THE GADI OF MANGROL.
We have received from Mr. Ratanshaw Koyaji, Pleader, High Court, Bombay, a pamphlet printed for private cir- culation and recounting the ancestry, character, and ideals of Pir Moth Miyan, Gadi of Mangrol, an Indian saint, the religious head of two hundred thousand Muslims. The pamphlet is interestingly written and compels us to admire the Gadi. Forty pages of extracts from Indian newspapers give us further information. The Gadi has founded a Cow Increasing Association, " the grandest economic scheme that has ever been conceived by any economist, ancient or modern." We summarize in their own phraseology the newspaper comments. " If all Hindus and Muslims would keep a cow in every home and regard cow as companion of the family, India would benefit out of religious and economical point of view. They would come in daily contact with cow and spontaneously bring it up as their own child with paternal care. Mutual love would arise, and, in addition to wholesome manure, cow would provide them with milk, curds, whey, butter, and ghee. IIindus have always been true patrons and sincere admirers of cow, and, if Muslims join them for the sake of bovine race, reconeilement would be effected and great physique and great Intellect could be built up. Mens sano in corpore sana' [sic]. In respect of cow question, therefore, it is to be hoped that sll will agree. The scheme should appeal to all who have
the good of cow and country at heart. It is necessary, how- ever, that they should do substantial work, otherwise to be mere profuse in words serves no preservation."
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