heavenly knowledge."

X. THE PASSING OF "AUNT SUSAN"

On one occasion Miss Anthony had the doubtful pleasure of reading her
own obituary notices, and her interest in them was characteristically
naive. She had made a speech at Lakeside, Ohio, during which, for the
first time in her long experience, she fainted on the platform. I was
not with her at the time, and in the excitement following her collapse
it was rumored that she had died. Immediately the news was telegraphed
to the Associated Press of New York, and from there flashed over the
country. At Miss Anthony's home in Rochester a reporter rang the bell
and abruptly informed her sister, Miss Mary Anthony, who came to the
door, that "Aunt Susan" was dead. Fortunately Miss Mary had a cool head.

"I think," she said, "that if my sister had died I would have heard
about it. Please have your editors telegraph to Lakeside."

The reporter departed, but came back an hour later to say that his
newspaper had sent the telegram and the reply was that Susan B. Anthony
was dead.

"I have just received a better telegram than that," remarked Mary
Anthony. "Mine is from my sister; she tells me that she fainted
to-night, but soon recovered and will be home to-morrow."

Nevertheless, the next morning the American newspapers gave much
space to Miss Anthony's obituary notices, and "Aunt Susan" spent some
interesting hours reading them. One that pleased her vastly was printed
in the Wichita Eagle, whose editor, Mr. Murdock, had been almost her
bitterest opponent. He had often exhausted his brilliant vocabulary in
editorial denunciations of suffrage and suffragists, and Miss Anthony
had been the special target of his scorn. But the news of her death
seemed to be a bitter blow to him; and of all the tributes the
American press gave to Susan B. Anthony dead, few equaled in beauty and
appreciation the one penned by Mr. Murdock and published in the Eagle.
He must have been amused when, a few days later, he received a letter
from "Aunt Susan" herself, thanking him warmly for his changed opinion
of her and hoping that it meant the conversion of his soul to our Cause.
It did not, and Mr. Murdock, though never again quite as bitter as he
had been, soon resumed the free editorial expression of his antisuffrage
sentiments. Times have changed, however, and to-day his son, now a
member of Congress, is one of our strongest supporters in that body.

In 1905 it became plain that Miss An