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IG. P. LAMMERT.

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ABCAIONEER, APPRAISEE

AND SURVEYOR. -Public Auctions-

UK Undersigned has received frstras

loos to sell by Public Auction,

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WEDNESDAY, March 24, 1920; commencing a fi a.m.

at his Sales. Rooms, Daddel. Stroet,

66 keys White Lead,

52 kegs. White Zinc,

60 Red Lead,

71

50.

13.

Black Paint,

$ Follow Ocber,

$3 tins Copal Varnish,

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Damar Väruish,

Boat Varnish,

21 droms Raw Linseed Oil,

63 Terpentine,

11 tias Soft Soap

11 tins Black Japan,

3 Rolls Rubber Sheets,

etc. etc... etc.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

GEO, P. LAMMERT,

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Auctioneer.

THURSDAY, March 25, 1920,, commencing at 2.30 p.m. bin Sales Rooms, Duddall Street

A Quantity of

Valuxble Houssheld Furaiture,

Comprising:

Marocco covered corner couch, easy chairs, carved cherrywood entic cabinet. teak flower stands teak occasional tables, dining chairs, carpets, rugA, pictures.. vases, ornaments, teak writing tables, marble clocks, electric ceiling & table fans, braan flower pots, electro- plated ware, electric radiator & tonater. double & eagle teak & iron bedsteads, teak dressing table, washstand & cheat of drawers, silk custion, teak cupboards. Clay Bic

A Few Places of Very Fine Canton Blackwood Ware,

-Comprising -

Tapestry covered drawing room suite, card table, cpium stool, silver cabinet, corner whatnote, teapoys & Bower atande, etc.

inst

On view from Wednesday, the 23rd

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms-Cash on delivery...

GEO: P. LAMMERT,

Anctiorest.

Hoogkong, March 19, 1920.

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FRIDAY, March 28, 1920, commencing at 245 p.m..

at No. 17 Humphreys Building, Kowloon.

A Quantity of

Vainable Household Furniture,

Consisting of

Yery finely carved blackwood coueb. silver cabinet, chairs, stools, teak hat stand & music cabinet with bevelled mirrors, casement curtains electric ceilings & table fans, electric åttioga: engravings, ornaments, carpets & rugs, etc., etc.

Teak extension dining table & chairs, weak sideboard and dinner waggon led mirors, teak card table & ensional tables, roll top desk, crock- ery glassware, cutlery, etc.. etc..

Double and single brass & iron bed- steads teak double single wardrobes with bevelled mirrors, teak marble top dressing table and washstands, teak souch & chairs. toilet set, etc., etc... including one very fine camphorwood Fedroom suite.

Al80

Pots plasts, bamboo blinds, pantry & kitchen requisitos,

And

1 American Ice Chest

On view from Thursday, the 25th

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Catalogues will be issued.

Terms-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, March 19, 1920.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Tuners Ma. J. H. GARDINER, TEE Undersigned has received-ia-

to sell by Public Auction,

ON

FRIDAY,

the 25th March, 1920, ak

12 O'clock Noon.

at his Sales Roczne, Duddell Street.

The Steam Launch "TINA? se she now lies in Causeway Bay together with

all her machinery, engines, tackle, apparel, farniture and equipment on board, subject to the con- ditions of sale thereof. Her dimensiona and touage are approximately as follows:--

Length 75 feet.

Breadth 14 feet 8 inches.

Depth 7 feet 8 inches.

Gross Tonnage 31.48

Nett Tonnage 34.39

Inspection orders and full particulara

on application to. the undersigned or

Mr. J. E. Gardiner.

The steam launch to be at purchaser's

risk after fall of bammer

"GEO. P. "LAMMEET

Auctioneer. Hongkong, March 18, 1920,

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A WOVAN'S COLLEGE 4,000 YEARS AGO.

was

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THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY,„, But by the side of the "prince" and the "prefect" there was also a princess" and a "prefectess," and

shadowy way the nominal supremacy of the Babylonian kings. But they were actually governed by their own officers, a province or district being under the government of a "prince, and a city under that of a "prefect." Besides these officers there were also judges, as well as certain officials, The "old Orienta! world wonderfully like our own, writes Prof. who gave their names to the "weeks" A. H. Sayce in The Observer. It of five days each into which the year with the was divided, and by means of which not acquainted mechanical contrivances of the time was counted, twentieth century, with trains and steamers, telegraphs and telephones, but on the cultural side it was ou a level with ourselves, and in some. respects even in advance of vs. Culture, as opposed to mechanical civilisation, is always conned to the few, and what is still the high water mark of the few had viready been attained four thousand years ago,

We already knew that such was the case with the Greece and Rome of the classical age. Then came the revelations of ancient Egyptian cul ture, followed by that of the art and culture of early Krete, and it is now the turn of Babylonia. The strong points of Babylonia culture, however, were not artistic, as was the case in Egypt and Krete, but literary and commercial

COMING BACK AGAIN.

CONDEMNED MAN'S VIEWS.

- IT IS NOTHING TO DIE.

"It is nothing for me to die, be cause I am coming back. It may take a few years or it may take several thousand years, of course, but time does not count.

"Being brought into this world is like being placed in a class of small children, with each trying to compete with the other.

a curious fact that emerges from the "Some of us are successful and tablets is that the princess" and, some are not. As for myself, I have "prefectes" had equal powers and flunked.” rights with the "prince" and the These were the last words uttered "Women's rights" had by a notorious criminal, named Gor prefect." already triumphed at Burus, as the don Fawcett Hamby; who has been city was called; the women could exceuted in New York. trade there like the men, could be queath their property like the men, and possessed, it would seem, the same official authority as the men. It would appear that, after all, there He was later identified as on of was some truth in the classical story the two robbers who, on December of the Amazons whose home was in 23rd, 1918, held up the East Brooklyn the sarge part of the world.

Savings Bank and, after killing two of the employees, escaped in an automobile with £3,000.

He was arrested in Tacoma, Wash ington, last June, under the same of Jay B. Allan, after killing a man there in a revolver fight.

Along with women's rights," naturally, went women's education, The latest discovery of Babylonian and the latest discovery is the most. Extradited to New York and tried archæology, has an astonishingly modern touch of all. A tablet has for this crime, Hamby stood revealed modern ring. Some centuries before turned up which refers to a woman's as a self-confessed participant in the Abraham was born in Ur of the college" or "university," in the robbery of 13 banks and two trains Chaldees, a dynasty of kings was re- " neighbourhood of Burus where it and many murders. igning which bad its capital in that gave the name of "The Women's city. Its rule or supremacy was Town" to the suburb in which it acknowledged from Susa to the Mej stood. This university, was divided diterranean, from the Persian Gulf to into the two faculties of "Liter the Taurus mountains. In eastern ature" and "Arts," each of which Asia Minor, three miles from the was under a "Principal," who, how present Kaisariyah, there was ever, was not a woman, but a male Babylonian colony, partly military, professor. Surely there is nothing partly commercial, which held the new under the god.” highrose to the north-west and was the centre of the metal trade. Babylonian firms worked the silver, copper, and lead mines of Asia Minor, and supplied Western Asia with their products.

Whilst in prison he said "I expected to get £5,000 out of the Brooklyn "job, and I was greatly disappointed at the little we did get, This was because my partner did not carry out my instructions. I had ordered him to jump over the rail the 'minute we entered the place, but be was an amateur and wasted too much time. It took him about four minutes to pick up what money we did get when it should not have taken more than a minute."

THE BABYLONLAN POSTMAN- But the tablets have brought to light many other things which have their paralled in the modern world. We leas from the letters that there Hamby said he had never had any 2 were roads throughout the country.women accomplices in any of his rob- along which the postman went re- beries, "because they talk too gularly, though the letters and much.”

A REPUBLIC OF 4,300 YEARS AGO.

They have left us their records envelopes he carried were of clay. The day he was taken to Sing Sing -inscribed in cuneiform characters like the stamps, which had the the prisoner was asked what interest tablets of day. Hundreds of thera form of discs. Ia one of he had in life. He lighted a cigarette have been recently discovered, all the letters the writer expresses and watched the match burn itself belonging to the same period, about the hope that the postman) down and go out before he 2,400 BC. Some of the tablets are will have a bright moon and a clear replied letters, often on business matters: sky to light him on his way at night. "The only interest I have is to see others of them relate to commercial In some of the correspondence is that I spend time from now until I go or legal affairs. They come abruptly made to a species of cheque, the the electric chair in smoking, read to an end-it is probable that when messenger being instructed to receive ing, and making myself comfortable. internal decay prevented the Baby from the correspondent of the writer I know there is no possible chance of lonian Government from defending the equivalent in money of the sua acquittal I am guilty, and that is anylonger their distant possessionsnamed on the tablet presented to all there is to it. At another time the Babylonian setiléments in Asia hin

be said to Minor were destroyed by the wild

Truly the Near East has a long tribes of the North. At all events, rast of cyllisation behind it!..

excavation has shown, that the par-j

ticular citywhere the tablets were found was suddenly overthrown and dever inhabited again.

RUB IT IN.

A good may people think thoumtiam The larger number of colonists a conger he cares without taking nauseous medicine, Chamberlain's Paim came from Assyria, which at that Belmaassaged thoroughly into the ik time was a Babylonian province.bas cared for more cherrastian than any They had a republican, and not internal remedy in existance and gives For mis by all Chemists monarchical, form of Government, relief quieter, though acknowledging sort of and Storekeepers."

"Nothing ever bothers me at all. The sooner the end comes the be fer. It's immaterial tó · me. I'd sooner have it all over than have this. fuss. This place is nice, everything here is very nice. There isn't anything I want that I haven't got here

Judge Fawcett, of Brooklyn, whe sentenced Hamby said he was the worst" criminal of 6,000 who had come before him. In his entire career on'the Bench:

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