Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-14

of fine quality. The small fruits escaped the frosts to such an extent as to leave a
 fair crop of strawberries, blackberries and grapes.
 My chief pride is in some fiue crisp, eel cry. On looking for the seed l was told it was not raised here; there was no call for the seed and they didn't keep it, and
 did not think it could be grown. My faith that it could was sufficient to induce me to send for single package, and from it l have as fine celery as any one need wish. So far it has shown n signs Of decay, and
 is still growing, though my table has been
 daily supplied for two weeks with well
 bleached, tender, crisp hearts, and there
 seems to me no necessity for depending on Cincinnati for supply.
 Forty acres here consider worth more
 under intelligent culture than 400 in north west Nebraska.
 see no reason why stock raising sh ould not pay as well. Grasses abound, and the great markets are no farther away. Shell ter can be cheaply provided, and no fear of their drifting before fierce blizzard till their blood is frozen in their veins and they fall dead in its path. The winter is
 short, and by care green pasturage can be bad at all seasons.
 Rye and various grasses sown in early fall or late summer will furnish it. The fruit industry of this section is still iu swaddling clothes, but the markets are annually calling for a greater supply-we are becoming more and more fruit g people, and this locality has every natural qualification for this industry. The rain- fall is abundant, and the fruit growers do not need to mortgage themselves to great irrigation corporation in order to grow it or any other crop. s Irrigation is now being discussed by the people of western Kansas, and those of western aud northern Nebraska; preiimi- nary surveys have been made and the theory pronounced practicable. Eastern capitalists stand ready-waiting only till the land owners in despair put themselves under bonds at their dictation. Why be tempted into this last ditch, when sunny skies, a genial cline, with nature's boun :. welcome the willing hands that will build worthy homes from which their children and children's children shall rise ap and call them blessed. sI -st The business people of tn. 50 ,th welcome every well intentione family thSt setties in their midst-it is only necessary that the two sections become acquainted to live in harmony; each can learn some better ways, and the benefit be mutual through business and social intercourse.
 The railroads of the south over which
 have travelled, especially the Alabama Great Southern, cannot be surpassed in it's accommodation of it's patrons. Clean, comfortable day coaches and superb com pertinent sleepers for night. No Pullman sleepers, with the upper berth, though
 unoccupied, locked down, but connexions double and single compartments, where one can have the privacy and comfort of a room well ventilated and wholesome. Gentlemanly officials and attentive train men, from conductors to brakemen.
 There is an abundance of land waiting the, home seeker at low prices and easy payments all along it's lines, from Tennes- see to its terminus. Respectfully,
 MARIA c. ARTER.
 Lookout Mountain, near Gadsden, Ala.