Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-03

Zone should never say to fountain, 4
will never drink of Your water,'" And they
say of an ungrsteful person, "He eats his
bread upon his knees In order that the
crumbs may fall upon the floor and thus
be under no obligation" or they say che
drinks his water standing" which means
the basest ingrstitude which despises the
great gift of pure water.
conversation was once reported to me
as having taken place between two men
who were in the employ of the government
in position where they had opportunity
to help themselves. One said between his
whiffs of smoke:
"God Is great and He gives great gifts to
all of us''
eyes, He is great. There is no God but
God. But He does not put the gifts In our
build their nests with the twigs they find,
and who misses them from the multitude
of other twigsl"
Did you ever hear the story of the stolen
donkeya"
sI did not"
81 will tell you. There was a merchant
of altar of roees whose name WAS Hsssan.
He had a donkey, and with this he used to
travel to Kasandjik to buy the oil, which
he would bring back to the Holy City,
where he would sell 1t at small profit for
the glory of God. One year he went aside
and to small village far from the usual
market, and he thought he could probably
buy 1t little cheaper there. He reached
the village Just at shutdown, and the air
was heavy with the perfume of the roses,
and he rejoiced in Is. There WAS no ian,
and the oadi ordered one of the villagers to
prepare him a supper and bed and anoth-
or to place his donkey In stable.
HE SLEPT.
"After prayers and his supper Hasssn
lay down to sleep, and slept like babe all
night, and rose in the morning refreshed
and at peace with the world; but after
prayers and breakfast he called for his
donkey and 1t vas gone. 1t could be found
nowhere, and after long search he was
obliged to conclude that the beast had besn
stolen. He went to the cadi and made his
complaint, and the cadi told him to be of
good eheer-the donkey should be restored
| to him. The cadi called the entire popula-
ton to him and ordered them to appear in
the mosque the next morning, men, women
| and children, without exception. After
prayers the imam arose and said:
My children, this man, q stranger, came
| here to buy oil Of roses, and he placed him
self in your hands, and behold how his con-
| fdence Ia rewarded! His donkey, his
| faithful companion and tho bsast which
| was to bear hence the delicious oil which he
! would have bought of you, has been stolen
from him. Now, cali upon you all, and
the hereafter, and in all the ninety mine
names of Allah, to confess if any of you
stole his donkey. Whoever took Ii let him
| speak" No one moved or spoke. The
imam continued: "This donkey did mo-
! fly away. He was tied and had no hands
to unite himself and so some one must have
taken him. promise full pardon for the
one who took his donkey In a moment Of
forgetfulness of the laws of hospitality.
But no ous appeared. The eadi looked a
the imam, who seemed for once at his witt
ends, Finally he rallied and said in de
termined voice:
"Since none of you stole this mans don
key We will let that question drop, anG
now want to know If there are anon,
this number any who have never stolen
never killed, never lied, never got drunk
never smoked, never courted his neigh
boris wife, never envied another man hi
wife, nor his substance, and who has neve
laid unlawful hands on anything not hi
own. Who, in short, have kept tn
laws OF the prophet and the country al
ways, or who never even had an unlawful
desire to step forward"
No one rose for a long time, and at last
when the silence was becoming painful,
great hulking fellow got up from his knee
and went forward a few steps where b
stood awkward and ashamsd. The imam
asked the questions ovsr again catesorica al
ly and the fellow declared that not onl
had he never committed any of the sin
| named, but also had never had any desir
| to commit them.
The imam lifted his hands and said:
"In the name of Allah and the prophe
this is the greatest donkeyI ever heard OF
Take him in place of the one you lost"
/ I was recently in house where ther
: were several ladies and one of them SCENE
to be in deep trouble and poverty and th
| others commiserating her when the basca
dine hanum or oldest lady began to relat
} a story, which was listened to in respectfr
| silence. imputed the nature of the stor
| and found that it was another one of MAJ
| Hastri-Hodja's stories. which was psrtineI
to the Gaze, and obtained TRANSLATION {
| it, which is this:
|, "Once there were three men quarrelin
violently by the roadside and almost read
to come to blows. A wise and Just Gao
was walking along just then, and he cam
upon them and was greatly sosndslizsd an
said
"Why this unssemly dispute on til
, highwsy?"
"Allsh, be nercifull 1t is this, oh, cad
We are qusrrelipg over this bag of nut.
Rsssim owned this sack. Bedros and my
self agreed with him to coms here and pic
up nuts enough to fill 1t, and we agreed [
divide them equally. Now, when we cam
here, Rsssim picked up about a hundre
nuts. Bedros went to sleep and did nc
pick up any and gathered the sack full
Now they both insist on dividing equally
although one did nothing and the other 8
| little"
81 owned the sack" said Rassim.
"We were to divide equally" said laz
Bedros. -
81 did all the work." said Sslim.
"Shall l divide them for you; my Chi
dren?" asked the csdi.
eyes," said all three, together.
"And how shall I decided As ma
among men or after the manner of Allah
from whose judgment there is no appeal
"There is no God but God. His judl
ments and merciss are bestowed with d
| vine Justice" said the three. sLet 1t b
/ | as Allah would divide"
, Every well, then. You, Rsssim, owne
the sack; take this" and he gave him on
> | nut. "Bedros, here is your SHARE" sal
the cadi, giving him all the rest of the NUT
"Aud you: Sslim, you did all the worl
for which you are allowed all the nuts 20
ate while you were at work"
{ "But oh, cadi, ate none"
"You might have done so" and the cat
| walked away. So you see the gifts c
| providence are very unequally bestowed
| The owner of the sack gets one, the lag
sleeper gets everything, while the Lahore
/ gets the consolation of the nuts he did nc
J eat, and nothing more. The moral, i'm
| agine,is to take things easy and let the OIL
ers do the work.
ANOTHER CLEVER STORY.
In Mar Hastri- Hodja's time riches wei
as much respected and poverty as muc
abused as now, 1t would seem, from th
following:
The eminent philosopher WAS invited t
a feast at a certain rich mans house, an
in his preocoupation he went wearing hi
everyday clothes, which were very muc
the worse for wear, and when the servant
saw him in such mean and humbls attn
| they would not even admit him. At las
one of them let fall q remark which cause
him to notice his own appearance, and b
turned quietly ON his heel and went hom
and there changed his garments and DO,
rowed q fine pelisse lined with fur, whic
is the highest form of extravaganza In o.
old school Turks dress. When be reache
the house sgsin he was received with homo
: and shown to prominent place. where b
sat down and at the same time lifted up
fold of his pelisse and kissed 1t. Whe
:. dinner was served he again kissed his pei
isss, and when coffee was handed an
| pipes he invariably kissed some mart of hf