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Show GIVE SWEETS TO PRISONERS Delicacies Passed Through Bars to Unfortunates 'Confined in Turkish Jails. A Turkish prison is an experience, a writer in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune says. You enter through the cellroom. As a matter of fact, there is Just one huge cell into which you are crowded with the dozen odd others. oth-ers. Some have been arrested for back taxes, some for murder, all form one cheerful company. The chamber is ill lit and full of the fumes of cigarettes which the men smoke the livelonjg day. Then by way of an-othjdoor an-othjdoor with heavy leather por-tleX por-tleX Iwung in, one comes to the uniform uni-form subchief of police at his desk. TooTl' side is a divan, where there ,r" s of Turkish coffee for his ' J Here, every one being guilty Viigi innocent, prisoners of remanded to the cells, y however, care must V one speaks not the It you in durance till lone speaking French, yyou get your peep in- Jls and their squalor, iterior at Plevlje, there eresting Turkish prison te. It forms the fourth en court, of which the 3 is the opposite side, the military band plays ,rd for his highness the the benefit, is a ramshackle frame, ry comprising the one ;his, again, all prisoners are thrust together, and the windows are likewise the cell casements. Folk of the town take it as an act of religious re-ligious devotion, frequently, to feed the prisoners dainties, and so one sees these lined up before the bars reaching the cakes through the grating grat-ing as you might reach things to the apes at the zoo. |
