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THE VERY OLDEST DRAWINGS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH, 1909.

The Dordogne Falloy in Central. France may- wall be styled the oldest picture gallery in the world, for form the caves in the hills of the

THE Undersigned have received instructions TRD W. I CLARER, Bell to both us valley have some the astonishing series of

Public Auction,

TO-DAY (FRIDAY), the 26th February, 1909, at 2 P. st., withia kis Residence," ADELGERDIE," The Peak, SUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising

Ono IRON SAFE by Milnors, Qae SEMI-GRAND PIANO by Hanke and One TENNIS NET and FOLES, &c., &c.

On View on TORSDAY, the 25th instant Catalogues will be issued. Terms: As Usuni.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.. Hongkong, 20th February, 1909.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

QUE AIGRETTES, FLOWERS, GREEN LEAVES, &c., &c.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 25th February, 1909.

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THE Undoraigned have received instructions Tto Sell by Public Anction,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, On MONDAY,

the 1st March, 1909, at 11 A.M., at No. 12, Wyndham Street,

description of the skeleton before the Aca-

crayin is

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CHRISTMAS ISLAND.

EDEN. WHERE EVEN HUMAN BEINGS ARE' TRUSTED.

Dr. C..W. Andrews, F.R.S., of the Natural History Museum, who recently returned to England from a scientifle visit to Christmas Island, which lies in the Indian Ocean about 200 miles south of Java, has a remarkably in teresting story to tell of that lovely outpost of civilisation saya a London paper,

ten years ago, The object of his recent trip Dr. Androwa pail the island a previous visit was to study the effect of man's invasion on the fauna and flora of the island.

Tour years of man's neighbourhood have apparently made no difference in the stupidity of the birds. They are just as emaily osptured by the simple methods I have described. The pigeons are now strictly proserved during the breeding sesson, however, and only a limited annaber are allowed to be taken at other times. extinct like the rate, perhaps from the same Apparently the little shrew las become canse

is that the papeia, a sort of melon which has "The only difference in the flora of the island heen introduced, and whose seeds have been thrown down by the settlers, is now to be found chillies which the Chinamon use with their rise growing indiscriminately in all parts, while the are spreading in the same way

tananas, custard

In cultivated corners of the island the *When I went out there in 1897 it was one of the for remaining oceanic islands which had good to see in so remote and fauely a inhabitants are growing English roses, which Doctor toan Express "representative yestering. never been explored scientifically" said the place. In the gardens, too, limas pomegranates,

Up to then it had heen uninhabited by man. It entiers from the Cocos Islands had landet there. has an area of forty square miles.

magistrats, and a body of about twenty Sikh

The dad is now under the Straits Settle- ments Gorerament, It has district ofleer as

policemen.

There is now a population of 1,500, dy Chinese roolies working the deposits of phobble THE HERBERT WITHERS COMPANY. of lime for an English fru

"When I first visited it, I found extreme

The members of the Herbert Withers Com dificulty in getting about owing to the trackless pany, which has just comploted a triumphal jungle that covered it, I could find no water-season of eigut areksom fodia and is now courses, although since that time many streams journeying toward China and America, form have been discovered.

were

numerous

"I found that the land birds were not peculiar

bnt there were Beven species thrusk, something like our common thrush; to the island. These

a a beautiful bine igeon, another pigeon with a great back and clestust broast; a fine hawk, a small swift, nad on ok, the cry of which resembled the bark of a terrier,

during my first visit wore my chief source of food. There were two sorts of frigate birds, and "The sea-bird, however, were abundant, and

several kinds of gannet, but the most interesting with a very long and slender pointed tail con isting of two feathers."

DANGEROUS CURIOSITY.

..

But curiosity is just as dangerous in this little eden as it was in the old one, for Dr. Andraws continued:→

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the second of the Charles Harrison Gibbon musical parties, composed exclusively of cele brities in the art world, to go round the planet. Madame Albani, and including also Mr The first was that of last year headed by Willem Green, tener; Mr. Haydn Wood, solo and Me. Theodore Flint, pianist accompanist: violinist, Miss Myrtle Meggy, solo pianiste; The Iulian Press unanimously rates the Mr Withers in particular has won golden opinions, his art being very closely allied present season's troupe as superior to last year's,

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to

for the larger European and American festivals, and for concerts of the first order. She scored

a memorable success about five years ago in s "Ringiu London. Althoug her

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drawings made by the pre-historie inhabitaute of that region. The artistic skill of the men of the Reindeer period is so astonishing that at first the drawings on bone and schist were received with scepticism. They depicted with astonishing truth the animals which were contemporary with thom-the mammoth, the Silk Tapestry Covered DRAWING ROOM are bour, the reindeer, and the horse. The SUITE.an Assortment of CARVED CANTON breed of horses was of small stature, witli abnor. BLACKWOOD WARE, EXTENSION ally large heads, and probably survives in DINING TABLE, DINNER WAGGON, the Shetland and Iceland ponies. That the TEAKWOOD SIDEBOARD with BEVEL horse was hunted and killed for food is proved LEDGLASS,SINGLE IRON BEDSTEADS first by drawings of the hunter chasing the wild with WIRE and HAIR MATTRESSES, horse, and next by the discovery at Jalutre, near TEAKWOOD WARDROBES and DRESS Macon, of a huge deposit of the bones of prob- ING TABLES with BEVELLED GLASS, Pably a hundred thousand horses. The drawings A few months before I arrived several wood been introduced" ples, and other fruits have MARBLE-TOP WASHSTANDS, PETS, RUGS, GLASS CROCKERY and be identified, but there was considerable heaita. CAR of animals est accurate that they can clearly E-P. WARE PICTURES, COOKING tion in nccepting them us really drawings of STOVE And UTENSILA, &c., &v.;

mou-ohiefly on account of their remarkable A1,90

Simian-like appantele resembling giboons rather than kummings, A discovery has now been wade which goes far to settle the question, and to establish the enracy of the work of the very ancient artists.

UNTO at Chapelle-aux-Saints, in the Dordogne Valley, a most important and was made by M. Marcellin Benie, the well-known French anthropologist. On August 3 of last year there was discovered an almost complete human skeleton lying on its back with the head to the East. The right arm was bent so that the hand lay towards the body, and the left T MESSRS, JAY'S LIMITED,

slightly extended-there was no approach to the crouching or sleep harial of prehistoric Egypt. TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), That it was not a chance or accidental deposit the 27th February, 1909, commencing at is shown by fragmente of the hind hoof of somet

10.30 A.M.

large burine being placed near the body. That SUMMER DRESSES, HATS. TRIM- the cave had been inhabited is clearly shown by MINGS VELVET, GLOVES, CORSETS, the number of paleolithic implements found in VELVET, PLAID RIBBON, BELTS, SILK it-this would not provent a burial, for we know BRAIDS, WHITE ALPACCA, APPLI- that primitive reek often bury their dea of all was a beautiful golden-yellow tropic bilists of his generation," and while this is!

very near, and in later times under the floor of their Imte.

The notice of this important discovery excited considerable interest, and now that the discoverer has given's detailed demy of elences in Paris we can see how important a Bud has been made.

The re-

The ferr inhabitants at that date had mains are those of an aged male, as shown already discovered method of bird-catching by the teeth; of short stature, that is five by playing on the cariasity of creatures revival of the " foot tre inches in height slightly below the that had never before seen u human being.name is thus particularly associated with the arerage of the Neander

The ader can abnormally large in proportion to the height, that he stood well out at the top

дад would climb high tree Wagnerian music drama, for which she studied The skull in of the dolichocephalic, or "langit. He would carry a red rag in one hand in concert work. Maw Elzy, the sole pianiste, of at Beyrouth, she is equally popular and capable headed" type, the bones thick and flattened,

nad a long stick in the other. Waving the rag is in domestic life Mra, Withers, and is the bone magos over the eyeorbits are abnor- he would draw the birds swooping towards it artiste of peculiarly delicate charm. Mr. Charles THE WHOLE OF THE VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, T.0 projection of the lower jaw is more re-

mally large more so then in the Neander skull. fall of curiosity only to be knocked down by the Bonnett. the baritone, is American by birth, THEREIN CONTAINED,

markable, giving to the whole a mest snout- Comprising :- TEAKWOOD HATSTAND with BE-type than any yet found. Taken as a whole

like appearance, approaching nearer to the

ape VELLED GLASS, Silk Tapestry-Covered it is perfectly possible to recognise in this DRAWING ROOM SUITE, OVERMAN- specimen the men who formed the motels for TELS with GLASS, TEAKWOOD EXTEN- the artists of the osves of the Dordogne Valley SION DINING TABLE and MOROCCO The other portions of the skeleton confirm this COVERED DINING ROOM CHAIRS, DOUBLE and

the long arms and short lege seem opinion; SINGLE BRASS and to indicate the semi-ereot attitude depicted in BRASSMOUNTED IRON BEDSTEADS in these drawings. It is clear, then that these and BEDDING, MARBLE-TOP SIDE. BOARD with BEVELLED GLASS their own people as they are in furnishing us ne accurate in depicting. DINNER WAGGON, GLASS, CROCKERY and E-P. WARE. TEAKWOOD WARD.

with a zoological picture gallery.

The remarkable simian-like character of this ROBES with BEVELDED GLASS and other specimens as well as the still TEAKWOOD BUREAU with BEVELLED GLASS, ENGRAVINGS.

niore marked resemblance in the monkey-like CARPETS, ELECTRIC CHANDELIERS,

BRUSSELS Pitheesathropas of Java-raises the question once more of the evolution of man from the anthropoids. We may be one step nearer the completion of the chain, but there are still many linke missing. We are two great obstacles to. the direct association of even these ape-like men with even the highest type of anthropoid. Pri- mitive man, as we learn his story from the caves of the lardagne Valley possessed two accomplishments which separated him from the anthropoids Man a tool-making animal. The ape may throw stones, he may walk with o stick-but he has not the instinct to shape tlust

“An interesting fact about the trees was that stone into an are, and fasten it to the stick, and the soil not being very deep in some places, provide himself with a aseful tool, or a formid. many of thom had developed great buttresses able weapon. The ape may live in eaves and round the base of the trunk to help support them. rock shelters, he is able to adapt himself to "The plants were mostly such as have sticky his environment. Man goes a step further. sende, that would enable them to be carried by He deepens or prepares his care, he generally birds; wind seeds, that can be blown long makes himself comfortable by altering things distancer; and floating seeds, that can crownin to suit himself-in fact, he adapts his environ- for a long time in salt water without taking ment to himself-by the use of tools. Now harm. tools, even if they were of the more palmolitio type, were found in the cave at Chapelle-aux- Sainta.

"I found the island on my second visit not graphic Instinct. They could draw, as we have greatly altered through ten years' inhabitation sewn, with a skill tolerably surprising,

by man, The most peculiar thing that had pictures of themselves and the animale wie happened since I was there before was that the whom

they were associated. As yet we have not two species of rats which were so numerous had slightest idea of doing so. Eren the most some epidemic disease by rain from, the ships found an anthropoid who could draw, or had the apparently become entirely extinct. This seems to have been the result of the introduction of advanced Simian, Consul, who tried, could not calling at the island. copy a simple geometrical figure on a slate. The importance of this new discovery is, indeed,

It was probably some disease that would not very great, as we now can form an opinion of hurt the ship rate st all, but the island rats, to J. M. Barrie's Phenomenally Successful Play. the mental capacity of those' very old masters, whom it would be quite new, were unable to at home, so that it can be used in establishing

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resist ite ravages. The ship rats that landed are now beginning to spread rapidly, and in some parts they are very numerous.

A Quantity of PLANTS iu POTS. Catalogues will be issund. Terms:-As Usual.

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"There were five distinct-mammals peculiar to the island, Two native rats swarined in myriads, food being plentiful, and enemies noue fruit and bark, and they came ont in droves at all. These rats were vegetarian, living o after dusk, often running over as in bed, and sometimes nibbing our feet and boots. They could climb trees a well ea squirrels, innuing up the hanging creepers in search of food in the tree tops. They were absolutely without fear, and they could be easily hit with a stick.

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