Show BURIED ENOCH ardel ALIVE j an egyptian judco who believed witnesses rather than ills own senses A swiss captain at the end of a sanguinary guina and prolonged battle caused th the dead and dying to be thrown alike in into pits and buried together someone pointed out to him that many of j the bodies still showed signs of animation my good sir replied the swiss if a man were to pay attention to the signs they show there would nt not be BL a dead body among them A similar tar power of preventing the mind being turned aside by trifling considerations appears to have characterized a certain kazi in the city of cairo mansur bin musia by name his decisions according to the london standard were usually rather extraordinary but every now and then they were so remarkable as to attract attention attentions ioni from disinterested te outsiders on one occasion on th tae inhabitants of cairo were shocked to see a living man borne through the streets tied fast to a bier and hurried toward the cemetery to be buried alive ills his lamentable shrieks were entirely disregarded by the bearers who remorselessly morse lessly carried out their duty to its bitter end it was soon ascertained that the kazi mansur was responsible tor for this atrocity and although orientals Orient als are not easily shocked where the administration of justice so called is concerned yet in this ease case it was felt that some inquiries should be made accordingly the kazi was interviewed ter and he was asked why it was that he had bad caused a living man to b be e buried alive like mr gilberts young lady in fx the mikado it was doubt doubtless ve ess pointed out to him that burial ali alive is too stuffy a death to be agreeable they found the kazi quite ready to satisfy their doubt you wish he said to know why this young man has been buried alive well his burial has been ordered by me in due form because six months ago his wife was married to another man according to the decree of the law two witnesses of a very respectable character having certified to his death at bagdad the man however came before the court one morning pleaded that he was not dead and advanced a claim to recover his wife I 1 ordered the two witnesses to reappear and they proved beyond doubt by fresh evidence that they had attended his funeral at bagdad where he was buried in their presence from this circumstance it is easy to conclude that the man cannot be a real one but the ghost of a former and must therefore be laid in order to put an end to all future disputes respecting the woman the bystanders thereupon as we are told dissembled their misgivings praised the kazis justice and retired |