture is
not carried on to any extent in America,
except in New York state and California Il
that California honey. after paying three
cents per pound freight, brings about ten
per cent. less here than state honey, and
that it can be produced proftably at three
to five cents per pound under prudent man
d0en6nG IL UllS Do UFuS WldG d. NtSt dilu
profitable industry it might be made to
America What other sweet can be pro-
duced at that figure? Honey is equally de-
sirable for score of uses with either sugar
or syrup. Why, if it is so much cheaper,
should it not for many purposes supplant
those costly sweets, and become with us, as
with the ancients, an important article OF
food?
England cannot help buying our honey,
for her flora is far inferior to ours IN honey
producing qualities and her farmers still use
the old conical hive and kill their bees to
get the honey. Our clover fields are limit
minishing it's other products, of growing
more honey than New York state now does.
The Pail Mall Gazette commenting on this
initial shipment exclaims "There seems
to be no limit to the provisions with which
America is prepared to supply us. Our
honey crop amounts, with the business in
it's swaddling clothes, to 35 million pounds
One firm paid to one bee-keeper for his sea-
sons crop a sum larger than the salary OF
President Hayes. Over half bees time is
consumed in building the comb cells, but an
enterprising Yankee, Mr.. w. M. Hoge, has
invented beeswax foundation for the comb,
which the bees work over into cells in tri-
fling time, and appear not to know the diff
ference. They insist, however, on pure
wax, and will not work any that is the least
adulterated. Hoge is smart Any man
who can fool a bee deserves a monument
Combs are, besides, being saved by a new
process. The caps or outer ends of the hon
ey cells are shaved off, the comb placed on
a revolving frame, and the honey is expelled
by centrifugal force, and the empty, unin-
jured frame goes back to the hive for refill
ing Is not this growing industry worth
careful consideration by our farmers?
MORLEY.