ROUMANIAN SOLDIERS MARCHING THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE CAPITAL 



Although the Roumanians express the hope that the wilderness may eat the flesh of him 

 who devised soldiery, as far as the love of land goes and readiness to strike and receive 

 blows in its defense, history bears witness that the Roumanian has ever been a patriot and a 

 brave man. 



law is held by the mayor of the village, 

 and small differences are adjudicated by 

 him and his councilors in a patriarchal 

 way. A second court is presided over 

 by "judges of the peace," of whom there 

 is one in each district : while the highest 

 courts, held only in the larger towns, are, 

 because of the attending costs, resorted 

 to only in matters of great importance. 



For criminal cases jury trials are held 

 twice yearly. As indicative of the gentle 

 nature of the Roumanian, it should be 

 said that serious crimes became so rare 

 that the death penalty was eliminated in 

 the new constitution, and long sentences 

 are the exception. The salt mines fur- 

 nish a working place for convicts, where, 

 under excellent sanitary conditions, they 



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