es, above all her expenses, $1,300. She always felt
that, with this source of revenue, she could have sustained and in time
put it on a paying basis, as her subscription list was rapidly
increasing, she had learned the newspaper business, and The Revolution
was gaining the confidence of the public. But the experience came too
late and she was driven to the wall--not a single friend would longer
give her money, assistance or encouragement to continue the paper. To
this day, she will take up the bound volumes with caressing fingers,
touch them with pathetic tenderness, and pore over their pages with
loving reverence, as one reads old letters when the hands which penned
them are still forever.

Miss Anthony did not waste a single day in mourning over her great
disappointment. In fact, between May 18, when she agreed to give up The
Revolution, and May 22, when the transfer actually was made, she went
to Hornellsville and lectured, receiving $150 for that one evening.
There are not many instances on record where a woman starts out alone
to earn the money with which to pay a debt of $10,000. Very few of the
advocates of woman suffrage contributed a dollar toward the payment of
this debt, which had nothing in it of a personal nature but had been
made entirely in the effort to advance the cause. Miss Anthony worked
unceasingly through winter's cold and summer's heat, lecturing
sometimes under private auspices, sometimes under those of a bureau,
and herself arranging for unengaged nights. As she had all her expenses
to pay and continued to contribute from her own pocket whenever funds
were needed for suffrage work, it was six years before "she could look
the whole world in the face for she owed not any man."

She started at once on a western tour, lecturing through Ohio, Kansas
and Illinois, speaking in the Methodist church at Evanston, June 3,
1870. Dr. E.O. Haven, president of the university, (afterwards Bishop)
in presenting her endorsed woman suffrage. At Bloomington she held a
debate with a young professor from the State Normal School. The manager
asked if she would take $100 instead of half the receipts, as agreed
on. She replied that if the prospects were so good as to warrant him in
making this offer, she was just Yankee enough to take her chances. This
was a shrewd decision, as her half amounted to $250. The professor
opposed the enfranchisement of women because they could not fight. As
is the case invariably with men