The finer yarns are spun from Sea Island cotton, from which fine muslins, laces, etc., are made. This cotton has long fibers. The good qualities of short cottons are used in the manufacture of cambrics, calicoes, sheetings, shirtings, etc. Inferior grades of cotton are used for coarse yarns in the manufacture of coarse fabrics. Cotton is also mixed with wool. Yorkshire broadcloth is said to be about half cotton. From warps of cotton and wefts of wool or worsted (a variety of wool) are formed Orleans cloths, Coburgs, mousselines de laine, damasks, etc. There are also fabrics composed of silk and cotton, linen and cotton, alpaca and cotton, etc. It is used in the manufacture of cotton thread for sewing and pack thread for tying bundles, and other cordage. Albert Schneider. THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsty flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shades for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds everyone, When rocked to rest on their mother’s breast As she dances about in the sun, I wield the flail of the lashing hail And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain And laugh as I pass in thunder. —Shelley. INDEX. Volume XI—January, 1902, to May, 1902, inclusive. Page. A Animal Emotions. Alberta A. Field, 175 Antelope. The Autobiography of an. Alice Moss Joyner, 149 April (Poem). Walter Thornbury, 145 Arrow Head, The (Illustration), 182 Awakening (Poem). M. Townshend Maltby, 144 B Berries of the Woods. Ella F. Mosby, 31 Between the Daylight and the Dark. S. E. McKee, 12 Bird that Hung Himself, A. Mary McCrae Culter, 65 Bird, The Pocket—The Scarlet Tanager. Belle Paxon Drury, 89 Bird, The Sing-Away (Poem). Lucy Larcom, 158 Birds and Flowers of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, April. James Stephen Compton, 214 Bird’s Complaint, The (Poem). Henry Johnstone, 72 Birds in Their Winter Home, The—In the Fields. James Stephen Compton, 90 Birds in Their Winter Home, The—In the Woods. James Stephen Compton, 43 Birds on the Wing. M. D. Tolman, 24 Birds, Some of Our Winter—In Eastern Massachusetts. Winthrop Smith, 67 Birds, The (Poem). Elizabeth Grinnell, 192 Birth Stones (Illustration). Oliver Cummings Farrington, 216 Bouncing Bet, or Soapwort (Illustration), 86