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C. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER APPRAISER

AND SURVEYOR

Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned has received in

tion.

structions to sell by Public Auc

од.

SATURDAY, October 25, 1919, commencing að 11 ..

at his Sales: Rooms, Duddell Street.

A Selection of Cashmera and

Tweed Sult Lengths, Superior Overboatloga, ote: High Grade Finunel Shirtinga (suitable for shirts & Primas). Also

A Quantity of Sarves jassorted" colours), Wollen Socks, Brown & Black Socks, Atkinson Eau de Cologne, Atkinson Eau de Colccns Soap, etc.

And

One Let of Superior Travelling Rugs.

On view from Frithy,, the Bach. fast. Catalogues will be issued Terms: Carb on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Bongkong. October 22, 1918

ON

TUESDAY, Oct ›ber 28, 1910,

Commencing at 2.30 p.m

thie Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

Comprising:-

Teak batetand with bevelled mitror, tapastry coveret drawing room suite. easy chairs teak over mantel desk. bookcase, card table. Beurzą ware, pictures, vases and ornaments.

etc. etc..

Teak dining tables and chairs. teak Bleboard, chitooler, dinner waggons, tea tables, içe chest, dinner service electro-plated wire, cutlery ani glasa

ware,

etc., etc.

Double brass mounted iron hestead, teak wardrobes with herelled glass doors, teak dressing table, wasbstani, chest-of-drawers, toiles crockery,

ALG,

Also

etc.

A few picces Blackwood-ware.

And

1 Remington typewriter,

-1-Underwool typewriter

1 Oliver typewriter,

1 Trowlle Sewing Machine.

On v'ew from Monday, the 27th inet, Catalogue will be issuek. " Tarnis:-Cash on delivery.

GEO.P LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong taler att

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stries A LARININ, Es to sail by Pavle Auction,

WEDNESDAY, October 24, 1813,

genomging 215pm;

at No powys Bibling,

xt1,

A Qonatity of

Usefal Hoasahold Furniture,

comprising -

Chesterfield couch en armchairs, i lady's blackwood desk & flower stands, teak writing table & bookerse, teşk eard tables, bruas fender, Japanese screen, bruen electric standard lamp & table fan, curtains, erper, rogs,

etc.,

etc.

Teak extension dising table and morocco covered chairs, teak sideboard with bevelled mirror, teak ice besta, dinner services, teak flower stands, side tables, cooking utensils, Fattan

etc., ala

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Also

etc.

1 Small Steel Sfe by Herring-

Hall Marvin Co.

1 Victrola with Records.

On view from Tuesday, the 13th

Instant.

Catalogues will be issued."

Terma-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAYMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, October 29, 1915.

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A DEAD CITY.

These peoples have ever been wild | stands stil, whose horizon goes on and turbulent, their only law the law madeaing from year to year, even into old age. He built in his new There are many dead and dying of blood, tikir on cara- their wea cides in the world, and they lie seats and their fitness for war. It is city a great hall of learning & sort the more singular that they should of prototype of a university, -te be tered in the most traced-of places, have prodiced a man like Babar, one; used by all classes of men who raver. Troma Skam to Bhodeia, from Mexico of the greatest of soldier-conquerors, enced knowledge. Every Friday he to Peru. from India to slý hákien whe, Foter his hand begindings in Tur would pair thither and conversa situdes of Central Asia. It should estan, what an empire that with The Teamed, disputing with and It was rewarding them. He was constantly embraced a Hindustan give us pause to think of their ninn-written of him that of all his quak beset by the fanatics of his own her and of our own littenes in the ties, his generosity and humanity creed, who were furious that he did scale of time. It should teach us, took the And.". His soo Humayun, not recognise their paramountcy, and though it has never taught any of whose tand you see in Delhi, proved imagined that icy were belittled rixem yet, how transitory are even the incompetent visionary who lost because they were not supreme. He

ane proof against their subtleties, mightiest habitations of nich, by how tha grusp of the great kingdom left

To him. His ensy nature, in a kind and refwed to silow his reasor. to Bender trends great empires are where sternness and strength have be warped. Within the meat ball held up from ruin. None of the men ever been the most merciful attri Where now the ink-blues stralows full and women who thronged the streetsbutes of muliere, son tound it a though open doorways on to whe of the cities could ever have dispossessed monarch deeing the his untrodden pavements, took place one

ived that places so full of the

A hunted fugitive, he fled of the greatest trials of strength be thrust and vigour of life would one through the burning deserts of Siad, tween warring creed that history day he buried in the strating jungle and it was there, by a tree on the reculls Alhar had sent for a Jesuit de lie, without a bound of wheel uzrodile, according to native tradi-priest, Padre Idolpho Aquaviva, a inua voice, silent under the deserttinn, certainly in very lowly chum mission of Goa, to visit Agre, for sezd. There are many of these cities stance, that his young wife gave he had heard much about the reli- in the Bast, and it often a puzzle birth to the great Akbar. They had gion of Christ, a religion which ac to know what led to their desertion to leave Sind, and travelled on intented well with his own clarity After the fashica the East, the Afghanistan, where the lad passed and magnanimity. There .were traveller will be told a manner of his early yes. His soldier's career gutheted Bradanins and Buddhists. fanciful histories, for, even to-day begun when he was but thirteer Juins and Paris, Christians and the Oriental avenue ad anterial years of age, when he had to fight Mohammedans, and each spoke in and reasonable explanations second.for passion of the throne which turn. The native listarium pcurs ry to taphysical abstractions. his father had paruully regained.ridiene on the venomousmeres of the So, according to local legend, these At the great Battle of Panipat attacks of these theologians on one cities have been left on account of where 200 years later a new race of another, and describes the verdict

miraulion events, phecies, portente, the sudden wonqueror was to decide its destiny the Emperor, calm and impartial,

India, he and his great gen enjoining then to practise sincerity. / sies of royalty, or the hysterical em Baina han, secured them. It must have been a hard blow to visions of boly men, but never selves in the kingdom which had the disputants, who had probably through the malefactions of the been his grandfather's. At the agerer questioned that their famatie. being which was probably really ra-lof fourteen this lad of Tuta binden and bigotry were sincerity at its sponsible for the evacuation of at had become an emperor. He it was wat sincere. Three centuries be least hall of them--the unopeline who built the splendid city of Pulchfore the English did it Akbar did his mosquito and her legacy of malaria.pur-Siri, now a home for prowling best to stop the abominable practice

But the romance of Fatolipur Sikri facpards and a Merea for tourists,

of suttee, and dealt severely with neerks no embellishment. For cae

the priests who gonded on the miser

ble-women, to perform it

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in

rising, the city can be seen lo-day It was shortly after the glorious with a man's own eyes, standing het terrible were of the Rajputs in In the days India knew a pence just as it was left three centuries their rock fortress of Chitor that the border it had never known before. agn, with every stone unworn, every foundations of the city were laid. And it all centred in is empty gateway unerumbling, every cornice Them was ring at a village led city, where now the touris rumbles, and arditive sharp ente on the Siltri, twenty-fire miles out of Agra,prying into the very urena of an- day it left the mason's hands.. The Mohammedan sains to whom the cheat Indian nobles, bringing his wonderful Indian elbironte, severe in Emperor was in the habit of repair- noisy rootor car to the gateways dead but ennstant, has dealt kindly ing, for he was a devout man, which, once knew nothing but the with it, and the soft red sandstone though greut enough to be free from soft pad of the feet of great elephante of which it is built shows no truce Bigotry. The saint profused him bung and hedizened with scarlet and of weathering. And, for another son who should Tvo, the great desire gold. The cobra withdraws furtively thing, the story of its building is like of Akbar's life, for he had had two into the dark recesses where once cre of those myths of the ancient sons who huid died. Undoubting the the Inaguid women spent the noon- world which we talk about as facte, saint's promise, the Emperor builty beat, for he has made it one of because they are (or seem) so im himself a palace on some high ground his special hunts. And in the wild probable that no one, would be ex-near the village, and this was the riot of Bowering shrubs the peacock, pected to regard then as the truth nucleus of the new city. It was strute and spreads his tail. It is bound up with one of the great called Fatehpur (City of Victory), 'in est of the world's rulers-Arhar commemoration of the revent con. Since the days of Asoka, in the ante. guest of Oujuret. The saint'e pro Jawn of history, Irdia had known rose was fulfilled, for the Emperor's ne such emperor, and she has known wife living at Sixri gave birth to a zone of Asiatic blood, since, Akbar on who became the famous Emperor himself was not, be it noted, an In- Jahangir. His faith being thus dian. His line came from there cold crowned, akbar enlarged the city.

tiam Use an external application and rigorpus steppes of Central Asia and built a great wall round it. Such of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. In a few which have given to many conquerora is the great city whose empty walls dave it will get you up and out into the to the old world--which may, I ven-state out over the swamps towards shine, then Nature will restore the tree to predict, if this self-tified the distant hills of Bhuripore..

rich rad blood to your vaing and soon rid the systora of this traiblesome dis- western world is not careful, mi49 Akbar seems to have been one at ease. For sale by all Chemists and them up again.

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