The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-31

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his enemy, and court records still in
existence show that Paine was, sue
cessful in libel suit against this man.
His habits were those Of his day, ac-
cording to all reliable testimony, and
charges of intemperance brought
against him would apply with equal
greater force to many other great
men Of the republics early history.
He was not little. according to the
Paineites, being of medium stature
and commanding mein.- Certainly he
was not an atheist. since the very
first statement in his great anti-C Chris
tian work. 1.-THE Age of Reason"
reads. Il believe in one God. and No
More.''
A Peaehe Movement.
A movement to bring about period
OF peace, cooperation and arbitration
among the various peace societies of
the country has just been inaugural
ed by President Nicholas Murray But
Ter, of Columbia University. The his
tory of the peace movement in this
country has been marked on more
than one occasion by bitterness and
strife among the members and Off
Gals of the rival societies. AS chair
man of the Lake Mohonk Conference
on International arbitration, President
Butler has formed committee to con-
slider projects for national council
of arbitration and peace whose pur-
pose will be to bring into harmonious
cooperation the different peace and
arbitration societies.
They are Elihu Root, senator from
New York; Andrew Carnegie, honora-
ry president of the New York Peace
Society; Albert K Smiley, organizer
of the Lake Mohonk Conference on
international, arbitration; Benjamin F.
Trueblood, of Boston, secretary Of the
American Peace Society; e. D. War
field of Easton, Pa, president of La
fayette College; Lyman Abbott, OF
New York, editor of the Outlook; Ed
win d. Mead of Boston; George w
Kirchway Kent, professor of law in
Columbia University; James Brown
Scott, solicitor of the Department Of
State, and President Butler.
There is a teacher famine" among
the high schools of the metropolis
and the board of education is expe
riencing much difficulty in securing {
sufficient number Of qualified peda
gogues to take the places which mus
be filled by the beginning of the sec
ond half of the school term, mex
Wednesday. At recent examination
only ninety-five teachers out of as,
applicants qualified for the positions
The examinations in languages ap
pear to be the most difficult for appli
cants. One hundred ana nine tool
Ftthat in German and only Twelve wer,
Z successful, while only nineteen out O
eighty-six passed the examination il
Latin. In English fifty out of fifty
seven failed, and in French five out o
seventeen were successful. OF tn,
thirty-one applicants for position a
clerical assistants only three quail
fed.
The history of our country from tn
early days when only Indians were il
possession up to the Revolutionar.
period, is being taught to the children
of Brooklyn by means of tableaux an
puppets. A summer or two ago /
was discovered that history as laugh
in the public schools in the lowe
grades failed to make any deep i'm
preston on the minds of the young
sters. Miss Agnes Bowen, of tn
Brooklyn Institute Of Arts and ScienG
es, decided that the way to appeal t
the little ones was by actual figure
that they could understand, so sh
planned the little museum of historic
al scenes in wax, china and other ma
til AL-&