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Show I RAFFLES COW TO DUV LEO. Ingenious Gcheme of a Man Disabled by a Train. If tliero la inoro than mm way to skin a rat, theru la certainly morn than nno way In which to ncqulro n cork lei; Tho usunl way Is tn earn money nml buy. It. anya tho New York World Tho way adopted by Julius Thornr. who Uvea nt (lien Tails, la to let it cow rnlso herself and tin n rufflo lior qfl for n leg Tliorno wiih hit by a railroad train about n lonr ago, and when tho doc- torn cut off his left leg, n dlsoasn of the bono net In The Injured man wna taken home, wbern, whllo he lay on his back waiting for tho bono to heal, bo cast about fur sonic means wlieriby ho could procure n cork leg, llrlng supplied with llttlo In tho way of tho world's goods, Thorn was forced to lire his Ingenuity From n neighbor ho bought for a rouplo of dollars a slckl) calf loss than a month old, This ho raised on skimmed milk I provided by another neighbor who made his own butter, nml In tlmo the calf got strong enough to be turned nut to pasture (Inning uround cost little, and whllo tho calf was growing and fattening Thoino mado baskets that ho might bavo enough cash lo winter tho alnmal lly fall he had earned enough' tn more than da Ibis, aud recently ho started a raffle. All hla frlenda took tlcketa, and when tho drawing takes place Tliorno will rein-brato rein-brato by wearing his new cork lug. |