er such queries,
but her comments while looking them over in her daily mail, if preserved
by stenographer and historian, would make piquant reading.

An amusing letter turns up among the almost nine hundred received in
1897, in which a county official, not seventy-five miles from Rochester,
asks these questions: "In how many cities have you spoken? How many
lectures delivered? Have you ever spoken in Washington before Congress?
Have you ever spoken in Albany before the legislature? How many people
would you think you had addressed in your lifetime?" Miss Anthony
responded: "It would be hard to find a city in the northern and western
States in which I have not lectured, and I have spoken in many of the
southern cities. I have been on the platform over forty-five years and
it would be impossible to tell how many lectures I have delivered; they
probably would average from seventy-five to one hundred every year. I
have addressed the committees of every Congress since 1869, and our New
York legislature scores of times."

As has been stated, she never replied to personal attacks, but during
1897 one so unjust and so bitter was made by a disgruntled woman of New
York City in the St. Louis Republic, that she yielded to the importunity
of friends and answered briefly:

I have been an officer in the National Suffrage Association since
1852, and its president since 1892. During that time I never have
had one dollar of salary, nor have I ever received any money for my
suffrage work from this association. I usually am paid for
lectures by any society which sends for me to come to a special
place. In all of the laborious State campaigns I have given my
services without money and without price. The various bequests
which have been left to me, to use at my discretion, all have been
appropriated directly to the suffrage cause. Not one officer of the
national association is or ever has been paid for her services, and
most of them have contributed many years of hard work and a large
amount of their own money.

By the middle of July the biography was so well advanced that the two
workers felt entitled to a vacation during midsummer. The completed
chapters were locked securely in the safety deposit vault and, with a
fervent hope that the house would not catch fire and burn up the
unwritten part of the book during their absence, they started, July 15,
for a little tour, going fi