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Show WOES OF PERSIAN DRUNKARDS Are Placed on the Black List and Socially Boycotted. Drunlnrds have- beon regularly black-listed In Persia for at least twelve hundred years past. It Is no Joko, cither, for tho Individual thus held up to opprobrium, He. Is not permitted to enter any placo of public amusement. When at prayers pray-ers ho must hold himself aloof from the other members of tho congregation. congrega-tion. Nor may ho even frequent tho bazaar In order to purchase provisions provis-ions and othor necessities, except at certain stated hours and under police surveillance. Moreover, If after having boon "llstod" he again ofTonds, he Is punished pun-ished with eighty lashes. Thoro Is no escape, no "law's delay." Provided Provid-ed only that tho offender Is selzod whllo In a stato of Intoxication, or while his breath smells of drink, tho punishment Is Indicted forthwith. |