Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-09-20

| President Welch, of the Iowa State
Agricultural College, one of the most
efficient institutions III the whole coun
| try, and located the State that has
had more experience with the oranges
than any other, addresses the Patrons
of Husbandry as follows
Our bond of union is the congeniality
of like pursuits. The leading purpose
| of the Farmers College and Farmers
Grange, though gained through different
paths, are largely the same. The grange
seeks to aid the farmerby multiplying his
means of intelligence, by giving him
the mastery of all the better methods
and processes of the farm, by quicken
ing, intensifying, and elevating all the
better elements of his social life. The
grange would secure the farmer against
the torpidity of solitude and the extor-
tions of monopoly ; would kindle in his
breast reader zeal aud steadicr cour.
age, would touch all the labors of his
iitiAo Will IL SioW Vi tllJlluSlaSln anu,
in short, would do for him what skill
fully organized effort has already done
for every other great human industry
on the round earth. All this the grange
aims to do by means which are the most
immediate and direct. All this also the
Farmers College strives to do by an
other method; by giving knowledge
to such as seek it, of all those practical
sciences that underlic the processes of
agriculture ; by training and sending
forth men who may become, as the years
pass, the leaders in the great movement
which the grange has inaugurated. 1t
is in harmony with this noble purpose
that the college, instead of draining the
rural districts of their most promising
youths and graduating them to swell the
over-crowded ranks of law, or to wan
der in perpetual search of vacant pull
pit, sends back the farmers son to the
farm, so educated that he revitalizes all
its operations and gives them a new and
enduring interest Such are the benign
objects which these two great enter
prises are organized to further. And,
mark you, each seeks to accomplish its
aim by conbi1ted effort-the college, on
Il closer and more concentrated plan
the grange on wider and grander scale.
And what effort of man for attainment
of good, or the defense against evil,
has ever reached its final t.iumph, since
the world began, without combined
effort? Combination is, in fact, the
great instrument of progress. Civiliza-
ton would relapse into barbarism with
out it.
FIXES AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS
The North -4mcrican RcUie,c, in II
very readable paper on Fires and Fire
Departments" presents some interest
ing figures in relation to the expense of
the fire departments, and the losses by
fires, in some of the principal cities Of
the country. New York, of course, has
the largest fire department-3S steam
ers and 629 tiremen-requiring an an
nual expenditure of $997, ,226. Phila-
delphia comes next, with "a steamers
and 353 tiremen; yearly expenses,
$407, 737. Boston comes third, with 21
steamers, 459 fremen, and expends
$400,000 per annum. Chicago stands
f,urtb 1e nnr;noo OQJ f;ror,o, o,I
expends $3S2 100. Cincinnati has the
same number of steamers as Chicago,
but employs only 1914 tiremen to man
them her expenditures are almost ex-
actly the same 1881 ,955. st Louis has
II steamers and 10 tiremen, and Balti-
more 10 steamers and 151 firemen the
department of the former costs $3.50, ,315,
and that of the latter $l60, ,635. The
expense per capita of the fire depart
ment is larger in Boston than in any
other city in the country, being 81. 59a !;
it is smallest in st. Louis, 53a cents.
The expense per capita in the other
cities named is as follows New York,
$l.o54 f; Philadelphia, co. cents Chica-
go. $l.2S; Baltimore, 6Os cents I; Gin
cinnati, $l.26i. The total loss by fires
in New York, during the last five years,
is put down at $15, ,S31, $50. Philadel-
phia suffered from the fire fend to the
extent of $l1, ,470,9H during the same
period while Chicago, not counting the
losses by the great fire of October, 1871,
had 50, ,0GS, 04l worth of property swept
away by fire in the past five years. The
losses in Boston in the same time lex
elusive of her great November fire)
were 1921, 11S; i'll st. Louis, 81, 124, :
100 and in Cincinnati, So, ,576, 1876.
ENORMOUS GUNS.
Three powerful vessels have recently
been added to the English navy, and
twenty-five more are in process of con-
StructiOn which will add aiObty fuo