.244 LIFE ON MISSISSIPPI.
Mumford says the libraries and Sunday-schools have done a good
work ID Cairo, as well as the brick masons. Cairo has a heavy railroad
and river trade, and her situation at the junction of the two great
rivers is so advantageous that she cannot well help prospering.
When 1 turned out, in the morning, we had passed Columbus,
Kentucky, and, were approaching Hickman, a pretty town, perched
on a handsome MIL BLickman is in a rich tobacco region5 and
formerly enjoyed a great and lucrative trade in that staple, collect-
ing it there in her warehouses from a large area of country and
shipping it by boat; but Uncle Mumford says she built a railway
to facilitate this commerce a little more> and he thinks it facilitated
it the wrong way—took the bulk of the trade out of her hands by
* collaring it along the line without gathering it at her doors.*