Show LIKE FRENCH JAILS some prisoners cannot be induced to escape money does much to bring comfort and the way of the transgressor Is 1 not particularly hard nor disagreeable parts paris in england once you get into the clutches of the law very littie account la Is taken of sentiment stern implacable justice la Is all that evildoers have any right to expect and as a rule it Is all they receive english prisons and penal colonies are run on severe unsympathetic lines ries and no excessive indulgence Is shown toward their inmates but in france different notions seem to prevail ns as to the treatment of criminals criminal s with the result that the prison does not inspire the wholesome dread it does in E england take the case ot of duez ducz the official liquidator who admits having swindled the french religious orders out of something like jAl although though he Is now under arrest and may be sentenced to four or five years detention that unwelcome prospect does riot not appear to fill him with uneal uneasiness siness or melancholy not for him the head or the heart bowed down As he passes along the corridors of the palace of justice on his way to the cabinet of the examining magistrate his former lady friends salute him with a nod and a smile and the courtly receiver with nil all the n frenchmans French ench mans proverbial gallantry bows over their hand and imprints U a KISS alsa upon it it other acquaintances perhaps accomplices shake hands with the receiver and make inquiries as to his health and the delinquent assures them with nith a smile that he never slept so well in his life as since he was locked up journalists and photographers tumble over one another in their eagerness to interview or snapshot duez before he be disappears with his bis guards through I 1 bows over their hand the door of the magistrates cabinet and the dishonest official who confesses to making away with nearly a quarter of a million belonging to others laughs prodigiously and tells the men with the cameras that he be will charge them five francs franca a picture even when sentence Is pronounced and the culprit IE taken off to money can do a lot to soften his incarceration cases have been known in which criminals in french prisons were able to bribe their warders to smuggle in from their friends outside delicacies which bifid no place in the ordinary prison fare fowl roast beef meat extract wine and brandy were obtained in this way although the introduction of these luxuries was a district breach of the prison regulations preshes is notorious tor for its ita hospitality pita lity and so agreeable la Is a sojourn there that many criminals at the approach of winter regularly arrange to get locked up until it to Is time to come out into the balmy air of springtime and the genial sunshine less lesa than three months ago the story goes a new prison in france was opened to receive its first prisoner sentenced to six months detention the new establishment had cost nearly to build and equip but unfortunately the prison budget made no allowance for the warders and their guests the governors finally solved the dilemma by deciding that a policeman who was married should take up his bis quarters in the prison and serve arve the prisoner with his meals sut but after a few days the policeman got tired of this thia the profit he made on the arrangement was very small and in ft a confidential tone he con lAded to 0 the prisoner that it if he cared to take french leave he would see that every facility was given him to do so BO but his charge quickly reassured him on the point im all right here he said bald your wife la Is an excellent e cook ok you are nil all very kind to me ehla wa ts is a nice new prison 1 I been so ao well off tor a long time you dont catch me running away more it 11 you yon discharge me ill illy poon foon be |