The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18

Ottoman reigqit isunneeessary to run, as
it is but a repe6honiof the above. The
ESuNans had before them q very simple
Idilemnna, cit hef 10 murder their broth
ers and sons, orf BE- murdered by them.
Asa rule they chose the first horn, unless
1.-The second was fthrust upon them too
Isuddsnly. With such state of affairs,
the World Lean only rejoice if Russia puts
apf end g! the rage, Of Sultans in Europe.
q ,s.s a Rl .llae
ou waiidn't lh,ssse believed that such
q rongh poking ldtchap could read at
ali, but aftersthe tram left.St. 10 he pull
ed asSt.. fouls paper from his pocket, set
tled. back in his sea-, and for half an hour
he was busy with the news. All of a
sudden he threw the paper down, uttered
IaWicked oath and reaching forward, he
touched q fellow passenger on the Shout
des and: blurted out:
''They are fools> sir, cussed fools!''
:Who7" asked the, ,astonished traveller.
"Why, them newspaper men! Blast
their eyes Can't they take hint without
a kick?'
"What do you mean?''
He picked up the paper and pointed
out paragraph, which read that old
Bender, the Kansas murderer, had been
ssecnin Maryland, and then growled out !:
"Ill give SIC, 900 to any man who ever
gifts eyes on old Bender, or any o. the rest
O. that fam'lyv
"What do you know about the Ben
ders?"'. asked the traveller greatly interest
ed all at once.
The old man chuckled, as if greatly
pleased, but after a moment his face grew
serious and stern. Leaning over to get
closer to the traveller, he whispered;
81 knew every one o the devils, from
the old man down!- God never made a
wuss lot! I lived up in Kansas within
twenty miles O. their private burying
groundn'
"You did?"
81 did, and I've eaten more'n one din
ner in the room where they used to shoot
their victims from behind a curtain
Sometimes, when git to thinking Of, me
sitting at the table in that little room,
and old Bender behind the curtain, not
twelve feet away, ready to put bullet
through my head, why, sir, the cold chills
go over me till it's like having shake Of
the ager"
"But he spared you?"
80 he did, and I could never guess
why, 'cept that there are five brothers of
us, and he might have argued that the
other boys would make sharp hunt if
I was missing. Travellers who didn't
wear any better clothes than 1 do, and
who didn't seem to carry any more money,
halted at the Devils Hotel for dinner,
and were murdered, robbed, and put
under ground in less'n an hour"
"Was there nothing suspicious about
the house itself nothing in the looks or
actions of the family to put the traveller
on his guard?'' asked the passenger.
| eyes, there was, and then agin' there
wasn't. It was Il lone house, with nc
neighbor to spy and NEEDLE; but it was a
handy place tor one to stop and git dinner
I reckon that hungry man riding tired
horse, don't be suspecting as much as a
detective would. Old Bender WASH,
purity but he'd pass muster as we'll as a
thousand others out this way. The only
mean thing about him was the way he 90,
around. He didn't pick up his feet like
a man, but sort o. slid here and there
like cat. He didn't look We in the face
if he could get rid oft, but looked over
beyond ye. Still, I've seen honest men
do the same way.
! "And the others3"
"Well. less see. There was the old
man, then there was an old she-devil
around there who was allus knitting
stockings and singing religious songs
She was fifty years old or more, and was
probably his wife. Then there was a
woman about thirty years old called Kate
She wasn't good looking nor bad looking
and nobody could have told what a bloody
heart she had. The papers said she was
Bender's daughter, but don't believe it.
The papers hadn't as many ways of find
ing out as I had. Some O. them never
mentioned the old woman at all, and yet
she was right there all the time. There
was one or two chaps hanging around
there most O. the time. One O. them
passed for Rates husband, but don't be-
lieve they were ever married. l think
the pair had laid in with the old man to
open the tavern, help do the running of
it and the numbering, and take half the
| profits. They were a regular gang O
horse thieves. robbers and murderers, and
nobody will ever know what relation they
were to each other"
1.-THE papers had an awful story to tell
when it came out" said the traveller.
$50 they had, but they didn't tell it