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Show ' WISE JUDGMENT 4N TURKEY How Scutari Msglstrats Determined Ownership of a Cow That Had Bssn Stolen. All readers of the Arabian Nights are familiar with the manner In which tho Oriental magistrates dispensed Justice, with more regard to equity than to law. Instances of the same kind are not wanting In modern Turkey. Tur-key. A Judgment worthy of Solomon, as homely and almost as wise, was pro nouncd by a magistrate In Bcutarl. It came about In this way: A peasant living near that place loet his cow. About two months later he happened to bo standing at a railway rail-way station, wstchlng a tralnload of cattle About to be sent across the frontier. fron-tier. Suddenly he gave a shout. He bad sern his cow among those cattle. The trainmen only laughed at blra, however, when he demanded that cow. The good man thereupon sought out a magistrate, who listened pstlently to his story. Then be pronounced this judgment: "The cow shall be taken to tho public square and milked. Then, If it goes of Its own accord to tht plulntiTs stable. It shall belong to him." The order of the court waa executed. execut-ed. The cow, In spite ot Its two months' absence, took without hesitation hesi-tation tlie lane which brought It, a few minutes later. Into the peasant's stable. |