e hour for retiring in the evening. I could therefore hear
their recitations there separately. No one could justly complain of
this. Hence, I decided to remain, and laid out my work thus:--Sabbath,
usual service with the men from nine to ten, and services in the women's
work-room till eleven; then in the hospital with Jones, the murderer,
and others as their cases allow, till twelve; Sabbath school services in
the afternoon, besides visiting cells as much as possible; on other
days, to spend noon and evenings visiting the cells in turn, hearing
recitations and imparting instruction in the common school branches;
besides changing the books Saturdays, as already, to change them at any
other time when called for.

Thus I voluntarily undertook three times as much real hard work for the
prisoners as my duty had previously demanded. The new order seemed to
render it imperative, for I could do nothing in the educational line
without it.

3. _Cells cleared of trinket-making and tracts._ The former warden was
accustomed to distribute tracts among the prisoners. He also, by the
assent of the government over him, had allowed the men, who desired it,
to employ their otherwise idle moments by making small trinkets, as hair
chains, paper folders, tooth-picks and small fancy boxes in imitation of
what was done in certain other prisons, thereby, as was supposed,
securing greater contentment and better order among the men. The new
warden condemned all this as a great violation of good prison order. The
candles, also, were condemned, and everything of the kind, with all the
writing material or waste paper found in the cells, was removed, the
spoils carefully measured, and the number of bushels sent the rounds of
the papers as an evidence of the former abuses in this prison and of his
labors to correct them.

I asked if the prisoners did not need to have the waste paper, at least,
remain. "Oh," said he, "they will look out for that themselves." I could
not then see how, but subsequently learned, much to the cost of the
State.

4. _Necessity for the chaplain's undertaking what he did._ This
necessity arose, not simply from the demands of the inmates for
educational and reformatory means, but also from considerations of good
prison order. True, the warden had the vanity to think he could control
the men in whatever way he might undertake. The show of his cane would
be sufficient for any emergency. But there was human nature