The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-01-16
ill they are developed into criminals. :


sixteen shall avail itself either of public
or private means of education No harsh
guardian, or employer, or careless parent
can deprive his ward, or apprentice or
child, of good education to start him in
life, and to make him fond of study and
of know edge as he grows in years. The
rules to compel attendance are brief and
| severe. Two years in reform school, il
| the child has no one to look after il, or
twenty dollars Gue on the careless par
| ent, master or guardian, is the fine OF
willul truaucy. Children within the same
age, wandering the streets or lettering in
shops, stores and public places, are either
sent to reiOrmatories, or their parents and
guardians are fined The truant officers
kuow the whole population aud perform
their duties steruly. Ii they obtain salts
factory pledges of reformation, they
give the offender new trial. The New
Englanders pay their teachers we'll Fe
male teachers in common schools get from
five to eight dollars a week, and the mas
ter OF country high school from eight
hundred to two thousand dollars year
A twelve hundred dollar salary is fire
quent In these towns. On this last pay
good teacher, with a saving wife, aud
fair garden, may live decentIy, send his
sous to college, and give his daughters
lessons on the piano. Property is more
equally divided in New England than in
any other civilized region. There are
New Euogland towns where nearly every
house has some United States bonds in
it. and savings banks welding capital
of half million Reason Diversified
industry, that euriches all New England
Streams useless Cor navigation supply wa
ter power for numberless factories Says
Parton Among the glorious wood
crowned hills of Berkshire | have passed
in an afternoon ride, an iron smelling fur
mace, two very extensive manufactures
OF the finest writing paper, the linen rags
of which are brough from the shores OF
the Mediterranean, large wooden mill, q
factory of folding chairs and camp stools, a
cotton factory, mill for grinding poplar
wood into material for paper" &c.
New England farming is becoming
profitable through railroads and labor
saving machinery, especially in milk, but
ter aud cheese. But in nothing are these
New England towns SO agreeable as in
the trouble of the residents to make them
pleasant and comfortable. Parton has
been in New England villages of three to
four thousand Inhabitants, iu which he
could not fnd one squalid house or untidy
fence. They make their very wood>heds
ornamental, and pile their wood into even
walls Everywhere you see iuventions
of labor saving machinery ami sppsrstus
novel hinges locks, paddock, keys latch
es. curry ycombs, horse shoes a beautiful
little front door key, capable of turning a
huge lock stove that puts on its own
coal /; gate that opens as the horse man
appros ches, aud closes when he has pass
ed through fat iron that keeps itsel.
hot, &c The stranger looks with wonder
at New England farm, including house,
fences, gates, barn, stable, wood she'd.
chicken yard, pig sty, tool box-a perfect
museum of curiosities, all made "to work,
aud constructed with universal symmetry
aud elegance.
The towns are all becoming villa like
The streets are generally lined with grand
old ems. with lawns. shrubbery and flow
ers around every house. The cost of these
natural adornmeuts is very little. La Que
Vermont town Mr. Parton was shown a
splendid display of those grand old elms
that have been planted for twenty five
cents each But then every body feels
an interest in the matter. aud each house
is rival to the other. Parton refers To
the Laurel Hill AssociatiOn,' at Stock
bridge, founded by Mrs. j. u Goodrich
in 1853, and since initiated by other New
England towns, the objects of which were
Ito improve and ornament the streets aud
public grounds, by planting and cultivat
ing trees, cleaning, trimming and repair
ing the side. walks, and doing such other
acts as shall tend to beautity aud Improve
such streets and grounds. Every per
son over fourteen who agrees to pay one
dollar year for three years, or who plants
and protects one tree. is member; life
members for twenty five dollars to in
duce the children not 10 ipjure the trees
or tread on the sward, all persons under
fourteen, who pay twenty cents year for
three years, or who do an equivalent of
work on the grounds, are members. The
ladies' are included in this organizati
The result is one of the lOveliest spots in
New England. Twenty years have i'm
proved the whole place amazingly, and
Increased the public interest in the work
started by refped woman. But while
this example is one that Pennsylvania
should ponder, there is still more ia
teresting feature of it. This little village
of Stockbridge, situated among the Berk
shire hills, where the lynx aud otter are
still to be caught, has about sixty houses.
aud the whole town a population OF niue
teen hundred and tiity-and yet the move
ment to improve it has induced some
most valuable donations. from the rich
aud well doing. The Sedgwick family