Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-09-23
1t Vale Crucis
(By Old Hurrygraph)

AhS ouAhhSA oOyooAhSAS !" " uSco
of quiet rest and beautiful natu-
raj environment, and health-giv-
ing mountain air, should spend a
week during August at this de-
lightful place-the Vale Crucis
Inn during July and August, and
the Vale Crucis Industrial School
for the Highland girls during the
rest OF the year. It has a charm
peculiarly itsown. Sceneryis un-
surpassed in Western North Car
olina. The school is a revelation
of uniqueness in its academic,
vocational and moral training
OF the girls of the Southern APP
palachian mountains, with it's
dairy, poultry yards, and the
appliances OF electricity furnished
by its own power plant from the
waters of Vale Creek. Connected
with the poultry plants and elec-
trically heated incubators and
brooders As we'll as accommo.
dation for two thousand hens.
They have now quite l ,5OOyoung
chicks, White IAghorns, on a
twelve-acre yard. Dairying is
also taught, though the dairy is
not yetproperly yequipped. With
the academic courses, there is q
sweet Christian training that is
like a benediction from Heaven.
Miss Mary 4. Horner, the princi-
pal, and Miss Mamie II. Smith,
her able and faithful assistant,
and u splendid corps OF refined
and sweet-spil'ited women in the
faculty are doing a grand mis-
sionary work in these beautiful
eternal hills, and are moulding
characters as interesting and as
beautiful as the scenery in which
they are environed. The spirit OF
love and service in the school is
beautiful: The desieofthe High
lander girls to obtain an educa-
tion and Il useful vocation IS won-
derful. But outside contribu-
tions in the shape of scholarships
are needed for the development
OF the school into full efficiency in
its most important branches OF
instruction, namely, poultry and
dairying. Polishing the precious
metal, as it were, and making
happy home makers, so that the
growing generation OF men and
women from. the Appalachian
Mountains shall be known of a
type known as cultured Chris.
tians, "iaithful unto death, serv-
ing a Heavenly Father, who has
caused, through His benevolent
children, cheerful givers," the
door OF opportunity to be opened
unto them in the Valle Crucis In.
dustrial School.
Across the beautiful vale from
the Vale Crucis School buildings
on a ledge of a lovely slope OF an
opposite mountain, is O large
wooden cross which can be seel
in bold relief all during the day
except from about eleven to two
o'clock. During these hours il
vanishes from the sight OF the
naked eye. There are no shad
ows OF mountain or trees upor
it. 1t is there all the time. 1t is
the way the sun light falls upon
it that obscures it from the eye
sight. How typical OF the SUI
OF Righteousness. When the full
glory Of His brightness, goodness
redeeming love falls upon th'
cross all shadows fee, only efful
gency OF His mercy is seen. Thi'
cross, which l mentioned above
was first placed on that ledge BY
a lady-and the sweet women ay'
always about the cross and near
er to it than men-who expressed
a desire to be buried on thatspot
But she died and was buried else
where.
Did you ever see the operation
Of shoeing steers? Ellsworth 60
ing miles to see. It's a hundred
times more difficult to shoe ,