at 3 A.M.  Went at once to my aunt Ann Eliza Dickinson’s and visited with her till 7 o’clock, had breakfast and went to Fort Wayne depot where, as I feared, I found one of my checks called for the wrong piece of baggage; so I took one trunk, left the baggage-master to hunt up the other, and started straight for Washington on a train without a sleeper.

    January 9.—­Passed Pittsburg at 2 A.M.  Breakfasted at Altoona on
    top of the Alleghanies; scenery most beautiful, but not on so grand
    a scale as among the Rockies.

This is the last entry.  It is hardly necessary to add that Miss Anthony reached Washington in time for the opening of the convention on the morning of January 10.  To the question whether she were not very tired, she replied:  “Why, what would make me tired?  I haven’t been doing anything, for two weeks!”

[Footnote 58:  Miss Anthony’s lecture was a decided success, judged either by the number and intelligence of those present or the able manner in which she discussed the salient points pertaining to woman suffrage.  She displayed an ability, conciseness and force that must have carried conviction to every impartial listener....  Her visit here has done more to advance the cause of woman suffrage than can now be fully appreciated.  She has sown the germ of a movement which can not fail to inoculate our people with a belief in the justice of her cause and the injustice of longer depriving the more intelligent, purer and consequently better portion of our inhabitants of that greatest of boons, the ballot.—­Sioux City Daily Times.

Miss Anthony’s lecture was full of good, sound common sense, and an opponent of woman suffrage said it was the best speech he ever heard on the subject.  Wyoming was highly complimented as being the first Territory to recognize the equality of woman, and pronounced as much ahead of her eastern sisters in civilization as she is higher in altitude.  The lecture abounded with gems of wit, humor and pathos, and the audience would willingly have listened another hour.—­Cheyenne Tribune.

The press sneers at Miss Anthony, men tell her she is out of her proper sphere, people call her a scold, good women call her masculine, a monstrosity in petticoats; but if one-half of her sex possessed one-half of her acquirements, her intellectual culture, her self-reliance and independence of character, the world would be the better for it.—­Denver News.

A large and attentive audience filled the Denver theater last night to hear Miss Susan B. Anthony, champion of the “new departure in politics,” called the woman suffrage movement.  The fact that there was not sitting room for all who came is evidence of deep interest in the subject, or great curiosity to hear the lady speak....  It is impossible to give an outline of her speech.  It was a string of strong arguments put in a straightforward, clear and vigorous way, eliciting favor and inviting the attention of the audience throughout.  The lecture was suggestive, and of the kind that sets people to thinking.—­Denver Tribune.]