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African Methodist Episcopal Church Netica. HE work of-eur Church islaoving on- ward. The General Management of Officials feel, that we are daing such a work as to gain the appreciation cf all and we thank those who help in the work. : The following are our notices: AT CHRISTIANSTED CHURCH Wednesday Night. Bible Class. Thursday afternoon. Choir Rehearsal. = Night. Class Meeting at 7:30. Sunday Morning at 6:00. Early Prayer and Praise Service. . ** +10:00. Regular Preach- ing. - at 12:30. Sunday School. - Night 7:00 Evening Wor- ship and special Ser- mon, Theme, ‘‘OUR HOMES.”’ AT GROVE PLACE Friday at 7:00. The Board Meeting. - ‘* 8:00. The General Class Meeting. ' Friday is Consuoltation Day for this " .. Lhurch. Sunday merning. Sunday School. 4 noon. Regular Preaching. AT FREDERIKSTED CHURCH Wednesday Night. Class Meeting and Official Board. Surday at 1:30. Sunday School. - " 3:00. Reguiar Preaching. LOCAL Sloop "‘Mizpah’’with mails and passen- gers left here yesterday atiernoon for St, Thomas. The Native Brass Band rendered a fine concert on the wharf Jast night which was enjoyed by a large number of music lovers. 1 line of rain was measured at the Fort this morning. The s.s. "'Parima’’ from New York is due at Frederiksted at 6 o’cloek this afternoon, having 452 packages, 31 bags mail and 4 passengers for this island. She will sail this evening for the Islands. The U. S. S. “"Falcon’’ arrived at this port yesterday alternoon and gave liberty to a party of the crew inthe even- ing. The U. 8. 8. *“Swan’”’ arrived in the evering and sai'ed again this m~arning. 1t 18 underctood that the mission of the "‘Contdeook’ is to re- move the guns which were dlaced nn the wharf here during the war. The ST ChrOlx YLS calling of these ships created quite a stir ameng the curious townfolk and of course will bring business in var:ous ways. TUT’S TOMB TREASURE WORTH $50,000;000. _ WEALTH OF (GOLD IN SHRINES. Mortuary Chapel Just: Opened Holds Be- wildering Mass of Treasure.- Luxor, Egypt, Jan. 9th. —Fifty million dollars is said to be a conservative esti- mate of the intrinsic value of the trea- sures in the tomb of King Tut-ankh- anien. This is the estimate put on the value for museums and connoisseurs because most of the treasures found, carriages, fly whisks, couches, the Qieen’s head net, robes and jeweled necklaces. pre- served meats, funerary bouquets and foot stoois, have no utilitarian’ value. Vases and Slippers. - Two notable exceptions, however, are the scries of alabaster vases, which are as strong, today as when originally carv- ed, and the solid gold slippers ornament- _ing the feet of twe of the life size sta- tures of Tut-Ankh-Amen, = But while most of the treasures have 13st much of their ultilitarian value ow- ing te the changes of time there is eneuzh intrinsie value in the gold which is as plentifulin the tomb as in the rich- est pocket in the Sierras. : Thick With Gold, . The huyge outer shripe is covered thick- iy with goid, and the dimensious of the shrine are approximately seventeen feet long, twelve feet wide, ;and nipe feet high. There are 153 square feet of so'id gold on each side; 103 sgquare teet on the back and front, respectively, and 204 square fee: on the curved- roof; alto- gether 725 square feet of pure gold on the exterior of this shrine aione. The same amount is on the inside, - . The second shrine i 3 fifteen feet long, ¢ix feet high and ten. feet wide, having 450 square feet of pure: gold covering the exterior. -e 3,000 Square Feet of Gold. The third shrine i 3 thirteen feet long, five feet high and nine feet wide, having 33 square feet of pure gold covering. The fourth shrine is eleven feet long, four and a half feet high and eight feet wide; giving a surfgce area of pure goid of 252 squara feet. o There is alsa as much niore gold in the tomb. Three of the huge couches which were removed late last year con- {ained 150 square feet ol pure goid. A further flity square feet was used for walking sticks, staves,, scéptres and maces, while chariots, thickly plastered with gold, wii] probably a}d’ another twenty sqhare feet. S . The total will probably aggregste 3,000 square féot of thick geld® discovered in ‘the tomb—not gold leaf, but -solid thin gold, and it is authoritatively stated that one square fnof is worth $20..~ . ~ - Raises Value To$50:000,000. Last seasor, Howard “ar‘er stated that if the treasures then discoyeréd were put up at aucigpn they. would bringfrem $15.000,000 to $20,000,000.. That was when the ante chamber alone bad been opened.- The mortuary chapel and the rich annex have since been opened up, bringing the 2stimate up. to $50,000,000. . There is every evidence that. the Tut- Ankh-Amen court lived in a radiant gla- mor of gold, but why the Pharaohs put such enormous wealth in their tombs is a story which remains to be told.—Bos- ton American, 9th Jan, TELEGRAMS. - ST. CROIX STATION. London, Jan. 18th.-~The Trade Union (‘ongress today made ancther attempt to svert a railway strike in Great Lvitain. The Congress called before it, fora con- ference. representatives of all three of the railway unions, with a view 40 ex- amine their grievances. After a long speech the congress adjourned ‘vntil to- wiorrow, when its efforts to straighten out the tangle will :be continued. The situation tenight still remains eritieal, as the strike notices, whbich became effec- tive at midnight on Surnday, had not been withdrawn by the railway men’s Unicn, : London, Jan. 19th.— The Press Associ- ation this aft>rpoon says it ‘'understands that the Railway Manazers agreed today to gefer putting into operation the de crease of wages tixed &by the Railway Wages Board, and the strike of the loen- motive men ordered to become effective at midnight on Sunday, will be post- poned. - ! ! 3s 5 “London, Jan. 18th —Mr: Thomnms, th2 Railwaymen’s Li2adzr, continuzd .he La- bour Pzrty’s sttack on the Baidwin ‘Gov- erpment today, scoring it and the * prece- ding government for the“failureteo re- lieve unemployment> Tarning totee pol- icy, be condemned the attitude of France on the reparation questjonand’ dectared that the real triendskip- &id‘=not congist in pretending “thaf- -alf “was well. when allwas not. *Great ‘Brifain’s vascillating foreign policy ‘was “causing France to treat her with centempt. “Mr, Thomas said it was only after four years of pleading from Lfbour that gomething be ‘done, that Mr. Baldwin had suddenly concluded tbat protectivn was the one and only solution for unemployment. “‘That is all humbug’” exclaimed Mr. Thomas. “‘now can you'edre unemploy- ment by} restraiming trade?’” Labour's single desire, he added, was (0 make the country “worthy of the citizens Who ‘showed patriotism during theperiod of its greatest peril. Mr. ]lhomas ‘repeated LatoGi’'s charge that the Corsérvative