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Show RAFFLES COW TO DUY LEU. S ''1 Ingenious Scheme of a Man Disabled H, by a Train. J If there Is moro than one way to j skin a cat, there Is certainly moro l than ono way In which to acqulro a n cork leg. Tho usual way Is to earn 4 money nnd buy It, Bnys tho Now York World. Tho way adopted by 5j Julius Thorne, who lives at Glens J Falls, is to let n cow ralso herself J and then raffle her off for a leg. H Thorno was hit by a railroad train about a year ago, and when tho doc- tors cut off his left leg, a disease ot J the bono set in. Tho injured man was taken homo, where, whllo he . lay on his back waiting for tho bono.y to heal, he cast nbout for somo means j J whereby ho could procure n cork leg. Being supplied with llttlo in tho way of tho world's goods. Thorn was " forced to use his ingenuity. From a neighbor ho bought for a couple of dollars n sickly calf less than a month i old. Tills ho raised on skimmed milk provided by another neighbor who made his own butter, nnd In time tho calf got strong enough to bo turned out to pasturo. Grazing around cost little, and whllo tho calf was growing and fattenlpf; Thorno mado baskets thnt ho might hnve enough caah to winter tho nlnmal. I)y fall ho had earned enough to moro than do this, and recently ho started a radio. All his friends took tlckctB, and when the drawing takes place Thorno will cole-' brato by wearing his new cork leg. |