This bill, which was called the "Enabling act of Kansas territory," was passed in April, 1854, and father immediately pre-empted the claim on which we were living.

That shortly from the shape of womanhed, 345 Such as she was when Pallas she attempted, She grew to hideous shape of dryrihed*, Pined with griefe of follie late repented: Eftsoones her white streight legs were altered To crooked crawling shankes, of marrowe empted, 350

At last there came evidences that the limit had been reached; the whole world had been opened up and pre-empted, labour was beginning to demand and even get more adequate wages, competition, once hailed as "the life of trade" was becoming so fierce that dividends were dwindling.

Though this period had already been pre-empted by Mrs. Manley's "Memoirs of Europe," there is little doubt that Mrs. Haywood was responsible for "The Arragonian Queen: A Secret History" (1724), a peculiar blend of heroic adventures in battle, bullfight, and tournament, with amorous intrigues of the most involved kind.

For here was his paradise, his Promised Land, pre-empted by the Great Enemy!

Yes, yes, she saw perfectly the generations of Vermont farmers who had hated trees because they meant the wilderness, and whose destruction of forests was only limited by the puniness of the forces they matched against the great wooded slopes of the mountains they pre-empted.

Clinging as he did to the vision of a really living world, and refusing to be content with a chopped-up intellectualist picture of it, it is a pity that he should have adopted the very word that intellectualism had already pre-empted.

All the young men in the Territory who were over nineteen had pre-empted.

"The land-warrant with which you pre-empted your claim bore a certain designating number.

Since military functions center about destroying the person and property of the "enemy"domestic or foreignpublic funds are made available or are pre-empted by the military during periods of martial law.

Politically it was pre-empted, occupied, dominated and exploited by European empire builders, who used the over, all trade name of western civilization.

" "But suppose I reckon I'd rather stay here," persisted Lance, with a perfect consciousness, however, of affectation in his caution. "Stay away then," said the girl coolly; "only as Dad perempted this yer woods" "Pre-empted," suggested Lance.

"Per-empted or pre-emp-ted, as you like," continued the girl scornfully,"ez he's got a holt on this yer woods, ye might ez well see him down thar ez here.

Singular indeed are the ways of Providence, for with the arrival of Spring a Canadian colonization agent found his way into the fertile valley of the Arkansas, where every acre of land was pre-empted and worth a huge price.