Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-06-27

tuted for thar If Imprisonment for lIte
Thus the sovereign could display cleIn-
ency and al lhe same time economic.
The princeliug approved But another
difficulty arose There was no prison
suitable Tor l8eiong confinement There
were police stations, bu1 no real prison.
safe and suve However one was ar
ranged, 4 jaler WAS appointed, ana
finally tile prisoner was shut up.
Capital Tie iailer guarded the Grim
Inal and every day from the palace
kitchen brought him his meals.
A year passed. The prnceling, MAX
ing up his accounts. found that the
prisoners support heavily weighted his
budget. 'slhe fellow" thought he. is
young and healthy There Is nothing
to prevent his living 10 years. and with
jailer. food etc, to what a sum VIII
his expenses amount? The thing cali-
not go on. The sovereign summoned
his ministers
You must take measures. said he
ito reduce the. cost Of keeping thar
wretch. He is TOO expensive.
The ministers held a council ana
deliberated
"Gentlemon said one. Il have
thought Of q means We must do away
with the jaler
But" observed another, the prison
er will escape
Well. let him escape and so to the
devil. II will be good radiance"
The matter was referred to the
prince, who approved, and the jailer
was dismissed. Excellent, 1t only re-
manned to await developments.
Now AT dinner time the prisoner
went out to look for the iailer, but not
finding him he repaired 10 the royal
kitchen. rot his food, returned 10 pris-
on ana carefully locked himself in.
The next day an identical programme
was carried out. He obtained his food
and TRANQUILITY dined As for escaping
he had no such idea
What was 10 he done? Again the
ministers ,leliberated. let us tell him
plainly" said ont. that we do not
want him Tell him to march" Good!
The ministers Of justice summoned the
criminal and said:
"Why % YOU not escape? You have
no jailer. 80 one prevents You, and the
prince will certainly not object to your
leaving lis country
The prince would not object" re-
piled the prisoner, that l quite IN
derstand. but where can | go? What
would become of me? Your sentence
has forever dishonored me. No one
wants me | have no way OF support
ing myself Why have You treated
me so badly? You condemned me to
death. Very well. You ought to have
executed me. and you did not DO it.
/ said nothing. Then you sentenced me
to lifelong Imprisonment and appointed
a iailer 10 bring me my meals. Next
you took away my jailer. Stl | said
nothing. but went myself to get my
food And now you tell me to 90. All,
no, indeed. Do what you like, but az
for mel shall stay"
/ What was to be done? Again the
council met and deliberated. At last it
was decided to offer the criminal a
pension otherwise it would be impos-
sible to get rid Of him. The matter was
referred to the prnceling There was
really 10 CAplCt, duu ltt dHI3tONtht \
pension of GOO francs was decided up
on. aud they Informed the prisoner.
i "All right" said he, II viii go, but
you must pay regularly"
The new pensioner received on ac-
count 200 francs babe goodby and left
the country. TO do SO he was obliged
10 travel by rail only for quarter OF
an hour. Having bought IT a few min
uteS' distance from the frontier a little
bit of ground, he raises vegetables and
on certain days goes to draw his pen
sion. The money pocketed. he repairs
10 the casino. risks or s francs on the
green cloth, loses or gains. then goes
quietly home Thus he lives soberly
and well behaved.
lie had the good luck to commit his
crime outside the countries which
grudge no expense for cutting off mems
heads or for shutting them up for life
in prison.-Translated For New York
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