Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-07
MINOR NOTES.

Additional reports from Apia give par
ticulars of the work of the joint high com
mission in arranging for a stable govern
ment for the islands, indicating that the
matter is being arranged satisfactorily, and
that the kingship will be abolished.
The Heating bicycle factory is closed at
Middleton, Conn, and over 200 employees
are idle. Work will be suspended for an
indefinite time. The factory's uncertain
relation with the newly formed bicycle
trust is the cause of the suspension.
Henry W. Tewksbury, town clerk of
Randolph, widely known as lecturer, was
taken to the state asylum for the insane at
Waterbury last week. Mr.. Tewksbury
was badly injured in the Hartford bridge
disaster several years ago and never fully
recovered.
1t is shown in recent statement from
the German government that the value of
United States exports to Germany in
creased by S42, 100000 over that of the ex-
ports for the previous year, while imports
to this country from Germany diminished
by S17,000,000. The actual excess of
trade in favor of the United States was
S13l, ,13S,0 600. Five years ago the balance
was in favor of Germany.
Arioch Wentworth of Boston gave Mon
day $4,000 to the Wentworth Home for
the Aged, which was founded at Dover,
n. H., through his gift of $4,000, and
cd
who is now in his s7th year, is one of the
largest individual tax payers in Boston.
He spent his boyhood in Dover, and was
born in Rollinsford, an adjoining town.
He gave $4,000 less than year ago to
the children's home in Dover
There is a remarkable paper in The
Forum this month on "The Future of the
Negro, o,"-remarkable in that it plainly tells
the negro there is no future for him in
this country. The author is President
w. II. Couucill of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College for Negroes, at Nor
NAL, Alabama. As boy he worked in
the fields with other slaves, but by dint of
great perseverance and earnest study sue
| NcNNcu III Huohi9 iiS hilhoCll IOI tut pIO-
fession of teaching. About 25 years ago
he founded the great institution at Nor
NAL, of which he has ever since been the
president. Mr.. Council argues that
neither education nor religion will solve
the race problem, and that the best thing
the negro can do is, without thought of
solving it, to go right on, educating him
self into a polite, aw-abiding, peaceful,
industrious man in his own sphere.
The children of the late President Hayes
have offered their old home, known as Spie.
gal Grove, near Fremont, Ohio, to the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical society
on condition that a permanent fund Of
$25, 900 be raised, the income thereof &c
be used for the proper care and preserva
tion of the buildings and the historical
treasures now contained therein. Spiega
Grove is wooded tract of 25 acres, neal
the lower falls of the Sandusky river, anC
is point of great historical interest. Ii
is an old Indian reservation, and was esC
occupied for a long period prior to the
Revolutionary war. Just before the wa
of 1912 Fort Stephenson was built, and be
came famous through Major George Gro
ghan's gallant defence of it against tn,
combined attack of naval and land forces
of Great Britain under Proctor, and In
dians under Tecumseh, in August, 1918.