apers of the state
heralded Professor Griggs's arrival by publishing a full-page article
bearing his photograph and mine and this flamboyant heading:

SHE MADE HIM
And Dr. Shaw's Ideal Man Became the
Idol of American Women and
Earns $30,000 a Year

We had other unusual experiences in California, and the display of
affluence on every side was not the least impressive of them. In one
town, after a heavy rain, I remember seeing a number of little boys
scraping the dirt from the gutters, washing it, and finding tiny nuggets
of gold. We learned that these boys sometimes made two or three dollars
a day in this way, and that the streets of the town--I think it was
Marysville--contained so much gold that a syndicate offered to level the
whole town and repave the streets in return for the right to wash out
the gold. This sounds like the kind of thing Americans tell to trustful
visitors from foreign lands, but it is quite true. Nuggets, indeed,
were so numerous that at one of our meetings, when we were taking up a
collection, I cheerfully suggested that our audience drop a few into the
box, as we had not had a nugget since we reached the state. There were
no nuggets in the subsequent collection, but there was a note which
read: "If Dr. Shaw will accept a gold nugget, I will see that she does
not leave town without one." I read this aloud, and added, "I have never
refused a gold nugget in my life."

The following day brought me a pin made of a very beautiful gold nugget,
and a few days later another Californian produced a cluster of smaller
nuggets which he had washed out of a panful of earth and insisted on my
accepting half of them. I was not accustomed to this sort of generosity,
but it was characteristic of the spirit of the state. Nowhere else,
during our campaign experiences, were we so royally treated in every
way. As a single example among many, I may mention that Mrs. Leland
Stanford once happened to be on a train with us and to meet Miss
Anthony. As a result of this chance encounter she gave our whole party
passes on all the lines of the Southern Pacific Railroad, for use during
the entire campaign. Similar generosity was shown us on every side, and
the question of finance did not burden us from the beginning to the end
of the California work.

In our Utah and Idaho campaigns we had also our full share of new
experiences, and of these perhaps the most memorable to me was the
sermon I preached in