MMERT BROS.
UTIŪNEKAS, ÅFPRAISERS
AND SURVETOES.
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Undersigned have received in. Structions to sell by Public Auction,
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TURSDAY. July 28, 1920.
commencing at 9.30 p.m.
residence. No. 39 Wyndham Street
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The Whole of the sable Household Furniture,
(therein sustained) " Comprising :- eak console table with bevelled ar, Chesterfield couches & aro easy chairs, teak overmatel Japanese water colours, engraving
Tsses, ornaments, white lace & curtains, brass electric standard , electric fittings. carpeis, etc.,
Feak extension dining table, leather ered dining chairs, teak sideboard
bevelled mirror, teak dinner goz, teak ice chest, teak sive: net, dinrer set. glassware, etc., etc. Double brass bedsteads with box Tags trak double wardrobes with alled glass doors, teak dressing lee with berelled mirrors, teak Hale & tiles top washstards, teak sta of drawers, lady's desks, tin dbox coaches, toilet crockery, ein,
Also
A Quantity of Blackwobi compri- Is-marble top tables, stools, flower nda, teapoys, etc.
And
Cottage Piano by Allison..
Victrals with cabinet & 30 records, Electric ceiling fans,
Singer's treadle sewing machice.
On view from 21st inst.
Catalogue will be issued.
Terme-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT PROS,
Auctioneers
Hoogkong, July 22, 1990.
urglary and;, Fire-resisting
SAFES
"Prevention is better than Cure."
The Undersigned have "just eceived a new consigument of
Milner's Safes.
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EGYPT. best, and this year we have a golden of the age of cave men, the Mous- serpent from the royal crown, inlaïd terian period. A patch of ground with coloured stones. Execution 200 or 300 ft. across, just above the TOMES -ND GEMS.
such as this shows the highest skill Nile inundation, was strewn with (By W. M. Flinders Petrie.}
in metal work, and incredible deli- worked fints, all of the same style, cacy in the cutting and inlay. of like the European forms of that Egypt means very different interests minute stones; modern jewellers will age. The way in which these lay: to different people. The rich tourist not attempt to copy it. Human about on the surface shows that, at Shepheard's, the cotton-speculator, faculty was the same ther as now since then, the Nile has not been the official who is helping to run the we find the same ideals in work, the making deposits above, that level; country, the colonial trooper who same if not greater skill to carry that is to say, the slight fluctuations miscalls the natives "black fellows," it out. Yet all this could fade away of level in the latest glacial periods and the student of history who there in two three centuries. Such is all took place within the 40 or 50 ft. sees the longest vision of human man.
of deposit which the Nile has laid changes each has his world which We may go back 2,000 years more. down. We already knew that the has nothing to do with the other's at the same place, and find what next period, the Aurignacian, was During the war, our energies were was as much before all this as free of inundation in Upper-Egypt drawn away to the preservation of Casar was before us. Then a new now the Mousterian proves to be in civilization, and the students of the world was growing out of a great the same case. British School of Archæology in invasion of a condering people in
THE CHIEF ARCHITECT. Egypt were on active service. We the land, founders of the dynastic Many matters of lesser importance were able, however, to re-assemble civilization; all the old customs were came to light; the brick archways last winter, and it was hard to believe being shifted, much tigizer organiza- of 3,000 BC, and the sloping foot to all that had passed, as we looked out tion was being enforced, writing was a wall to prevent rain soaking into of our buts at Lahun once more, growing in use, everything was the mud-brick foundation; also a over the same unchanged country as being registered by officials and no burial of five bodies in one coffin; in the spring of 1914.
doubt the older people disliked it as an elderly woman and infant, a young Why should eight people all live much as the Saxon hated the Norman, and two girls, with a pretty in mad hu's in the midst of a sandyman census of Domesday. This new wooden casket with sliding fids. desert? As Epictetus says, the system changed even the old burial Foundation deposits were found with caule is a market think the people customs. For ages the plain open bulls, beads, one of which was per- foolish who trouble about many grave had been used by the pre- fect, with the hair upon it. Sets of things, when only food and drink is writing people. Now it was being model tools were placed in the early wanted. So those who only think divided into chambers for the offer dynastic graves.
A great tomb we want our living and amusements lngs to the dead. Next, a recess and tomb chapel had been cut to will wonder that we should live in was made, and developed into a pieces for stone, but enough remained a desert. That is, however, the chamber for the body. After that, to show that it was of the chief way to a much wider sense of life it was a waste of labour to make a architect who built Labun pyramid, than we shall ever find in cinemas squared ple for entrance, as the slope and whose fight of brick steps rad- or garden parties. Work in the of staircase was easier. Then a slab ing up to the work was found in the desert opens out the long prospect of stone was placed ever the door, of midst of the chip heaps. All these of eight civilizations, and what man slid down in grooves, to block the matters serve to fill up the detail of could do in each period; how he entrance. Lastly, all these devices the picture of what man was, how lived, and how his abilities succeeded disappeared, and a deep square pit be thought, and how he lived, in the or failed; how no two centuries was made, with a small chamber at successive civilizations, each of which were alike, every generation improve the bottom.
ran-its course and gave way to an- | ing or falling sherb. To follow this is
other by those inexorable changes to the work of the archæologist, as the This history of changes came to which every civilization-even our changes of the body are the study view in the excavations of Lahun
own is subject.. of the physician, or the changes in this year. The light railway there the land around us the study of ran past the foot of a hill, where the geologist.
none of this was suspected; but in a few weeks the pas angers could
• ROYAL SARCOPHAGI.
RELIEF IN A FUTURE LIFE.
. .
We seek to look back and see what look down into the excavation from Corns, Galluses
sort of man lived 5,000 years ago. the line. From the great attention Deep down in rock chambers stand paid to the graves in this age, it these large sarcophagi of red granite, is clear that there was a strong of a king, Senusert II and two of his belief in a future life; indeed, from family. These great masses of many the beginning of the prehistoric tons' weight are finely wrought in civilization, there was a définite appearance, and when we come to ritual for the placing of the offerings test their accuracy we find that the in certain positions round the body. general error is only a hundred and Besides the fine bowls of alabaster fiftieth of an inch from a straight and other stones in the graves of the lice (about a third of the thickness of First Dynasty, a small conical vase a postcard). The cutting was done was found in the form of a lotus with without any machinery, simply by petals of alabaster and Slate. The hand-work, and eye-testing. The newcomers, who brought in feller training and watchfulness which civilization, depended on brain rather was needed, the ideal of accuracy than stature. In their first capital and the striving for it in a work of which the British School-cleared which would never be seen again the cemetery seven years ago the after it was finished, give us a view fresh people were about five inches of the intentions and powers quite on shorter than the older race; a similar a par with those of our engineering difference is found now in the ceme fage. Nor is this only a matter of atery of Labun.
purely mechanical” mind. When we THE AGE OF THE CAVE MEN. come to test a long pattern of panell. The same district also takes us Hing on the side of a sarcophagus, we back much farther, to the beginning
find that, the spacing- widens out to
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