10 JUKES— ED WA BBS 



rocks are grand, the Avaters lovely, the forest glori- 

 ous. There was never a more charming place in 

 which to be good and to love God than this place 

 where Max built his shanty about 1750. But he 

 did not go there to worship or to be good. He 

 went simply to get away from good people, to get 

 where he would not have to work, and where he 

 would not be preached to, and this beautiful spot 

 became a notorious cradle of crime. Nature is 

 lovely, but it makes all the difference in the world 

 how we know nature and why we love it. 



In 1874 Richard L. Dugdale was employed by 

 the New York Prison Commission to visit the 

 prisons of the state. In this visit he was surprised 

 to find criminals in six different prisons whose 

 relatives were mostly criminals or paupers, and the 

 more surprised to discover that these six criminals, 

 under four different names, were all descended 

 from the same family. This led Mr. Dugdale to 

 study their relatives, living and dead. He gave 

 himself up to this work with great zeal, studying 

 the court and prison records, reports of town poor- 

 houses, and the testimony of old neighbors and 

 employers. He learned the details of 540 descend- 

 ants of Max in five generations. He learned the 

 exact facts about 169 who married into the family. 

 It is customary to count as of a family the men 

 who marry into it. He traced in j^art others, which 

 carried the number up to 1,200 persons of the 

 family of the Jukes. 



