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Show WISE JUDGMENT IN TURKEY Hew Scutari Maglatrst Determined Ownership of a Cow That Hsd Been Stolen. All readers of th Arabian Nights are familiar with the manner In which the Oriental magistrate dispensed Justice, with mora regard to equity than to law, Instauces of the ssme kind are not wanting la modern Turkey. Tur-key. A Judgment worthy of Solomon, as homily and almost as wine, was pro-fiounf'-d by a magiotrate In Scutari It cume about la tbl way: A peasant living near that place Wt his cow. About two tnootb later l i- happened to be standhig at a railway rail-way station, watching a train load of cattle about to be sent across the frontier. fron-tier. Suddenly ha gave a shout. He had seon his co-v among those cattle. The trainmen only laughed at him, however, when he demanded that cow. The good man thereupon sought out a maglHtnue, who listened patiently to his story. Then ha pronounced this Judpnitnt: "The cow shall be taken to the public iiiuare and milked. Then, If it po of Its own accord to tb plaintiff's stable, It shall belong to him." The order of the court was eierut ed. The cow, In spite of Its two months' sbsence, took without hesitation hesi-tation the lane which brought It. a few mlnuits later, into the feasant's stable. |