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We drove about the city; visited the park and the sociable horde of
squirrels there; saw the fine residences, rose-clad and in other ways
enticing to the eye; and got a good breakfast at the hotel.

A thriving place is the Good Samaritan City of the Mississippi:
has a great wholesale jobbing trade ; foundries, machine shops; and
manufactories of wagons, carriages, and cotton-seed oil; and is shortly
to have cotton mills and elevators.

"—""* NATIVES AT DINNER.
Her cotton receipts reached five
hundred thousand bales last year—
an increase of sixty thousand over the
year before. Out from her healthy
commercial heart issue five trunk lines of railway; and a sixth is
being added.
This is a very different Memphis from the one which the vanished
and unremembered procession of foreign tourists used to put into
their books long time ago. In the days of the now forgotten