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DAILY LIFE UF A UUNVIUT HOW HE LIVES AND HOW HE SPENDS HIS TIME. _â€" Lord William Nevill Gives Admirable Description of Q Prison Life. - n These who are at all acquainted with the inner side of prison life admit that, although much has been written upon the subject of our penal system, the public know very little indeed of the real li-ie of the man condemned to pass a portion of his existence behind prison walls. The reason of this is because the majority of men convicted of crime are either not sufiicfently educated or teo' prejudiced to give anything like a. straightforward or reliable account of prison routine, while the remain-der prefer to be silent, says Londcm Tit-Bits. After a. man has received sentence to penal servitude he is taken to a local prison, where he is given a bafh and receives his first prison suit. In the case of sentences in London, Wormwood Scrubbs would be the gaol most likely selected. 'After a short time there the prison- er is sent to Lewes to pass five months in separate confinement. Dur- ing this period he is shut up abso- lutely alone in his cell, working for eight hours at any occupation that is considered suitable for him. He is generally put to make mail-bags. It should be stated, perhaps, that every prisoner so confined is allow- ed one hour's exercise per, day. Still, all those who have gone through it admit that the utter loneliness and isolation from fellow- beings is most depressing. ’ Then comes the journey to Port- land or Parkhurst, the only two convict prisons where first offenders are sent. For the daily routine and incidents of prison life at the latter gaol we cannot do better than quote from Lord William Nevill's book, ‘ ‘PENAL SERVITUDE. ' ' As many readers may remember, Lord William Nevill was sentcnfied in p February, 1898, to five years’ penal servitude. His book is an ad- mirable description of prison life, and it contains many valuable criticisms and suggestions. Alto- gether he spent three years and eight months at Parkhurst. On arrival there the tailor made a suit of clothes specially for him. Through an internal complaint he was often unable to take his place in the out- door gangs, and for that. reason asâ€" sisted occasionally in the hospital or in the printing or bookbinding departments. A staff of from fifty to sixty men, worked in these two shops. All the books and forms used in the convict and local prisons in England and Wales, which num- ber between fifty and sixty, are printed. and bound at Parkhurst, making together the formidable total of over 10,000 bound books and over 4,000,000 printed forms an- nually. Lord William t'ells many interest- ing stories of the doings of his fellow-convicts. “I was busy wash- ing the staircase,” he writes, “when one of them kicked over the bucket s he was coming dOWn, upsetting t e water and necessitating my cleaning the ironwork over again. As he did this he shouted out, ‘All you blessed aristocrats ought to have your throats cut.’ I thought I would teach him a lesson for this, so the next morning I filled my bucket with boiling water and set it on the stairs. When he viciously kicked the bucket, however, an'dthe boiling water went over his feet, he got such a scalding that he howled with pain.” Another convict seized a key, "'thrce or four feet long,” drew a cross on the gravel, and bbllowed out, “Either I shall die here or one of you shall l" I-Ie was overpowered after A DESPERATE STRUGGLE. Lord William Nevill tells some dreadful stories of suicides. One man, after seventeen years in gaol, nnd finding petitions rejected, threw himself over a railing 30 feet high. Another man saWed at his throat with a tin/knife till he nearly cut his hcad off. Then we have the story of another who enticed spar- rows and starlings into his cell by crumbs, when he clipped their wings and tamed them. Another Erisoner was about (5 feet 7 inches 'igh, with long arms reaching al~ most to his knees. He was given a double allowance of food on ac- count of his size. On weekdays the men rise at ten minutes past five. Twenty minutes later the cell doors are unlocked, slops collected, and the prisoners served with their breakfast. This consists of eight ‘ounces of bread, half an ounce of butter or margar- ine, and one pint of porridge. At seven o’clock the men are marched oil‘ to chapel. By this time, how- ever, every man has made his cell clean and tidy, with everything in the place assigned to it. After the service, which only lasts a quarter of an hour, all the men go off to their parade grounds. Each man has a special place told off where he is to stand in the ranks. After be- ing “rubbed down"â€"that is, search- edâ€"he is marched off to work~â€" cooks to the cook-house, black- smiths. tailors, bookbin-ders to the workshops, the farm laborers out to the farm, and so on. At ten minutes past eleven work is suspended, the men meet again .on parade. and after being searched ‘at night. return to their cells, where dinner is served. On Monday this consists of eight ounces of bread, sixteen ounces of potatoes, tWlee ounces of beans, and two ounces of fat bacon, by no means A SUMPTUOUS MENU. anlSix ounces of cooked mutton with- out the bone take the place of the beans and bacon on Tuesday, and one pint of pea soup on Wednesday. Dinner being over, work is con- tinued until five, when the men knock off for the day, receiving their supper, consisting of twelve ounces of bread and one pint of cocoa. All prisoners retire to bed After nine months of this fare Lorleilliam Nevill, who pre- viously weighed 168 pounds, turned the scale at 136 pounds. Once a fortnight every cell is “turned over”â€"that is, thoroughly examined-and the inmate himself is stripped and searched. Once a week each man has to scrub out his cell during the breakfast hour. Every seven days, too, each man is shaved, or, rather, the hair on the face is clipped to within a sixteenth of an inch. and every second week his locks are clipped dOWn to an eighth of an inch. Each prisoner has a hot bath once a. week. During their first year prisoners are allowed to re- ceive two visits each of twenty min- utes’ duration from their friends, and to write and receive two letters. During the second year they are al- lowed to receive three visits, and so on. At his discharge caoh man is given a suit of clothes, valued at $9.31, while it is also possible for him to earn from $15 to $30, ac~ cording to the length of his sentence. ' -â€"-â€"â€"-+-â€"â€"â€"â€"- . EMITS PERPETUAL HEAT. Most Extraordinary Properties of ' Radium. Radium, the mysterious substance which has lately occupied the inves- tigations of Professor Crookes, of England, and other prominent scien- tists, is the subject of a most im- portant and interesting communica- tion just made to the French Aca- demy of Sciences by M. Curie, a French physicist of the highest rep- utation and attainments. His state- ment would have been received with absolute incredulity if it had been offered by a less unimpeachable au- thority. Assisted by his clever wife in isolating radium, M. Curie dis- covered that it possesses the extra- ordinary property of continuously emitting heat without combustion, without chemical change of any kind, and without any change in its mole- cular structure, which remains spec- troscopically identical after many months of continuous emission of heat. I-Ie found further that radium maintains its own temperature at a point 1.5 centigrade above its sur- roundings. This is equivalent to saying that the actual quantity of heat evolved is such that the pure radium salt would melt more than its own weight of ice every hour, or that half a pound of radium salt would evolve in one hour heat equal to that produced by burning one- third of a cubic foot of hydrogen gas, this evolution of heat going on constantly for indefinite periods, leaving the salt at the end of months of activity just as potent as it was at the beginning. The world is thus made acquaint- ed with a heat sufficient to raise mercury in a thermometer 2.7 'de- grees Fahrenheit, the output of Which is maintained indefinitely with- out any visible compensation to the heat-giving body. It is not to be supposed, however, that perpetual motion has been at last discovered. Physicists do not doubt that the ef- fect brought to the knowledge of M. Curie has a cause, and investigation of that cause is regarded as being full of promise for the future. _____¢.._ CHARACTER IN MUSTACI-IES. _ Good and Bad Qualities Told by Them. Women who wish to know the character of their men friends should, if they wear mustachios, observe them closely. As the form of the upper lip and the regions about it have largely to do with the feelings-pride, self-reliâ€" ance, manliness, vanity and other qualities that give self-control, the mustache is connected with the ex- pression of those qualities, or he rc- verse. When the mustache is ragged and, as it were, flying hither and thither, there is a lack of self-control. When it is straight and orderly, the re- verse is tho case, other things of course, taken into account. If there is a tendency to curl at the outer ends of the mustache, there is a tendency to ambition, vanity and display. When the curl turns upward there is geniality, combined with a love of approbation. When the inclina~ tion is downward, there is a more sedate turn of mind, not unaccom- panied with gloom. It is worthy of remark that good natured men will, in toying with the mustache, invariably give it an up- ward inclination, whereas cross- graiuc'd or morose men will pull it obliquely downward. .___.__+__â€"_ Jenkins -â€" “I learn that you have bought the properties on either side of your house, and got them cheap. How did you manage it?" Foxlcy- “Easily enough. My wife is an clo- cutionist, my daughter plays banjo, George the cornet, I the ‘vio- lin, Bob the banjo, Chariot rattles the bones, and little Johnnie has the drum.” the- THE KING A§_A PATIENT. HIS MAJESTY SAID TO BE THE tained,and his medical advisers BEST IN EUROPE. The fact is that the Pope has a strange belief that he will live to a certain age which he has not yet at- are forced to think that this conviction has not a little to do with the as- The Kaiser Is Both. Good and Bad. tounding manner in which His Holi- -â€"The Czar of Russia Is Obedient. ' Nearly everyone is to regard Kings an-d Emperors all-powerful that it requires an cf- fort to think of them as in the doc- tor's hands, and as Weak then as the rest of humanity under such helpless conditions. Every man has a repu- tation for being either a good or a bad patient, according to the cour- age and patience with which he bears his illness and all its irrita- tions, and Kings'have these reputa- tions just like ordinary folk. Most‘ ly, it may be remarked, they aro bad ones, but there ‘are several not- able exceptions. Foremost among the latter is the case of King Edward himself, for all his doctors agree that there is not a better patient in the whole of the Royal lists than His Majesty, both in the fortitude and patience, which he shows and in the cheery optimism of his demeanor when the circum- stances are not quite so encouraging as they , might be, which optimism has not a. little to do with the splendid manner in which His Maj- esty has pulled through more than one crisis. - One of the gentlemen who are most qualified to speak upon such a sub- ject says that I-Iis Majesty is always determined to. get well again as quickly as possible, and is always eager to anticipate his recovery.‘ The only things for which he pleads with his doctors when he is laid up, and which in their wisdom they are not always very willing to give him, are those particular creature comforts of which he is most fond, such as a good cigar and an ordinary dict. He. likes at such times to have only the most cheery people about him, and prefers them not to discuss his ail- ments any more TITAN CAN BE IIELPED. This disposition on the part of I-Iis Majesty is shown very particularly in his choice of doctors, for his favorite â€" and the one who always goes about with him when it is conâ€" sidered in the least advisable that a medical man should be in attend- ance-Sir ‘Francis Laking, has the reputation everywhere of being the most genial doctor in the profes- sion, and one who never seems to take any but a sanguine view â€" whatever he may think -â€" of any particular ailment or disease. A cele~ brated patient of his once declared that “five minutes of Laking are as good as five pints of physio.” So King Edward, besides being a good patient, is given every encourage- ment to remain so, which isl a mat- ter upon which his subjects may congratulate themselves. As a patient the Kaiser is a mix- ture of both the good and the bad, and his doctors are inclined to say that when the initial stage of doubt as to whether anything at all is wrong is passed, and His Majesty has to submit to medical direction, he is rather more bad than other~ wise. He will never give in if he can help it, and it is said that on more than one occasion the Kaiser has gone about just as usual and at- tended to all his multifarious duties when he has not only been in some pain, but has been so really ill that any working man in the same way would have been in bed. But on such occasions the very fact' that he has sternly refused to give in has helped him, and thus he has passed through an indisposition without anyone knowing it. But when the Emperor is forced in spite of himself to-lie up, he is very much inclined to frct about his loss of time and become irritable. He dreads the “absolute rest" prescrip- tion more than anything, and as soon as it is given he sets himself to re-arranging all his plans of‘ work and utilizing as far as possible all the time of CONFINEIvIENT TO HIS ROOM. I-Iis doctors say he is a good pa- tient in that he is most obedient to their instructions, but a bad one in that he worries them too much about being allowed to do as he likes too soon, and also about the pro1ise reasons which they have for every item of their treatment, the compositions of their medicines which they give him, and so on -â€"- professional matters which they of- ten fccl will do no good either to the Kaiser or anyone else to divulge. The Czar-of Russia is a very obe- dient patient when in the hands of his doctors; but when that is said about him it is all that there is to say in his favor from this point of view. l-le is rather inclined to take to his bed at the first suspicion of illness, and at such times docs not feel quite easy unless the doctors or- der him a treatment very much out of the. common. ed for by the fact that he is of a nervous disposition, which makes him feel worse than he really is and militatcs against his progress to re- covery. The Czar also is a great sufferer from insomnia, and this is frequently a considerable handicap when he is unwell. ' The most wonderful Royal patient in Europe-for he must be consider- ed as such â€" is without doubt the Papal Sovereign, and he causes no- body more surprise than he does his own doctors. He tells them, and re- ally believes it, that he will certain- All this is account- tablishment is a ness gets over‘ ILLNESS AFTER ILLNESS, so accustomed and that in spite of the fact that he as is prone to dis-regard almost every injunction and has been known on more than one occasion to throw the bottles of medicine which have been supplied him through the window of his apartment. He is considered to be the best example alive of the ef- fectof the powers of the mind over the body. Positively the worst Royal patient in Europe is the Sultan of Turkey, who is not only irritable and way- ward to an extent which is most exasperating to his doctors when he is a little unwell, but whenever he thinks the latter is the case he is in the habit of summoning to his chamber every doctor he has on his list, and, unless the symptoms of which he complains disappear al- most immediately, it is not‘ at all unlikely that he will dismiss every one of them with considerably less than thanks and get in a fresh lot of physicians and surgeons who are prohibited from repeating the treat- ment of their predecessors, even though it may have been much the best. - - What is more, the Sultan is very prone to thinking that he is very unwell when he is in perfect health, and in spite of the precautions that are taken in the Royal kitchens to see that his foo-d is in no way tam- pered with it is a. frequent delusion that he has been poisoned, and a medical man is often summoned to give advice as to antidotes. Eme- tics he shirks. Though not a King, but the head of a State, President Roosevelt may be said to share with King Edward the ideal temperament for sickness amongst rulers. He always be- lieves that he will get well at once and that his malady is trifling; but at the same time he implicitly obeys his doctors. -â€" London Tit-Bits. UURFEW BELLE}. RINGS PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE LONG DEAD PAST. Lady Orders Her Life as in the Days of Queen Mary-The Oil Lamp. There is residing to-day in a South London suburb a lady who is so perfervid an admirer of Mary Queen of Scots that she has elected to order her whole life after the fashion pertaining to the days of that unhappy monarch. She is sole mistress of a pretty and up-to-date little flat, but she has had all the communicating doors of the different rooms removed ; while, in place of carpets, rushes are strewn over the floors, says Pearson's Weekly. The sleeping apartments are fitted with silken hammocks in lieu of beds ; and in the kitchen, instead of the modern range, is a huge open fireplace, above which slowly turns a gigantic spit. She even went to the length, at one time, of disconnecting the water supply, giving as her rea- son that taps and cisterns were non- existent in the H'olyrood of the sixteenth century. But the landlord having presumably the fear of the sanitary authorities before his eyes, objected so strongly to this latter exhibition of eccentricity that she had perforce ,to give way. Nothing, however, can prevent her dressing the part of her favorite heroine, which she docs in public no less than in private ; and the extraor- dinary spectacle may therefore be seen any day in the year, in the locality in question, of an exact liv- ing replica ~of the “Martyr of Fothe- ringay" out shopping with a string‘ bag, or plodding painstakingly along the roadsâ€"she resolutely declines to use the footp'athsâ€"ou her diurnal constitutional. It is not so very long since‘ Ely Place, a turning ofl' I-Iolborn, offered an example of a most singular anachronism. While the whole of the surrounding district was a blaze of gas and electricity there twinklcd over the gateway in front of one of the houses a tiny, OLD-FASHIONED OIL LAMP. Inquisitive inquiriers used to be informed, by the policeman on duty on that particular beat, that it had been regularly lighted by the aged tenant of the house in question every night for more than twenty years, as a sort of silent protest against the illum,natory extravagance of his neighbors. In one of the most aristocratic streets in. Mayfair is ‘a bachelor household, which is conducted throughout on mediaeval principles. The head of this extraordinary es- wealthy stock-1 broker, and could indulge himself after business hours, did he desire t0 do so, in any of the thousand-and- one alluring gaietics of the metro- polis. Instead, however, he prefers to retire to 'rcst at seven o'clock every evening, when his own private curfew bell is regularly rung. Never- theless, this singular individual is far from being a churl. Indeed, on the contrary, he is of a decidedly convivial turn of mind, and frequent- ly entertains lavishly, after his own peculiar fashion, his friends and ac- quaintances. But these seek in vain ly live longer than they, and he has on his well-laden table for the viands survived one after another of the me- they are accustomed to. dical men who have attended him, In place thereof are such old-fashioned dain- â€"___â€" MM - ________â€"_â€"â€"â€"._â€"__-__â€"-â€"4 ties as warden pie, salmagundis -of various kinds, and frumenty, the whole washed down with a liberal‘ supply of sack, canary, and malâ€" voisie wines, not forgetting a huge wassail bowl filled .to the brim with spiced ale. Old dances danced to mediaeval music constitute the special fad of a certain society granddame, noted alike for her eccentricity and her extravagance. This lady gives week- end house parties that are voted great fun. Her spacious ballroom is filled on these occasions with merry revellers,‘ but in place of the modern waltz is seen ‘ THE STATELY MINUET or the graceful saraband ; while the place on the programme usually oc- cupied by the quadrille, the schot~ tische, or the lancers is taken up with suchâ€"â€"t0 modern ears-meaning less combinations of letters and syllables as the HTurdion,” the “Gibidaua,” the “Lavolta,” and tho “Baladincs.” Up to the time of his death, which occurred only a few short months back, Paris was wonderfully proud of its “Last of the Dandies." The old gentleman haid filled o. high office in the Court of King Louis- Philippe, and when the revolution of 184.8 drove that monarch into exile, he resolutely refused to accompany him, asserting that he would live and die a gentleman of France. And he kept his word. Day by day he paraded the boulevards, gorgeous in lace jabot and-silk ruffles, hishair powdered, gold buttons glittering in his doublet, and gems gleaming from his shoe buckles. -. Of men actually living to-day, perhaps none is a more enthusiastic upholder of the customs and man- ners of a long dead than is the Rev. R. Williams, better known to fame as waa Mon, Arch- . Druid of Wales. Not only does Mr. Williams speak the ancient Welsh tongue and none other, unless abso~ lutely compelled thereto in order -to make himself understood, but he also dresses the part he has chosen to play, wearing. instead of the orthodox coat and trousers. a sort of toga of unbleached linen, and on his head, instead of the ungainly “chimneyâ€"pot” hat, a chaplet of oak leaves with acorns attached. ______+___ CURE OF BLOOD-POISONING. of Formalin Saved a. \Yoman’s Life. Injection When the discovery was first made that, many, if not most, of the acute diseases that afflict mankind are due to the presence of bacteria of various kinds in the blood or the tissues of the body, it was believed that the great problem of medical science, that is to say, the cure of dis-ease, was on the point of solu- tion. If disease is caused by mi~ crobes, it was argued, it is neces- sary only to kill the microbes and the disease will disappear. ' Nothing could sound more simple, but when it came to reducing this theory to practice it was made plain that the human body is not a test- tube ; that most substances which are destructive of the germs of dis- ease outside of the body are also injurious or even fatal to man if introduced into the body in suflicient quantityto- kill the microbes. Thus the problem, although somewhat modified, was still far from a defin- ite solution. The search has not been abandon- ed, however, and every little while discoveries are made which excite fresh hope af final victory. An event of recent occurrence has done much to inspire the fighters of dis- ease with renewed confidence. A woman in one of the hospitals of New York was at the point of death from a form of blood-poison- ing. Examination of ‘her blood showed it to be swarming with ‘the species of bacteria which is char- acteristic of that disease. Her physician, having tried all the usual methods of treatment without. suc- cess, at last resorted to an injection of formalinâ€"â€"a powerful antiseptic- directly into the veins. Almost immediately the fever sub- sided, consciousness returned, and the vital forces rallied. The woman was snatched from the very grasp of death, and is alive to-day. This is only one case, and is a slender foundation upon which to build high hopes ; for cases of seem- ing resurrection no less miraculous than this have been seen many times when no treatment was employed. And even if further experience proves that a cure for this particular form of blood-poisoning has been found, we shall still be fur from a panacea for bacterial diseases. Nevertheless, the demonstration that a germicide can be given in sufficient quantity to destroy virulent bacteria in the body without injury to the patient would mark a great forwm'd step in fhe progress of medical sciencc.â€" Youth’s Companion. ____..+_____ COFFEE FOR Tl-IE INEBRIATE. A traveller has made the observa- tion that cofl'ce~rll‘i111<i11g people are very seldom given to drunkenness. In Brazil, for instance, where coffee is grown extensively and all the inhabitants drink it many times a day, intoxication is‘ rarely seen. The effect is not only noticeable among the natives, but the foreigner who settles there, though possessed of ever such a passion for strong drink, gradually loses his liking for alco- hol as he acquires the coffee-drinking habit of the Brazilian. and past age ..