The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-10-27
ODD ACTS OF REVENGE.
Ingenious Means to Get Even Employ
ed by Men and Women.

From Pearson's Weekly.
There was much ado lin a provincial
town a year or two ago when Mrs. Field
ing, the wife of the leading draper, came
across a packet of her husbands billet
doux accidentally dropped by one of the
young lady assistants.
AS Mrs. Fielding was emphatically not a
woman to be triled with, naturally the
young lady had at once to go" Nor was
poor Fielding long in following. The next
step taken by the energetic Mrs. Fielding
was to exhibit all the letters in the shop
window. This caused such a crowd to as
semble that the police had to threaten the
lady with a summons for obstruction
Eventually, however, a sadder and a
wiser Mr.. Fielding was readmitted into his
own house and his wife's good graces.
Another curious act of revenge-this
time On the part of a barber-was brought
to light recently in the course of a county
court action by a hairdresser's assistant
named Pye, who was suing for wages in
lieu of notice. 1t was proved by the as
sistant that the reason of his dismissal
was his refusal to rough shave" a certain
customer, whom his employer regarded
with dlsfavor as being guilty Of exchang-
ing smiles with his (the employer's) wife.
Not exactly caring to create a scandal by
forb1dding the customer his shop, the bar
Der had instructed his assistants to shave
the gentleman in a manner that would in
sure his keeping away after a few expert
ences. The employer had to pay Pye his
wages.
A French method Of taking 1t out" of
an opponent had been invented by the
Marquis de Dion. the well known manu-
facturer of automobiles and a prominent
member of the Frech chamber of deputies.
The marquis got annoyed with the French
government, and in order to embarrass 1t
as much as possible recently advised his
constituents in Brittany to withdraw their
deposits from the National Savings bank.
Large Withdrawals from the savings bank
took place in consequence, and the fact
has a direct bearing on the French ma
tional inances today. r
But this was nothing to the elaboration
with which a German boy of fourteen
named Alfred Schimpf set about a scheme
Of revenge on an old Berlin gentleman
named Bitten, who had complained of
the boy annoying him..
The boy bought an india rubber stamp
with the signature "Dr. Lang upon it,
and appended this name to a large number
of open postcards full of gross Insults to
Herr Bitten.
Soon afterward Herr Bitten was sum
moned by the district court to answer to
an action instituted by DIR. Lang" to re-
cover a debt of IA shillings, but when he
appeared on the appointed, day the plain
tiff was not there. Three days later an
ambulance drew up and four stalwart men
entered Herr Blitzen's apartments and
placed him by main force in the ambu-
lance for conveyance to the nearest lunatic
asylum, whence, Of course, he. was liber-
ated when the doctors discovered him to
be perfectly sane.
Elegant carriages afterward drove up to
take Herr and Frau Bitten for drives.
The boy afterward sent a band Of music
to play before the house at 4 o'clock in
the morning. The climax was reached
when a hearse drawn by six horses and
followed by eight mourning coaches APP
peared before Herr Blitzen's house. They
had been ordered by DIR. Lang for Herr
Blitzen's funeral. Nor would the young
villain have been discovered and sent to
jail had he not betrayed himself by boast
ing of his deeds to another lad.