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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, ATPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS

-Public Auctions-

WX Undersigned bare received in- structions to sell by Public Auction,

Ox

FRIDAY, July 23, 1920, Commenting at 11 a.m.

their Sales Rooms, Deddell Street,

12 Electric Ceiling Fans 110 volts

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GO cycles.

12 Oscillating Table Fans 16", 110

volis (t) cycles,

12 Oscillating Table Fans 9",

8 Boudoir Sets...

1010 Rosettes 10 K. W

12 Boxes Ping Cutouts.

12 Bares Fuse Blocks

2 Motors,

2 Switches,

1 Transformer,

-9 Cases Maisone Paint,

3 Packages Paint Oxide.

Terms: Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

"Hongkong, July 1, 1980

Burglar and Fire resisting SAFES

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SIR WALTER SCOTT'S

MOTHER.

THE CHINA MAIL.

A most interesting picture of Sir Walter Scott's mother and father is given by Archibald Stalker in an article in the May Cornhil

It was a gloomy household into which the future novelist was born, His father "positively loved funerals." It was to his mother that Walter Scott turned with affection. -

DICKENS.

ENGLAND'S LAUGHING

PHILOSOPE R.

CLAPHAM JUNCTION OF

THE FAR EAST.

Writing from Singapore in the Charles Dickens died on Jane 9, London Daily Mail, Professor Mid- 1870. In a leading article the next dleton Smith, of the Hongkong morning the Times declared that he University says Rafes is a name was "the intimate of every house familiar to readers of detective hold." It was a splendid tribute, stories. There was, however, a real and it was tribute that could not be Raffles; he was one of the most paid to any other great English romantic figures of British Imperial "Anne Scott lived for twenty writer, with the exception of john history. He lived about a hundred years and a half after her husband Bunyan. Dickens is a household years ago, and he laid the foundation The house that for two years had intimate, the personal friend of simple of a modern entrepot of trade. As I been all gloom brightened again: folk because they were simple, and he write I can see a statue, that of Sir she received visitors, especially derealised, as no other than has ever Stamford Raffles, in front of a theatre lighted in Walter's children, and realised, that life to the poor and the in the tropics. The brilliant sunshine! Great the stern features of a opened her maternal heart to purse simple is, for all its care and wo..and the luxurious vegetation frame

Every another strong man fallen by the a humorous adventure. wayside, her son John who retired Dickens novel accents the great truth Englishman..

In 1819 the island of Singapore this is 2 funny world from the army broken in health. Hef that too died before her, and at the age of seventy-nine or eighty she was his constant nurse.

She had about £300 a year, of

which a good third went in charities

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All the Dickens characters that was important in the history of the world. But Raffles was an earlier funny- we remember best are whether they be virtuous like Mr. Cecil Rhodes. Knowing this part of Pickwick and Mark Tapley and the world, he had visions which made Captain Cattle, or vicious like Mr. him see the immense possibilities of of her own. On the remainder she Pecksniff, Mrs. Chadband, and Quilp. Far Eastern trade. He planted on a was able to keep a quietly hospitable It is right and proper that the small island at the base of the Malay house. Out of his superabundance Dickens villains should be as humor. Peninsula, a torch which has sent its Sir Walter often offered her assist-ous as his heroes; otherwise it might rays into the jungle of native ignor- We have just returned from a three ance which was scornfully and be thought that virtue was more ance, idolatry, and superstition. affectionately refused every time. amusing than vice, She lived to see her lame son a Moreover, by making his charac.hours' motor drive around the island baronet, to read not only his verses ters humorous be made them real of Singapore. We passed through but his novels, and to point out to for it is the prerogative of man, rubber plantations, riding smoothly her visitors the discrepancies between alone among the animals, to be aver tarmac roads. The wealthy in- Walter's plots and the real stories. funny, and the odd thing is that i habitants of this Colony are not

British but Parsees and Chinese who is He attributed a good deal of Dickens characters that are his knowledge of the manters and funny are just lay figures, with have benefited so much from the of British administration. habits of the two or three preceding sawdust instead of blood in their results generations to her conversation. She veins. Whoever believed in Kate Beyond the town we saw traces of had a fine memory and a gift for Nickleby or her uncle Ralph, in John the jungle disappearing rapidly. It is being reclaimed for rubber planta- telling stories, had all the Scottish Harmon or in Agnes? passion for genealogy and could rattle When Dickers looked out of histions. That is the simple story of off the ancestry of everybody she window he saw a funny world, and Malaya a jungle of poisonous kaew or had ever heard of. She had because it was funny be understood vegetable matter, breeding bodily proverbs also for every occasion, and that it must be fairyland. Shake two of them were often in Sir speare discovered Puck in Walter's mouth: We must do as Warwickshire wood, but Dickens we dow, that is, as we can do, and discovered Pack in an inn-yard in)

the Borough. "Well betides

Her that bides.'

Both of these illustrate a patient mind and a happy knack of minimis. ing present trouble.

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On a Saturday in December, 1819. the baronet visited his mother and found her well. Next day the girls Sophia and Anre had tea with her. and found the old lady in tice spirits, telling her best stories, over again with great gusto, as we all do. On the Monday she had a seizure. Helpless, but apparently suffering no pain, she gradually slept away on Christmas Eve.

"A few days before her death the trembling band of eighty had inscribed her dearest possession, a large Bible in two volumes and a gift from her father, To my dear son, Walter Scott, from his affectionate mother, Anne Rutherford."

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disease, and also a jungle of mental ignorance: Both are disappearing at the approach of the British pioneer.

More than one-half of the popula- tion of this British Crown Colony in But when the laughing philosopher Malaya are Chinese. The Chinese went cut into the streets he found have journeyed hundreds of miles to all sorts of institutions and all sorts this land of promise, and they have of men who were intent on destroy-prospered exceedingly. ing laughter and'on contriving tears.

And whenever he found them Dickens Commercially, Singapore. is re- proceeded to laugh them out of markable for its huge transit trade. existence. The great troral of the It owes its prosperity to various Dickens novel is that denunciation is factors. There is, first of all, its far weaker than laughter, and that unique geographical position. That one of the tragedies of life is that the mal es it the converging point of the average reformer has no sense of

humour.

When Dickens created Bumble he did more to reform the administra tion of the Poor Law than all the indignation of half a century. When he locked Mr. Pickwick up in the Fleet and put Mr. Dorrit into the Marshalsea, he ridiculed imprison meat for dcbt out of existence.

He was not a scientific reformer. He was a genius with a great heart. "It gave Sir Walter an exquisite Cruelty and wickedness appeared to pang of grief when he came into her him in their true light as just silly,

trade routes of the East. Steamers from Europe, India, Ceylon, Burmia, Siam, China, Japan, America, the Dutch East Indies, British Malaya, and from Australia ride at anchor in the harbour.

"Change here" are words which automatically come to mind as one watches the transit of merchandise from steamer to warehouse and from warehouse to another steamer. Sim- gapore is a huge depot for collecting and distributing the produce of the Far East and the products of the

the other the influx of Chinese,

house after she had for ever parted things to make jokes about, jokes factories of Ecrope. It is the Clap | from him, to behold the array of with a tear behind them, jokes sea ham Junction of the Far East.

We accept the accident of geo- presents that she had bought or made soned with just anger. When he ready with her hands for him and the made these jokes, Dickens tras not graphy and the story of British rest of her dear ones against the Newly the most effective of reformers, Colonial enterprise here with but Year. His letter to Lady Louisa but he also showed himself the kin little surprise. It is Stewart telling her of his mother's of the average common Eng-hman factor, death is tender and proud and home and particularly of the average com.which makes Singapore so uniq e Iy, а beautiful cxpression of mon Londoner, who laughs when he Toese Chinese in Singapore to-day Many of affection.

pities, laughs even when his anger is are no longer Chinese..

them speak two languages, Malay "When in September, 1832, nearly aroused, laughs (as be did scores of

They cannot spek and English. thirteen years afterwards, Sir Walter's times during the war) with death at own executors, searching for his will, his elbow. -Sidney Dark in the Daily opened bis desk they found arranged | Mail.

In it in careful order a series of.j articles that had apparently been placed so that he might have them before his eyes as he began his morning tasks. These were the old- fashioned boxes that had stood on his mother's dressing-table, which he had studied a thousand times when as a sickly child he had slept in her bedroom; the silver taper-stand that

FERIE HIGH FLYING.

LOSS OF MEMORY 6 MILES UP.

he had bought her with bis first five- How to face the rarified atmos- guinea fee; his father's snuff boxphere of a height of 7 miles, the and etui-case and other such things."

A DOOR-LESS DOOR.

AN AMERICAN INVENTION.

altitude to which he hopes to attain during the next flight, is the problem confronting the French airman Jean Casale, who has beld the world's height record (6 miles) since January 1919.

the native tongue of their fathers.

There are millions of Chinese who

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MALARIA.

Its Meaning-Its Cause-and Its Care,

When Malaria (Mala-aris, bad air) Despite such precautions against was given its name scientists knew less the rarified atmosphere and the about it than they do now, otherwise intense cold as a supply of oxygen they would have christened it different "Doorless doors" that make fly- and electrically-healed clothing and . Then the mosquito had a better character than he has to-day, when he screens unnecessary and keep out gloves. M. Casale, says the Mati, is own as the carrier of the malarial rain and snow without other agency experienced extraordinary sensations germ, as being in fact chiefly, if not than that of a properly directed on his flight.

solely responsible for the existence of air current are described by H. S.

It required the greatest effort on this disease. Knowlton in Electrical Merchandising his part to work the "joystick" and

So long as there are mosquitoes so (New York) They are the invention; the wing controls. As he mounted long will they continue to spread the malarial poison. And once this poison he says, of a Boston mechanical higher, be says, he seemed to become gets foto the blood it is only through engineer, Henry H. Cummings. We detached from everything appertain the blood that it can be eliminated read-The doorless door consisting to the earth. Death and life were

From every malaria infested country ૐ a motor-driven, fan installed as mere words to him?

proof has come that Dr. Williams' pink below or behind a grill in the

-As he clambered steadily aloft the pllie are the one means by which Mala is can be speedily and thoroughly expelled. entrance of a store or other building mental symptoms produced by the Whilst cleaning the blood this world- and arranged to draw air downward atmosphere became more. profamous remedy creates new red cor- from the upper portion of the door-nounced. He began to forget how paseles to take the plate of those which way, whence it is carried by a duct to manipulate his machine. It the germs, have destroyed, and thus to a hood at the top of the entrance was at this juncture that he decided restores bexith

Not malaria only, but most forms of

or in-

and then discharged downward, to break off the flight and return to disce consequest apen week completing the cycle. A quarter earth.

pare blood, have been cured in almost horsepower motor driving a, sixteen. M. Casale is undertaking a series ountless instances y Dr. Williaros' inch fan and connected with a nine- of experiments to adapt himself and pink pills for pile people. Arrain, to-twelve inch diameter duct provide his machine to the new conditions Debility, Nervus Exhaustion, indiges a current of air under about three encountered at these altitudes. Intion, Kheumatism, and the ailments peculiar to ladies are nanong the inch waler pressure, which is one of these tests he intends to place dic: they are curing every day unnoticed by persons standing in the himself under a pneumatic diving bell bt sinable everywhere, or direct fr m doorway, but which is most effective which will gradually be emptied of the Dr. William Medicine Co.. SH in keeping out insects; rain, snow, air at the same rate at which an 2e buen Road, Changhai, at 31.50 the and cold air. The use of the equip aeroplane would climb aloft until the bolt & 83. Br.six bottles, post free. ment enables close regulation to be barometric depression reaches the Today is the best day to commence made, with ease, of the interior same level as that recorded at a temperature of the room, and the height of 7 miles. The tempera- absence of a closed door, winter and ture inside the bell will be reduced CAN YOU AFFORD THE RISK? summer, in a trial installation actu by means of ice-blocks. ally increased trade by pne-third. The cost of operacion is about two cents an hour.

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