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happens, too, that when this beasts in the London cow-sheds are ill, the veterinary surgeon is not sent for, but the butcher.
"Indeed there are several men in London who make a good living by going round the cow-sheds, and buying for a song the ailing cows or those that no longer yield milk. They have no difficulty in getting them slaughtered. If they don't possess a slaughter-house of their own and many of them do not-they hire one periodically.
"The carcases are often so bad that the men who trade in them dare not send the meat to Smithfield. They dispose of them to butchers privately. Generally they have no difficulty in finding a ready market, because they can afford to take less than the ruling prices, having bought the cheaply."
COWS SO
WHAT ENGLISHMEN DO.
To avoid risks to their health and lives, hundreds of English men and women become vegetarian, and THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN AGE, 153-155, Brompton Road London S. W., through its excellent, cheap literature preaches the various advantages of the vegetarian, or, as it is fashionably called, fruitarian diet. LABHSHANKAR LAXMIDAS
Junagad,
PAWAPURI.
Sometime ago I had an occasion to visit our holy shrines at Pawapuri and was much struck at the arrangement and order I 'found at this sacred place. The ancient and original temples and the dharmasalas were under the able management of 'Babu Govind Chand of Bihar and on his death last year, his son Babu Dhannulal has been unanimously elected by the Sree-Sangha in his place. The Digambaris have been in evidence for sometime past in most of cur sacred Tirthas and have been trying to push
