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costs him Rs. 500. The rich Brahmin is not free from the sorrows of this custom.-From the Social Reform Advocate.
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Friends Union, Arkonam, the first annual report of.It is a sort of club composed mostly of officials of the Southern Mahratta Railway. There is a reading room. The members had a few excursion trips and some social gatherings. They also gave a dramatic performance in English of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Revd. Alexander Silver, M.A., B.D., and Messrs. Vibart Cardon, Sharpe, and Prendergast encouraged and helped the members by their appreciation, co-operation, and advice. The Union has achieved much success and at a very moderate cost.
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Gau-ki-Pukar.-The cow's appeal. This collection of earnest pleadings of the cause of the cow, in excellent verse, covering 80 pages, has been compiled by Mr. Kanhaiya Lal Varma, Ajiz, of Budhana, now a pensioner in the Sirmoor State, Naban.
The numerous blessings for which the whole of humanity is indebted to the cow, from its earliest infancy to the days of last illness, have been described in beautiful poetry to impress upon meat-eaters their ingratitude to the cow, and to bring home to them the suicidal mistake of killing the hen with the golden egg. The fast spreading physical deterioration, and the prevailing anæmic constitution of Indians is in a large measure due to the prohibitively high prices of milk and butter, and the insufficiency of their supply,
The wisest of the Moghul Kings, Akbar the Great, was protector of the cow, and the highest title which an Indian Kaja or the Emperor of India can obtain is the "Protector of the cow and the Brahman." The former is the source of all temporal happiness, and the latter the fountain head of all spiritual delight.
Lord Krishna himself tended the cows of Brindaban and the great Dileep, the ancestor of Shri Ram Chandra offered Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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