Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1910 — The Legs Scared Him. [ARTICLE]

The Legs Scared Him.

“There,” said the commuter in the Grand Central station, pointing to a robust colored man, “is a good railroad porter spotted.' “You see, he was on a Pullman car and was doing well until a man with two wooden legs became a passenger in his coaoh. That night the traveler put his artificial underpinning beneath the berth he occupied. When Bam came along to collect the shoes ha pulled out net only footwear, but also three feet of leather tops sad steel springs, together with metal joints wnd hall bearings. The sight so worked upon the superstitious fellow that he lied la terror. He resigned his place. Now he Is handling baggage.”—New York Press.