The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-06-24
Paulett & Paulett,
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MILLER Manual Labor school.

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MILLER Manual Labor School.
rj.t,r H.rnd.-Oue hundred years
ooo a poor barefoot boy wandered oyer
the ragged mountains of Virginia try
inc 10 earn "a few pennies 10y gathering
from Tine bushes and briers, the tufts of
woll lost by the sheep pastured there.
Thi. was samuel Miller. Without edu-
eat,,nal advantages and striving after
fine hare necessities of life, this boy be-
came filed with "a desire to do some
thing for his fellow sufferers. With
tbi. fixed purpose lu view he toiled ON
and ama--ed 20 large fortune, all of
which Doe devoted To- the educational
tr,ininrof the orphans and destitute
moor white children OF Albermarle
rounfv. let as take a look at the
fruit ofal Obi. toll. Situated among
fine ragged mountains at the foot Of
tine Blue Ridge. which rears its lofty
peak. as q protection from all Northern
and Western storms. is the Miller
school. in the centre of a beautiful
lawn dotted with inviting shade trees
and covered with q carpet of living
green. tine celebrated blue grass of Nlr-
pinia. stand tine handsome buildings.
Iti.one of the best equipped insutu-
tions no the State for giving TO boys
and girls am an round education; and Is
fitted up with all the most modernluX-
urie- and comforts one could wish for
Here was put IN operation the first cleo
tdc plant south of the Potomac river.
This electric plant, run by water
Nature- W free given force, besides
lighting all buildings and outbuildings,
furnishes power for feed cutters and
mill. and also all kinds of the most inn
proved machinery for working in wood
and iron.
THE estate contains, ] believe, about
$500 acres Of fertile land well wooded
and watered. which under the thrift
and |udaunted perseverance of good
hard Scotch common sense is being
made To- blossom like the prOverbial
rose There are acres and acres of or
chard- in perfect order and the home
ofthat monarch of AN fruits the ALDER
marie mppin, and sixty acres of garden
that would be the envy of our most
painstaklng housekeepers. Here are
raised practically all the supplies for
los pupils now numbering nearly four
hundred
Here may come any orphan or poor
child Of Albermarle county and haye a
home until eighteen years Of age with
al the comforts oflife, the very best
educational advantages placed before
them and surrounded by Christian in-
nuences of most refined and cultivated
instructors and matr0ns whose every
effort Is for their moral, mental and
physical welfare. What kind of men
d.. This institution giving TO the world
DO you ask i'm reply 1 have only to
point You To- the head of your Farmville
Normal school. No words Of mine are
needed. He is a Miller boy. All this
ls under tine management of n whom
virginia. may (rather the South has rea-
SON to Doe proud, both In his war record,
and much more so i'm the great work
he I- doing for the children of her
poor iu fitting them 20 take a high
stand in the battle of life.
There is "a legend which tells of a
mountain spring, whose sweet waters
have such a magic power that who
ever drinks oft, no matter where he
NAV wonder will return and drink
again. Looking at the crowds Of her
Alumni who came 90 the commence
ment here, and were welcomed like
children coming back home. ! could
not but think the legend true and that
the clear. cold mountain spring which
furnishes the school with pure spark
ling water, must be the sprrgof Mystic
Power.
Or is % the stronger power of love for
their Alma Mater which no matter
where her -on- aud daughters may bee,
rsu-.- Them at least once "a year 20
iurr ib,ir fo.,- homcward sure OF "a
joyous NrIcOmr
lh, Niilor Sciiooi doing ID mobile"
uois. bong live thr Miller school