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Show 'BOY W30 HAS i'J lost his j legs ;! In one of the wards of the Deo hos- I pital there Is a young lad, 18 yearr, i old., whose home is in Texas. Five months ago he lost both of his logs in a railroad accident and all during I I that time he has lain there a stran- ! I ger among strangers. FYom his win- I dow" he can see the city at the holiday I season, but the festivities mean noth- , I ing to him. I In speaking of the case yesterday I Dr. R. S. Joyce said they were at a I loss to know what to do with the boy, ; I who is unusually bright and capable , I of mastering a trade wero he given ' l tho chance to learn. The parents of the boy, whose name Is Lonnis Mor- ' rls, live in Fort Worth, Texas, and it appears are people of vory moderate circumstances.- The pressing need ' ; now is a pair of artificial limbs, with- f out which Morris can only move about r ' n a rolling chair or as he s carried , Partial arrangoments have been made i to apprentice the boy to a local shde ' i repairing concern, but hero again ev- I erything Is at a standstill until the : f artificial legs can be provided Should Morrs bo turned out of the hospital, U knowing no one and with nowhere to I go, it Is more than likely he will sink j f Into the familiar beggar-type of shoe- 1 j spring seller and in time become, as J ; many have, a saloon bum. j -j. A school established by the state, j s in conjunction with the Industrial j -z school, or as a separate Institution 1 q where men and boys crippled bv- ac- ' r: cldents might be taken and 'aught ; S useful trades or educated to fill po- ' ? sitions such as their condition would jj 2 enable them to hold, is suggested by J ( Dr. Joyce as a happy solution to this It problem. At the convention of rail- i road physicians held in Chicago this B i year Dr. Joyce read a paper on this '. V very subject and suggested that the 'S railroads set aside a tract of land I somewhere In tie west where those I crlpped in railroad accidents could be - a given a chRiico to become self-sup- M porting as farmers or fruit raisers. Up j In Idaho there are three men sent 4 there by Dr. Joyce, two of whom havo lost arms and one a leg, who are lo- h catcd on homesteads and doing well. : I A great rivalry exists between them I as to which will raise the best crops ' ;r and make the most money. It seems ' that this experiment has proven tho I practicability of tho scheme and is v ono which tho railroads could take ' r4 up and In which they could do a ,; - 'i great deal of good. ' : g Tlie case of Lonnis Morris is an ': unusually pathetic one. for though the V I hoy has borne up well under his ter- ', ' j rlble affliction, he feels keenly his helpless condjtlon, arid as the Christ- 1 ji mas soason approaches and the mem- !!. f! ories of other Chrhumases return, the "i'j cheerfulness that has been with him - I these past five months is giving way . ; 5 to sadness and yearning for home anj ! - loved ones. " I; J |