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JAMMERT BROS.

APOTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS

Public Auctions-

HS Undersigned have received In reactions to sell by Public Auction

on..

SATURDAY, July 16, 1990, Commencing at 11 s.m. at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, (For Account of the Concerned) 1.700 tons No. 1 Saigon Long White Rice, broken grains 15 per cent to 20

percent.

700 tons No. 1 Saigon Long White Tice, broken grains 15 per cent to 20

per cent.

100 tors No. 1 Saigon Long White Bioe, broken grains 15 per cent to 2 per cent.

Terms-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, July 3, 1920.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

GOODWILL OF THE PRACTICE

OF AN ARCHITECT

hitherto carried on by the late

FREDERICK ENDELL ROSSER

at Noe. CS & 40 Queen's Road, Central,

Victoria

in the Colony of Hongkong

to be sold in two lets by

PUBLIC AUCTION

00

the 19th day of July, 1920, at noon

by

MESSES. LMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.

Cat Nos. 38 & 10. Queen's Road, Central,

Lot one con t'es of

All the right title and interest in the goodwill of the late Frederick Fadell Rosser, dersel, late of Nos, 38 and 40, Queer's Bond Central. Victoria Archi tect.

at two consists of:

All the office furniture etc. on the bove premises aforesaid."

For further particulars and conditions

of sale apply to

G. R. HAYWOOD,

No. 10. Des Voeux Road Central Solicitor for the Administratrix,

Mrs. LAMMERT DROS

Duddell Street,

THE CHINA MAIL.

INTIMATIONS.

THE ROOT OF UNREASON.

WE HAVE Just received

A New Supply of WAR and ARMISTICE

STAMPS.

Many varieties and values of NEW EUROPE also CATALOGUES såd ALBUMS for sale.

GRACA & 00, No. 18, Wyndham Street,

Hongkong P. O. Box 620.

HOW TO AVOID INFANTILE

AILMENTS.

When there are discases prevalent in the season, it is the most dangerous to Infants and so Great. Care must be takes in foeding them with proper food otherwise they would give their Mothers a lot of trouble. To avoid the trouble is to feed them with LAG- TOGEN hich resembles humaa milk. It is easily digested and promotes healthy appetite. It keeps the Infants thriving and free from all Infantile Ailments.

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Sold Agents for Hongkong and South China

Connaught. Hoké. Central, Hongkang. Telephone No«. 1959 à 2923

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"Prevention is better

than Cure."

The Undersigned have just received a new consignment of

Milner's Safes.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our processes are thorough and reliable. Que facilities and re- sources enable us to carry out all work quickly and our charges are really reasonable. Write for Price List and See!

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Draper.-

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23. Nathan Road, Kowloon.

'Phone 1162

Just arrived large assortment of

FILTERS

11 Gallons up to 4 gallong

CE WARREN & CO

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Hongkong, March 10, 1914.

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CRIMES AT PRE WAR RATES.

Manchester

NUMBERING OUR DAYS.

When everything that been

TUESDAY, JULY 6," "1920.

NOTICES

said agains statistics has been allove. G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

The other day Father Vincent

Drunkenness, a London magised for, the annual return of the McNabb discovered an utterance trate is reported as observing, seems Registrar, Gentral remains a valuable emirently calculated to delight any to be on the increase in this district. ii elusive commentary not unlike one with a sense of humour and shall double the fines for it until I that afforded on public affairs by the repel anyone with a sense of right see some signs of improvement prices of stocks and shares; there is reason; and he gave expression to

.There is room for much doubt the same unemotional balancing of this double sentiment in an excellent whether any improvement will be circumstances, and there is the same article called "The Cream of It." seen as a result of the threat, but the almost grotesque liability to darken But there was one phrase in the announcement raises one still more truth with figures. For example, we speech this quoted which can be interesting point that does not seem are given a record of the number of separated from the rich confusion of to have occurred either to the deaths certified as due to such a the rest and which, when thus crime controller or to his customers," medical will of the wisp as "Status Guardian, Lymphaticus," and are left to be separated, simplifies the whole pro- says the blem of such modern ethics. It was to "Even if the price of misdaing were edified or mystified according to our the effect that it is especially necessary doabled, it would still, as expressed, knowledge or ignorance. On the to institute some kind of birth control, in terms of the depreciated sovereign.other hand, births, marriages and because it is very difficult at the mean that the culprit was getting off deaths admit of compilation, and the moment for people to get houses more cheaply than he would have compilations can be analysed so as to yield a grain, or two of that under- Consider that simple sentence and done in 1914 for the same offence. you will see what is the matter with "The fact of the matter is that the standing of human nature which the modern mind. I do not mean the wages of sin-that is to say, of the comes as a rule reluctantly from the growth of immorality. I mean the smaller sorts of sin that are habitual statistician's pen. It is evident for. genesis of gibbering idiocy. Therely corrected by a police court fine-are example, that women nowadays are are ten little nigger boys whom you about the only kind of wages that marrying older men than women wish to provide with ten top-hats; have not received a severe overhaul married in 1914. What we were and you find there are only eighting in the light of the Increased not so clearly aware of was that, tophats, To a simple wind it would cost of living. Everything else gees while a man of ferty will usually seem not impossible to make two up in price, even such apparently marry a girl ten or more years his more bats; to find out whose business immovable things the fee for junior a woman of forty mates with

the it is to make hats, and induce him to an automatic machine make hats to agita:eagainst an absurd charge for taking a punt through a delay in delivering hats; to punish any- Thames lock. Bet the wicked citizen body who was promised hats and can go his way to answer a summons failed to provide hats. The modern at the local police court with the in the two cases yet that should mind is that which says that if we cheering reflection Your crimes will scarcely affect the conclusion that only cut off the heads of two of the cost less as long as he can restrict man on the threshold of middle-age a distinctly sentimenta). practical

or

a man of her own age. There is just suggestion of a statistical sneer in

the way this information is given

in view of the field open for choice

little boys, they will not want hats; them to proportions that will not shows R distinctly and then the hats will exactly go bring down on him that awkward woman War widows, again,

round. The suggestion that beads and irreducible judgment without are rather more important than hats the option of a fine.".

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is dismissed as a piece of mystical This is not at all as it should be, metaphysics. The assertion that; for there are two obvious objections;

hats were made for heals and not to having the controled price of

misbehaviour fixed at an unecono-

tendency are popularly supposed to marry the Registrar-General, again: however, views this "common know. ledge" with a chi eye. He does not think that the fact that the

Heads for hat, savours of antiquated: mic figure. In the first place, it marriage of widows under twenty-

dogma. The musty text which says,

that the body is more than raiment; may encourage misbehavour; tired five has increased fivefold is any every proof that there is an increased the most tendency on their part to re-marry.

the popular prejudice which would, of paying double

boys

commodity, other

for

prefer

of the lives to the mathematical arrangement! reputable citizens might adventure It merely indicates how very many cf bats;

these things into minor crime on discovering that young widows owe their state to the

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are alike to be ignored. The logic of here, at any rate, was something that enlightenment is merciless; and we had not gone up in price. Secondly, duly summon the headsman to disif minor criminals are contributing guise the deficiencies of the batter. Jess to the general support of the For it makes very little difference, to judicial system honest citizens must the logic of the thing, that we are be contributing more which is ob- talking of houses and not of hats. It viously unfair. The cost of running even makes comparatively little an efficient police court for the bene difference, to the ultimate logic of it, fit of casual and regular customers that we are talking of little boys for has certainly increased, if only by the bidden to live and net of little boys rise io policemer's wages that was condemned to die. The fundamental given fast year. Yet the offender still fallacy remains the same; that we gets his crimes at the old tariff. are beginning at the wrong end. because we have never troubled to consider at what end to begin. We have lost all power of distin guishing between the mears and the end, between the temporary and the permanent, between the hat and the head. Because our rulers cheat us of what we ought to have, we are to cheat ourselves of what we want to have We are not only to cut our coat to fit our cloth, but we are to cut off our arms to fit cur coat; merely because it is a bad coat in which a bad tailor has forgotten to put in the sleeves. Nor is our submis sion to misrule to be merely negative.

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HOTELS AND CAFES.

war. With widowers the case is THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD. different. They are marrying again more frequently, especially the "eld- rly" ones-and that gives the statis- tician the opportunity for yet another sneer, of which, to do him justice, he does not take full advantage.

This lighter aspect of the report is counterbalanced by, re perhaps ferences to a birth-rate which has fallen steadily during the years of the lamentation over this alleged sign war. We are not bound to join In

of national decadence or national catastrophe for there are more im- portant things than numbers,, and like the oak of a parasite like we do not fail to note that the earliest the ivy; but they may soon be figures for 1919 show a slight rise. discovered, in their plain practical On the other hand, there can be little way, ignoring the ivy and hacking doubt that a low birthrate reflects away huge branches of the oak the attitude of a people in revolt They refuse to distinguish because against economic conditions. It may distinction has grown a little more thus be taken to mean general áð difficult; because it has reached the vasce in what can, perhaps, be styled point of separating twigs and re-culture-using that term in wide sembles that of splitting hairs. We sense; or again, it can be taken to bavé allowed the process of random indicate the effects of high prices. complexity and confusion to go so Possibly both circumstances far that what would once have operative, possibly, too, the condition been a matter of commonsense is has a good as well as a bad signific now almost a matter of analysis änce. Less important but not less

are

It is to be an active servility, eagerly it needs a labyrinthine diagram interesting are the conclusions in supplying the defects of tyranny, by to trace the parasite apart from regard to suicide. There has been positive acts which many at any rate the tree; because the two things, so a slight increase here, but the figures regard as trickery. We are to do clearly separate in their roots, are remain low, those for males being things we think anarchical, not be hopelessly at the top. We may say,mach under the pre-war level. There cause we are in a state of revolt, but indeed, of the typical modern human is an almost ironic satisfaction in on the contrary, because we are in a being, that he is hopelessly entangled finding that young people, in spite state of abject obedience. We must at the top. His two feet continue to of their protestations, do not very do bad things to oblige a bad govern-stand separate on the good green often commit suicide. It is the mid- ment. We must commit abomina-earth, like the roots of the two trees;dle aged who resort to this expedient, tions because we must tolerate but in the world of grey matter and that too for the most part about abuses.

above there is no longer any power the time when the last fires of youth

I suggest that this sort of thing is of distinguishing one thing from are extinguishing, and in the spring- getting intolerable. If a certain another. His head has become so time of the year. Towards Christmas limitation of the family is happy and like a hat that be sometimes takes it even these chill souls seem to cheer human, is desirable for its own sake, off by mistake. let us establish it for its own sake.

up. But there has been one notable In the books and speeches of exception. Towards Christmas, 1918, But do not let us do it for the sake various bigwigs Lobserve an extra the proportion of female suicides rose of a bungling politician or a corrupt ordinary notion that being sane sharply and ominously. It was the building contractor. Let people have means ng moderate, or what they period of the Armistice, and the small families if they think it good, call being modemte. As a matter statistician, with severe accuracy, is or large families if they think it better of fact they themselves really are at pains to show that they were but do not let them incessantly moderate; but they are also mad. young women under the age of forty- destroy their idea of what is admit. They do make a compromise between Eve. He draws what is, perhaps," tedly good for the sake of what is conservation and reforta; for so the obvious conclusion. We are left admittedly.bad. It is bad enough to long as they are allowed to preserve with the realization that even modify a good truth to suit a bad the bad things, they will freely columns of figures may be made to fact; it is intolerable when the fact allow us to destroy the good sound-the depth of tragedy and is merely a fashion. It is most into ones. They will allow to suffering.-Times. lerable of all when it is not only a preserve drugs so long as --We fashion that will change, but a fashion abolish drinks; to preserve noblemen which we are actually trying to change. as long as we abolish gentlemen; to The men who make these scientific preserve profiteering so long as we suggest'ons profess to be good abolish property; and to maintain all citizens and human reformers; they the petty tyrannies of the Defence of are presumably trying to get more the Realm Act, so long as we cut buildings as well as fewer babies. down the Navy and refuse to defend They are trying to house the the realm. This is no doubt, an people, or at least hoping to house exquisite balance, a fine shade, a the people or anyhow,pretending delicate adjustment; but sanity is not to hope to house the people. In that the word that leaps to my lips to case they are backing and hewing as describe it. To me it seems to strike with the one hand, to fit. a model a different note; and to. call' up 'as they are wrecking and smashing sociations of another and stranger with the other hand. They would sort. Sanity is indeed a balance; fit everything else to something they but it is a balance between good themselves would destroy as unfit. things and not between bad pres But I think it much more likely that It is balanced - so. "as to avoid 'this is giving them too much crédit too- opposite evils. and nöt for appreciation of the varying so as to include them both. The e human needs and: I am inclined to are the principles on which we have: think that they do really mean, in attempted, and shall continue to all simplicity and seriousness, that it attempt, a reconstruction of social is sufficient to kill off the nigger boys life, and especially of domestic to suit the number of hats

[life: That the human home

This insane inversion will be found has been buriedná sort of ramifying through all our politics landslide, if that can be so called, and ethics like some poisonous which is made of slime and moves parasitic creeper. And, indeed, the slower than a glacier, is unfortunate figure of speech is a fitting one for ly only too true. But we believe, the only excuse that can be found that it can still be dug up and for the poor fatigued modern intel- brought into the daylight and we ligence is that the primary and think the excavation should be in the secondary things are indeed inter hands of those who can distinguish twined in a scit of magie, in which between mud and masonry, and not the two sometimes seem difficult to of those who say it is impossible to "ÜLÉSIARNIE TIOM Exchy diet, or even find my writes of the house, because to distinguish from each other. Men, they have forgotten what a house set out originally storelekres Strie, looks likes

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