Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — Worse and Worse. [ARTICLE]

Worse and Worse.

A convict in a German prison had been extremely refractory. One means and another had been tried, but nothing could break his spirit One morning the governor said to the warder: “I say, Huber, the scoundrel is behaving worse than ever. Put him on bread and water.” “But be is already doing two fast days, sir.” “Then give him a cookery book to read. We must break his spirit somehow.”—lllustrated Bits.