ENTION OF 1900 CONTINUED.

It had been known for some time before the suffrage convention of Feb.
8-14, 1900, that Miss Anthony intended to resign the presidency of the
national association at that time, when she would be eighty years old,
but her devoted adherents could not resist urging that she would
reconsider her decision. When they assembled, however, they found it
impossible to persuade her to continue longer in the office. The
Washington _Post_ of February 8 said:

Miss Susan B. Anthony has resigned. The woman who for the greater
part of her life has been the star that guided the National Woman
Suffrage Association through all of its vicissitudes until it
stands to-day a living monument to her wonderful mental and
physical ability has turned over the leadership to younger minds
and hands, not because this great woman feels that she is no
longer capable of exercising it, but because she has a still
larger work to accomplish before her life's labors are at an end.
In a speech which was characteristic of one who has done so much
toward the uplifting of her sex, Miss Anthony tendered her
resignation during the preliminary meeting of the executive
committee, held last night at the headquarters in the parlors of
the Riggs House.

Although Miss Anthony had positively stated that she would resign
in 1900, there were many of those present who were visibly
shocked when she announced that she was about to relinquish her
position as president of the association. In the instant hush
which followed this statement a sorrow settled over the
countenances of the fifty women seated about the room, who love
and venerate Miss Anthony so much, and probably some of them
would have broken down had it not been that they knew well her
antipathy to public emotion. In a happy vein, which soon drove
the clouds of disappointment from the faces of those present, she
explained why she no longer desired to continue as an officer of
the association after having done so since its beginning.

"I have fully determined," she began, "to retire from the active
presidency of the association. I was elected assistant secretary
of a woman suffrage society in 1852, and from that day to this
have always held an office. I am not retiring now because I feel
unable, mentally or physically, to do the necessa