President Roosevelt, in an address before the National Education Society, department of superintendence, says: "I trust that more and more of our people will see to it that the schools train toward and not away from the farm and the workshop.
The of the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial Education says: "Boys and girls, young men and young women, are not only not directed toward the trades in our existing schools, but are often actually directed away from them by the bookish education of those schools and their purely academic traditions.
Sensational disclosures are contained in a report furnished to the New York Fire Commissioner by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, showing the result of an examination of the city's fire hose by experts of the National Board.
To balance the millions of dollars paid in taxes by the West for river and harbor improvements in the United States, the business men of four western States, it is said, will petition Congress to appropriate one million dollars for a wagon road one thousand miles long, to be built from the Yellowstone National Park to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona.
The Secretary of the Interior, in his annual report, says that in the General Land Office 29,997,566 acres were disposed of, for which the Government received $9,547,273.
The General Land Office asks for an appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars to carry on the field work of the bureau in the protection of the public lands.
The policy of Government control of grazing lands, in and out of forest reserves, was unanimously indorsed by the forest reserves grazing land committee of the National Livestock Association at Denver last week, and also by the convention of the Colorado Horse and Cattle Growers' Association.
The Nautical Training School Commissioners of Massachusetts, who oversee the schoolship Enterprise, assert as evidence of the increasing popularity of nautical training school education for the needed preparation of officers for the merchant marine, that requests have lately been made by Cleveland, O.
Suits against the American Sugar Refining Company to recover several millions of dollars of which, it is charged, the Government has been defrauded in the last ten years, are to be begun by the United States Department' of Justice as soon as the computation of the total amount of the Government's claim is completed by Treasury officials now engaged in the work.
The delegates to the Central American Peace Conference, which met at Washington to formulate a treaty for the maintenance of peace between the five Central American republics, have agreed upon a treaty, which will be submitted to their various governments for ratification.
