Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — Weak Baby, Tough Man. [ARTICLE]

Weak Baby, Tough Man.

Though ninety-four years of age, Admiral Sir Henry Keppel is still an indefatigable traveler and at present is traveling as fat away from nome as Singapore. His long and active life started inauspiciously. At the time of his birth he wsa thought to be dead, and in his autobiography Sir Henry Keppel Says that he was “deposited in my father's foot pan to be interred in a garden at the back of the house, not being entitled to a berth in consecrated ground.” Fortunately before it was too late his nurse discovered that there was life in the “small thing,” and today at a great age Sir Henry is still hale and hearty.