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casion of Dashehra and other festivals. Ah! how many buffaloes and sheep are killed for sacrifices? Gentlemen, I am convinced that if this slaughter goeson, if this cutting the throat continues, we, Hindus, who totally abstain from flesh; whose strength mainly depends upon ghee and milk, will be rendered powerless and helpless. Just see how dear ghee and milk are now! and how cheap they once were! We should save this slaughter then. We should take up the cause of the poor animals, who, if saved, will certainly be grateful to us, if not for our own interest at least for pity's sake. Gentlemen, have pity over the poor creatures. Just see how innocence is killed for nothing. To-day there is a goat, a sheep, or a cow. To-morrow it is no more. Where have they gone? They are reduced to nothing for the sake of the flesheaters. Life ceases to exist for the sake of the flesheaters. Gentlemen, kindly tell me for my sake if the poor animals dream that they are to be cut the next day. Do the animals that live at this moment know that their time has come, and that they are to be no more to-morrow morning ? Gentlemen, also tell me if the cruel animal-killers do not know that life is dear to all, that agony is felt by all. Pity! Pity! Pity! I appeal to nothing but pity. If we have pity let us side with the poor creatures. See in England A. F. Hills, Esqr., D. L., and other gentlemen like Prof. Mayor and Dr. Josiah Oldfield have been leading on a movement whose sole object is to save slaughter and to spread vegeterianism. Let us have a branch of
