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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 5, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 31.

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Oriental Justice

By George M. Mackie

NOTHING more takes the imagination of Orientals than an act of high authority in which stern justice is enhanced by a touch of grotesque humor. The story is still told of the warlike Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt that, when he was in possession of Syria, he one day saw from his house in Beirut a muleteer approaching with a loaded mule. He observed that on reaching an archway beneath which food was cooked for Arabic laborers and peasants, the muleteer, instead of going on a little farther to his destination and there unloading his mule, deliberately tied the animal up, and sat down to take rest and refreshment for himself. When the meal was about finished, two or three soldiers appeared, and by the pasha's order removed the load from the mule's back, and tied it upon that of its master, who, in turn, was made to stand there while his mule had a feed of barley and straw. —George M. Mackie, M. A., M. D.