[November, 1873. ooS THE INDIAN
Attraction drives each dancing atom far
With other atoms to its special sphere,
It draws the gard’ner to the rosy grove,
Conveys the coalman to the furnace hot.
If you the nadir to the zenith scan,
Exceptions to this law you cannot find;
In fire, in wind, in earth, in water, not
Beneath the earth up to the lofty sky,
Tho same attraction must govern them all,
Affection, kindness, sympathy together
ANTIQUARY.
Obey this great governing pow’r divine.
Besides this impulse nothing is all else:
From this attraction ev’ry motion seen
On earth or in the heavens is derived.
The puny straw obeys the same attraction,
And clings to the clectrum willingly;
Implanted in each nature is its bent
Compelling ev’ry man to his pursuit.
Distracted Mejnun this impulse obeys,
It hands to La-i-ly his chain to draw,
Compels Forbad for Shyryn to lament,
Commanding him Mount Bisetun to dig;
From heat the lamp will be a burning flame
Which draws the moth its proper doom to seek ;
The bulbul sighing for tho rose obeys
This bent when stung by brambles in his foot.
'When this attraction strength and power gets
To love it turns, tho body permeates.
Abundance of this feeling so prevails
That universal love the world maintains;
At first you nothing see but La-i-ly
If love’s origin you investigate;
Although a tlumo a hundred thousand is,
It is derived from a single spark
From which the greatest conflagrations rise;
It is its prevalence that fans the flame.
0 let this fiery ardour be in us,
Its many sparks illuminate our hearts !
Plurality of Village Headmen.
In the little Principality of Sawant Wadi in
many of the villages tlie office of Patil is held con¬
jointly by several families. The several shares are
termed wakals, and a representative of each wakal
signs the village kabuliyats and other papers. I
have seen the signatures of as many as eight wakal-
d&rs on a kabdliyat. Sometimes one wakaldar is
a Brahman, another a Prabhfl, and another a Ma.
r&tlift. In other parts of the country where I have
been, such a watan is often held by many share¬
holders, but then the}* hold as descendants of a
common ancestor, who acquired the watan, and
but one of the family signs the papers. Can any
correspondents of tho Indian Antiquai'y give in¬
stances of a practice similar to that in S&want W&di
obtaining elsewhere?
E. W. W.
QUERY.
To the Editor of the “ Indian Antiquary.”
Sir,—I have a number of old silver and copper
coins with the inscriptions very much obscured by
dirt and verdigris. Will one of your readers kind¬
ly tell me the best way of cleaning, without injur¬
ing, first, the silver, secondly, the copper coins ?
I am, &c.,
DENZIL IBBETSON.
