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LAMMERT BROS.

AUVEDNEEDS, ATPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS -Public Auctions-

HE Undersigned have received In structions to sell by Public Auction,

DO

THURSDAY, July 29, 1920. commencing at 9.30 p.m. #ther residence. No. 39 Wyndham Street The Whole of the Valuable Household Färniture, (therein contained) Comprising:-

a corsole table with bevelled

Chesterfield couches an

easy chaire, teak overmantels, Japanese water colours, crgraring", brass vases, ornaments, white lce & art curtains, brass electrin standard lamps, electric fittings, carpets, etc.. etc..

Teak extension dining table, leather covered dining chairs, teak sideboard

with bevelled mirror, teak dinner waggon, teak ice chest, tak silver cabinet, dinner set, glassware, eif,, elf.

Double brass bedsteads with bor springs, teak double wardrobes with berellett glass doors, teak dressing tables with bevelled mirrors, teak marble & les top washstands, teak chests of drawers, Jady's desks, tia lined bar couches, toilet crockery, cts.,

Also

etc

A Quantity of Blackwood empti- og-marble top tables, stools, florer stands, teapots, elc-

And

1 Cottage Piano by Allison,

1 Victrola with cabinet &'35 records,

< Electric ceiling fans.

1 Singer's treadle sewing machine..

On view from 2letist.

Catalogue will be issued.

Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers..

Borglong. July 22, 1920

Burglar and Fire-resisting

SAFES

"Prevention is better

than Cure."

- The Undersigned have just

received a new consignment of

Milner's Safes.

LAMMERT BROS.;

Duddell Street.

GLOVER'S

DOG REMEDIES

Famous the World Over

Book on "Dog Diseases, their Care and How to Feed."

Mailed free to any address

H. Clay Glover Co, Inc:

118 W. 31st Street

New York

U.S. A.

Agents MULLER & PHIPPS Chain; Lali, Hong Kong •

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS

is in-important matter and we make a speciality of refinishing light -rocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our processes are thorough and reliable. Our facilities and re sources enable us to carry got all -work quickly and our charges are

really reasonable.

Write for Price List and See:

"JUST LIKE NEW:"

A Suit cleaned and pressed in the "Diamond Way really does look “Just like new.” All sjete, stains and other marks of wear are rumoved and the slope is restored by careful tador-pres ing

Cleaters & Dyers.

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent CASSUM AHMED. General Resper.

32, 24, Welington Street. Branch 28. Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Just arrived

a large assortment of

FILTERS

Gallons up to 4 gallons

B. WARREN &

31 Des Your Road Central, „Zálablished 1900

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BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment' of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good în quality during Hot weather (2) LAC- TOSE (Milk Sugar), for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptica MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUIDICSO TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean în Houses.

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection "and Enquirits are cordially invited.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sola Agents for Hangkong and South China,

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WAR and "ARMISTICE STAMPS,

Many varieties and taluña of

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also

CATALOGUES and ALBUMS

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Hongkong.

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THE KING...

A CHARACTER SKETCH.

COMPARISON WITH ROOSEVELT,

It is, indeed, precisely this energetic vitality that most impresses one at a j first meeting with the King.

Of all men in the world, he re- minded me more than anybody else of Theodore Roosevelt. There was the same unforced flow of talk, the same use of natural-and-animated

The following character sketch of gesture, the same signs of a down His Majesty the King, written by right eager, impetuous disposition, Mr. Sydney Brooks, is published by the same hearty sense honour, the the Sunday Chronicle.It was said same frankness, positiveness, and zest the other day, apropos of his fifty of life.

THE BLESSED CANDLES OF THE NIGHT.

."

Earth, only five are ordinarily visible Of the seven planets besides the to the naked eye.

from the planets, because they keep "The stars may be distinguished the same positions with regard to

the next. The English word planet one another from one year's end-to

wanderer,

are no longer there..... not be said positively that we should we may suppose that to an water and no signs of life. observer on Mars or Venus the Earth would be a brilliant object in the sky. Moon we are often able to see the ... When we look at the crescent rest of the Moon very faintly illumi nated. This is due to the light re flected from the Earth's surface, and is therefore correctly called Earth- shine.

fifth birthday, that the war had The resemblance, of course, didis, in fact, the same as the ancient turned the King from almost a young go very deep. Roosevelt never quite Greek word planetes, which means a man into almost an old one. In a forget himself. The King, one sense it may be true. The strain of might almost say, never remembers if they ever did exist on the Moon,: Wind and rain and snow and ice,! the terrible years was felt in no himself. Roosevelt, at the back of household in the land more severely his mind, was always watching to

It can- | than at Buckingham Palace,

see what sort of an impression he If every single man and woman in was making. The King is utterly these islands and throughout the free from the vanity of self conscious Empire had worked as hard for ness. victory as the King worked for it, Roosevelt was an egotist, fired by the war might have ended a year a torrential energy and an overpower before it did. There was no ca ing self-confidence. The King is cast canny about him. He never "work in a shyer, simpler, more natural, ed to rule," or limited output. A less.complex mould. trade union of Sovereigns would ¦. Oce sometimes doubted Roosevelt's have quickly expelled him as an in- kindliness of nature. One could corrigible transgressor.

never doubt the King's. The Ameri

"It is probable that every day can ex-President was occasionally nothing less than brutal. Our English millions of meteors, unfortunately King and a more thorough English called shooting stars, because they man never sat on the Throne could are not stars, enter the Earth's neither do nor say a single ungentle. atmosphere."

A day's work with him meant the whole day and a quarter of the night. He never once relaxed. It was at what seemed the very crisis of the struggle that Mr. Lloyd George spoke of him, and quite truly and a great Glasgow audience leapt to its feet at the words-as toiling "as hard as the hardest worked man in the country."

manly thing.

publicity.

24 HOURS IN THE AIR

GERM IN RECORD BEATEN.

Roosevelt had always to be in the centre of the stage, and was a con. summate advertiser. The King goes about his business in as unpretentious, But that is the King all over... He almost as retiring, a way as possible, belongs altogether to the type of and is English in nothing so much men who cannot spare themselves. as his quiet disdain for the arts of His view of his office is simply that it makes him the first servant of the

The French aviators Bernard and Genuineness itself, the King is not Kingdom and the Empire.

ane person in his study at the Palace Boussoutrot, who left the aerodrome The divice right to rule is a bit of and another when he goes among at Elampes in a Goliath machine with bombast you would never bear on his people. Intensely human and the intention of remaining thirty-six his lips. But the divine right to absolutely candid and sincere, mear hours in the air. thus establishing a serve is another matter; and this Jag what he says and saying what record, have finished their flight. country will be a real democracy he means with breezy out spoken. They have not carried out their origin when we all believe in it, and prac ness, he never works up a manner al intention, but they have established tise it with the fixed intensity of or tries to elaborate a stage effect cremained in the air 24h. 19min. thus a record all the same. The aviators King George.

to appear anything but his oWD For such a man the war was the natural self,

beating the; record" of 21h. 45min. supreme summons. He followed its! It was this unaffected simplicity made by the German Lendemann in fortunes with the unquenchable assi- and heartiness of manner that made 1914. In addition to achieving this duity of one whose very soul was the King's visits to the munition feat they beat the records for 1,000 engrossed by it. Its impact upon factories during the war the success fight they were continually hampered and 1,500 kilometres: During the him wes greater and more varied they were.

Both

than upon any man among us, and, The workers took to him by fog. It was the unfavourable fly. though an imbecile censorship for a at once. They found him ing weather and anxiety as to the long, while veiled his activities, the just as eagerly interested in the condition of their oil reservoir which country felt even before it knew that as they were in him, and as induced them to descent. beneath the terrific test the King's keen to learn their views as he was aviators were as fresh as when they

began their fight, 'metal rang true.

to give them his own, Fifteen hours a day of work at He came among them as a bard maximum pressure, continued over worker in one sphere; visiting his

four and a half racking years, leave fellow workers in another spheretion, and in the depths of the nation their mark on a man. The King has without the remotest trace of any al consciousness there is a something aged, but for one of his years thing that looked like condescension

should still call him abysically and or trumped-up affability on his part that recognises in King George the in mind and spirit exceptionally or of subservience on theirs. Shop qualities that have made and kept us fresh and vigorous; He can hold his "siewards, - forer en thachanists, who sade and great. *** own as well as ever-at the covert over they might be the king mat The nation sees side, in the saddle, and with the rod, and talked with them as man to

and, like most men who fare mature manya na when they oTUEL IL MAS ed late and slowly, he retains

with a murust increase of liding, and buoyancy and keenness of heart, and regni emotions and interests that wyl hóig Hice at bay for many years to come!

Eman who in all the

His wholly depend

who fashions ample and {is no: happ

TI. Na. 801. CABLE ADEREM

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,

OPERATING:-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL'

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

LTD.

J. EL TAGGART,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

ALL-ELECTRIC TRAMS Pics Parade, Electric Lift Fans and Lighting European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Bart of Food and Service.

Telephone $73. Telographie Address :—* VIDIORIA!

J. WITCHELL, Managi.

CARLTON HOTEL,

(SEE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN ERE COLORT,)

ICE HOUSE STREET.

Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only's low mulantes walk from the Banks and Central District. "43 Bedroom, Kieslent Ünisins, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Bator of spplication in the Proprietres. Laznober moet "Pammenger Boats.

Telegraphie Addrem "CARLTON",

MIL. F. E. CAMERON.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, siectele light and fans throngbox- and entirely apier new management Cuisine under the personal supervisio of the proprietor. Ear and Elliard Booms. Terms 'moderate. Special Sermits familles on application to

-Telephone K. 3. Telegraphia Add. : * Pazor"

J. EL OXBERRY; Propeétar

Tel, No. 3028

Candles Iass

Boda.

`BOSTON CANDY STORE OPPOSITE THe iýal TuzATEL.

CALL BETWEEN AOTS,

TELEPHONE ORDERS FILLED..

12 Queen's BA, C

Cigars aid Cigarettes

TANG YUK; Daszint,

Show take?EXK TO,

FRENCH LESSONS

ZORNO VERY MODERAT

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