The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-06-03
RELEASE OFBENNETE

press Jul odVAolNCGAVu tAtsO ~ i'As Oo-'~
nett, the Editor of the New York
Truth Seeker; is again free man. We
are heartily glad he has lived through
his cruel and unjust imprisonment. 1t
was hard indeed for him to be torn
from loved friends and shut out from
the free air and sunshine i'll gloomy
prison, feeling all the while it was Chris
tian bigotry and hate that closed the
bars and bolts upon him. But it has dem.
onst1ated one significant fact. which
past history is ever warning us of, and
that is, 1.-THE liberty of man is not safe
in the clutch and grasp of the church,"
The same power that burned Michael
Servetus at the stake, procured the ma
licious prosecution OF D. NJ. Bennett.
The same power Influenced the Presi-
dent to not do simple act of Justice,
and stiffle I'LL the finer feelings of the
soul, and go against his own convic-
tions of right. It does seem to us that
Mrs. Hayes must have an unfeeline
heart, or she would have relented when
Mrs. Bennett made the journey to
Washington to implore the President
to release her husband whom she feared
was sick unto death in prison. Secta-
rianism is a bad qualification for per.
sons to have who are dealing with ques-
lions of the veal or woe of nations.
Righteousness is best defended when
men of no religion WELD the state, and
religion itself Aourishes better when it
cannot bulge a bayonet or constable"
LURY A. CRAPsEY.
TREE CLAIM SPECULA TON.
EDITOR ADVANCE: often see out
siders in the papers extolling South
western Minnesota and conjecturing
what it will lie when the tree claims
are all grown up with trees so to 60 feet
high. But the way things are running
[ don't think this generation will ever
live to see it, as the law is not compli-
ed with in any respect. The tree claims
are entered for speculation. There were
great number of claims entered six
years ago and to-day there is not stick
of timber growing on them. Only one
man in all this vinlnity has come any
where near complying with the law, viz:
G. S. Barclay who lives on Section Is.
He has ten acre; that have been out a.
bout years and are ten feet high.
The law requires man to swear that
he does not enter the claims for specu-
lation, directly or indirectly, but solely
for his own benefit, and he has no legal
right to sell it and just as soon as he Of
fers it for sale it may be jumped. The
first year the claimant is required to
break up five acres and the second year
he is required to cultivate the land and
to break up Eve acres more. The third
year he is required to plant timber on
the first five acres broken up and to cul-
tivate that. The fourth. year he is re-
quired to plant timber on the second
five acres broken. He is then to keep
the trees i'll good growing condition.
I ask how many have complied with
the law or come anywhere near it2 On
ly one man that I know of. There is q
bill pending now in Congress that will
put stop to this specializing in timber
claims. 1t will require proof every year
of what has been zone on the claim.
This have from the Land Office at
Worthington. have posted them up
as to how things were running and they
SAID they were aware of the fact and
there must be stop put to it.
WEsTs1DE.
Our correspondent might also have
stated that a company existed at one
time at Worthington who covered tree
claims with fictitious entries and then
sold them to parties as they came in,
thus specializing and wringing money
out of poor settlers in advance.
FROM OUR LITTLE ROCK FUNNY MAN.
Who was it soothed my infant cares,
and warned rue of the tempter's SHARES;
and fixed up rents, and sewed the but
tons on. and spanked me when the
guests were gone? my mother.
A laying hen is a relayer, and sit
ting hen is generally in err nest.
A mouse would regard a kitten as a
catastrophy.
Wilt thou my love? I. Wright gent
ly whispered in her ear; she wilted then,
it doth appear; her father appeared too,
and their plans was busted, for he said
Dost thou! and I. Wright away busted.
A light house is one that only weighs
4 few pounds;a green house is one
where they give tick and thin hash, and
it is poor policy to keep a poor-house.
a cold sometimes ends with little
| couglin.
The latest case of e ticks or, the AT.
CHAN war, ..,..<
For the benefit of young housekeepera
who need information about kneadinq,
we would say that when light: biscuit
are needed. they 1.-THE biscuit) do not
need much kneading. H.. ... =. y.
p 80