Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-01-11
Here and There.

ers and mothers, whose one hundreQtn
anniversary of birth is to be celebrated
this year Is Mary A. Livermore, teacher,
preacher, lecturer, editor and writer.
She was born in Boston Dec. 10, 1921.
She was educated in the public schools
Of that city and the Charleston Female
Seminary, where she later taught. She
also taught in Vermont, and conducted
q plantation school in Virginia. Be
cause of this she became an Abolitionist.
Her maiden name was Mary Ashton
Rice but in 1S45 she married Daniel
Parker Livermore, a Universslist clergy
man, and took up preaching herself.
So well did she succeed that her run
ming mate soon became known as Mrs.
Livermore's husband. In Chicago the
pair conducted q religious weekly,
known as The New Covenant. She
early became connected with the Wash.
iDgtonisn temperance movement and
took up female suffrage. In 1859 she
founded The Agitator in Chicago, which
the next year was merged with The
Womsn's Journal of Boston, and of this
paper she was one of the editors until
her death, which occurred May %, 1905.
She was the author of several books. A
glance at the foregoing will convince
any reader that Mrs. Livermore was q
crank In her day and generation, there
fore she has won Immortality, which is
the heritage of cranks. Common ortho-
dox saints may get little glory In their
day but when they die they are dead.
With John Boyle O'Reilly one can say
"The dreamer lives forever
But the worker dies In day."
1t is on the authority of no less man
than Oliver Wendell Holmes In bis last
book, "Over the Tesoups," that one
finds crank sis a man who does his
own thinking There never
was an idea started that woke up men
ont of their stupid Indifference but its
originator was not spoken of as crank. "
Mrs. Livermore has won her immor-
tslity.
Another notable person has gone,
Ferdinand Thum. Thum invented
sticky hy-psper. The world may have
risen up and called him blessed at some
time because of this invention, but not
any one If they happened to sit down on
q sheet. And the flies-they never call
ed him blessed. With them be was put
down with the makers of machine guns
and toxic gases. II one ever did wrig-
gle out of the sticky mass, sans legs and
wings, he or she probably felt like q
Congo negro who had had one arm cut
of TO prevent stealing and one leg cut
off to prevent running away by the
humane and Christian Europeans, who
went down there to exploit them.
Charlie Scholll Do the readers hap
pen 10 know who Charlie Scholl Is? II
Is dollars against doughnuts the major
ity of them don't; yet Ii is undenisble
he has made more regulations In the
United States than any other one man.
Charlie is leader of the cheer clsque In
the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York City. A prima donna is nothing
unless she gets applause, and she is not
certain Of it unless she hires man like
Charlie with strong hands to lead OF.
You may think prims donna Is vain.
She is, but not more so than members
of other professions who spend dollars
and dollars for publicity.
Criminal activities have been greater
during the past year than at any time
since 1897, says the secret service depart
ment at Washington, D. C. More ar
rests have been made In 1920 than In
any year since that mentioned above
Bank robbers have been unusually busy.
Forged checks have been uttered to q
large extent, the average number being
two hundred and forty q month. The
reason for all this criminal activity can
only be guessed at, but 1t is laid to the
war, IS wave of crime usually follows
such abnormal conditions.