Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1911 — REVENGE OF LOVER [ARTICLE]

REVENGE OF LOVER

Irate French Youth Vents Spite on Wrong Man. All Paris Laughs at Levon, Who Filled Mouth of His Sweetheart’s Father With Axle Grease and Couldn’t Explain It. Paris. —All the world loves a lover, it is said, but all Paris is laughing at one. His name is Levon, and he was employeij at the Bourse. Whenever his empioyer wanted him he was never to be found but, stocked with a long list of excuses, was always able to retain his position. Finally, however, his employer decided to make a personal investigation. The result was that he suddenly came on his employee hidden in a come- of the Bourse conversing sweetly with a young girl. Not giving Levon time to frame one of his excuses the stockbroker discharged him immediately. Levon would not have cared much had it not been for the fact that In his conversations with his : girl friend he had given the impression that he was a member of the firm. To be "fired" in front of the astonished young woman’s eyes was more than he could bear. He determined on revenge. That evening he bought a pall of axle grease and a long brush. He then posted himself at a corner near the office of his ex-employer. He heard steps approaching and prepared himself. As the man turned the corner Levon dabbed hts face and whiskers plentifully with the grease. The man opened his mouth to yell, but the brush found Its way inside and prevented anything but a sputter. Finally, lipwever. half a dozen strong arms prevailed on the discharged clerk to have mercy. The party adjourned to a police station and the operation of separating the victim from the wagon grease was begun. Levon looked on. not without, enjoyment, until the

man’s face emerged. Then he almost expired. The man on whom he had taken his “revenge” was not his former employer, but the father of his sweetheart. Levon tried to explain matters to the man he hoped would some day be his father-in-law. But that hardhearted individual immediately made a charge against him. And as mis fortunes do not come singly, his sweetheart, as soon as she heard of the affair, swore never to see him again. The judge, however, had a sense of humor and thought three days’ imprisonment, in connection with his other trials, was enough.