The dim homestead sank below the ridges at his back, and fresh ridges of snowlands rose out of the obscure horizon-level to drive past him as the stirless air drove, and sink away behind into obscure level again.
And so by stage and rail, with tiresome delays at every junction, in the deepening twilight of a fair spring day, weak and weary, I came in sight of the old homestead once more.
In addition to its general course Wawayanda Creek is especially sinuous in the New Milford and Sandfordville districts of Warwick, the bends multiplying at short distances, and also in the vicinity of the De Kay homestead in Vernon.
He then came on to Washington, where he arrived in 1878, and settled on a homestead on the flat above Asotin.
The mother died while the family resided upon the homestead farm and the father afterward removed to Colfax, Washington, where he passed away in 1875.
He also took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and later he purchased one hundred and sixty acres more.
In 1904 he rented the old homestead and subsequently he bought the place, which comprises eight hundred and seventy acres.
On attaining his majority he took up a homestead and at once began the task of developing it.
After spending two years on the Touchet he took up a homestead claim three miles east of Dixie.
In 1907, however, he returned to the oldhomestead farm, which is owned conjointly by himself and his mother.
He has recently disposed of his landed possessions but Mrs. Sprout still owns her homestead which she entered prior to her marriage.
McGuire, is a veteran of the great Homestead strike, and for many years afterwards led the local fight against the Carnegie Steel Company.
When the contract in force expired, they renewed their old demands, and thus precipitated the great Homestead strike.
At Homestead Carnegie and Frick stuck a knife deep into the vitals of the young democracy of the steel workers.
Of course all other organizations in Homestead could use what tongues they pleased.
By some inexplicable mental twist the ex-union man Burgess of Homestead eventually allowed the unions to hold one mass meeting each week--to this day the only ones permitted in the forty-one miles of Monongahela steel towns.
It was practically the same ultimatum delivered by Carnegie and Frick to the Homestead men twenty years before.
For instance, when the senators investigating the strike were visiting the Homestead mills, a couple of strike-breakers quarreling with each other, several blocks away, fired a shot.
Consider the situation, for instance, in the Homestead Steel Works.
Now, too, spring had really come, and I waited only for warm days to let them go and set up their homestead in freedom.
On one occasion the defender of his homestead kept up a lively singing all through the furious flight, which lasted six or eight minutes,--a remarkable thing.
The farmer's homestead is the beginning of the State, as the hearth or fireplace was the beginning of the family.
A considerable number have taken up farms under the homestead laws, or purchased lands from the whites, and are farming successfully.
Amid all these pressing and engrossing official duties the governor found time to purchase his future homestead in Olympia, Block 84, and also a tract of ten acres a little farther back, where Maple Park is now situated.
Although the Mormons were the original pioneers and homestead makers in that great region, theirs was in fact the last of the middle tier of territories to receive statehood.
By shell from sea, by bomb from air, Our greeting shall be sped, Making each English homestead A mansion of the dead.
Not with her ruined silver spires, Not with her cities shamed and rent, Perish the imperishable fires That shape the homestead from the tent.
Then he too turned to Macka, and by his gesticulations revealed the enormous pride he felt that the Rajah should return to the palatial homestead with so wonderful a prize.
The tears started to her eyes as she looked at that sinister heathen homestead as it loomed before her by the light of a hundred tiny hanging coco-nut lamps.
So Gabrielle Everard actually found herself living in the squalor of a Malayo-Papuan homestead on the coast of New Guinea.
He would have flown with her that very night and never let her go back to thehomestead behind the beach at Felisi.
And still he swore most earnestly by the virtue of the Christian apostles that he had only kidnapped her from her father's homesteadbecause of his overpowering love for her.
Oh, by the way, Swan "proved up" as soon as possible on his homesteadand sold out to the Quirt.
It was perfectly passable, as Swan knew; he had packed in by that trail when he located his homestead on Bear Top.
I took a homestead up there and some day they will want to buy my place or they will want to make a fight with me to get the water.
I found that a number of the influential Slavs in Homestead did not know that these books were in the library; therefore I judge that one reason why they are not used is a lack of proper advertising.
The Homestead community has so far shown a general indifference to the problems which its industry creates.
The congestion in Homesteadmust be considered not only from the standpoint of the family and the child, however, but of the single man.
The birth rate and the deaths of children under two, show that while among the Slavs in the second ward a child died for every three that were born, among the other population of Homestead one died for every six that were born.
The streets of Homestead all have sewers, and by a borough ordinance, even the outside vaults must be connected with them.
A Sussex auctioneer's list that lies before me--a catalogue of live and dead farming stock to be sold at a homestead under the South Downs--is full of them.
The footpath beyond the homestead crosses a field where we find the Arun once again--here a stream winding between steep banks, sure home of kingfisher and water-rats.
He supported the policy of the homestead law against the veto of Mr. Buchanan.
In the afternoon I visited my farm near by and my homestead of about twenty acres adjoining the city.
Every homestead was a log cabin--no brick houses, no frame houses, except in town.
This led to a review of our political policy, the homestead law, the abolition of slavery, good money always redeemable in coin, the development of manufactures and the diversity of employments.
The owners of these cattle purchased land from settlers who had acquired title under the homestead or pre-emption laws, as suitable sites for ranches, including a permanent lake or pond for each, an indispensable requisite for a ranch.
A farmer in a neighboring county had, through ignorance of the homestead law, met with difficulties in securing title to his claim.
Christmas eve found me in Fjelkinge, at the old homestead where my father was born, and where his people had lived for generations.
Then we thought of protecting the home-builder, and we said: "We will have a homestead exemption.
I want the law to exempt a homestead of a certain value, say from two thousand dollars to two thousand five hundred, and to exempt it, not only from sale on judgment and execution, but to exempt it from taxes of all sorts and kinds.
I want that homestead to belong not only to the man, but to wife and children.
He defended the rights of the Homestead workers, the cause of the whole working class.
The toilers of Homestead had defied the oppressor.
The manhood of Homestead rebelled: the millmen scorned the despotic ultimatum.
You are one of the Homestead strikers, are you not?
And in the otherHomestead regiments, there must also be such noble Iamses.
A soldier in one of the regiments stationed at Homestead called upon the line to give "three cheers for the man who shot Frick.
Bitterness and anger against the Homestead striker fill my heart.
We are deliberating policies of retrenchment and economy, when unexpectedly the arrival of twoHomestead men suggests an auspicious solution.
The spirit of the Iron City characterizes the negotiations carried on between the Carnegie Company and the Homestead men.
The Homestead developments had given him temporary prominence, thrown this particular hydra-head into bold relief, so to speak.
Homestead had sounded the prelude of awakening, and my heart had echoed the inspiring strains.
V Next morning, during exercise hour, I watch with beating heart for an opportunity to converse with the Homestead steel-worker.
My unexpected appearance in their midst, at the height of the Homestead struggle, had waked suspicion among the Allegheny comrades.
The big, jovial German has earned my respect; he braved the anger of the judge by consistently refusing to betray the man who aided him in the distribution of the Anarchist leaflet among the Homestead workers.
If the devils find us first, then get in touch with my men at Frew's homestead on the South Fork River, for that will be the headquarters of the frontier army.
Now I want word sent to Frew's homestead on the South Fork.
The homestead was about five miles out of town in the Mount Pleasant direction.
She had reached the homestead about mid-day, the same day that I came over in the late afternoon.
When he reached the farm he had found Benson lying at his homestead unconscious from fever.
I camped outside the Carrot homestead that night and the next day, and learned something of the family's way of life.
I was then saying good-night to her in the bright moonlight outside the homestead door some hours afterwards.
I was over at his homestead one day in Christmas week last year and found that he was absent.
He filled his pipe as the poverty-stricken homestead passed out of sight.
The planning of the new homestead would keep him busy for a long while now.
Sun-up' these both showed the homestead not as it was now in mid-summer, but as I remembered it in late winter or early spring, with some of the trees in full flower.
As countless swarms of flies buzz around a herdsman's homestead in the time of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them.
The god wrought also a pasture in a fair mountain dell, and a large flock of sheep, with a homestead and huts, and sheltered sheepfolds.
