Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-19
JAIL FOR STUDENTS.
QUEER PHASE or lPg AT RmDEL-
 BERG UNIVERSITY.


 Prison Register and the "Crtmesr For
 whioh Thear Ownsrs Were Incarosratsd.
 The Rules s< the Pisoe.
 In England the ssudens's body iz com mitted to prison only by the civil au- thority. In Oxford, it is true, tho vice chancellor deals with undergraduate naughtiness, principally in the fcrm of debt and insubordinstion. for which he may impose momentary penalty, bus he does not deprive the dsfaulter of lib erty. There Is, og waa. legend that B certain apartment under the old Olaren- don building waS really the university "qnod, but for it's authenti ticity 1t is impossible to vouch.
 Cambridge has it's spinning houae for female offenders-no$ lady students, but ladies who might prove delusion and 8 snare to the mere male undergrad. There, If we except the irksome penalty of ''gating" Confinement to college or lodgings after 6 stated hour), our aca- demie efforts at incarceration may be said to end
 In Germany, however, the academic dungeon ie very stern fact. The Hei- delberg "caroer" is famous. Every read CT of Mark Twain will recall his enter taining description of the place and how he contrived to visit it. even unwit- tingly enlisting as his guide a "Herr Professor. !" His pretext was to see a young friend who had "got' 24 hours and had conveniently arranged the day to suit Mark-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 he 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, and is approached by "zugang' as richly decorated with the art work of convicts aa the cell itself The apart ment is not roomy, but bigger than an ordinary prison cell. It has an iron grated window, a small stove, two wooden chairs, two old oak tables and narrow wooden DedStead
 The furniture is profusely ornament ed with carving. the work of languish- ing captives. who have placed on record their names, arnoriaI 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 eolored chalk and in soot, the prison candle forming handy pen cil. Some of the inscriptions arc pa- thetic One runs, "E. Glnicke, four days for being too eager Q spectator of row" If four days were meted out to mere spectator, what, one wonders had been the sentence of the participa- tors? It must have been & moving spec tacle.
 Another record (also quoted by MT Clemens) has the savor of 8 great name to it. Of course it is the son that ia meant, not the father The legend is, "F 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 numeral "II'' as February But the "'99" makes this difficult, So perhaps the humorist is right.
 4 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 naaterifv es having been punished faE
 The prisoner must supply his own bedding and is subject to various charges On entering he pays about ten pence, and on leaving e similar sum- Every day in prison costs sixpence fire and light sixpence extra. The iailez supplies coffee for trifie. Meals may be ordered from outside. Every prison CT leaves his carte de visite, which is fixed with multtude 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 a 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 In Heidelberg the university court try and pass sentence, the civil power taking no further concern with the offense, The trial is very often conducted in the prIs- onor's absence, and he, poor wight, may have forgotten all about his peccadillo until the university constable appears to conduct him to prison. But th1ther seeing he may choose his day, he always