Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-09
The JOvEal Judge,

! Ike pIOCllflJJ W JohluS III COul bS va
law IL homage paid to deep human
instinct. People like justice best when
1t unbends little, and injustice itself
may be softened by ingenious judges
who conciliate the loser with irresistI-
bic jest. Even among grave people
| like the Turks, this love OF humor often
overpowers complaint. There Is IA story
in the East of u Pasha " ho had receiv-
ed "A present OF two fat geese. These
succulent birds were very scarce at the
time, and the great man called feast
of his intimatcs, where roast goose,
stuffed with pistachios, was TO form the
central dish. But rival magnate, who
greatly wanted goose for dinner, had
offered the cook 800 piastres for bird,
whereupon the too venal officer repaired
TO the Cadi, and SAID: ''If | give your
worship a goose, will you see me safe
supposing anybo ly Complains about the
other onc?" The magistrate winked
and took his bird-the other also disap-
peared-and at the banquet, when the
eagerly expected dish should have been
pointment. The cook being summoned
protested with many protestations that
the geese had "flown away" "Recov-
er them," the infuriated Pasha cried,
''or ! will have thee before our Cadi
for the bastinado..' The guilty cook
rushed madly along the high road,
wondering what to do, when he was
asked by a donkey driver, "in the name
Of Allah, TO help him TO lift his beast,
which had fallen. He forthwith pulled
at the donkey's tail with such thought
less fury that il came off in his hand,
and the cook then rushed on 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 "A Christian, and knocked the
mans pipe-stick into his eye, Destroy
ing 1t. Yet little further, still wildly
hurrying, he came round the corner
full-tilt upon very ugly Bulgarian
matrOn, who, being in an interesting
condition, was so upset that she then
and there suffered damage. Being
ShdSGu D1 iliC huSUdtlu SOIlC Zap
tiehs, the miserable man ran up the
steps of minaret, and when the muez-
zin would have seized him leaped down
to the earth in his desperation, from the
first platform, killing Greek who
chanced to be sitting with his brother
below. Such a situation as that pre-
sented in the above narrative, it must
be confessed, was embarrassing, even
to the humor and resources of a Tur-
kish Judge. To the original sin of the
goose were now added four separate
misdemeanors, and the spectacle pre-
scented shortly afterward before the
Cadi was one of terrific hubbub; Though
the prisoner exhibited strange conf
dence. which proved not unfounded.
First came the Pasha, who told how
the sinful cook had pretended that
geese, plucked and drawn, could fly
away. "DOst thou, then, doubt, BROTH
er," said the Judge, 1.-THE power of AL
lah TO call the dead to life! Let us not
limit the divine might by our foolish
mlsbelief-it may have been So! Go
in peace" Next, the donkey-man
held up the reft tail of his beast, and
cried for justice; but the Cadi said,
"Givc him the donkey, my son, to feed
and use until the tail has grown again
then he shall restore it TO thee" The
Christian followed, pointed to the mis-
sing orb, and clamored for punishment.
cit is written," said the Judge, "that
one eye TO Deliver equals two of an
infidel. Do thou, therefore suffer me
to put out thine other eye, and then iT
restitution, by removing one from this
abominable cook" The Christian de-
parted, and was succeeded by the in
iured husband, who told his woes. "By
the Prophets beard," quoth the Cadi,
81 see no way in this, save that thoH
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 eXecu-
ton, and there was only left the Greek,
who vociferated for retaliation on the
slayer of his brother. "Inshallah !"
said the Judge, truly hurry is the de-
vil,' as the wise say; the cook shall
suffer for it; this is but lust. Get
thou, therefore, to the top of the min
aret, and jump down on the offender
whom | will place below, and it shall
be that if thou slayest him none shall
complain" Hereupon the Greek also
left the court like 1.-The others, amid
acclimations from the bystanders, who
were loud IN the praise OF the Cadi's
wonderful DEGREES; but that function
ary was presently heard to whisper to
the cook, as he quilted the court,
"Never you send me any more geese,
my FRIEND"
Lost Children.