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13 ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE TUESDAY. MARCH 13, 1906 SUSAN B. ANTHONY DEAD; HER LAST THOUGHT OF HER WORK Ruffled Curtains-p8c Pair Ruffled I curtains of bobbinet or muslin, 2 1-2 yds. long, trimmed with renaissance edge and insertion 98c pair. We consider thera bargains.

Wonder how you'd appraise them. LAY UNCONSCIOUS MORE THAN A DAY 0 When Apparently Brightest and Strongest Since Her Illness Had Taken Serious Turn, Famous Woman Was Stricken With the Fatal Seizure Smart Separate Skirts Models That Are Distinctive, as Well as Modish This season, more than ever before, our selection of separate skirts, now nearing completion, will appeal to the most fastidious. That models and materials are modish, and fit and finish faultless, may be taken for granted. Were they not, would they be here That, of course, they must be to be eligible for inclusion in our line. But they are more than that.

They possess another quality without which, from our viewpoint, the others would be of no account. They are imbued with that subtle, indefinable something," styled individuality, which will commend them to women who want something different from the 44 common run and will be content with nothing else. This season's skirts come in what are known as "circular models. Some are plain with vertical plaits and tucks, others with plain or stitched folds at bottom. Some have inverted plaits in the back, others, flat plaits.

In such styles, and many oihers, we show a choice line in the most fashionable fabrics and effects, such as teaching, at the age. of 17 years, in a Quaker family for $1 a week and board. Her experiences in the Quaker boarding school are graphically set forth in her biography. In 182(1, her father removed to Washington county, New York, where he had a large business. ais circumstances were such at this time that be was able to build a brick residence, the finest in that part of the country.

The wisdom of Mr. Anthony's training his girls to self-support was forcibly illustrated when the financial crash of 1S17 caused his failure, and they were able by teaching not only to support themselves, but to assist their father to retrieve his fortunes. The same tireless energy, indomitable will and conscientious perseverance combined with cheerful disposition and a rare sense of justice, which characterized her later years, made Susan a very successful teacher. At the same time she was paid but a month, while the men received from $24 to $4(1 for the same work, not as well performed. ADVOCATES WOMAN'S IUCHTS.

This taught her the first lesson iu woman's rights, and during the fifteen years which she devoted to teaching she mado "many eloquent pleas at the conventions of the New Yolk Stale Teachers' Association, of which she was an active menioer, Tor the recognition of the principle of equal rights for women in all the honors and responsibilities of the association, and for higher wages. In 1815, Miss Anthony removed with her family to Rochester, N. Y. On the day they arrived here. November 14th, her father had only $.10, so it was out of the question for the family to stay in the city over night.

Taking the old gray horse and wagon off the canal boat, with a few necessary articles, the family went at once to the small farm of thirty-two acres that bad been bought three miles west of the city. Among the families in the city the Anthonys found many who shared with them their strong anti-slavery convictions. About this time, too. Miss Anthony began to take an active part in the agitation for temperance. Miss Anthony became a teacher in the Canajoharie Academy, Montgomery county, in 1S40, where she joined the Daughters of Temperance and was made secretary.

At a supper given by this society sua made her first platform address, on the temperance question, which in the minds of many villagers signalized her aa "the smartest woman who ever has been in Canajoharie." PUBLIC LIFE BEGINS. Miss Anthony's public life fairly began in 1852, when she was sent by the Daughters of Temperance to a state mass meeting of the Sons of Temperance at Albany. HADTHOUGHTSHE WAS TO RECOVER 4 Believed She Would Live to Continue Work That She Had Carried On for So Many Years and That Had Made Her Famous and gray, plain or Panamas in black, white, blue checked. Cheviots in black or navy. Voiles in black or new blues.

Sicilians in black, white or navy. Worsteds in gray or tan, solid colors or checks. Fancy mixtures in gray or tan. Moire Antiques in gray or black. Prices range from $4.50 to $23.00.

In black cheviots there are skirts as low as $4.50 and in black Panamas as low as $5.00 not undesirable grades either, but kinds that we can confidently commend. This season we shall make a special feature of extra sizes -that is, skirts with waist bands ranging from 30 to 36 inches. These come in fine black Panamas and range from $5.00 to $9.00. LAST WISH EXPRESS20 BY MISS ANTHONY Feeling that her life could not long Continue, on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week Miss Anthony was evidently disturbed by a desire to express some wish in regard to her will, and on Wednesday she said to her sister: "Write to Anna Shaw immediately and tell her I desire that every cent I leave when I pass out of this life shall be given to the imd which Miss Thomas and Miss Garrett are raising for the cause. 1 have given my Ufa and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have to the last cent.

Tell Anna Shaw to see that thhi is done." In compliance with Miss Anthony's request, Miss Mary Anthony wrote immediately and within an hour after the letter was sent Miss Shaw unexpectedly arrived at Miss Anthony's home. On the following day, when she was permitted to see Miss Anthony for a few moments, Mis Anthony repeated her request and with evident emotion told of her great love an longing for the success of the great cause that "underlies all reforms the greatest boon of all freedom." Miss Anthony urged Miss Shaw and her sister to see that her wish was carried out at ones. She had no thought but fo her life's work and the workers, declaring that both were, as ever, dearer 'to he than her life. During the discussion among the men she rose to speak, but was not allowed to do it. To speak in public was unheard of in a woman, and her action caused consternation among the men and horror and indignation against "the bold thing'' among the women present.

The presiding officer, with all the dignity at his command, in a voice that was meant to settle the question forever, then and there, informed Susan that women were not expected to "spak in meeting," but to be spectators only, a rebuke which only acted as a firebranf to one of her temperament. She, with half a dozen others, marched out of the hall and went to the residence dles of her babies those trumpet calls to freedom that began and carried forward of Lydia Mott, a cousin of Lucretia Mott, where an impromptu indignation meeting was held. It was then determined to call a woman's femperanee meeting in one of the emancipation of women, and the day, New Domestic Rags The Choicest Line We Have Ever Shown Yesterday we told you something about our Oriental rugsa showing of which we are pardonably proud. To-day let us emphasize domestics. In this branch of the business we are just as strong as in the other.

And that is saying a great deal, for in that department, as in others, we have been steadily gaining ground, each season show ing larger and choicer assortments and widening the circle of our clientele. What's the secret of such success Knowing how, when and where to buy In part, yes, but only in part. There's a deeper, subtler reason. It's good taste in selectionthe choosing of unobtrusive, yet effective, patterns of rich, though subdued, colorings. So, if your tastes incline in that direction, if the best, the most artistic, be none too good for you, you cannot afford to ignore our line.

A hint as to the range eighteen monchs ago, when that treat au dience in Berlin rostt to do yon honvr, thousands of women from every country in the civilized world, with full p.ves and lumps in flieir throats, because of what they owed you. Of such as you were the lines of the poet Keats written "Tbey shall be remembered forever, They shall be ailve forever, They shall be speaking forerer. The people shall bear them forever." Sus.m B. A nthkroy dil at 12:40 o'clock this morning at her Madison street home. Kh dM not rejoin consciousness after heart seizure Sunday afternoon.

At her bedside when the end came were Mary S. Anthony, her aiswr; Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, of Philadelphia: Miss Lacy Anthony, a niece, of Philadelphia; Dr. Hicker, who attended her throug'hou't her illness, and her two faithful nurses. MUs M.

A. Shanks and Mists Mabel Nichols. Dr. Ricker said: "Miss Anthony di'd of heart failure, induced by pneumonia of both lungs. She had had serimre valvular heart trouble for the last six or seven years.

Her lungs were practically clear and the pneumonia had yielded to treatment, but the weakness of her heart prevented recovery." Itev. Anna Shaw said: "On Sunday, about two hours before she became unconscious, I talked wirb Miss Anthony. She (aid: To think I have had more than sixty-six years of hard strurzle for a little liberty, and then to die without It seems so "I replied: 'Tour legacy will be freedom for all womankind ufrer you are g'Wie. Your splendid struggle has changed life for woman She replied: 'If it has, I have lived to some and she begged me to promise that I and her niece. Miss Lucy Anrhony.

would stand together until the end of our lives and work faithfully for the cause, as ha and her sister Mary had. "Miss Anthony said of all workers: "Their faces pass before me one by one. I cannot call their names, but they are a host of loyal, splendid women and I love them every one. How smod everybody has been to me! I wonder if we kuall know In the hereafter. If we do I shall be with you when yon win OregoiT and in every campaign for Then she added wirh a smile: 'Perhaps I can do more over yonder than I did Her work was her one thought." Cnril 8:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon It was supposed that Miss Anthony was oat of danger and that recovery whs a matter of only a few days.

A sudden pain in the cardiac region, followed almost by a lapue into a comatose srate, at that hour gave warning that the nd was not far distant. The strain of lier lingering illness had been too much for her. At 5 o'clock Sunday night lT. M. S.

Kicker said that there was no hope. This from Dr. Kicker, following so closely a few hopeful hours in whiuh the sufferer had talked cheerfully of the great movement in which she was interested, came as a crushing blow to Miss Mary Anthony, Ir. Anna H. Shaw and other who have maintained a vigd at the bod-aide.

To Miss Lucy Anrhony, of Plit.a-delphia, secretary to Dr. Siiaw, was it a particularly severe blow. At about -o'clock in the afternoon she had received telegram in Philadelphia that her aunt was gaming strength. The uotiflcation of the sudden sinking spell followed immediately. Miss Anthony left at once for liocbester, joining others beloved by Miss Susan in She Madison street home.

When Susan B. Anthony wut to Baltimore to attend the national convention of the Woman's Suffrage Association, she was in good health. On her homoward trip it was planned that she should be entertained in New York at a dinner in honor of her Slith birphday, February 2'Vh. Ad attack of neuralgia came on suddenly Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820, at the foot of "Old Grayloek," a spur of the Green mountains, about a mile east of the villRge of Adams, Mass.

The home in which she first saw the light of day is a substantial two-story frame dwelling, made from timber given her father by her grandfather, with the proviso that he go up into the mountains French Wilton Rugs $48.00. Anglo Persian Rugs $48.00. Cashmere Rugs $6.00 to $11.00. Ingrain Art Squares $4.50 to $8.00. Tapestry Brussels Rugs $9.50 to $18.00.

Wilton Velvet 18.00 to $22.50. Body Brussels Rugs $22.50 to $25.00. Wilton to $35.00. and hew the timber nimself. This he did, and his father-in-law gave mm the land on which the house was built.

phia, to Rochester. They were all with Miss Anthony last nifht. SI'OKE ONCE INDISTINCTLY. Th watch of. Sunday night tried the souls of all in the house.

Dr. Kicker believed that each hour would see the end. Once Miss Anthony spoke indistinctly. Dr. Shaw tried in vain to catch the words her lips formed.

Holding the hand or the delirious patient, Dr. Shaw told off the pulfe beats, her heart wrapped not In the suffragist cause, but in the being a life longfriend. Quietness followed the delirium. During the morning hours there was no change. Hourly bulletins from the- Anthony home were almost identical: "She is still breathing; is very low." With the morning came a fresh hope.

A wonderful vitality lighting the advance of death inch by inch appeared to be gaining ground. A sinking condition that made itself manifest at about 9 o'clock blasted this faint hope. Those in the house were Called to the bedside. The pulse was almost Imperceptible. The temperature was cooling and respiration was fainter.

Dr. Kicker resorted to emergency aids. There came a lull. Again the magniheent vitality of the woman checked death as it seemed about to claim ber. Dr.

Shaw mired at 10 o'clock exhausted and Miss Lucy Anthony took up the watch. A telegram waR sent to Daniel R. Anthony, a nephew, of Leavenworth, Kan. Ilased on the bulletin of Dr. Hicker, it read: "Little or no hope." In connection with this telegram, the Associated Press last night sent out the following from Leavenworth: R.

Anthony, editor of the Leavenworth Times, nphcw of Miss Anthony, and his mother, Mrs, D. U. Anthony, left today for Rochester." REMAINED CNCONSCICOS. Miss Anthony did not regain consciousness during the day. At 8 o'clock last night a reporter who called at the Anthony home was told by Miss Lucy Anthony that there had been no change iu the condition of her aunt.

Miss An his house still stands, remarkably well preserved, and was visited bv Miss An thouy in 1M)7, when sne wa3 the guest of the Historical and Scientific Society of Tafee Cafe of Yotir Eyes nerksnirc. the chnrchen on the -'following evening. This was do and a notice of it was published by Thurlow Weed, a life-long friend of Miss Anthony, in his paper. During these years, when she was wry active in the temperance movement, Mies Anthony's determination to work for greater freedom for women became the great motive of her life, and her conviction became established that, to secure it, the privileges of the franchise must be gained for her sex. She allied herself with the suffrage movement, to which she gave more or less of her time, leaving the work of other reforms largely to others.

It was about that time that Miss Anthony met Elizabeth Cady SWnton. A warm friendship was formed between them, which lasted during their entire lives, and for many years they were co-operators in all movements for the advancement of women. Theii friendship was eulogized by Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blnteb, of London, England, daugnter of Mrs. Stan'on, at Miss Anthony's SOth birthday jubilee In Washington SEN1CA FALLS CONVENTION'.

The first Woman's Rights Convention was held in Seneca I' ails in July, 1848, and it was adjourned to meet in Rochester on August 2d. Miss Anthony's father, mother and sister Mary attended it and signed the declaration demanding equal rights for women. On September 8, ISM, Miss Anthony went to her first Woman's Rights Convention, which was held in Syracuse. She was one of the leading spirits of the convention. The advanced position taken by it gave rise to discussions and controversies in press and pulpit for months after its close.

No little commotion was caused at meeting of the State Teachers' Convention in this city, in when Miss Anthony claimed the privilege of speaking. She bad abandoned teaching the year before, but had a seat in the convention by paying the fee of $1. While many women teachers were in attendance, none of them had had any word to offer. The question, "Why is the profession of teaching not aa mwh respected as that of lawyers, doctors and ministers?" was being discussed near the Miss Anthony came of a nigged Yankee stock, her father, Dankd Anthony, belong ing to the strictest Quaker sect, and her mother, Lucy Reed, being a Baptist. Miss Anthony was a descendant of a long line of distinguished ancestry on both the tm- 5 1 I I A ternal and the maternal sides of the family.

The genealogical tieeofthe Anthonvsdatea back to "William, born in Cologne, Oer-niany, who came to England during the reign of Edward VI, and wiis made chief graver of the royal mint and master of the scales, holding this office through the reigus of Edward and Maty, and part of that of Elizubeth," as stated by is Anthony's biographer. "His crest and coat Your life is before you. Can you make the most or it with poor vision? If sight be a priceless blessing and blindness an appalling affliction, are we not justified in impressing upon you the importance of caring for your eyes Our optician, L. L. Mincer, can be consulted at your convenience.

Why not avail yourself of the opportunity Glasses, If Needed, From $1.00 Upward McCutdy NoiweU Co. of arms are entered in the royal enumeration." There were many distinguished lineal descendants, among them being oiip Ir. Francis Anthony, born in London in 1350, and a handsome monument erected to him in te Church of St. Bartholomew the Great still stands. The American blanch of the family sprang from the son of Dr.

FrancU, also a distinguished physician, whose sou, John, saiied for America in the ship Hercules, April lfi, 1(134, settling in Portsmouth, R. I. Miss Anthony is a direct descendaut of this early pioneer, whose descendants were all of the best, sturdy New ringland blood. On the maternal side Miss Anthony is entitled to the coat of arms of Sir Krianus de Rede. 107a, of whom her maternal grandfather was a lineal descendant.

Both her parents were of libersl religious teudt-ncies, and remarkably broad in their views of life and social amenities. Easily thony said she had just finished reading in the Woman's Journal the address given by Dr. M. Carey Thomas president of Bryn Mawr, on college woman's night at the Baltimore convention. "There is a part of this address," said Miss Lncy, "referring directly to Anut Susan, which I think is the finest thing I have ever read concerning her." Miss Anthony pointed ont the paragraphs in Question, which are appended: "We who are guiding this movement today, owe the profoundest debt of gratitude to those early pioneers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward close of the second day's meeting.

A lively debate followed Miss Anthony's request to be heard. After having gain-l the privilege, she said: "Mr. President and Gentlemen, I have listened with attention to your on the ISth, and instead of going to New York Miss Anthony came home. ATTACK OK PNEUMONIA. Pneumonia developed and for days women and men the nation over watched for bulletins from the bedside.

On March 5th, a week ago yesterday, double pneumonia et in. Miss Anthony showed remarkable vitality, surprising even those most familiar with her physical strength. A collapse of the stomach unexpectedly occurred. Miss Anthony was unable to retain nourishment. On Saturday there came return to the normal.

Miss Anthouy was strong in mind, 'but thera were Indications of failing strength. The gloom of doubt shadowed the hearts discussions, and I do not think you comprehend the cause of this disre-soect teachers. So long as society says a woman has not brains to be a lawyer, a preacher or a doctor, but has sufficient brains to be a tescher. do you not see that every man of you who condescends to teach school virtually acknowledses that he has no more brains than a woman?" Dr.Day SPECIALIST Consumption, Catarrh and distates I the Throat, Liver and Sexual Organs. Consultation Froa and Private at Honsa Oflica I traceable in the life and character of the I daughter are those element of independ-I ence and progression transmitted through From this time till the year 180 when of those gathered at the bedside all day i Sunday until at 1 o'clock Miss Shaw en- tcred the sick room before leaving to keep I a dinner engagement Dr.

Shaw found Miss Anthony eager to talk. She told Dr. the movement for equal wages for women was checked by the Board of Education Spring Opening MILLINERY, SUITS AND COATS SHOE This season we have made extensive improvements in our stores and our assortment was never more complete. Our display days are Wednesday and Thursday. March 14 and 15 Take advantage of the opportunity of seeing all that new and good In Women's, Misses' and Infants' wsar.

FRED L. MYERS in this citv. after advancine the salaries of the men. the woman teachers always had a champion In Miss Anthony. ADOPTS BLOOM Ett COSTUME.

Miss Anthony was on of the last of the woman reformers of her time to adopt the bloonw costume. It was not till December of 18T.2, hile on a visit to Mm. Stan Howe, and, above all and beyond all, to Susan B. Anthony. Other women reformers, like other men reformers, have given part of their time and energy.

She has given to the cause of women every year, every month, every day, every hour and every moment of her whole life, and every dollar she conld beg or earn, and she has earned thousands and begged thousands more. LOVE AND GRATITUDE HERS. "To most women it is given to have returned to them in double measure the love of the children they have nurtured. To you, Misa Anthony, belongs by right as to no other woman in the world's history, the love and grati.ude of all womn In every country of the civilized globo. We, your daughters in the spirit, rise op to-day and call yon blessed.

"In those far-off days when oar mothers' mothers sat contented in the darkn as, you, our champion, sprang fortl to battle for na, equipped and shining. Inspired by a prophetic vision of tie future, like that of the apostles and martyrs, and the boat of your bat'le has lasted more than 8f-y jeers. Two genrstioiM of m-n be between the rime when, in the ear! 6f'ies, yon and Mrs. Cady Stanton togerfcer ta New York state, irriting over the cra ton, that she affected "short skirt nd ouaw in piaus sue uau iyr lue sum ago work as soon as she became strong enough to attend to her duties. She took nourishment and said she relished it.

Then It was that Miss Shaw telegraphed to Miss Lncy Anthony that her aunt was improving. After the attack of heart trouble Miss Anthony's only s.gn of life was a feeble pule and labored breathing. Dr. Shaw and Mias Mary remained at the bedside the greater part of the night, and Dr. M.

S. Ricker did not leave the house from the time Mias Anthony was stricken Sunday afternoou until yesterday afternoon, when she went out to call on another patient. Sh returned almost immediately. trousers." as she expressed it. At this the parents, and later strengthened and intensified by education and environment.

ASPIRED TO "Ulan SEAT." In ber chiKia years, Susan belonged to the Quakers, and had an aspiration to "high sat" dignity, but this tendency she later outgrew, owing to the fact that her father was finally expelled from the order, as bis worldlinesa could no longer be endured. Previous to this final severance from the Quakers, be had received a public reprimand for wearing a comfortable cloak with a long cape. Mr. Anthony was one of the wealthiest men in that section, being the owner of a large cotton mill, and it was here that Susan earned ber first dollar, by taking the place of one of the "hands" who fell ill. Though a aiaa of wealth, Mr.

Anthony believed thoroughly in equal education and self-support for his sons and daughters. At tins time school teaching was about the only vocation open to girls, and for this Suan was thoroughly fitted by attending a select school at home and. later, a boarding school in the village of Hamilton, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Before attending the school at Hamilton, she was time Miss Anthony also bad her hair cut Bhort, a did the other women reformers, and probably this one thing did more to Room 1 Poaars Block, Bochoatar aiurljr, IU A. i.

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DAY. n. D. antagonize and prejudice the world against woman suffrage or "woman rigftte, as it was then known, than anything else. Miss Antbonv herself always doubted the wis 27.29-31 Frout Street Open Evenings dom of trying to launch two reforms at the same time.

What she endured in rpirit Later sue weut out agan, to return at 8 during the period of a little more than a year in which she clung to her "trousers' is best described in her own words: o'clock. Telegrams sent to relatives brought Margaret McLean Haker. of Coicago; Miss Lncy Anthouy, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. llelen Mosher James, of I'hiladel- D. C.

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