Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — A Woman of Resource. [ARTICLE]

A Woman of Resource.

Mrs. Vernon lived on a biff farm. She was a clever widow and made her farm pay. One dajr her eldest son was struck by lightning In tho wagon hou»e during a terrible storm. The hired man carried his' apparently lifeless body into the htjuso. (“Why, wasn’t you scared out of your wits, Mrs. Vernon?” asked ono of the neighbors afterward. “No; I knew prompt measures wefe necessary, though, and there wasn’t no time to send for doctors. So I Just gave him a good emetic and he came to and threw up all the electric fluid and then ho was all right.” —Agricultural Record.