The Stock Farm Home Weekly from Wyandotte, Kansas • 2

THE STOCK FAILM AND HOME WEEKLY. HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. MARY JANE'S HINT. He stood on his head by the wild seashore, And danced on his hands a jig In all his emotions, as never before, A wildly hilarious griu. And why? In that ship just crossing the bay His mother-in-law had sailed For a treplcal country far away, Where tigers and fevers prevailed.

Young Fred, a bashful yet persistent swain. VI as very much in love with Mary Jane. One night she told him in her tenderest tone "It is not good for man to be alone." Said Fred, "Just so, you darling little elf; I've often thought of tliat same thing my. self." 7 Then said the lass, while Fred was all "You onght to buy yourself a terrier dog." Ho took the hint, and left. My object was to call upon some of the nearest neighbors and to obtain from them if possible some facts regarding thoso bloodcurdling atrocities, the discovery of which seven years ago caused more excitement throughout the whole world than perhaps any similar c.trcumstances bad ever done, and a revival of which has so been recently brought about by the report of the capture of the Benders.

Acting upon the supposition that a few facts regarding the peculiar Hies and characteristics of the Benders, and the manner of their abrupt departure, together with all the data procurable, would be of interest to the readers of The Times, your correspondent knew of no better way to obtain reliable information regarding the Oh 1 now he might hope for a peaceful life' THE PATH ACROSS THE FIELDS. How sharp the spires upon the hill I They rise against the sunset sky Like masts of ships, that sailing past A sea of flame, now anchored lie. But lol a pilgrim In the path, That dimly traced along the ground, Through orchard, meadow, pastures hare, Winds up to the hilltop town. Ah, what is life save just a path, A hasty walk for only one, And childhood, manhood, age, arc fields Between us and the setting sun. That toiling traveler gains the hill, He weary walks the village through And now he seems amid the clouds, As if to heaven an angel Hew I Oh bless the life that holy here Beyond the ridge of death has passed, A shaded footpath now.

but merged In everlasting life at last. Ana even ne nappy yet. Though owning no end of neuralgic wile, And up to his collar in debt. He had borne the old lady through thick and thin, And she lectured hiin out of breath, And now, as he looked at the ship she was in, He howled or her violent death. He watched ps the good ship cut the sea, And bumpishly up and downed, And thought if already she squalmlsh might be, He'd consider his happiness crowned.

but should ho foolishly accept he will bitterly regret it. The Niagara residents are cunning in the use of phrases from which they can extract meanings of which their victims never dream, and the end is the alternative of an undignified street row or the loss and expense of several additional days' time inattend-anceupon local courts, whoso magistrates owe their positions to and are the creatures of the shop-keepers, hackmen and other extortionists. When about to go home the unfortunate stranger will discover that his hotel bill in considerably larger than he had calculated, using the printed terms tacked upon tho door ffiis room as a basis. Among these terms at the International was a paragraph to the effect that guests would be charged fifty cents for omnibus and cx-pressage. It did not explain that this meant only one way about two blocks but I paid one dollar for this item all the same.

When you reach the depot and are about to board the train you are accosted by a person with the name of the hotel in brass letters affixed to his hat, who demands additional pay for carrying your luggage to the station, saying with consummate impudence, that he receives nothing from the hotel for the service. I have seen several gentlemen accede to the swindle, in every case after an indignant remonstrance, which the baggage fiend met with a most.inv-perturbaple smile, as though ho were well used to it. subject than to get it right on the spot. Your He watched till beneath the horizon's edge tie snip was passing trom view, And he sprang to the top of a rocky ledge, And pranced like a kangaroo. He watched till the vessel became a speck That was lost in the wandering sea, And then, at the risk of breaking his neck, Turned somersaults home to tea.

A TWICE-TOLD TALE. Bender Makes a Full ConfesaloD-Brock-man Relates some History In the Case. ISpecial to the Kansas City Times. Omaha, Aug. G.

To-day Mrs. Bens der was visited in jail at Fremont by an Omaha reporter, to whom she said the first murder committed by her and her husband was in Illinois, on their farm near Jacksonville. The victim asked for supper and lodging and in paying for the same in ad vance exhibited considerable money. While he was eating supper Bonder cut his head 1H Vtnl.inl nnA TA ti-o 111 nOil HOW UIRLS ARE BEARED IX ITALY. jYIoqultoea.

Harper's Bazar. With the rest of the world, your writer has suffered greatly this and other years from those insatiable summer pests, mosquitoes but now out of all his atronv into the cellar through a trap arranged byj Bender, who got his money. The corpse! he can calmly gather up the shreds of tickets and got ready to take the train, they had no further use for the shot-pun, and so had left it in tho wagon, and the team tied to the rack in the streets. Their trunks were gone and their best clothing had been taken off; also their feather beds. They hod, as has been reported, loft their clothing hanging up in their rooms, but it was only their old every day clothes.

I shall always believe they went away on the train until I am convinced to the contrary. T. 11.: Mr. Brockman. what do you think of the alleged arrest of old man Bender and his wife in Nebraska? Mr.

Brockman: I have only heard the reports from other parties; I havo not read anything about it myself. If the reports come to mo correct I do not believe they have the right parties at all. I would not Eo to Oswego to identity them, however. I ave already had a very unfortunate experience in the affair, and do not wish to run any more chances. Mr.

Dcust, a neighbor of mine, was sent for about two years ago to to Topeka and identify a man alleged to Bender, and when he told them that it was not Bender they came very near hanging him. He was glad to get home again, and he says he will never answer another call to identify the Benders. The stories told by those who have already identified this alleged Bender in Nebraska are very wild and contradictory. For instance, the story of the man Hooflan, whoclaimjthathe was a herder on Ogees Creek, in the Bender neighborhood, is very unreliable in several particulars. He locates the Bender place throe miles south of Cherryvale, when in fact it is eight miles northeast.

There is no such creek as Ogees Creek within twenty-five or thirty miles of the Bender place, and there never was such a man as Hooflan or a man of any such name, ever heard of in this locality. It is believed here that Hooflan is a fraud. T. Now, Mr. Brockman, I wish to question you upon a different subject.

I have known for some time that you had been taken from your home and family in the night by a mob of infuriated and intoxicated men and hung up by the neck until life was nearly extinct. I wish to know something about it. Mr. Brockman: Well, I don't want to have that published in the paper; it is rather an unpleasant thing to reflect upon. It has been reported that I had left the country and that I was as bad as the Benders, and that I was with them.

I can only say that I am here yet; that I work hard and am getting along prosperously, just as any other hard working farmer would. 1 am raising a respectable family and none of my neighbors nave aught to say against me. These men who committed this outrage upon me were men who lived fifteen or twenty miles from here and wanted to hang somebody and hung me merely because Ihappcned to be a near neighbor of the Benders and happened to live in the direction they were going on their way home from the scene the murders. T. Well.

Mr. Brockman, I can promise you that The Times will do you no injustice whatever in the matter. I ain perfectly satisfied from your manner to-night that you are free and innocent of any such charges, and I wish you to give tho readers of The Times the benefit of your thrilling experience. Such a thing as a man being sent into kingdom come at the end of a rope and then called back is not a very common experience, and I am sure the readers of The Times wouldij interested in it. Mr.

Brocknran: They came to my house on their way to Independence. 1 and my family had retired. They wanted me to get up and come out. I could tell by their talk that they were drunk and excited, so I told them to go away and not molest me. They then commenced to stone my house.

So, a a protection to my family, I dressed and went out. They began by beating me over the head with their revolvers, and threatened to shoot me to death if I did not tell them where the Bender's were. I toM tnem I knew no more about it than they themselves did, and they then hustled me into a wagon and took me about four miles to Drum Creek Timber, where they again beat me with their revolvers and again ordered me to tell them where the Benders were. Of course I could not tell, and they then hr in-rlit a rope out of one of the wagons, an.i alter adjusting it around my necli a lew the end over a limb. There were eight in the party; six of them stood off, and two of them stood ready to pull me up.

One of the men who stood off among the six (I think his name was Bean) ordered the two men to pull away, and up I went. T. I wish you to tell me what were your sensations at that time. Mr. Brockman: Well, I made up my mind that my time had come and I could not help myself.

I did not pray, but if I remember correctly I did some very energetic cussing to myself about that time. It must have been about three or four minutes before I lost my consciousness; it seemed to me a lifetime. The sensation of being choked by a rope is very peculiar. All the TWO ROBBERS SHOP DEAD. A Wonmn BtruffKleg With Burglars Aft Her Throat in Cut, Galveston News.

The boldest and moot atrocious at robbery in the annals of the State comes from Clear Lake in Collins County. The robbers two women disguised men's apparel-were killed while in the act of forcing the coveted amount of money out oi the clutched hands of their victim, whose throat they had cut from ear to ear. The reporter gathers the following particulars from D. A. Ware, a Special Auent of the Europen and American Secret Service Association of Cincinnati, which are corroborated by three others, exoeting as to the name of the victim whose throat was cut.

On Thursday last, a farmer named Bradley, Bat-ley, or Bramley, sold $300 worth of cattle to a drover, who paid him $200 cash. The purchaser being alone, the evening being well advanced, and tho cattle difficult to drive, Bradley was prevailed upon to assist him in driving them to the purchaser's house, some miles distant, Before leaving Bradley handed the money to his wife to keep, remarking that it was likely he might remain over night with the owner of the herd. After night a wayfarer stopped at Bradley's and asked to stay all Mrs. Bradley refused, but on the strangers representation that he was almost to sick to remount his horse, a pallet was made for him at the end of the gallery, the stranger occupied. About midnight he noticed two men, whom he supposed belonged to the family, pass across the gallery into the house.

There was some slight noise within after thev had enter-ed. but he paid no particular atttention to it until he heard cries of murder Getting up, the stranger looked diagonally across the gallery into the "room through the window and saw a woman struggling on the bed, with her throat cut. Snatching his six shooter from his saddle bags, the stranger sprang toward the door, fired at the parties as they bolted out, killing both. Catching and bridling his horse, he rode to the nearest neighbors' on the road which he traveled the evening before and informed them of what had happened. The stranger, accompanied by a party of four, re turned to she Mrs.

Bradley was dead, with the $200 grasped in her hand. One of the robbers crawled to the yard and died from the effect of a shot in the region of the heart, and the other had fallen in his tracks near the door, with a ball over the right eye. They were recognized as Mrs. Pruitt and her daughter, neighbors of the Bradleys. Mrs.

Pruitt was between lifty-jive and sixty year old, and is possessed of considerable property, independent of a recent inheritance of $17,000 in Little Rock, by the death of her daughter. This family has always been looked upon as disreputable characters. Bradley in assisting to drive the cattle to the herd of the purchaser, passed the Pruitt place, and in answer to the inquiries of the old woman said he had sold every hoof of cattle for big money. Inquiries of the authorities fail to corroborate the above, but a rumor to the same purport is said to be current at McKinney by citizens of that place. was buried the next morning back of the house.

A few weeks after this they went to Iowa, remaining a few months and then went to Indiana, living on the MUBDEBED MAN'S MOSEY. They then went to Kansas, where Bender's children, by his first wife, John and Kate, were living, together with their cousin Maggie. They kept a. resort for travelers and called it "Bender's Hotel." They had committed no murders prior the old folk's arrival, but in the course of time old Bender arranged a trap door, and then murdering operations commenced. Kate, at one time, had a man in bed with her, when she cut his throat and then slept till morning beside the corpse.

His money was divided, She never injured horse thieves and cut throats who came to the house, but entertained them well with her cousin Maggie No MUBDEBS WEBE COMMITTED by the family after they fled from Kansas. Old Bender has confessed, under the be-, lief that his wife has escaped. His story experience, and jot, down a few facta that may help some poor mortal to weather through the season until divine mature rids us of our tormentors. There is a remedy even for these ills, and it is quite probable that hundreds of your readers now have it in their house, though ignorant of all its uses, and the relief that is lyiny just at their hands. The Pyrethrum roseum, or ''Persian camomile," is the powdered leaf of a harmless flower growing in Caucasian Asia in great profusion, where, for centuries, it has been used to rid the natives of unwelcome guests from the insect world.

It can he purchased of almost any reliable druggist at about seventy cents per pound, all ready prepared for use. With a finely powdered dust made from these flowers, the mosquito, the house-fly, the wicked flea, and the disgusting Climcx lectularius may all be promptly put to flight or calmly murdereda murder conferina on the human heart a joy too deep for words for certainly it is joy to sit, as I do now, at my writing table this hot July night watching the expiring agonies of insects, and rareiy feel a retribute sting to warn one of their presence. In order to enjoy this vengeful delicious sport, it is only necessary to heap representative learned before leaving Uierry-vale that tho accounts of interviews with the alleged Benders were looked upon with some degree of distrust among the people here who have the whole business at their tongues' end.and are thoroughly conversant with all the details, etc. A drive of seven and a half miles in a northeasterly direction, brought us to the residence of Rudolph Brockman, a German farmer, who has lived on the farm he now occupies since long before the Benders moved into the country. Mr.

Brockman is a well-to-do farmer, and everything about his premises denotes industry, good management and thrift. Your correspondent solicited this man from tho fact that lie was tho nearest neigh bor of the Benders, that lie was more intimate with them than any others (both families being German), and from the addition" al tact that he had, by force of circumstances, and not from any particular desire on his part, become considerably mixed up in some semi-tragical matters which occurred subsequent to the discovery of the body of York, as will hereinafter be related. Mr. Brockman and his family were about retiring for the night when we drove up, but upon the announcement that a Times representative desired to converse with him upon topics connected with the Bender murders he at once signified his readiness to submit, and the interview began. Times representative: Mr.

Brockman, I came to you knowing you to be the best posted man probably in the neighborhood, and knowing that you could tell more concerning the Benders than other person. Now please proceed and tell me what you know concerning them. Mr. Brockman: Well, I came here and settled on this place in 18C9. John Bender came here from Howard County, during the month of November, 1870.

He took a claim, the one now occupied by Mr. Sparks, and after being here but a short time he wrote to Decatur, 111., for the rest of his family to come on. About Christmas, 1870, old man Bender, the old woman and Kate came on, and camped close to my house for about two weeks while they were putting up a house for themselves. The old man was probably fifty years old, was broad shouldered and heavy set, while the old lady was about five years younger, was tall, well built and stood up quite straight. She was very quick motioned, quick spoken and very quick tempered.

She appeared to me to be a very shrewd woman. Old man Bender seemed to me to be well educated. I do not remember of ever having seen him write, nor having heard him read, but his conversation (m German) denoted that he was educated. John was about twenty-five and was heavy built like the old man. He was a rough customer, and was looked upon by the neighbors as ''rather scaley." This was caused by his general deportment rather than from any specific act, and although along toward the last part of the time they were here there were reports of his picking people's pockets, but nothing positive was known.

The Benders otherwise were, until a few ruontiis before the discovery of their murders, looked upon as ordinary people and nothing wrong was known about them or even suspicioned to my knowledge. For several months previous to their leaving, however, they acted very strangely and suspiciously. They cut off all intercourse with the neighbors, never visiting them and never allowing any neighbor to come into the house. They always had the excuse that Kate was in a trance and it would not do to disturb her. T.

It They had, it seems, entered upon a systematized business of wholesale butchery and robbery and did not wish their occupation interfered with by the untimely calls of neighbors? Mr. Brockman Yes: they always seemed Ten leers of Seclusion, Followed Jly An Enforced Marriage With a- Stranger. James Jackson Jarvis observes in a recent letter from Italy that the Italians are gradually changing their old habits in regard to mntrimony, and permitting more liberty of choice to their children in engagements. Hitherto they have looked upon these relations solely in a most parental matter-of-fact light, and calculation irrespective of any desires of those most interested in the matter. A lady of rank of an ancient conservative family related recently her experience of family discipline, which is worth repeating, as an exhibition of Tuscan aristocratic regimen and domestic life, tkat is or has been the rule rather than the exception here.

Her father placed her in a strict convent in the country for her education at seven years of age, and the was kepi there until she was seventeen. During this time she was never allowed to go out of the grounds, even for exercise, but with the other girls had to take her constitutionals in the prescribed way, under constant surveillance inside the walls. The building was very cold in winter and correspondingly hot in summer; the diet always the same very sparse and innutritous the mind being starved as well as the body, the chief intellectual exercises being of the monastic ascetic character, and employments embroidery and needlework. All gayety was rigorously suppressed. Such was the effect of the low diet and rigid, monotonous discipline that the girls of weak constitutions succumbed, and either died or were irremediably crippled in mind and body for life.

Her sister, who was immured with her, being of a sensitive, serious temperament, took her imprisonmentfor it was nothing else so much to heart that she died of sheer chntrrin and hardship. The pupils were never permitted for any lvuson to visit their homes. They were especially taught to view the male ex with suspicion and abhorrence. The only man allowed within the convent in-closure was an aged gardener. Him they were instructed never to look at, but to turn away their eyes whenever he appeared.

He was called by them "the ugly old animal." Such was the training given to girls whose choice of occupation in life was limited to two, either to become nuns or marry whover was selected for them by their fathers, for their mothers counted for nothing in these arrangements. Being of a light-hearted, courageous temperament, my informant survived after a fashion until she was nearly 17, when her father sent for her and asked her if she wished to become a nun. "No," she replied. "Then," said he, "vou must take a husband." Soon after her father told her he had selected is her spouse a middle-aged man, reputed to have a fortune, whom she had seen once or twice, but did not know. On her mother's mild remonstrance that he was too old, his character not good and the child too young, she tallies with the old woman's in every particular.

He admits being Bender, and describes the murders in Illinois and Kansas the same as his wife, and gives a complete history of the whole family. This is the first confession he has made. up into a little cone one teaspoonful of The Old Man Takes a Turn at Confessing. Special to the Kansas City Times. Omaha, Aug, 6.

This afternoon John Bender made the following statement: My name is Alexander McGregor; was the blessed drug pyrethrum, touch it with a lighted match, and watch the thin, blue line of smoke as it rises to the ceiling and is wafted through the air, changing the busy drone of insect life to a weak wail of insect woe. Pretty soon down they come plump onto the table and over your paper, spin 'on their tiny backs, and then sheath their lancets, curl up their hair-like legs, and interest one no more. Up stairs our little one sleep unmolested, though there are thousands of mosquitoes in the room the pests are sick unto death and cling sadly to the walls, too feeble to think of tapping the rich, warm blood that glows in ruddy little limbs just below the fume of the pyrethrum has settled their business and while it lingen in the room outsiders are unwilling to make an entry, though the windows are raised and the lattices only half closed. Gauze bars were long since banished from our beds; indeed, we have not used them for seven years. They are hot, stuffy things at best, anel one must be sadly driven to attempt to sleep under such a cover then, as we all know, the mosquito always finds his way through, no matter how carefully one may tuck up its folds about the couch.

Smoke from the Persian camomile, or its dusty powder, we have found most efficacious, and your readers will bless me when once they try it. The purity of the drug must be assured. This can readily be tested: it must have a bright buff color, be light, readily burned, and give a pleasant tea-dike fragrance one pinch should kill a dozen flies, confined a bottle, at once where it fails of these properties it has been adulterated. In common use in large or breezy rooms, where, from great dilution, it fails to tell; it nevertheless produces on insect life, through its volatilized essential oil or resin, undoubted nausea, vertigo, respiratory spasm, and paralysis. It acts upon them through the minute spiracles, the breathing tubes, that stud the surfaces of their little bodes, and form the delicate network of veins in their tiny wings.

To human beings it is, so far as I can ascertain, entirely innoxious and not blood in my body seemed to rush into my head. I could feel my eyes starting from their sockets; they felt large as billiard balls and as hot as fire. My head seemed to be as cross and peevish and would order the neighbors away without the least hesitation. About the time of the York murder my wife sent her sister over there to borrow something for a sick child, but the old was told to be silent: that the wishes of woman met licraDout a hundred yards from the house and told her she must not large as a mountain and bursting open at all points. But the most striking and remarkable peculiarity was that of my tongue.

I could not get my toneue out far enough. come any further. She then went to the house and brought out the article desired and stated that Kate was in a trance and it It seemed a relief to run my tongue out, and I felt as though I wanted to run it out a thousand feet. Finally everything began, to buzz, and I lost all consciousness. -When would not do to disturb ner.

T. R. Now, Mr. Brockman, please tell us something about Kate. It is now re ported that Kate was a regular she devil.

The alleged old man up in Nebraska calls her a perfect hellion whatever that may be. What did you know about her? Mr. Brockman When the Benders first came into the neighborhood Kate was a little barefooted girl, dirty and saucy, prob Amasa Kllborn's Fast. The Norwich Star. In the unwritten annals of Salem is the tradition of a curious fast by an eccentric individual, Amasa Kilborn.

Kllborn's fast, which was begun during or shortly after the war of the Revolution, ended only with his death. It made his name notorious all through Salem and neighboring towns, and there are people living to-day who recollect distinctly the stories told them by their parents of the strange old fasting man and his peculiarties. He lived, "with his family, in a little brown house in a clearing of the top of a beautiful hill in the northwestern part of town. Every sign of the homestead has now disappeared. In the latter part of his life Mr.

Kilborn took offence at his family and determined to commit suicide by starvation. For over forty days he is said to have positively touched no, food of any kind, though he chewed tobacco continously. He attended to the affairs of his daily life carefully and in conversation never spoke of his voluntary fast or his resolution to die. People who heard of the case came from a distance to look at the man who was ''starving himself to death." Day by day he grew leaner and more, haggard, and for a man chewed navy plug tobacco and swore horribly, he grew to be quite spiritual. He was at last confined to his bed, and died on or about the forty-fifth day of his fast, One freak of Kilborn's early lile has never been forgotten in Salem.

One day in summer he had a of choice grass cut and spread out to dry. In the afternoon a shower came up and drenched it. The next day the hay was spread out to dry. Another shower came up and re-drenched it. On the third day the same programme was repeated.

Oh the fouth day. after the hay had been properly drieo and raked iuto an alabaster cloud pillar was shown up over the western horizon, and a distant prowl of thunder echoed from the hills. Kilborn was mad clear through. He looked at the hay and looked at the cloud. "Run to the house, boy," he saia, in a voice trembling with resentment, "and bring a fire-brand; quick now!" The boy asked no questions.

He came back with tho blazing torch, and Kilborn touched off each winrow. "There," said he, "dom it; I'll see il this hay will git wet again!" born in the State of New York, and lived there till I married my first wife. When I married my wife had one child called William Houcke, begotten in adultery. After being married two weeks JOHN BENDEK, his son, was born. Then moved to Illinois, where Kate was born.

Kate and John were good children, but ran away when 17 or 18 years old and went to Kansas. My first wife died in Illinois with consumption. After two years married my second wife; she had three children; her name was Nancy Peasley; children all died. While living in Illinois 1 COMMITTED MY FIBST MUBDEB, killed a short, dark-hairedjman, and put him down the cellar through the trap door. I got some money from him; buried him back of the house two rods.

The old woman helped bury him. Went to Independance, Iowa, and worked on a farm at my trade, blacksmithing, there. After a while I went to Kansas; had heard from Kate and John, who wrote for me to come on WEST TO KANSAS to live with John and Kate. Maggie, Kate's cousin, was there at theplace called Benders Hotel. After being there a few days I helped John make a trap-door, the same as I had in Illinois.

The first man killed wouldn't get on the trap-door. He and Kate slept together, and she killed him with a butcher-knife. She showed me the knife. Buried him near the house. The only man I ever killed alone in Kansas was a peddler; hit him in the back of the head with a stone-hammer; hit him once; got a good deal of money from him; don't know how much.

I remember others that were killed. ONE MAN JOHN KILLED and put him under the ice. Two little chil-dren, both girls, were buried alive. The children were seven or eight years old. The parents were killed the day before.

I used to stand behind the curtain and push the trap door. Kate and Maggie were always down the cellar to CUT THE VICTIMS1 THBOATS. I often heard them whetting knives. John and Kate used to sleep together. Leander Smith was Kate's lover.

Justice Grimshaw used to be Maggie's man. After leaving Kansas we went with the Indians. We thought, this spring, we must go to Illinois to die. (Ve started with Kate, John, Maggie and fotir children. The old woman and I left them at Schuyler.

They had a team of old horses, one bay and one grey, and an old wagon. Sheriff Daniel M. Bender has arrived at Fremont, Kas. He is no relation. Mr.

Brockman Tells What He Knows of the Benders. Special to the Kansas City Times. Chebbyvale, Aug. place is known as the nearest railroad point to the famous Bender butchering place. Your correspondent arrived on the 5:20 train last evening, and after getting supper and a few points about town, procured Clotfelter with his spanking grays to drive to the historic grounds.

The start was made about dark, but "Clot" knows the whole country lixe a book, and we had no difficulty whatever in reaching the place in a little over an hour. ably fourteen or fifteen years old and small. During the time they were here, however, she grew very fast and developed into a large robust woman. She was not near as tall as the old lady, but was heavy set women had nothing to do in this affair; he was master and would marry his daughter as suited him. As for herself, she had not the slightest idea of the duties of a wife; did not, as she expressed it, even know what a man was, for her mother had not enlightened her on any thing connected with the responsibilities and position she was made to assume.

When she left the house to go to the church her father bluntly said to her "Now you no longer belong to your family; you belong to your husband. You must obey him in everything; you are to exercise no will of your own in anything. Ho you hear?" These words gave her a most painful surprise and shock. At the altar she did not know what to say when asked if she took this man to be her husband, and had to be prompted to the words she mechanically repeated, so little comprehending their meaning that after going to her husband's home, when it became time for the family to retire, she became so nervously alarmei and shocked at the idea of having to live with a strange man and share his room that ft was agreed she should be permitted to return to her mother for a time, who might try to reconcile her to hpr new condition. After a brief visit she was permitted to accept the now inevitable lot, but, as might have been foreseen.the result was lamentable.

Her husband soon showed himself to be a brutal, unfaithful tyrant and spendthrift, and she left him to live by herself and take charge of the education of her only child, a son, living a solitary, isolated lile, although fitted by her talents and spirits to grace any circle. A striking case, but not uncommon in Italy, of a disagreeable. That we a family of like John and the old man. She worked at times at the hotels in Cherry vale and Independence, and pretended to be a faith doctor and Spiritualist. She also claimed supernatural powers, and John once told me that she was really Christ.

He said that Christ had come on earth once in the form of a man, and had been crucified by the Jews; but now appeared in the form of a woman. He always claimed her as his sister, and the old man and the old woman as his parents; and there is no reason to believe they were not all members of one family. They deported themselves as members of a family usually do. I honestly believe John and Kate were brother and sister, and that they were the children of the old man and wo I regained it they were over me, rubbing me, and the first I beard was, "By God, I believe- ho is as dead as hell." They then stood me on my feet and tried to start a circulation of my blood. I felt benumbed all over, and was terribly bewildered, They worked with me about an hour before I could stand alone.

They then threatened to hang me again if I did not tell them where the Benders were. I could not, and begged them to hang me nntil dead the next time, and not try and bring me too. I had already suffered death and did not want to suffer it again and then be brought too. One of them then came to me and whispered for me to run into the hushes and get away. I told him I would not.

He told me then to walk off, and after I got started they fired several shots after me, to scare me, I suppose; but I was far past being scared at that time. I then wandered roun in the woods, and finally found Baker's blacksmith shop, where I found some of my friends, who were looking for me. My wife had went to the neighbors, after they had taken me off, and told them they were going to hang me, and the neighbors had got together the number of twenty-five and were hunting me up. It would havs been a sorry time if they could hive found any of the parties who were engaged in the hanging, I reached home about 8 o'clock in the morning. The event is one which I shall never forget in fact, could not forget it if I wished to, which I really do.

It is a very npleasant subject for me to think mpon. The Times representative thanked Mr. Brockman for his ingenious narrative of facts, and, bidding him good night, left him and reached Cherryvale about 1 o'clock this morning, well repaid for the time and trouble. eight persons, infants and adults have lived for several weeks in an atmosphere of pyrethrum dust and smoke combined, during this present summer, is sufficient proof of my statement. To the skeptic I recommend an interesting experiment Puff the pyrethrum into a close, warm room, where flies most love to swarm, just after dark, shut the door, and make another visit in thirty minutes.

The sight of seeming millions of dead and sauirming vermin on the floor will do his heart good that is, if he is human, and not an angel. man. There was a close resemblance between them all. Edward Era and his wife came to this country about a year after the Benders settled here, and lived with the Benders about a month. They were the only persons whom I evtr knew to live with the Benders.

I was their nearest neighbor, and lived only half a mile from them. T. R. Please tell me, Mr. Brockman, what you think of the Benders' whereabouts.

You are aware that the theory is advanced woman's lite blighted by a pernicious system of education and false ideas 'of by some that they never left Labette Coun-1 ty, but that they are peaceiuiiy sleeping beneath the cold sod, and that they never got away at all. You were one of the first to enter the house after their departure. Now, what are your impressions concerning their whereabouts? Mr. Brockman I am fully convinced that they Went to Thayer and took the It is reported that the outstanding accounts of the late Dr. Talbot, of Dighton against persons whom he had vis-sted professionly in the towns of Dighton Somerset, and Rehoboth amount to How a Painter Succeeded.

One of the most succeessful paintings in this veas Paris Salon was llenner's and a pretty little story is told of how he came to paint it. He worked hard one day last summer, but to little purpose, and finally threw down hie brush in disgust and told his model, a girl of sixteen, to break her pose. The tired girl threw herself upon a sofa and was soo a fast asleep, while the moody artist strode up and down the studio in a brown study. By and by he noticed the unusual grace of the sleeping girl's position, and the beauty of her flushed face and half open hps. On tip toe he walked to his easel, and while the enthusiasm was fresh upon him, and before the girl awoke, he fixed on the canvas the idea of his charming picture.

train. I was one of the party who went to marriage. Niagara's Disadvantage. Cor. New York Times.

If a stranger attempts to walk through the street he is beset by irresponsible hack drivers, who stop their vehicles in front of him on the crossings and block his way on the sidewalks, fairly demanding his patronage and following him up for blocks. Its of no use to refuse. They have worn out persons before by persistence and hope to do so again. If the visitor continues obdurate offers are made to him which savor of cheapness; Eaten hr an Alligator. Belleville (Tex.) Times.

We are informed by Judge W. E. Crump that a negro boy about 14 years old disappeared mysteriously last week at his plantation, on the Brazos River. The finding of his clothes on the bank of a lake led to the supposition that while in bathing he was attacked and devoured by an alligator, as no trace of the body could be found. The lake is only four feet deep and full of 140,000.

He hardly ever presented a Thayer and identified the team. Bender's doe was also there, and the dog would fol low no one but old man Bender. John Bender's shot-gun was also left in the watron. which I readilv identified. Thev bill, and it was difficult to settle, with him.

There is also a rumor that among his private papers is one containing his request that no bills against the had evidently apprehended trouble on the road to Thayer, and had prepared to sell their lives dearly. After they had purchased poor should be collected..