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Chairman. The Honorable 4th Member | for Christiansted Country District has | niever raised sugar care con the islard so | he doesn’t know what he is talking | about. Apparently he does not know | that we have a Federal Income Tax, a | L AhE which is considered too Leavy in the United States. The Export Duty on | sugar is £B.OO per ton, a tax about 10% | on sugar. I would like to know where | ir the United States there isa tex of | 10% on the gioss receipts of any kind | of produce. | To be continued. LOCAL t The s. s. Brideetown arrived at this | pourt en Saturday noon, ard seciled again | yesterd:y morning. i There has been excellent rainfall all Caturdsy, and yesterday and tecey | cpens with premises of more. The fort | records 53 lines for yesterdey only, and | g lines at Kingshill. : The stezmchip Guiara for New York | is expected tomorrow morning at Fred- | eriksted. Mails close in this own at 4 p. m. today : Mr. B. R. Larsen tells us that he has ! just lost his dog through poisoring. Tut had walloped a couple ¢f curs in the | neighbourhood recently and gained the illwill of these vile gentry in our town who poison dogs with a criminal and malicious impt nity for which they cught to be boiled in oil if we only knew them and had the authority. As though to upheld the uncanny su- perstition accredited to King Tut, Wil- iiam Petersen, portev at Clindinen’s, was mysteriously deprived of his purse con- taining SI.BO on Saturday nighi. Willie who has been a sort of hereditary under- tuker for Mr. Larsen’s dogs had left this money representing his houserent on a table in his room where alight was burn- ing. Afrer burying Tutankhamen Satur- day night he returned home to find his house in darkness and money gone. This is an extraordinarily low piece of dis- s honesty, the relieving of a pocr man o° bis honest earnings which he nceds. The thief ought to be ashamed of himself and make gcod. As a testimony of the respect in which the memory of the late ex-Pres:dent Nilson is held the President of the United States has by Proclamation of February 3rd ordered that the flags on the White House and departmental buildings be put at half mast for 30 days. This order has been extended by the Postmaster-Gereral to the post office department and all United States post effices. "1 L 21> OFFICIAL NOTES. B e— e His Excellency, the Governor has ap- pointed Lieutenant Alifred B. Clarke, Supply Corps, Ilnited States Navy, as Assistant Government Secretary and Collector of Internal Revenue for the Virgin Islands of the United States, ef- fective Monday, February 11, 1924, =s the reiief of Lieutenant Robert J. Mon- teith, Supply Corps, United States Navy, who will be returning to the United States the latter part of this month. Correspondence To th: Elditor of the St. Croix Avis. Dear Sir, I read an article published in your issue of Saturday, 16th ebruarv, 1924, signed ‘'One who was present.’”’ Now, in my opinion you huave only got a little tip and not what did really take place, as was said. WellI won’t say very much, bnt much more was said than what is published. If tnen are stating something for this ecommunity and the outside world to read of our af- fairs, then come with it right; don’t eat cr drink half and say you are =ayirg what did actually happen. 1 wen’t say mere on this oceasion. Thanking you for space, I am, W. S. ABRANSON. Christiansted, 18th leb. 1923. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION, Luxor, Feb. 12th.—[l'he greatest dis- covery in ine discovery of Egyptelogy and many colaim in arehaeology, was made this afternoon in the sepuhchral chamber of Tutankhamen, in the Valley of the Kings. In the presence of a aoathering represeniing the elie of Kaypt- ology the lid of King Tutankhamen’s great pint Sarcophauzius was raisad and a stupendously magnificent mummy case, covered with plates of solid god, was broucht to light, The myment was the most dramatiec in the history of tha dra natic discovery of Tu ankhamzn’s tomb. Dy general consent of those present the mummy case which induti- ably enclosed the King’'s:mortal remains immeasurably surpasses in splendour and beauty even the previcus magunificent treasures the exeavators in this tomb have brought to light., The mummy case is perfectly intact. It is discribed as one of the most wonderful things of its kind that ever has been found. 7The Pharaoh is represented in high relief, covered with sheets of go'd more than twice life size, his serene and beautiful face ex- quisitely incised, with glittering eyes of aragonite and a long upcurvsd beard of solid gold. The flail ard sceptre which the King grasp in his crcssed hands are gilded wcod more than three feet long. From the waist down, the broad wings of protective godd-sses meet across the knee to shie.d the Pharaoh from danger. When the lid was raised the mummy case was found to be three thicknesses of linen, browned with age. This linen, when rolled up, disclosed to the bewildered eyes of the excavators as one of those present told a ecorrespon- den:, ‘“‘a glowing golden man’’ The mummy case stands on a coflin, on what seems to bea wooden sleich on which doubtless priests dragged it to the Valley of the Kings, The Kirg was shown wearing the "‘nets’’ or folded headdress s22n on th2 Sphinx and in the centre of which, in lapis- laxuli was the sacred ur- aeus or cobra, side by side §with a hawle head. Framed in the golden f{olds o, the winglike headdress, Tut’s face ap- peared. It was wistful, beautiful boyish face which is seen =0 oftenin the hun:- ing scenes adorning h s ehariots, his bow; his Woxes and his chairs, with gleaming eyes of argonite strangely and really lifelike and slender finely curved nose and exquis:tely carved sensative mouth and a chair adorned with the traditional beard. Beneath the crossed arms, down the front of the case runs the traditional prayer for the King, together with his two now familiar cartouches, one with the name of Tutankhamen and the other with his official title Rakhepeuneb. ‘The only blemish oa the goldea sheet of the mummy case is that the feet are biack as though bitumen had stain- ed them. Contrary to expectations. no wreaths were found, barring a pathetic little chaplet of discolored ard withered flowers encircling the uraeus and tle hawks head in iront of the roval head- dress, As far as firesh discoveries are concerned this vears work 'n this toub oi lutankhamen hos been completed, London, Feb. l4thi--ihe Lord Mayor has issued an ap; eul on Lbehelf of the population of the Highlands of Seotland, who have been reduced to destitution by the tailure of the tharvest. The popula- tion of the Hebrides, the appeal states, have been snilerine for some time, a dis- tress unparalleled for sevirity in the mem- ory of the present generati o ar dare now approaching the cl.max of theirordeal, Moscow, Feb., 13ih.— Maxin Litvinoft Minister of Foreign Affuirs in connec- tion with the reeent action of Great Bri- tain and Italy in recognizing the Soviet as the de jure Government in Russia and today’s announcement that Norway also had accorded the Government fuil recognition, gave an interview to the newspaper correspondents here. M. Litvinoff outlined the general principle that the Soviet Government would re- fuse to sign any comm-recial treaties wiih countries prior to their de jure recognition, ot Russia. Geneva, leb. 14th—A plan has been inaugurated ro rename as ‘Cuai Wilson’, the important section of the famous Quai Kount Biane, on which the Palace of the - League of Nations situated.