A Hungry Man's Dreams

One of the worst evils attendmg penal servitude is said to be the hunger which assails a man with a healthy appetite during the flrst few months or years of his imprisonment, says the Boston Globe. A man who has just done a long term for forgery says: "I used to go to bed every night pinched by hunger. I began dreaming of banquets, and would have thought nothing strange about it had not the same dream come to me every night. The banquet was always the same, in the same place, and I always h ad the same place at the table. "The exasperating thing about it was that just as the first course was offered I always awoke, so that even in my drearns I was not permitted to taste of the munificent spread which was nightly presented to me in my sleep. "I dreaded to go to bed, because the dream tortured me. It only made me the hungrier, and I then understood the agony of Tantalus, the fable hero who was tortured with thirst and to whose Ups the waters wero ever coming and receding just as he was in the act of taking a drink."