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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 °/ SAVINGS DEPARTMENT 5
1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 91 O. K. Champion Potato Planters and Diggers. We have the Quality as well as the Name. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Labor=Saving Machines in the Production of Potatoes Will Pay for Themselves in One Season. AWARDED GOLD MEDAL AT JAMESTOWN. Reliability, simplicity and accuracy are its foremost merits. It will plant from eight to ten acres per day. It is very durable, with a minimum of wearing parts saving large repair bills. PRICE $45.00. Mr. W. H. Massie, of Savannah, Va., writes as follows: I have just finished digging my potato crop and had 2,500 bushels. I want to say in behalf of the digger that it is all right; I could not want anything better. I could never have saved my crop without it. Everybody who has seen the digger thinks it is a wonilerful piece of machinery. An ideal digger for both large and small growers. It digs peanuts as well as potatoes. PRICE, $75:00. CATALOQUE ON REQUEST Champion Potato Machinery Co., 146 CHICAGO AVE HAMMOND, IND. Established by Geo. Watt, 1840. COMBINED FEED MILL AND HORSE HOWER. DISC HARROW, STEEL WEIGHT BOXES. THE IMPERIAL WAGON. THE CJU.L-WMT CO., 13 South 15th St., Richmond, Va. IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY, WAGONS. THE UNIT ROAD MACHINE The Simplest, Easiest Managed and Least Expensive of Any. Requires but one Man and one Team to Operate It. Saves Labor Enough to pay for Itself la Two Days' Use. Tbe Price Brings it Within the Reach of All. BALING PHESSES FOR HAND, HORSE AND STEAM POWER. FERTILIZER, LIME AND PLASTER SOWERS. EIGHT STYLES AND SIZES. PEA H17LLERS. GRINDING MILLS, HORSE POWERS, POLE AND WOOD SAW'S. ROAD ROLLERS, ROAD PLOWS, WHEEL AND DRAG SCRAPERS. PLOWS AND PLOW CASTINGS IN GREAT VARIETY. WE SOLICIT CORRESPONDENCE AND ARE PREPARED TO MAKE LOW PRICES MANFRED, CALL, Manager. DISC HARROW WITH i'RUCK. SOLID STEEL HEAD ROLLER.
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