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Mr. . A sting near an artery will often cause them to turn sick. I have 



tried this. The flow of blood carries the poison into the system and produces 

 sickness. A distance from the artery does not produce the same effect. 



Mr. Verne. I have not had experience in giving an antMote, or in drawing 

 the sting from the wound. 



Mr. Anderson. Do you think the wound would be large enough to cause an an- 

 tidote to enter? 



Mr. Verne. The liquid in the wound would most likely cause the antidote to 

 be rejected. 



Mrs. Harrison, of Peora, Illinois, read the following address on "Work for 

 Women :" 



WORK FOR WOMEN. 



BY MRS. L. HARRISON, OE PEORIA, ILL. 



Women have made great advancement in the way of obtaining lucrative em- 

 ployment during the last quarter of a century. They are now ably represented in 

 the ministry, law and medicine. And lately a petition has been presented to the 

 President of the United State?, and favorably received by him, requesting the ap- 

 pointment of a woman to fill the gubernatorial chair of Washington Territory. 

 The idea of woman taking part in the government of this nation was no doubt 

 obtained by studying the economy of the bee hive. Here it was learned that 

 females wisely rule, and maintain order, peace and prosperity. 



During the great rebellion, in the absence of fathers, husbands and brothers, 

 women, no longer the pet and toy, girded on her armor. She grasped not the bay- 

 onet, but held firmly the reins over fractious horses, driving not in luxurious 

 carriages, but seated on loads of grain, reapers and mowers. She followed the des- 

 olation of war with her soothing appliances of lint and bandage. Women who, 

 before this time, had never had a practical idea, put aside frivolous things and 

 took up coarse knitting and sewing, saying, "for our poor soldiers," knitting stock- 

 ings and making garments by the thousand for the army in the field. They 

 prepared tons of sanitary stores; they went down to the camps, and on the battle- 

 fields they bound up the wounds of the soldier; in the hospitals they tenderly nursed 

 the sick, cheered the despondent and downhearted, laid their cool hands upon the 

 fevered brow of pain, and closed the eyes of the dying. Names like that of Clara 

 Barton, Dorothea Din, Mrs. Cordelia Harvey or " Mother Bickerdyke " have be- 

 come historical. 



Work was fashionable then, and has not gone out of style. Women found out 

 that there was more happiness to be had in living if they were independent, self- 

 reliant and useful. Many women stood by the smoldering ruins of their homes, 

 with the cry, " What shall I do ? I can not live upon charity, or put my children 

 into an orphan asylum." Brave woman could not take up the spindle and distaff, 

 aB in days of old, but she " sought out many inventions" of which necessity is the 



