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Show One Leg Nearly as Good as Two. The ease with which Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, gets about on one leg and two crutches surprises almost every one who meets him. In reply to a query onrois point the general tells a story. f'A classmate of mine at Jefferson col- lege loBt an arm while fighting in the southern army. At a reunion of our class at the end of the war I was the first member on hand. After engaging a room at a Canonsburg hotel I sauntered saun-tered around the old college buildings waiting for the rest of the boys of the class of 'Goto turn up. The first one to put in an appearance had an empty coat sleeve. While a Confederate shell had taken my leg, a Union ball had torn away his arm. I invited him up to my room, and he was with me that night. I noticed that he had no difficulty at all in arranging his clothing and in doing pretty nearly everything else that a man with two arms finds neceesary to do. I said to him that the loss of an arm did not seem to incommode him. 'Well, do you know, Jim,' he replied, 'tliat since I lost my other arm and find that everything every-thing I want to do can be done with one arm instead of two, I often wonder what reason the good Lord had for making a man with two arms.' Now, in my case," the general concluded, "I won't put the thing as strongly as my maimed classmate class-mate did, but one leg seems to answer me very well." Chicago Herald. |