. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. COTTON furnishes the cheap-est material for clothingthe largest part of man-kind. Yet though theuse of such clothing hasbeen known from remoteantiquity in tropical coun-tries, it was not until thenineteenth century thatthe universality of its em-ployment made Cottonking. The difficulty wasnot in preparing the fibrefor wearing, but in separ-ating it from the cotton-seed. To get a poundof clean cotton, withoutwasting any, used to re-quire a days labor. Hence the raising of it remainedunprofitable until Yankee ing
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. COTTON furnishes the cheap-est material for clothingthe largest part of man-kind. Yet though theuse of such clothing hasbeen known from remoteantiquity in tropical coun-tries, it was not until thenineteenth century thatthe universality of its em-ployment made Cottonking. The difficulty wasnot in preparing the fibrefor wearing, but in separ-ating it from the cotton-seed. To get a poundof clean cotton, withoutwasting any, used to re-quire a days labor. Hence the raising of it remainedunprofitable until Yankee ingenuity expedited the work. Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton-gin, which stimu-lated the agricultural system of the Southern States, wasborn at Westborough, Massachusetts, on December 8, graduating at Yale College in 1792 he went to Georgiaas a teacher, but being taken ill, was invited by Greene, widow of the famous Revolutionarygeneral, to reside at her house. The neighboring plantersfound themselves oppressed with debt, and at Mrs. Greenestable di
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