When laboring, in 1874, to fill every engagement, in order to meet her debts, her mother's sudden illness called her home.

Without one selfish regret, the anxious daughter hastened to Rochester.

When recovery was certain, and Miss Anthony was about to return to her fatiguing labors, her mother gave her, at parting, her note for a thousand dollars, on which was written, in trembling lines, "In just consideration of the tender sacrifice made to nurse me in severe illness." At last all the _Revolution_ debt was paid, except that due to her generous sister, Mary Anthony, who used often humorously to assure her she was a fit subject for the bankrupt act.
There is something humorously pathetic in the death of the _Revolution_--that firstborn of Miss Anthony.

Mrs.Laura Curtis Bullard generously assumed the care of the troublesome child, and, in order to make the adoption legal, gave the usual consideration--one dollar.

The very night of the transfer Miss Anthony went to Rochester with the dollar in her pocket, and the little change left after purchasing her ticket.