Bluefield Evening Leader

"To think that I have had more than six years' struggle for a little liberty, and then to do without it- it seems so cruel."

These were Susan B. Anthony's words on her deathbed. But will this splendid struggle go down in the annals of failure because woman's emancipation, as she understood it, is as yet unaccomplished in a few Western States?

While striving for woman suffrage Miss Anthony accomplished more good in the cause of women than she seems to have realized. Woman's right to an education, her successful advent in the business world, her wide influence in all matters connected with the educating and training of children, the weight of her opinion in furthering clean, nonpartisan government of cities--who can say how many of the privileges women now enjoy are due to the efforts of this wonderful woman who died thinking her life a failure?

Like many other world benefactors, she fell short of her aim, but still did more for humanity than she set out to do.

Tyndall, while experimenting on heat, hit upon a sure method of killing bacteria-a discovery of inestimable value to science and sufferers.

Pestalozzi, the wild-eyed, illiterate Swiss, who insisted on the study of child nature in order that men might be properly trained along natural laws for progressive work, failed utterly in carrying out his ideas. Yet in his failure there was success. Froebel and others have worked out a system of education which meets the individual needs of all alike. Schools for every kind of special work, manual training schools and trade schools have all sprung from the seed-thought of Pestalozzi.

Miss Anthony, with her enthusiasm her untiring activity, her strong stand for what she thought was just, has inspired thousands of men and women to work with like enthusiasm and with the same moral staunchness for the progress and development of womanhood,

The forces for good set into activity by her will never die.

Far from failing, she achieved a success that will continue to grow and brighten till the end of time.

And thus may every great life be judged not by what it harvests, but by what it sows.