The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-07
Tho Jovl;,l Judge,

law Is Il homage paid to Ii deep human
instinct. People like justice best when
1t unbends little, and injustice itself
may be softcncd by ingenious Judges
who cOnciliate the loser with irresisti-
bic jest. Even among II grave people
like the Turks, this love of humor often
overpowcrs complaint. There is story
IN the East Of Pasha who had recoiy-
eli present OF two fat geese. These
succulcnt birds were very scarce at :hc
time, and the great man called feast
OF his intimates, where roast goose,
stuffed with pistachios, WAS to form the
ccntra dish. But rival magnatc, who
greatly wantc goose for dinner, had
offered the cook 800 piastres for Il bird,
whercupon the too venal officer repaired
to the Cadi, and sad: "If l give your
worship goose, will you sec me safe
supposing anybody complains about the
other onc?" The magistrate winkcd
and took his bivd-thc other also dlsap-
peared-and at the banquet, when the
eagerly expected dish should have been
produced, there was an awful 0isap.
pointment. Tho cook being summoned
protested with many protestutions that
the geese had ''ilown away" "Recov-
er thcm,' the infuriated Pasha cried,
'or will have thee before our Cudi
for the bastinadO.t' The guilty cook
rushed madly along the high road
wondering what to do, when he was
asked by donkey driver, "in the namo
of Allah," to help him to lift his beast,
which had fallen. lie forthwith pulled
at the donkey's tail with such thought
less fury that 1t came off in his hand,
and the cook then rushed OH more fran
tically than ever, pursued by the cries
and curses Of the driver. A little fur
ther he ran in his blundcring haste
against Christian, and knocked tho
mans pipc-stick into his eye, destroy
Ing 1t. Yet little further, still wildly
hurrying, he came round the corner
iull-tilt upon very ugly Bulgarian
matron, who, being in an interesting
condition, was so upset that she then
and there suffered damage. Being
chased by tho husband and some Zap
tiehs, the miserable man ran up the
steps of minarct, and when the mucz-
zin would have seized him leaped down
to the earth in his desperation, from tho
first platform, killing IL Greek who
CHANGED to be sitting with his brother
below. Such a situation as that pre-.
scntcd In the above narrative, it must
be confessed, was embarrassing, even
TO tile humor and resources Of Tur-
kish Judge. TO tho original sin OF tho
goose were now added four separate
misdemcanors, and the spectacle pre-
sented shortly aftcrward before tho
Cadi was one Of terrific hubbub though
the prisoner exhibited strange conf
dencc. which proved not unfounded.
First came the Pasna, who told how
the sinful cook had pretended that
geese, plucked and drawn, could fly
away. "Dost thou, then, doubt, BROTH
orr said the Judge, ''the power Of AL
lah to call the dead to life? Let us not
limit the divine might by our foolish
mlsbclief-it may have been so! Go
In peace" Next, the donkcy-man
held up the reft tail Of his boast, and
cried for Justice; but the Cadi said,
"Give him the donkey, my son, to feed
and use until the tail has grown again;
then he shall restore 1t to thce.' The
Christian followed, pointed to the mis-
sing orb, and clamorcd for punishment.
cit is written," said the Judge, "that
one eye toa bcliver c4':als two OF an
infidel. DO thou, therefore suffer me
to put out thine other eye, and then it
will be but right that L should order
restitution, by removing one from this
abominablc cook" The Christian de-
parted, and was succeeded by the in
jured husband, who told his woes. "By
the Prophets beard," quoth the Cadi,
81 see no way in this, save that thou
shouldst divorce the lady, and marry
her to the cook. Afterward, If it be
heavens will that she come again unto
the same state, let him send her back
to thee, and all will be we'll" This
suitor also declined to proceed to exccu-
ton, and there was only left the Greek,
who vociferatcd for retaliation on the
slayer Of his brother. "Inshallah |"
said the Judge, truly hurry is the de-
VIII as the wise say; the cook shall
suffer for it; this Is but lust. Got
thou, therefore, to the top of the min
aret, and jump down OH tho offender
whom | will place below, and 1t shall
be that If thou slaycst him none shal
complain" Hcroupon the Greek also
left tho court like athe others, amid
accllmations from the bystandcrs, who
were loud IN the praise of the Cadl's
wonderful DEGREES; but that function
ary was presently heard to whisper to
the cook, rs he quilted tho court,
"Ncver you send mo any more geese,
my FRIEND"
Lost Children.
A mother one day lost one of her child
ren, child of two years, and after long
and anxious search found him in the kitcll-