Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-21
JAIL FDR STUUElS IS.
QUEER PHASE OF LIFE AT HEipEL-
 BERG UNIVERSITY.

Prison Register and the "Crimes" For
 Which Their owners Were Incarcerated.
 The Rules of the Place.
 In England the students body Is com mitted to prison only by the civil an- thority In Oxford, it is true, the vice chancellor deals with undergraduate naughtiness, principally in 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 a certain apartment under the old Claren- don building was really the university "quod :" but for it's authenticity it is impossible to vouch
 Cambridge has it's spinning house for female otfenders-not lady students, but ladies who might prove a delusion and snare to the mere male undergrad There if we except the irksome penalty of ''gating" (confnepzent to college or lodgings after stated hour) our aca- demic efforts at incarceration may be said to end.
 In Germany however, the academic dungeon is very stern fact. The Hei- delberg career 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 "Herr Professor. . His pretext was to see a young friend who had "got'' 24 hours and had conveniently arranged the day to suit Merk-for the German student convict gees to prison on the first suit. able day after conviction and sentence if Thursday is not convenient, he tells the officer sent to hale hlm t1 jail that ae will come en Friday or Saturday or Sunday, as the case may be. The officer never doubts his word, and 1t is never broken
 The prison is up three flights of stairs. and is approached by a "zugmug" as richly decorated with tho art work of convicts as the cell itself. The apart ment is not roomy, but bigger than an ordinary prison cell It has an iron grated window, small stove, two wooden chairs, two old oak tables and a narrow wooden bedstead
 The furniture is profasely ornaments ed with, carving, the work of languish- Ing captives, who have placed on record their names, armorial bearings, their crimes and the dates of their inprison- ment, together with quaint warnings and denunciations Walls and ceilings are covered with portraits and legends executed i'll colored chalk and in soot, the prison candle forming a handy pen l cil. Some of the inscriptions are pa- thetie. One runs, "E. Gliuielze four days for being too eager a spectator of row. If four days were meted out to | mere spectator, what, one wonders, had been the sentence of tho partieipa- tors? It must have been q moving spec taele.
 Another record (also quoted by Mfr. Clemens) has the savor of greab name to it. Of course 1t is the son that is meant, not the father. Tho legend IS, "F Graf Bismarck, 27 29 Il. '74. " This Mark Twain interprets as a reeord of two days durance vile faH Count Bis marek in 1874 Had 1874 been leap year one might have been inclined tt interpret the numera1 Fl as February
 But the .'29'' makes this difficult Sc perhaps the humerist is isht.
 A third specimen is tao iragio for comment. Itsimply says R. Biergandt
 flor love-four days JnHnerous successors to that sad ahambef have dealt harshly with thoie forerHners' regulations by ingenious substitution of heinous# crimes, so that certain prison- CTS go down to posterity g having been punished for theft and murder
 The prisoner must supply bis OWE bedding and is subject to various charges On entering he pags aboat ten- pence, and on leaving {, similar sum. Every day ill prison costs ai&penee; fire and light sixpence extra. Tine 1ailcr supplies coffee for trifie. Meals may be ordered from outside. Every prison CT leaves his carte de visite, whieh is fixed with a multitude of others on the door of the cell. This queer album is glazed to protect the photographs. Academic criminal procedure in Hei. defberg is curious. If the city police ap. prehend student. the captive showF 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 ofense The trial is very often conducted iil the prIs- oner's absence, and he, poor wight, may have forgotten all about hIs peccadilla until the university constable appears to conduct him to prison But thither. seeing he may choose his day he always repairs cheerfully .-Loneon Sketch,
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