in the nature of things it must
be so. When that time comes, dear mother, may you fall asleep as
sweetly and softly as did your eldest born; and as the sands of
life ebb out into the great eternal, may all of us be with you to
make the way easy. It does seem too cruel that every one of us must
be so overwhelmingly immersed in work, but may the Good Father help
us so to do that there may be no vain regrets for things done or
left undone when the last hour comes.

A beautiful incident cast a flood of light through the heavy shadows of
this trying year, and made November 27 in truth a day of Thanksgiving
for one brave woman. At his urgent invitation, Miss Anthony had spent
it in the home of her cousin, Anson Laphain, at Skaneateles. After a
pleasant day, as she sat quietly and sadly by the window, watching the
deepening twilight, the noble-hearted cousin took from his desk her
notes for $4,000, which he had so generously loaned her during the
stormy days of The Revolution, cancelled all and presented them to her.
She was overwhelmed with surprise and when she attempted to express her
gratitude, he stopped her with words of respect, confidence and
encouragement which seemed to roll away a stone from her heart and in
its place put new hope, ambition and strength.

[Footnote 68: ... Good and lawful men of the said District, then and
there sworn and charged to inquire for the said United States of
America, and for the body of said District, do, upon their oaths,
present, that Susan B. Anthony now or late of Rochester, in the county
of Monroe, with force and arms,... did knowingly, wrongfully and
unlawfully vote for a Representative in the Congress of the United
States for the State of New York at large, and for a Representative in
the Congress of the United States for said twenty-ninth Congressional
District, without having a lawful right to vote in said election
district (the said Susan B. Anthony being then and there a person of
the female sex), as she, the said Susan B. Anthony then and there well
knew, contrary to the form of the statute of the United States of
America in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the
United States of America and their dignity, etc.]

[Footnote 69: The Twenty-fifth Woman Suffrage Anniversary will be held
in Apollo Hall, New York, Tuesday, May 6, 1873. Lucretia Mott and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who called the first woman's rights convention
at Senec