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IG. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER.

AND SERVETOR.

-Public Auctions-

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tons to sell by Public Auction,

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INTIMATIONS METEOR GARAGE

ESDAY, November 11, 1919. Sole distributors of

commencing at 11 a.m.

bis Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

4 Bags Yunnaniu Red Beans,

9 o

do White Beans.

Terms: Cash on delivery,

GEO, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, November 8, 1918.

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THURSDAY, November 13, ,, 1919.

commencing at 11 am.

at his Sales Rooms Duddell Street, A Collection of Valuable Jowellery,

comprising:-

Rings Bracelets Bangles Earrings, rooches, Pins, Cuff Links, Studs,

ctc.

(Plain and set with precious stones)

Also

Selection of Gold Watches, N. B. The above will, he found paitable for Christmas presents. Terms-Cash on delivery. Catalogues will be issued.

Det

On view from Wednesday, the 12th.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

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Auctioneer.

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire

and for Sale at reasonable Prices,

'Phone 2500..

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JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRALIA a large shipment of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, STERILIZED NATURAL MILE. MALTED MILE and SWEET EN EÐ COCOA and MILK, sold at very reasonable prices. owing to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers..

THE CHINA MAIL.

GARRICK

Selected Virginia Cigarettes

CIGARETTE

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state of the Tw

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1913)

NOTICES:

220THAN 3500

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

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ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

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TRADE MARK.

A REDUCTION OF 20%

is allowed on the retailed prices of all our VERMICELLI, PASTE STARS, MACARONI, EGUL NOODLES, and all other kinds of Soup Stuff, in respect of the OPENING CEREMONY OF OUR NEW FACTORY AT CAUSEWAY BAY, HONGKONG, on the 25th

OCTOBER for 20 days from the"

25th inst, to the 14th November."

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OPERATING:-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL, (To be opened 1st January, 1920.)

J. H. TAGGART, MANAGER,

FRIDAY, November 14, 1918,

commencing all am.

At No. 25 Golows, Hongkong and

Kowloon Wharf nur Godown (

Ltd., Kowloon.

1 Drum Caustic Soda

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14 Cases Bicarbonate of Socia

(Stored in No 21 Godown) Cases Sulphuric Acid 44 Cases Aluminium Sulphate

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46. Cases Aluminium Sulphate 20 Cases Alumioiam Sulphato'

(Stored in No. 8 Godown.)

(Stored in No. 1 Godown.) Zage Talcum Powder

40 Bags Talcum Powder

(Stored in So. 28 Godown)

(Stored in No. 3 Godown)

(Stored in No. C Gódown,)!

(Stored in No. 51 Godown:)

(Storein No. 5 Cedown.) Tarms-Cash on delivery.

As Cases Naphthalize

50 Cases Chrome Alum

14 Cases Bisulphate of Sola

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Anctioneer. Hongkong. November 7, 1919.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG HOTEL. TEA DANCES will be held on the following DAYS during the month of November, from 4.30 to T

Ji-

MONDAY, 19TH FRIDAY, MONDAY, 1571 PRICAY.

1477

21ST.

KONDAY, 24TH. THURSDAY, 27TH.

Admission to Dance Room each Day

$2 per beud, including TEA.

F

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

NOTICE.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

TN Ofer to enable the Contractors to complete the work in connection anith the above Hotel at the earliest possible date without interruption, and. In order to avoid all possibility of dam- age to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, ete. The public are requested to kindly abstain from visiting the Hotel! as on and from this date until its

'completion and formal opening on

ACTOGEN

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FROM A GREAT LETTER-

WRITER.

GOOD LETTERS AND UNLVENT.

FUL LIVES WHOSE RANGE

WAS NARROW.

"It seems to me," says George Eliot," much better to read a man's own writings than to read what other people say about him, especially when the man is first rate and the others third rate."

"Voltaire had a fecundity of in- spiration-good measure, pressed down and running over-which allowed him to be at all times per fectly spontaneous; and one of the most cunning minds the most artificial age in the history of the world, is not the less one of the most easy and natural of its fester

writers."

"HE PREPARED US TO BECOME FREE." "When Voltaire was 83 years old he yielded to the foolish and flatter ing presuasions of his niece and many admirers to visit the capital he had not seen for 28 years. That "In these words lie, perhaps, the triumphal progress killed him...

On bis sarcophagus was written: best reason for a translation of

'Poet, philosopher, historian, he Letters of Voltaire," says S. G. Tal- lentyre, introducing a delightful gaye a great impetus to the human selection of such letters entitled mind: he prepared us to become "Voltaire in His Letters" (John free." Murray, 128. net.).

1.

VOLTAIRE SAYS "ELOPE."

At nineteen. Voltaire arranged an elopement! "Love is the strongest of all the passions," he said, "because it attacks at once the head, the heart and the body." These are his instruc- tions to the Dutch girl with whom he desired to elope in 1713.

must

"The piece is unworthy of you; but you must remember what laurels your will win in endowing my Tullie with your graces. It will owe its success to you.. But to achiere that success you must not hurry any of your lines: you lighten them, add pathos to de clamation and be sure to take plenty of time. Above all, put all your

couplet of the first act. Put terror soul and strength into the final and grief into that last little bit- speak slowly. Appear to be in utter despair and so will your rivals be. Farewell, prodigy!.... You are only fifteen and the worst any one could say of you would be that you are not yet what you undoubtedly will be."

WHERE THEY TAKE THEIR MONEY.

Writing on the liberty of the Press, in 1733, Voltaire has this lively fling at the novelist:

"Men's thoughts have become an The important article of commerce. Dutch publishers make a million francs a year because Frenchmen have brains. A feeble novel is. I know, among books, what a fool, always striving after wit, is in the world. We laugh at him and tolerate him.

"There are many respects in which Voltaire is the best as he is the most voluminous of all great letter-writers "Good letters, in any language, will be most often found to be written by persons living quiet and uneventful lives, whose range was narrow, and who lived rather in. books and dreams than in the world. Witness Cowper's 'divine chitchat to the accorapaniment of the bubble' of Mrs. Unwin's tea urn and chaise and we will fly like the wind the publisher' who sells it, to the the click of her knitting needles, to Scheveningen.

ORDER

which due Notice will be given by CHERRY & 007

advertisement in the local newspapers.

The Management of the Hotel feel sure that they may rely upon the ready co-operation of the public in the fore- going regard.

Dated this Sixth day of November, 1919.

For the HONGKONG HOTEL Co., LTD. PROPRIETORS OF THE

REPULSE. BAY HOTEL J. H. TAGGART,

Manager:

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

"

UR OFFICE has this day been REMOVED from No. 4, Des Yaux Road Central, to Victoria Build. Jaga No. 5, Queen's Road Central.

VERNON & SMYTH, Share and General Brokera Hongkong, November 1, 1919.

FEDDER. STREET, Opposite Hongrong Hotel, Telephone No. 491

Hongkong, March 20; 1314,

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"Beware of everyone, trust no. body; be ready when the moon rises: I shall leave this house in- cognito, shall take a coach or a

If you

cr to the hum of bees over is love the take heart; summon all your mignonette and the song of his resolution and coolness; keep strict Jincets. Witness, too, Mine. de watch on yourself in your mother's Sevigne's exquisite babbie of affection for her daughter, Edward FitzGerald's presence; try to get hold of your

Such a novel brings the means of life to the author who wrote it,

moulder, the printer, the paper- maker, the binder, the carrier--and, finally, to the bad wineshop where they all take their money. Further, the book amuses for an hour or two

a few women who like novelty in

country town; Mrs. Carlyle's: tren. Cost. Nothing can part us: our love despicable though it may be, it will is founded on esteem and will only die chant wit on her maidservants and with our life... I will wait for Whitewashers; and the delicate

you at the end of your coad. Good-bye: thoughtfulness of the brief corres-all I risk for you is nothing: you are pondence of the poet Gray... worth infinitely more. Good bye, my

dear heart,"

ON LIVING IN ENGLAND. In 1725 Voltaire was an exile in England. One letter he addressed to. Dean Swift from Covent Garden

At the Sign of the White Peruke." In another letter he said:

A REMARKABLE TIME TO LIVE IN.

"But Voltaire was not only con temporaneous with almost the whole of one of the most remarkable cen- turies of history-born in 1694, 'he did not die until 1778-but himself from first to last played a great role in this century and was palpitatingly "I know that England is a land alive to the very fingertips to its where the arts are honoured and. importance and its possibilities to rewarded, where there is a difference everything that made it shameful between men, save, merit. In this

have produced two important things.

profit and pleasure.” All these letters are strewn with interesting sentences:

On his niece's marriage: "I have to remember that I shall grow old and infirm and then it will be very comforting to have relatives attached to me by gratitude. We are born to have children. There are only a few fools of philosophers-me being of that number who can decently make themselves exceptions to the rule." .*

THE SECRET OF RETIREMENT, To an actress who suggested his

"The Prodigal Son":

and to everything that made it country it is possible to use one's playhall never reform the abuses-

glorious."

AN OMNIVOROUS READER.

mind freely and nobly, without fear or cringing. If I followed my own That Voltaire was not only a inclination, I should stay here; if

only to learn how to think," but also an thinker and doer,

In another letter Voltaire said: omnivorous reader, is less to his you must have felt freer and more advantage as a letter-writer. best writers of letters, or of anything at ease in London, for it is there Nature produces the virile beauties else, are seldom bookworms: learning which owe nothing to art.

The

is a great power if a man can believe that an Englishman who only keep his mind above it thoroughly knows. France and a Voltaire's brilliant originality was Frenchman who thoroughly knows proof even against an overdose of other men's opinions; he read not in England, are both the better for that

knowledge order to be told how to think)

CONSOLING A FAILURE. but in order to act: and the six thousand volumes which formed Here is a letter by Voltaire to his library (which Catherine the console a youthful actor of 15 who Great bought, after his death) were had played very badly the important his servants, not his masters; means, part of Tullie in his tragedy

Brutus." not end."

T

of the world; I had better give up trying. The public is a ferocious beast; one must chain him up or flee. from him. Chains I have none, but I know the secret of retirement I have found out the blessedness of quiet--which is true happiness.

"Do not tempt me: do not fan a flame I would fain extinguish; do not abuse your power. Your letter very nearly made me think of a plot for a tragedy: a second letter, and I shall be writing verses. Leave me my senses I entreat you. Alas! I.! have so few Good-bye, the little black dogs present their compl

No one is more menta tenderly attached to you than

am.

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