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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, SÅFPRAISERS AND SURVETORS.
Public Auctions-
TE Undersigned have received in-
stractions from the CryroruN OF EXEMY PROPERTY, to sell by Public Auction,
MONDAY, Angust 18, 1920,
Commeczing at 11 am.
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street." Quantity of Surgical Instrumenta, Medical Books,
Drags, etc., etc.
Also
- 1 Microscope,
Operating Tables.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
"LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers.
His Undersigned have received icatrue-
Hons so well by Public Auction,
са
WEDNESDAY, August 18, 1820, commending at 245 pint
at No. Hart Avenue, Kowkon. #
A Quantity of
Vainable Household Forniture,"
[Full Particulars from Catalogue)
On view from Tuesday, the 17th.
inst.
Terms: Caab oo delivery,
LAMMERT BROS....
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, August 12, 1950.
on
FRIDAY, August 27, 1820,
at 12 o'clock (noon),
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, (Por Account of the Concerned),
The Wreck of the
8. S. "CHIYO MARU,
as she now lies off the Lema Islands
Terms: Cash on fall of hammer when the wreck will be at purchaser's risk: LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, July 39,.19).
Burglar and Fire-resisting
SAFES
"Prevention is better,
than Cure."
The Undersigned, have just zeceived a new consignment of
Milner's Safes.
LAMMERT BROS.,
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THE CHANGING HOLY LAND.
As for the man at the desk, photo- GREAT BADGERFRAUD, graphs have described him to you.; About his features is a suggestion of delicacy, in his eyes a touch of anxious worry; his voice is hushed, but very insistent. When he spoke
US. HOIXED FOR 500 YEARS.
The animal has been disrated by
Writing from Damascus to the Daily Mail J. MAN. Jeffries says:-
Thirty or forty Arabs from the to me both of a British companion has just been discovered at the An amazing fraud upon America desert, mounted on racing camels, in-arms and of one of our statesmen, London Zoological Gardens. When went past my window this morning. an engaging earnestness warmed his that simple-minded sailor man Co- They were bawk-like men in flow look. He may not be a strong-man, lumbus logged the fact that he saw ing robes and with curved scimitars, but he seems a man of sensibility and at their head was one on a taller and ideals and a good friend. If might be forgiven. For more than a tejon" (badger) in America he camel bearing a great green flag only he were not the day-long prey 100 years, however, even scientific The wind seized it and it blew out of politicians. proudly, and the robes of the riders, i What he cannot do his visitor can. Americans imagined they had bad- tossed as it were in bravado, while watch of an afternoon the still, en M. R. I. Pocock, FRS, Curator of caught in their turn in the breeze, and that is to shed politica and gers on their continent. they chorussed some refrain which I chanting life of his city. Doomed it Mammals to the Zoological Society. was told spoke of riding to battle..
may be by progress, but for a space An American badzer came to our It was a stirring and yet a pathetic it yet appears as if change had sight, for I doubt whether this city, never known it nor ever would. Zoo. To make
23 instractive which for centuries has witnessed so i Through its historic reels strings comparison, it was put in a many Haroun-al-Raschid cavalcades. of camels xo past, linked to each cage adjoining some British will witness more of them much other by thin chains like the beads of
badgers. No one ever saw the longer.
a rosary, led perhaps by a single animals in both cages simultaneously. That great scene shifter, Civilisa Nabian with a heavy scarf thrown Our badgers slept all day, and the tion, is going to stride on and strip round his head, so that through its Pocock investigated with the result
American sample all night. the magic stage; young men in shadowed orifice the man's black that the formally and officially placed lounge suits will hold political meet features do not show, but something the American beast in a totally new ings upon it. So, of course, it must instead like a depthless well. Groups "tribe" at the last scientific meeting come to be, and if life here turns of women approach, all alike clad in duller it will turn safer and better; cream-colour, the hands of all pressed but still there remains a pang for to their breasts and folded crosswise
He said that the animal was neither anyone who is in Damascus to-day from sight under capes, the faces of badger, skunk, ratel, stoat, nor and marks the first signs of the in: all not so much veiled as masked, "wrong" for a badger, it lacked the weasel. Its skall and teeth were evitable end, sees at long last the with a short piece of sombre wild hair of the Orient growing material which shows against the
cream like a patch of sight. Others:
grey.
of the society.
Mr.
cent gland, and its resemblance was enly superEcial. It is hard upon
animal we had cherished as a fox America. How would we like it if a Harvard scientist told us that the was really an inferior brand of jackal?
or to
fast; the King of Syria lives in a from the villages near by are wasp The old order is indeed changing are dark from head to foot; others blue-washed villa. One day he is to striped in orange and black. have a palace, but for the present a very medium house, standing behind
THE TRAFFIC OF THE BAZAAR. railings a few yards from the road, notable has a robe of parple silk, the Street-that-is-Called-Straight
The men vie with them; that rich serves him as well as it car.
The entries at the gate are no from which streams of silver Row Dome of the Hours
shoulders all overwoven with silver bow and pray to Allah beneath the more exotic than the villa; only their downward, in the Arab design embie-| - Arab beaddress, a cloth with quoits matic of lamps hanging from a mos
VOICES OF THE NIGHT. upon it to hold it down, distinguishes que reof. Another is in blue with a swift-lit, as the stars hasten to their And then comes rightfall, deep but their kbaki uniforms from those of sash of zigzagging colours; one in places in this sky of dreams. Old our own soldiers. Their brass but maroon with an undercoat embroid men sit silent at their thresholds, tons all bear the lion and the uni- | ed in green and gold. Leisurely they taking the evening as a benediction; corn. As for the officers, Sam pace on in their sandals or their young men come out carrying lates Browned and complete, their share in curled slippers of red or of yellow in and strike a string and chant the national dress is a small curtain to the Saddlers Bazaar, or the Bazaar praises of their city. "O blanched fixed to the back of their helmets, of Turkish Delight, or the Bazaaar almond!" they sing: "O counterpart like marksmen in the old days at of the Greeks, where pack animals of the moon! and so on, till present- Wimbledon.
You wait indoors to see his new sometimes tread on, the carpets flung dwindle away and you hear the deep loaded with oranges, skirt, and ly their wailing Eastern voices made Majesty in a medley of down there in the dust of the street clatter of the backgammon-players Bedouin chiefs and comparatively for buyers to appraise them. dapper A.D.Cs and junior court officials. One pleasant captain, was and the fingle of metal as the money-up come two
The air rings with vendors' cries
in the cafés. full of recollections of London, changers cast from hand to hand bagshes (fezzes) whom you know, and Then as you linger on the scene whither he had gone with the Arab their store of coin and call on the ask you have you any news of Eng
wearers of tar-1 delegation, and of how they had passers by to bring them their gold. land, and when you say you have been taken to an Oriental play in For there are tabs brimming and none they tell you that Lord Carzon the Haymarket, He had returned kerosene tins burled full of gold in is a statesman of the old school, and voluntarily himself to behold this the houses of this city and in coup that when it was studying Paragraph) performance again; it was so unlike tryside hoarde, and the chaffer and 12 of its Constitution to-day. the anything he had ever seen, he exchange of the bazaars is mainly Syrian Congress. told me.
in silver and in that metal of which So it is all in vain. -In vain the FEISUL AT HOME
to but one Arab tribal chief and ally Jute players and what they sing. In The Emir-Feisul, in khaki, site at there came during the war forty vain on this lovely night are the a desk upstairs. There are Persian thousand sovereigns a month for stars embattled and in vain has the rugs on the floor, and his desk is some eight months from Britain. moon pot on her polished mail and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and there Clinkclink! back and forth go the the river drawn her sword from the The castera, note ende bying to his twenty piastre pieces as the many meadows and the almond-orchards hand are a volume of Victor Hugo's hued crowd jostles and presses on whisper their watchwords, standing poems, and strange study in evola-home to its garrets or its courts and on guard round Damascus, the last tion one of Miriam Harry's books, founteles, or to buy cloth in the fastness of romance
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