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for vears, so as to be able to go to scho: ] in the dav time. Treasurer of the King’s Household, Thos. Gritfith (Pontvpoci), a former half timer at the tin plate works, earning four pence a day. He entered Rusking College when 33 and maintaired himself at Oxford with his wife apd faqily on fifty shillings a week. Comptroller of the Royal Household, John Parkinson, (Wig- an), who began work in the coal pits as a half timer at ten years of age and be- came a full timer at 12. Vice Chamber- lain of the Housekoid, John Davidson (Semthxick) who began work in a boot shop. Al are lab ur members of the House of Cominions. Their court duties will be largely nominal. London, Feb. sth—The Earl of Cromer ha: been invited by the Gavernm-=nt to re;amn the position of Lord Chamberlain. Washington, Feb., Hth.—TlThe Weather Buteau teday issaaed the following: Ad- visory ten a m Northeast storm warn- ing extended ten a m North of Boston to Bastport, Maine, storm of marked in- tensity and wide extent central of lln- diana anl moving slowly Northeast ward. Small er. ft warnin2s displayed south of Delaware breakwater to Cape Hateras. Ottaw:., Feb. Hih. —Their Excellencics the Governor General and Lady Byng of Vimy wi | represent their Majsties tne King and Queen at the marriaze on Mon- dav next ot His Royal Highnoess Prince Erik of ['enmark to Miss Lois Booth, St. Paul, Minn,, Feb. sth—-Siualled trains, broken wires and high dritied roads today told mutely the tale o/ the violent wind and snow storm that raged throughout the middie and northwest yesterdav and all night. In six W:scon- sin town-, travellers trom seven pessen- ger trairs today await the ¢oming of the comivg of the snow plouzhs 'hat witl permit them 0 proceed o thelr distina tion, their trains having been held up by drifts that in some places were reported ren feet deep. At Waukesha, Wisconsin, a Chieago Great Western trains was re- ported '‘in distress’’ and needing mid, but all other trains in the Kastern part of the State pulle i intostations,giving up the hopeless task of bucking snow arifts. A tangled maze of telegraph and tele- phone wires near Tomuan, Wisconsin, re- sulted in eutting off many Chicago cir- cuits and throughout the eniire storm zone, which extended a3 tar south as Texas, wires had snapped under heavy loads of Ice or been dravged dowvn when over-burdened poles broke. Daveuport., lowa, according to radio messages, was cut off from communication to the North and East, while the severest siorm of the Winter, with a fifty mile gale blow- ing prevzi'ed at Zion, lilinois. Luxor, Feb. sth—-For the first time in 3200 years the great stone cofiin of lut- ankhamel stood forth today and sh.rn of its protective nest of golden shiines. [he,task proved less formidable than was tirst surinised and a few bhours work, = tUI F AV 14 yesterday sufficed to disengage the sarco- phagus. Then it was seen that the en- thusiasm evoked by the ghmpse ob.ained four weeks ago of one# :d of the sareo- phagus, through the open dcors of the enclosing shrines, was justified. As mas- sive in construection, as it chastely simrle in design and as untouched by the to th of time, as it is inviolate from the ha ds of tomp robbers, this grandiose st ne chest, gleaming pink beneath thegei 1o of the electrie lamps; must be acelal ed a unique spece'men of the funerary of he eighteenth dynasty. The four crowicd voddesses ¢f ceath, who iv traditional posture, stand at the four corners of the coftin with wings out preal toshield the dead monarch from the forces ot evil are boldly and deeply ineised, itull basted, with slender arms and powertnily wing- ed, each with on> hand gzrasping tie “‘ankh’’ or kea of life, which figures in the dead Pharoah’s name, the lid is mas- sively solid and inseribed in bands with lines of hieroslyphies New York, Feb. 3rd.—The Lawn Ten- nis Association at their last annual meet- ing on Saturday, decided by an over- whelming vote to declare tennis player writers ineligible for amatenr competi- tion after January lst 1925. Tne vote was 47,196 to 6, 250. Christiania, Feb. sth,--It is feared heve that the Amundsen exploration ship Maad, which is drifting with to e ice 1n the Arctic Ocean, 1s in danger of ground- ing on the new Siberian llslards. Ara dio message ftrom the vesscl gave her nosition on Saturday as latitude 75.13 North, longitade 156 45 Bast. London, Feb. sth.—The scheduled 20 round heavy bout last niget here, le- tween Georze Cook, the Aus raiiun aad Venderve:r, the Duteh heavyweight champion trom whom KErminio Spalia waon the heavyweicht championship of Fuarope, went the ftull route and was cailed a draw. The general impression was that Cook should have got the deci- sion and therefore the referee’s verdiet diel with a mixed reception. Newn York, Feb sith-—=The raw sugar matk>t was quieter today, with no change in prices. Cuba’s were off:red at 7.28, duty paid, but no saies were reported. London, Feb. sith.—lt is believed in many quarters that the tate of the Coun- il of Ambassadors is trembiing in rhe balance. Lord Crew~e, the Ambassador to Paris, has returned to London to con- fer w7ith the Premier, Mr. MacDonald’s past utterances indicate that he regzards the Council of Ambass-dors as having outlived its usefuiness as a means of solving Xuropean disputes, believing it io be lacking in both vision ar d courage. Unless Lord Crewe 1s able to convert him, it is believed that the Premier will drop the counectl and seek a more radieal method of poodang Kuropeian nteliigence nad feeling upon such problems as the Ruhr and reparations. HAUGHTY SERVANTS AGAIN REASONAERELE., One effect of the widespread unem- ployment “in England is the soluton of the servant problem- at least teiaiporarvi- ly. During the war when women took jobs in factories servants became very scarce and independent.. Now there are long lines of housemaids and cooks waiting at ali emplovment buresdus ready to take work on reasonable terms. The wife 3f Sir Avthur Coran Doyle, author, spivitualist and lecturer, started a npow style by engaging men as house ser.- ants. the hasa “parivr man,’a’ house. man’ and a “'be'ween man, and declare s the new system and not only aids the unempoyed but is very catisfactory to the empioyer. The Pa'hfinder. TEE EDITOR AND THE EGG. The editor o° the B riiner Tageblatt was hauled into court and fined for quot- ing egges in his paper at 150 billion marks each, thus "‘artempting to raise prices artificially.”’ He was told that the government had fixed the price at 130 billlen marks each, and when he testified that his representatives had tried to get them at the governmen: price but that the dealers refused 1o part with them for less than 150 billyon marks h 2 was informed that that made no diflerence. —lbhid. STATESMEN FINALLY PARDONED. King Boris with the consent of Parlia. ment granied an amnesty to the 24 for mer cabinet members who had been he in prison for years as responsible for Bulgarii’s entry into the second BEal. kan war, and irto the World war on the side of !ht-‘ contral powers. Pl men were charged with responsibility by a popular referendum and during |, agrarian rule headed by Premier Stan - bulivski they were frequently threaten ed with execution. Permission was al- so ‘granted to former King Ferdinand to return to Bulgaria, from which he flad after his abdicaiion in 1918. He decleared he wished to end his days in the country us a privaie citizen,—Jbid. NEW PAPER MONEY ISSUED The banks throughout the country have just received their first consign- ment of new paper money. According to the new plan ail bilis of the same de- nomination will look alike. whether they are gold certificates,silver certificates fed- eral reserve notes or national bank notes. The object 1s to make it as difficult ss possible to counterfeit bills by raisiny the denomination All $1 bills will have the picture of Washington on them, while the fives wiii hav.: a portrait of Lin- coln.—lbid.