Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-10

MANY farmers in the State. year In and
wear out, have bacon 1.-THE best ilgot
weight city sides) three times DAY,
four days in every week, except
when corned beef, picked PORK,
fresh pork, salt iish, sausagefor turkey,
is substituted in place OF il? How many
have fresh beef three days in each week.
Two meals each day. kept on ice during
the summer season? How many nave
wheat bread for breakfast and supper
every day in the year, made OF nour
composed of ten barrels of hrst class
and three barrels OF second grade mixed,
and corn bread for dinner every DAY?
Molasses for supper and breakfast, sncn
as usually retails at from seventy-nve
cents a gallon? Sauerkruat, rice,
beans, hominv, potatoes and other veg
etables In season and the Arrow. or Ar
bucle brands of coffee twice Gay!
This is the bill of fare at the Penlten-
tiary, and is made public with some oe-
gree of reluctance, for fear that Coxie's
army may get hold OF IL and sWoop
down upon US unawares.
Turkey is Of course served only on
THANKSGIVING day and Christmas oay,
and an extra dinner is Away PROVIDED
on the Fourth OF July. True we do not
employ French COOKS, but select from
among the inmates OF the prison CON-
netent men to do the cooking. The
man in charge Of the cooking is COM
petept man and his services have been
entirely satisfactory. This man pre-
pares meals day after day for the con-
vlcts that would tempt even the squeam-
ish appetites Of those who are constant
ly critiziSing the penitentiary manage
ment.
Provisions are mainly purchased In
Wheeling, Of the wholesale merchants
aud st wholesale prices. Nearly all
tke bacon, sausage, and portion OF the
fresh beef consumed at the prison Is
the product of the firm OF Messrs.
Schenk & Sons, butchers and packers,
who have the only packing house In
the State, and who are said to De Re
publlcans. Meats are not purchased
directly from this firm, but nearly alto
gether OF Democratic merchants, sau-
sage excepted. but are received at this
Institution within a few hours after
leaving their house. Will any Repuo-
lican make the charge that Messrs.
Schenk & Sons send out any but first
class meats? Will the IpteLLtgencer be
so kind as TO inform US?
All men outside the insane asylums'
ann half those in them, have sense
enough TO know that one hundred we'll
fed men are more easily controlled than
ten hungry men, and that this reason
alone is a sufficient guarnty that con-
victs are and will be well fed in all PEN
itentiaries, il there were no other rea-
sons for doing so. The average daily
cost of feeding convlctS the country
over is about the same, and will prooa-
bly, not varv moro than two cents, the
variance depending mainly upon the
locality OF the prison. IL would De no
credit to the State to insufticiently feed
its convictS, and neither would II be any
credit TO the prison officials. Prison
officials do not make regulations IN that
way.
The ear mark Of a criminal is his con-
versation. Do not forget the distinc-
tinction between convict and GRIM
inal. When a discharged convict ad-
vertlses himself as such by abusing the
officers OF the prison from which he was
discharged, by word of mouth, news
paper interviews, or otherwise, you
know that he Is criminal, that he Is
proud of his crime, proud Of having
served time in the pententiary, proud
of the depth to which he has fallen, and
that he Is morally dead. Such man,
when he obeys the laws OF his country
does not do so OF the dictates Of con-
science. but for fear Of tAe strong arm
of the law, and is always a standing
candidate for reelection. Experience
teaches this, and il the length Of this
article did not forbid it, case after case
might be mentioned in support Of the
statement. With such characters 1t Is
only question of time. because sooner
or later they will land behind the bars.
The writer is reliably informed that
at least one criminal OF the character
referred to makes no secret OF saying
that he has been employed by certain
committee OF the Republican party in
the capacity of a speech maker during
the coming campaign; and no doubt he
is telling the truth, because that class
of citizen never lie, never, no, never.
Dire, indeed, must be the necessities OF
the Republican party in West Virginia,
when it is so closely driven to the wall
as to be forced TO appeal to the crimi-
nal element, and more especially so
when tits forced to appeal TO Republi-
can criminals discharged from the Pen.
itentiary in the forlorn hope OF secur-
ing a diminutive mite OF campaign
filth, aud the party that does so is ex-
hibiting unmistakable signs Of the rapid
and near approach of that moral and
political death from which there is no