Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — THE RETIRED BURGLAR. [ARTICLE]

THE RETIRED BURGLAR.

His Fondness for Little Children Gets Him Into Trouble. New York Sun. “I always was fond of little children,” said the retired burglar, “and once Iserveda term on that account. I had gone into a house in the western part of the State and rummaged about down stairs, and finally got up and got into a room where there was a man and his wife and a baby, all asleep. The baby was in a cradle that stood at the foot of the bed; not far from the cradle, standing against the wall, was the. bureau. I transferred whatever there was of value in the bureau, and then I turned to the baby; I- couldn’t help it, I turned my light; on the kid to look at him, and it woke him up. He stared at me a little and then he began to smile and double up his fists at me. “Well, he looked so funny that I chucked him under the chin, and that seemed to tickle him immense; he threw up his legs and arms, and laughed more’n ever, and tried to say something; all he could say was ‘Goo —o—o,’0 —o,’ but that was enough. You’ve heard of womjeu so tired that you couldn’t wake ’em up firing a cannon in the next room, that would wake up in a minute if the baby turned in its cradle. Well, when, this baby said ‘Goo —o —o’ its* mother not only woke up instantly but she began to get up before she was fairly awake; and all the time she was looking toward the cradle, and she saw the light long before 1 could douse it. Then she screamed and I made a great break for the d00r... “But the man got there before I did; and, besides being very quick, he was very able-bodied and not the least bit afraid; in fact, he was a better man than I was, and the upshot of this business was that I got four years and six months just for stopping to chuck a little shaver under the chin,"

The only American in the Chinese navy commands the Chen-Yuen, its finest slop. He is Philo N. McGiffin, neither renegade nor adventurer. He entered the Chinese service because when he was graduated from Annapolis, in 1882, there was no vacancy for him in ours. In a letter "home describing his condition on board ship he says that in preparation for action his ship has left all its boats behind, and ho adds, showing the ferocity and determination of the combatants in the war now on: “We will not need them. If T’e are sunk the Japs will give us no quarter, and we shall give them none, either.” Nearly all the monarchs in Europe have their lives insured. The most notable exception is the Russian Emperor. The companies would not insure him, regarding his chances of long life as being extremely hazardous.