lmost. Then I remember that the promise
is to those only who hold out to the end--and nerve myself to go
forward. I am grateful nowadays for every kind word and every dollar."
On the back is inscribed: "My pride would not let me send this, and I
substituted merely a cordial note of thanks." Her letters home during
this dark period are too sacred to be given to the public. The mother
and sisters were distressed beyond expression at the merciless
criticism and censure with which she had been assailed, and begged her
to withdraw from it all to the seclusion of her own pleasant home, but
when she persisted in standing by her ship, they aided her with every
means in their power. Her sister Mary loaned her the few thousands she
had been able to save by many years' hard work in the schoolroom, and
the mother contributed from her small estate.

Her brother Daniel R., a practical newspaper man, assured her that he
was ready at any time to be one of a stock company to support the
paper, but that it was useless to sink any more money in the shape of
individual subscriptions. He urged her to cut down expenses, make it a
semi-monthly or monthly if necessary, but not to go any more deeply in
debt, saying: "I know how earnest you are, but you stand alone. Very
few think with you, and they are not willing to risk a dollar. You have
put in your all and all you can borrow, and all is swallowed up. You
are making no provision for the future, and you wrong yourself by so
doing. No one will thank you hereafter. Although you are now fifty
years old and have worked like a slave all your life, you have not a
dollar to show for it. This is not right. Do make a change." Her sister
Mary spent all her vacation in New York one hot summer looking after
the business of the paper, while Miss Anthony went out lecturing and
getting subscribers. After returning home she wrote:

You can not begin to know how you have changed, and many times
every day the tears would fill my eyes if I allowed myself a moment
to reflect upon it. I beg of you for your own sake and for ours, do
not persevere in this work unless people will aid you enough to do
credit to yourself as you always have done. Make a plain statement
to your friends, and if they will not come to your rescue, go down
as gracefully as possible and with far less indebtedness than you
will have three months from now. It is very sad for all of us to
feel that you are w