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90 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.
[January,
AMBRIDGE
a day at Madras, and our first ex
perience with Indian habits still forms
an unpleasant memory, though we
had some amusement throwing shoes
The Cambridge Reversible Sulky Plow
A
is the highest
at the punkah-wallah to keep him
type of plow or the twentieth century—constructed on
correct, scientific and mechanical principles. It is the
awake. Such queer bugs ran up and
result of a constant endeavor to produce a perfect
riding down plow,
the
and has 62 years experience in
dining-room
plow
walls that we
making back of it. The demand of the times has
ordered our meals on the gallery,
been for a better riding plow— the Cambridge YEARS
meets that demand and only needs to be tried to
where we ate them to the hissing and
convince the farmer that it is the superior of any EXPERIENCE
riding
rattling of
plow ever before produced. It will
cobras,
do splen-
which snake charmdid
work equally well on level land or on the BACK OF THEM
ers and fortune tellers brought hill-side ; will
for
leave the soil smooth and free
of ridges and dead furrows; works with
our amusement. The serpents spread
lighter draft than any hand plow doing the
out their
same
heads
work— easy on
and
man and team. Made
stuck out their
in two sizes and from the best malleable
tongues as their masters played iron
to
and high grade steel; improved and
extra heavy steel wheels with dust cap
them. The chief interest of Madras
and removable chilled boxes. Easy to
lies in
manage, always under perfect control.
its connection with points of
English history, and Fort St. George
is full of monuments. St. Mary's
SUCCESSFULLY OPERATED
church dates back to 1639, and on its
BY ANYONE WHO CAN
memorial tablets are the names of
DRIVE A
many who helped to establish English
You'll supremacy want to know all about the
in India. Robert Clive was
Cambridge before you buy a new
married here in 1753.
plow. The Write today for special cir-
name of
cular describing its construction
Col. Arthur Wellesley (afterwards
and working points. We'll send it
free also complete catalog of Duke "The tovejoy
of Wellington)
Line" of
appears here in Farm Tools that will interest vou. If we have no dealer in
the register your
of
town,
1798, and
we want to make
his
vou a Special Price Offer
quarters that will save you some money. Be sure and get price and
can be seen from the church circular window.
before you buy a riding plow—when you buy, you
might just as well buy the best. Write today.
Elihu Yale, whose generous contribution
to the founding of Yale Universi- THE
ty caused it to bear his name, was
706 FOUNDRY ST., CAMBRIDGE, N. Y.
Governor of Madras in 1687, and was
married in St. Mary's church. He
contributed to it a beautiful silver
alms basin, which is shown with the
church plate. In the church yard are
many famous names.
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R,R,
From this chapel we went to visit
the Pagan temples. The Dravidian
temples of Southern India and
are the
chief glory of Hindoo architecture,
which has neglected the home and left
few other monuments. Washington They Southern Railway
are built
with a solemn grandeur and are of
enormous size and THE DOUBLE-TRACK
in perfect preserva-
LINK.
tion. The Vimanah, THE GATEWAY
or inner shrine,
is built in a quadrangle,
Connecting the
surrounded
between the
by walls, on which are high pyramid- Atlnntlc Coast Line
al gates or gopuram. Railroad,
These are cov- Baltimore & Ohio NORTH Rail-
AND SOUTH.
ered with massive hand carvings, road,
representing the protecting dieties of Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
FAST MAIL,
the temple. The squat figures and
way,
Pennsylvania Railroad,
features of these PASSENGER,
Indian gods confront Seaboard Air Line Rail-
you at every turn, in their architecway,ture, their scripture, their embroidery Southern Railway
EXPRESS AND
and arts in every form. These fig- Between All Points via
FREIGHT ROUTE.
ures present
Richmond, V«„
neither
and
beauty nor sym- Washington, L». C.
metry to European eyes. Various details
point to a common origin of W. P, TAYLOR, Traffic Manager. W. M. TAYLOR, Trav. Pass. Agent.
Hindoo and Mongolian art, though the
museums show beautiful specimens of
Greek and Persian art, which have
exerted a marked influence on native
arts. It is, however, to the Mogal Merchants National Bank,
conquerors in the North that we are
to look for the most perfect and beau-
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
tiful specimens of art and architecture.
In Madras we were not admitted
within the temples, but examined Virginia's STRONGEST National DanK,
them from the outside, where the
high Jus;gernant's car was resting un-
THE BEST BANIi FOB FARMERS
der a bamboo cover. It is carried
Jt Jt and Country- Merchants, jt &
yearly
streets,
in procession through the
and underneath it the devout
JOHN P. BRANCH, President. THOS. B. McADAMS, Cashier.
cast
who
themselves to propitiate the god
demands human sacrifice. The
most interesting of all temples to unbelievers
is the one at Madara, for
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