Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — The Considerate Visitor. [ARTICLE]

The Considerate Visitor.

“Sleepy” Burke says that when he is robbing a house he always tries to bring the awakened owner of the establishment to bis senses by explaining the midnight caller Is “only a burglar who **nts his money." This is reassuring. Until now .when the man of the house opened his eyes to see a masked ruffian holding a cold revolver to his temples, i he always supposed that the nisi tor was the new minister paying pastoral calls or his long-lost brother, who ran away to sea twenty years ago, and now returns laden with a heavy coat of bronze on bls cheeks, a bag of cashmere shawls | for the ladies and a spray of pink coral for the parlor table.—Chicago News.