The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-07

2Du OA EuAOcAAgatEGs eAA- @G ANtS2 mined to obtain reform by enforcing | with the same remorseless energy with which he had so efbectually supposed the law upon tho luckless hucksters !, the beggars and the brigands. Convinced that the Overseers were winl1ing at offenders to be brought be- l fore him. When this had been done, he made the culprit swear. under a 1 threat of two hundred stripes. how many times he had already been con- victed; and the man confessed to four convictions for selling beyond the ta- riff price within the year. The count thereon sent for the Book of Ordinan- ces and had them read aloud to show that the penalties increased with each offense-fine and imprisonment for the first, public fiOgging for the second and banishment for the third. Sure .ly, then" exclaimed the count, "a man who has four times broken the law de- serves to be hanged On this occa- sion, however, he dismissed the offend er, but issued a proclamation that thencefopth the prices of the tariff must be adhered to, and every one of tine ordinances, with their penalties, rigidly enforced.
 He had not long to wait for another case. A woman, called La Ronquilla, was found selling kids which she had smuggled into the city and kept hid den under a petticoat. She was para ded through the streets and given two hundred stripes, land all the market people began to be scandalized."
 They had soon fresh cause for sean dal; for, only two days later, the wrath of the count fell on huckster who was q retainer of one of the magis- trates, and whom Arino deferentially refers to as Don Francisco" A gen tleman, while walking through the market, was attracted to Francisco's stall by what appeared 10 be the hind quarters of a fat ram with certain of ! the inwards attached, which we re gard as offal, but which in Spain have always been considered delicacy. He bought a hindquarter and sent it home by his servant with instructions to have the inwards cooked and ready for breakfast. When the man re- luA AlEAty l4OVGfGtg HID 4lAe4JOA AiaNh a strange tale to tell. The hindquar- ter, instead of being that of ram, had been cut off a tough old eve, and the inwards of a ram had been deftly sewn on to the carcass with thread The in dignant man hastened to the count with his mutton and his story, and next day constable arrested "Don Francisco" red-handed. He was taken to prison, paraded. through the streets with the meat hung round his neck, given two hundred stripes. and ban ished from Seville. Soon after wo- man who had sold cherries beyond the tariff was similarly fiogged through the streets with the cherries hung round her neck, and died soon after the punishment.
 One morning, as Pufioenrostro was passing through al small square under the windows of the cardinals palace, a man hurried past him, with two eggs in his hand. This aroused the counts suspicion. He stopped the man and elisited that. the eggs had just been bought from a sneighboring pastry cook at six maravedis over the tariff price. Determined to administer sum mary Justice, ,Pufioenrostro sent then and there to fetch both; the exocutloner and the guilty pastry, cook. Just. as the latter was about to be flogged, there appeared at the window of the palace the cardinal himself. He. ex- plainedsto the count that the eggs were for him; that his servant could not find a fresh egg in all Seville, and had | gladly paid an extra price to secure those, and he begged that the pastry cook might be spared. '"ro oblige his illustrious lordship the cardinal" the count consented to forego the stripes, and committed the punishment to a fine of fifty ducats, to De given to the poor of the prison, and, after receiving the profuse thanks of the cardinal, passed onward on his way. -> 'e-
 Though the position of his master had saved this servant from punish ment, less fortunate was Morisco, also the retainer of an Alcade, who Twas the next day detected selling cheese above, the tariff. For, though the AIcalde himself hasteIied to the prison and tried to persuade the lieu- tenaht of the guard to conceal the matter from the count, and though the Morisco; offered to pay fifty ducats tc escape the flogging, the count was both vigilant and obdurate, and the Alcalde "went home annoyed" while the Mo. risco twas given his deserts through the streets, .r
 The count then turned his attention to @ family called Gamarra, whose Eopen defiance of the tariff had hitherto escaped justice only from their noto. riously4 desperate character. How thu old mother was arrested, how her son
 rescued her from prison, how they hid for days while all Seville searched
 how they were. finally captured, tht sons sent to the ga1leys and the mother fiogged through the town-all these
 things are fully told in the pages O
 the diary. To us, who shudder at the
 barbarity of logging an old woman
 through the. streets, 1t affords somt
 comfort to learn that the morning af
 ter the Gamarra's punishment, tht
 count on passing through the rnarke
 place, found his victim in her usua
 health behind her vegetable stall, sur.
 rounded by jeering crowd, at whom
 she was hurling filthy water and stil
 tllthler language (which Arino, as usu
 al, chronicles with conscientious mi