Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-22
JAIL FOR STUDENTS.
QUEER PHASE OF LIFE AT HEIDEL-
 BERG UNIVERSITY.

In England the students body is com. mitted to prison only by the civil au- thority. In Oxford, 1t is true, the vice chancellor deals with undergraduate naughtiness principally i'll the form of debt and insubordination, for which he may impose a momentary penalty, but he does not deprive the defaulter of lib erty. There is or was, legend that Q certain apartment under the old Claren- don building was really the university tquod, " but for it's authenticity it is impossible to youch.
 Cambridge has it's spinning house for female offenders-not lady students, but ladies who might prove delusion and snare to the mere male undergrad. There, if we except the irksome penalty of "gating" Confinement to college or lodgings after a stated hour), our aca- demio efforts at incarceration may be said to end
 In Germany, however, the academic dungeon is very stern fact. The Hei- delberg "carcer'' is famous. Every read- CT of Mark Twain will recall his enter taining description of the place and how he eontrived tovisit it, even unwit- tingly enlisting as his guide Herr Professor. His pretext was to see a young friend who had "got" 24 hours and had conveniently arranged the day to suit Marl1-for the German student convict goes to prison on the first suit. able day after conviction and sentence. If Thursday is not convenient, he tells the officer sent to hale him to jail that ne will come on Friday or Saturday or Sunday, as the case may be. The officer never doubts his word, and it is never broken.
 The prison is up three flights of stairs. aud is approached by "zugangn as richly decorated with the art work of eonvicts as the coll itself The apart ment is not reomy, but bigger than an ordinary prison cell It has an iron grated window, a small stove, two wooden chairs, two old oak tables and Q narrow wooden bedstead
 The furniture is profuse1y ornament ed with carving tho work of languish- ing captiyes, who have placed on record their names, armorial bearings, their crimes and the dates of their imprison- ment together with quaint warnings and denunciations. Walls and ceilings are covered with portraits and legends executed in colored chalk and in soot. the prison candle forming a handy pen cil. Some of the inscriptions are pa- thetic. One runs, "E Glinicke, four days for being too eager a spectator Of p row" If four days were meted out to a mere spectator, what, one wonders, had been the sentence of the participa- tors? It must have been a moving spec. tacle.
 Another record (also quoted by MT Clemens) has the sayor of a great name to it. Of course it is the son that ia meant, not the father The legend is, r. Graf Bismarck, 27-29. II. "A" :" This Mark Twain interprets as a record of two days durance vile for Count Bis marck in 1874. Had 1874 been leap year one might have been inclined to interpret the nu1neral "II'' as February. But the "29" makes this difficult, Sc perhaps the humorist is right.
 A third specimen is too tragic for comment It simply says, "R. Diergandt
 flor love-four days /" Ungenerous successors to that sad chamber have dealt harshly with their forerunners' regulations by ingenious substitution of heinous crimes, so that certain prison CTS go down to posterity as having been punished for theft and murder.
 The prisoner must supply his own bedding and Is subject to various charges. On entering he pays about ten pence, and on leaving Co similar sum- Every day in prison costs sixpence fire and light sixpence extra The jailer supplies coffee for trihe. Meals may be ordered from outside Every prison CT leaves his carte de yisite, which is fixed with multitude of others on the door of the cell. This queer album is glazed to protect the photographs.
 Academic criminal procedure in Hei- delberg is curious. If the city police ap- prehend q student, the captive shows his matriculation card. He is then ask ed for his address and set free, but will hear more of the matter, for the civil authority reports him to the university The Oxford regulation, by the way, is in certain cases almost identical h Heidelberg the university court try and pass sentence, the civil power taking no further concern with the ofenae. The trial is very often conducted in the pr1s- oner's absence, and he, poor wight, may have forgotten all about his peccadil1o until the university constable appears to conduct him to prison. But thither. seeing be may choose his day, he always yepairs cheerfnlly. Sketch.