er day; the bedding extremely limited; the
cells swarming with those pestiferous attendants on sleeping hours,
every crevice between the stones and bricks affording a safe resort; the
food for the inmates insufficient for prison demands.

He at once commenced a war of extermination in the cells. Having secured
a change of bedding, and taking a division at a time, he would remove
all the articles for washing and boiling, and inject burning fluid into
the cracks and crevices, setting fire to it, and thus literally burning
out each apartment. He found it essential to renew this attack, however,
as months rolled round.

Finding, from the best authority at hand on prison fare, that it is not
safe to run the supply to a man lower than twenty cents per day in cost
for the raw material as the market usually is, and that flour bread is
an economical food for prisoners, as well as being humane, he resolved
to adopt this with a diet commensurate with nature's real demands,
built a baker's oven, and hired a baker for instructing certain selected
inmates in the art of baking, and established the daily supply seen in
the Bill of Fare at the end of this article. Under the head of
"vegetables" are embraced all the articles commonly used as such on our
tables,--onions, beets, carrots, parsnips, turnips and cabbage. Not,
however, using all at any one meal.

In the chapel service the warden gave the prisoners liberty to look upon
the speaker,--a great relief from the former downcast method,--and the
chaplain introduced the responsive manner of reading, denounced by some
as a most dangerous innovation. The Sabbath school was held the year
round, instead of simply during the session of the legislature, and a
few months beside.

But it required close calculation and strict economy with the warden to
meet the current expenses with the wages of forty cents per day to a
man, though he did that and gained a little.

The war ending, the tide began to set towards the institution,
increasing the number in '66 to 111, '67 to 118, and '68 to 135, the
highest number ever reached by the institution. The current then turned,
the prisoners numbering in '69, 129, and in '70, 118.

In '67 the authorities relet the prisoners at ninety cents per day
instead of forty, a great advance, brightening the financial prosperity
of the institution. But in doing this they had to make a great outlay in
enlarging the shop, obtaining a new engine, boilers, &c. Ther