Directly down the steep at their feet was the cotton-mill town, a suburb clustered about a half-dozen great factories, whose long rows of lighted windows defined their black bulk.

One would have said that to the daughter of such the close cotton-mill room with its inhuman clamour, its fetid air, its long hours of enforced, monotonous, mechanical toil, would be prison with the torture added.

Inheritor of large holdings in Eastern cotton-mill stock, he had returned from abroad on the death of his father, to look into this source of his very ample income.

Perhaps it was some admixture of his father's traits which set the young man to investigating the cotton-mill situation in his own fashion.

The holdings of both of you are in cotton-mill property, I judge.

Johnnie was desperately anxious, since the lint of the spinning room immediately irritated the little throat, and perpetuated the cold in a steady, hacking cough, that cotton-mill workers know well.

Beneath the cotton-mill régime, his chest was getting dreadfully hollow.

I was one of the cotton-mill men to them; they had no personal malice.

"We were just mentioning my pestilent cotton-mill projects.

Would we, at this moment, when our cotton-mills are closing their gates,when the cotton-spinner of England appeals to the British minister for intervention,when the weaver of Rouen demands the raw material of Louis Napoleon,shall we, at a time when a single crop of cotton is worth, at current prices, nearly a thousand millions, or twice the debt contracted for the war,impair our national strength by destroying the sources of supply?

They listened to the story of cotton-mills as fairy dreams, exclaiming: "How can iron spin, weave, and print?

The one sees projected on the outer world his own imaginings, now fair, now gloomy; while the other sees in the world, land to be cut up into corner-lots for speculation, and water for sawmills and cotton-mills, and to float clipper-ships and steamers.

The weavers and cotton-mill folk and seceders from my own kirk built a meeting-house in Cayenneville, where there had been for a while great suffering on account of the failure of the cotton-mill company.

The weavers and cotton-mill folk and seceders from my own kirk built a meeting-house in Cayenneville, where there had been for a while great suffering on account of the failure of the cotton-mill company.

Does the benevolent visionary of the Lanark cotton-mills really think this natural man will act as a foil to his artificial man?

There were the father and son,both hands, as I said, in one of Kirby & John's mills for making railroad-iron,and Deborah, their cousin, a picker in some of the cotton-mills.

They were going home from the cotton-mill.

" Even the notes of insects are a deafening crash, like the rattling of machinery in a cotton-mill.

And since 1857 such improvements have been made in the cotton-mills of New England, that we now consume more than a million of bales annually, and our production and export are rapidly increasing.

Beside its banks arose stately cotton-mills, and from their many windows hundreds of lights were shining.

Down in the cotton-mill districts of the South are scores of men who never, from one year to the next, do a stroke of work.

It was really a very modest little bill and it protected only a fraction of the pitiful army of cotton-mill children, but still it was worth having.

AIRDRIE (19), a town in Lanarkshire, 11 m. E. of Glasgow, in a district rich in iron and coal; is of rapid growth; has cotton-mills, foundries, etc.

BENIN`, a densely populated and fertile country in W. Africa, between the Niger and Dahomey, with a city and river of the name; forms part of what was once a powerful kingdom; yields palm-oil, rice, maize, sugar, cotton, and tobacco. BENI-SOUEF`, a town in Middle Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile, 70 m. above Cairo; a centre of trade, with cotton-mills and quarries of alabaster.

of the land is under cultivation, is the principal industry, and with dairy-farming, stock-raising, &c., gives employment to more than one-half of the people; mining and timber-felling are only less important; chief industries are iron-works, sugar-refineries, cotton-mills, &c.; principal exports timber (much the largest), iron, steel, butter, &c., while textiles and dry-goods are the chiefly needed imports.