The penitentiary, so far as I know, is the only place in the State of
Kansas where prohibition actually works prohibition as contemplated by
the laws of the State! There are no "joints" in the Pen. No assistant
attorney generals are necessary to enforce prohibition there. I never
saw a drunken man in the prison. The Striped Temperance Society of
Kansas is a success.

For breakfast in the prison we have hash, bread, and a tin cup of
coffee, without sugar or milk; no butter, no meat. The hash is made of
the pieces of bread and meat left over from the preceding day. We had it
every day in the year for breakfast. During my entire time in the prison
I had nothing for breakfast but hash. One day I was talking to an old
murderer who had been there for eighteen years, and he told me he had
eaten hash for his breakfast during his entire term--six thousand five
hundred and seventy days. I looked at the old man and wondered to myself
whether he was a human being or a pile of hash, half concluding that he
was the latter!

In conversation with the chaplain of the prison I received the following
anecdote, which I will relate for the benefit of my readers. It is
customary in the prison, after the Sunday exercises, for such as
desire to remain and hold a sort of class meeting, or, as some call it,
experience meeting. In one of these, an old colored man arose, and said:
"Breddren, ebber since Ize been in dis prison Ize been tryin' to git de
blessin'; Ize prayed God night and day. Ize rascelled wid de Almighty
'till my hips was sore, but Ize nebber got it. Some sez its la'k ob
faith. Some its la'k of strength, but I b'l'eves de reason am on 'count
ob de quality ob dis hash we hab ebbery day!"

Accidents are occurring almost daily. Scarcely a day passes but what
some man receives injuries. Often very severe accidents happen, and
occasionally those which prove fatal. Many men are killed outright.
These accidents are caused by the roof of the little room in which the
miner works falling in upon him, and the unexpected drop of coal. Of
course there are many things that contribute to accidents, such as bad
machinery, shafts, dirt rolling down, landslides, etc.

One day there was a fellow-prisoner working in the room adjoining me; he
complained to the mining boss that he did not want to go into that
room to work because he thought it was dangerous. The officer in charge
thought differently, and told him to go in there and go to work or he