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Show A RAFFLE3 COW TO BUY LEG. Ingenious Scheme of a Man Disabled by a Train. If there Is moro than ono way to pkln a cat, thoro Is certainly moro than ono way In which to ncqulro n cork leg. Tho usual wny Is to earn money nnd buy It, says tho Now York World. Tho way 'adopted by Julius Thornc, -who lives at Glens Falls, Is to let a cow ralso herself and then radio her off for n leg. Thorno was hit by a railroad train about a year ago, and when the doctors doc-tors cut off his left leg, n dlseaso ot the bone sot in. Tho Injured man was taken home, where, while ho lay on his back waiting for tho bono to heal, he cast about for somo means whereby ho could prqeuro a cork leg. illelng supplied with llttlo In tho wny ot the world's goods, Thorn was forced to use his Ingenuity. From a neighbor he bought for a couplo of dollars n sickly calf less than a month old. This ho raised on Bklmmed milk I provided by another nolghhor who made his own butter, and In time tho calf got strong enough to be turned V nut to pasture Grazing uround coat Jr little, nnd whllo tho calf was growing and fattening Thorno made baskets that ho might have enough cash to winter (ho alnmal. Hy fall ho had earned enough to more than do this, nnd rccontly ho started a radio. All his friends took tickets, and whon tho drawing tnkos place Thorno will celebrate cele-brate by wearing his now cork leg. |