The manager takes pride in announcing the name of Susan B. Anthony, the most earnest, fearless advocate of the ballot for woman.  She has hitherto confined herself entirely to this one question, which to her is most sacred and righteous, but this season we are to have something different, as will be seen from the titles of her new lectures.  Her great speeches, “Woman and the Sixteenth Amendment,” and “Woman wants Bread, not the Ballot,” will still be called for, and committees will have their choice in all cases....  A certain gentleman frequently wrote us last year to avoid “all night rides” after his lectures; Miss Anthony never makes such a request.  She can lecture every night in the season....  When a list of fifty or one hundred engagements has been mapped out and fixed, nothing but an act of God will prevent her filling them....  Of nearly fifty consecutive lectures, delivered by Miss Anthony last spring in the State of Illinois alone, only two failed to realize a profit....  She is always making converts among the men as well as the women.

Among the notices quoted is one from Col.  John W. Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, saying:  “I must accept woman suffrage as I did negro emancipation; as a necessity made urgent and imperative by the times in which we live.  Put me down then, if you please, as being an ardent woman’s rights man, fighting under the banner of Susan B. Anthony, and proud of following such a leader.”

[Autograph: 

  Very truly yours. 
  J W Forney]

Miss Anthony found both advantages and disadvantages in this new arrangement; for while it relieved her of much responsibility, it took away the control of her own time and movements, a situation which she soon found very trying.  She lectured through February and March, but by this time her sister, Mrs. Hannah Mosher, whose failing health had sent her to Kansas in the hope of benefit, was declared by the physicians beyond recovery.  Miss Anthony’s first impulse was to hasten to her side, but she was confronted with her lecture engagements and told that it would be impossible to release her until May.  She was almost desperate to be with the loved one and at last could bear it no longer, so telegraphing Mr. Slayton to cancel everything after April 5, regardless of consequences, she took the train at Chicago and reached Leavenworth on the 7th.  She found her sister rapidly declining with the same inexorable disease which had claimed another four years before, and at once installed herself beside the invalid, who was rejoiced indeed to have her companionship and ministrations.  All that loving hands could do she had had from husband, children and brothers, but she had longed for the presence of her sister and it filled her with joy and peace.