Show ABODE OF ETERNAL SILENCE frightful conditions existing in prison of portugal entombed in a grim castle on the outskirts of lisbon are sonn of the most miserable men on earth these are the inmates of portugal u deadly prisons of silence in this building everything that human ingenuity can suggest to render the lives of its pris boners a horrible maddening torture is done the corridors piled tier on tier five stories high extend from a common center 11 e the apol es of a hugs aneel the cells are narrow I 1 tomb e and within each stands a coffin the prison garb is a shroud the attendants creep at out in felt slippers 0 o one Is allowed to utter a word the silence is that of the grave once a day the cell doors are unlocked and the halt a thousand wretches march out clothed in shrouds and with faces covered with masks for it is a part of this hideous punishment that none may look upon the countenances of his fellow prison ers few of them endure this torture for more than ten years |