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JAINA GAZETTE.
[June & July
We heartily congratulate the Raja Sahib of Amethi (Sultanpur) on his issue of a circular order interdicting all animal sacrifice in his State during the navaratri days. We are indebted to our energetic brother Babu Padam Prasada of Sultanpur for persuading the merciful Raja to issue such a general order.
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Sardar Kartar Singh, Private Secretary to the Kumar Sahib of Amethi, Dr. Danish Rai, Karipur, and Messrs. Har Narayan, Jagdamba Prasada, and Kidar Nath have also taken lifelong pledges to abstain from flesh-eating and have adopted a vegetarian diet. We hope that they will largely benefit physically, mentally, and spiritually by the adoption of this highly commendable mode of life.
A VERITABLE CHAMBER OF HORRORS.
We read in the Cawnpore Gazette of July 15th, that a company has been started in Canada with the object of dealing in the skins of cats. The investment consists of 10 lacs of cats and 10 lacs of rats. The cats will be fed on the rats. A thousand cats will be killed and skinned each day. The skin of a cat is worth a rupes; and the company promoters expect to make a large profit in this inhuman trade.
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We have much pleasure in publishing elsewhere a report of the Jain Charitable Dispensary at Cawnpore, and in noting its increasing usefulness and popularity.
All allopathic medicines as a rule do contain some drops of spirit of wine, and cannot be used, by a Shravak who has entered the sacred order. Fresh medicines, again, are more effective. The Jains of India can do much good to suffering humanity by establishing charitable dispensaries in every village, town, and city. In the olden days, only about a quarter of a century back many a Jain used to distribute various patent medicines, of sure and speedy efficacy, free and gratis to all who wanted them. We regret to say that this distribution of free medicines is now rarely heard of, but all the Jain newspapers and periodicals abound with advertisements of patent Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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