Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1879 — She Got Even. [ARTICLE]

She Got Even.

A sanitary policeman who was viewing the back-yards on Hastings street yesterday came across a woman who seemed to have been at some vigorous work, being out of breath and red in the face. He thought it his duty to lean over the gate and ask her if there had been a row in the house, and for answer she beckoned him to follow her into the back-yard and there pointed to about fifty square feet of old cans and bottles which had been thrown over the line fence by a neighbor. “It is a burning shame, and they ought to be arrested I” exclaimed the indignant officer. “Pon’t you arrest nobody,” was her

cool reply. “These things were flung over here last night, and for the last four hours I have been hard at work getting even. Look over the fence.” The officer looked. He counted two dead cats, a dead hen, an old mattress, a bushel of old boots and shoes, four broken jugs, two old coats, three hoopskirts, and dozens of used-up tin dishes, and four tow-headed children with pale faces were waiting for further developments.—Detroit Free Press.