man of our time.

Many centuries ago, on the 15th of February, there was born a man
whose name is familiar to every school-child throughout the
civilized world, and yet that man never knew a happy day. He was
reviled, persecuted, martyred, tried, condemned, and died sorrowful
and broken-hearted. And what was his offense? He declared that this
earth turned upon its axis and that it moved around the sun. There
were no newspapers in that day, but every pulpit thundered its
denunciation against the great Galileo. When he was condemned to
die he was compelled to renounce this belief, but under his breath
he said, "The world does move!" A century after he had gone, not a
pulpit in Christendom, not a scholar, was there but knew that he
had told the truth.

It is a curious coincidence that upon the anniversary of the
birthday of Galileo there was born Susan B. Anthony. She also
perceived a great truth and the world did not agree with her. It
reviled her for the belief she had propounded, but in this century
she never renounced that belief, but thundered back to the pulpit
and to the newspapers that the world does move and the time will
come when women shall be free; the time will come when they shall
have every right, every privilege, every liberty which any man
enjoys.... We, today, are making the first pilgrimage to the
birthplace of Susan B. Anthony, but I prophesy that in another
quarter of a century there will be many pilgrimages hither, and no
child will be so illiterate as not to know that in this county it
was this greatest of American women was born.

Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery followed with an entertaining account of her
trip abroad with Miss Anthony and the latter's utter indifference to the
titles of the nobility. As she never could get them right she discarded
all of them and insisted on calling everybody plain "Mr." and "Mrs." She
then related this incident:

We had in our party for a few weeks a couple of English ladies.
When driving in Rome, one of them, a great dame of noble lineage,
was admiring an old palace belonging to some very ancient Roman
family and made the statement that this same family owned five
other famous palaces in Italy. Miss Anthony seemed to be making a
mental calculation, and finally said with enthusiasm, "What a
magnificent orphan