THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG averse aad Arab is aii dotiestuinatiidem an TUESDAY, MAY, 18, 1920. PAGE FOURTEEN SIR HENRY DRAYTON GIVES BUDGET SPEECH (Canadian Press Despatch.) Ottawa, May 13.---Sir Henry Drayton, minister of finance, presented | her from being his first budget to the housé to-day. Prior to stating his taxation pro- "posals, Sir Henry gave an extensive review of the financial and economic position of the dominion. Conditions obtaining all over the world, he said, | he. SAVED CHILD FROM COW | Which . Was About To Gore Her at | Phillipsville. ! Phillipsville, May 17--Harry Coon { went with a horse and buggy to the | back pasture to get a cow. and calf. | The seven year old daughter of Mr. | Best went with him. He put the calf | in the buggy but the child would not ride. She walked behind the cow, | whieh turned on her; caught-heron+ its horns and threw her into the.air. | Her cry drew Mr. Coon's notice and | reached the child just in time to save | gored by the cow | | which was just on the point of lifting | ber on its horns again. { | Mrs. Amanda Algin is in very poor | alth and there is no hope of her| were very different 'rom those which prevailed while the war was in| recovery. Hilton Warren has purchas- progress. The reduction of the nation's indebtedness, he stated, was the | ©d the Downey property first duty of the country, now that the war was won. tained, was not so severe as the obstacles overcome in the five years of war | A The task, he main- and will | | take possession immediately. | Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Eyre and Miss | manda Eyre, Chantry, and Mr. and | and stress, and would be "easy and simple," if Canadians could become Mrs. W. A. Brown and three daugh- as united and earnest as during the war period. Sir Henry sketched the progress of Canadian trade, showing that | the excess of exports over the import s had, within the past few years, been | pu reversed. He gave a series of tables showing a steady growth in the pro- duction of wheat and farm produce generally. Turning to the national debt, Sir Henry said that the gross debt amounted to $3,014,483,774 and less investments the net debt was Referring .to inflation in currency and credits, Sir | at $1,935,946,302. placed | ters of Patrick Fahey, were callers | at the home of W. B. Phelph. i Hilton Warren, blacksmith, has rchased the Doway property and | | will convert the waggon shop into a | blacksmith shop in the near future. | | Hillary Howard and daughter of! | Delta, called on E. A. and Mrs. Whit- | | more on Sunday. Alfred Elliott made a trip to! | ' oy Henry compared the note circulation in Canada with that in other coun- | Shins aay. Many of tries, showing that while in Great Britain there was an increase of 207 i | ! per cent. and sevenly per cent. in the U in Canada the increase in circulation was 104 per cent. nited States, during the war period The percentage of gold reserves to dominion and bank note circulation was forty-three . per cent. "Inflation," Sir Henry said, "can only be safely cured in this, as in other countries by the provincial governments stopping further loans and by all government institutions reducing the expenditure wherever possible, 2nd by an increase in production by all oir forms of productive industry." Only One Remedy for Adverse Exchange. Speaking of the adverse exchange rate between this co United States, the finance minister said : "U untry and the ndoubtedly the exchange rate is against the interests of our nation buying from the United States. It cannot be remedied by artificial means and only will be relieved when Canada's interchange of commodities with the United States is reduced to a more reasonable ratio." The revenue for the fiscal year would reach approximately 388 mil- lion dollars, the largest revenue Canada ever collected, he said. less than 255 millions greater than of the first year of the war. solidated fund ordinary expenditure 349 millions. It was no The con- for 1919-20 would be approximately Giving further statistics, Sir Henry stated that the total expenditure for the war, up to March 31st, 1920, amounted to $1,874,- 000,000, apart altogether from pensions, soldiers' civil re-edtablishment, land settlement, and interest on the war debt. The Late Cecil ¥ Cecil Sherwood, aged Aighteen, passed away at Barons, Alberta, on May 13th. The remains were brought to Kingston Monday night, and were sent to Inverary. The funeral! will take placé "from the residence of Thomas Sherwood, brother Qf the de- ceased, to-day. A Lad Passed Away. George William Setterington, aged five years four moaths, son of Sergt.- Major Setterington, R.C.H.A., passed away at Tete de Pont barracks on Monday night. The father, mather and two sisters survive. It Pays to Advertise. On Monday a citizen advertised in the Whig that he would like to buy a second-hand baby carriage. On Tues- day morning he called the Whig on the 'phiene and asked them to cancel the advertisement, as about twenty citizens, who were anxious to sell baby carriages, had called upon him. The Late Rev. 0. L. Kilborn, D.D. Rev. Dr. Omar L. Kilborn, Metho- dist missionary eof Chentu, China, died in Toronto on Tuesday morning, after an illness of pneumonia. Dr. Kilborn had spent the past twenty NAR nny years in China and was completing a furlough, intending to shortly re- turn to the Orient with his wife and two daughters, They. had visited in ngston recently. The deceased missionary was a brother of the late Dr. R. K. Kilborn, of Kingston, and was well known here. -------- Marine News. The Frontenae Construction Com- pPany's. dredge commenced pulling up the spirals along the pier at Richard- son's elevator this morning. Then the dredge is to be sent to pull up the spirals along the causeway. The motor boat Shibley arrived at Folger's wharf, Tuesday morning, with a large cargo of fish from bay ports. % The tug Mary P. Hall arrived with iXo barges from Montreal this morn- ng. The tugs Blue Bell and Consort left for Jones' Falls with building material for a cottage to be built for Mr. Nicolls, of Howe Island. « p---- The Symphony Concert. The big musical event of the sea- son will be the 'Kingston Symphony Orchestra Concert in the Grand Opera House, Wednesday, May 26th. Tre citizens should support this or- guaization to the full; a city that can boast of a symphony orchestra is in class A to the outside world, and every member should receive en- couragement from all lovers of musical art. ere fitting" up their planting grounds. | Mrs. M. Seed of Toronto, is staying | | with her father and mother, Rev. Mr. i | and Mrs. Chisholm for a few weeks. | | Mr. Chisholm is not in the best of | was at one .time considerable: un- | in favorable and rather uncalled for | | health. Harry Coon has purchased a| | new grey Dort. M. Myers has bought | {a new Chevrolet car. Mr. and Mrs. | | William Louhley of Toronto, are | | spending a week at the home of W.| B. Phelps. At Collins Bay. | _ Collins Bay, May 17.--Rev. E. R. | Kelly preached to a large congrega- jtion on Sunday evening. Hatold Clarke motored to Ottawa last week. | Mrs. G. F. Clark attended convoca- tion on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bell, Mrs. B Rose and Mrs. Mec- Donald and daughter spent Sunday at M. McDonald's, Kingston; Mr. and | Mrs. W. McFarlane and Mr. and Mrs. | Ewart McFarlane spent Sunday at David Baker's. .Mr. and Mrs. George | Ellerbeck visited friends in Harrow- {smith recently. R. L. Delong, Belle- | ville, and Dr. C. Wallbridge, of Hali- fax, spent a couple of days at L. A. Wagtman's. Mrs. W. E. Grass has re- turned after visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. Haycock, Adolphustown. Dr. Rankin, Brooklyn, N.Y., was at his summer home here last week. Miss Donelda Befrtrim has returned after spending the winter in Brooklyn, N.Y. Capt. and Mrs. Wightman, and family have arrived to spend the sum- mer with the latter's father, J. J. Lossee. Mr. and Mrs. John Frink at- tended the funeral of Mrs. Frink's sister-in-law, Mrs. D. Smith, in Odes- sa, on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nicholson, of St. Catharines, visited Mrs. B. Rose. There is to be a social evening in the Union church in the near future. . Township of Pittsburgh. May 10.--Council met at 11 am. Members all present. Minutes of last meeting read and adopted. Communi- cations: Provincial attendance officer re school attendance officer; John C. Hysop re damage to car; C. C. Adams, Kingston, re damage to car. Accounts passed: Fred Keeler, work, $20; Samuel Woods, work, $5; Jas. Sowards, wood for hall, $11.50; Lorne Thompson, work, $6; Frank Johnston, work, $5.10; clerk's ac- count, salary, $25; postage, $3: Utilities Commission, light for hall, $1.72; P. Hogan, work, $18; trea- surer's account, salary, postage, etc., $56.93. Adjourned until Monday, June 7th. . - Want to Keep Pigs. At the last meeting of the Belle- HANDSOME BUILDINGS. 0 A Few Facts That All Canadians Should Know. Te Owing to the fact that the tower o| of the new Parliament Buildings has not . yet been constructed; the tem- porary main entrance to the House { of Commons is at the western end | of the building. The walls are lined with tyndall limestone which was quarried in' Manitoba and brought from there to Ottawa in huge blocks. The surface has been tooled or '"'crandalled," giving it a very effective appearance; 'the stone is gray with a slightly creamish tint, thus taking away from the coldness of a stone interior. Intricate pat- terns made of thousands. of fossils are traced and in some cases a per- fect section of a shell can be seen, presenting the curves of an lonle capital or part of the vertebra of some prehistoric animal. Because the building was commenced during the war (1916) it wak impossible to ob- tain the well-known Belgian black marble, but a satisfactory substitute was found. in the Province of Quebec where, before the war, very little of this marble had been quarried. The marble stairway in the foreground leads up to the House of Commons lobby or rotunda. The supporting arches to the floor above form a clois~ ter while the ceiling is plerced ahd openéd to the daylight. Where the arches spring from the piers they are decorated with carved bosses which take the form of caricatures of states- men of the past and present. There criticism of these "gargoyles." On the arch facing the main door to the | Commons Chamber is a carved head of Sir Robert Borden and facing him is the '"'gargoyle" of Laurier. The doors opening into the various rooms from here are oak ornamented with linen fold panelling. The Bald Eagle. Extinction imminently threatens the "American" or bald eagle, one of the most beautiful and magnificent of birds. And by a curious irony the destruction is being accomplished at public 'expense, as provided in the bounty law passed by the Territorial Legislature of Alaska on April 30, 1917. The bald eagle has never been an abundant species. Estimates of iis numbers have generally been greatly exaggerated. It is only on the basis of the occupied nests that /its real numbers--or rather its real scarcity --can be estimated. Computations based on observations of the birds themselves are obviously unreliable. For, ' conspicuous by its size and habits, it is very apt to attract con- siderable attention, and the same in-. dividuals are doubtless seen again and again. The only region where the bald eagle has maintained encouraging numbers has been the coastal region and large river valleys of Alaska and Northwestern Canada. Here it did breed in numbers surprisingly large for a bird of its 'size. But the Alas- kan bounty law, which provides for the payment of fifty cents for each eagle destroyed, although it went in- to effect only on April 30, 1917, had al by April 10, 1919, resulted in the killing of 5,600 eagles. More- over, the bounty seekers have un- doubtedly met confined their depre- dations to Alaskan territory, but have extended them into' the British pro- vinces adjoining "Alaska. It is possible that by this time more than one-half---perhaps more than three-quarters -- of the entire species have already been sacrificed. If action is to be taken it must be | at once. For protection, to be effec- | tive, must come not merely before the species has been annihilated but | before it has been so reduced as to suffer the weakening effect of in- | breeding or the failure of the scat- | tered individuals to find each other ! and raise young. y In view of all that is known b ville city council a motion. to allow pigs to be generally kept in the city | was voted down." A petition largely | signed is in circulation asking the | council to reconsider the proposition. | mmm | naturalists of the habits of this in- | offensive bird, the hostility to .the eagle in Alaska is based rather on | misinformation»and ignorant preju- | dice than on any real damage done by the birds. The tales of its ferocity 'HE PLEADED GUILTY TO STEALING LETTERS Frederick Such, R.C.H.A., Re- | manded for Sentence in Police Court. Frederick Such, aged eighteen Years, a member of the Royal Can- | jadian Horse Ar IEa-EBd police court {ing to stealing letters and money | {from the mail box at the Royal Mili- | | tary College, and was remanded for | sentence until Thursday | The accused was attached fo the Royal Military College. i | Major Greenwood, of the staff at {the college, who was present to pro- | | secute, stated that the accused took {the letters from the mail box, and |after removing money which was jcontainéd in them, he destroyed | them. | It is very fikely that the military | authorities will ask that the young | man be shown leniency. On Tuesday morning, when the chief of police Was in conversation with the accused, | he acknowledged that he had taken a | letter containing money, as well as money orders and cheques. He said he had used the money but destroyed {all money orders and cheques. He i has offered@®» make restitution of the | money he took. 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The back of his lot is near an inlet from 'the Rideau Canal. He first set the trap, think- ing there were house rats in the basement of his residence, and was surprised to find the muskrat the wo '|next morning. He consulted the game warden, and took out a trap- per's license. He continued to catch a fur-bearer each night until he had thirteen. . --ee---- As the holiday for Kingston 1s to be June 3rd, the Whig has decided to 3 publish as usual on May 24th. This day is a bank and school holiday, but otherwise it is not likely to be ob-: served in Kingston. : gratefully received. without giving to them. for what it is given witho Now people of Kingston GIVE to your Local Work. Do you know that Two Tho last winter in Kingston. Help GIVE Make The Salvation Army's World Wide Jubilee Self Denial You are asked to help the Salvation Army in their appeal for their World-Wide Work for Humanity. Kingston is asked to GIVE and then GIVE Collectors will be at your door this week. Don't The Salvation Army can use your money ut any overhead charges. usand Dollars was spent in Relief to carry on. Your donation will be checks payable to:-- "SALVATION ARMY, KINGSTON." GIVE turn them away x | and destructiveness to game of do- | mestic animals are for the greater | part pure fiction, for the rest usually | gross exaggerations. ' "P.O | A pastor tells of a young candidate | tor the ministry who called upon him. | "Why do you want to preach?" asked { "I feel called of | God," was the answer. "What makes | you think you are called?" "I felt it | and my mother told me so. She said I was cut out to be either a minister | or an undertaker." "In choosing the | ministry you are making a great fin- ancial sacrifice," the doctor amswer- | ed, He tells of another student who | declared that he beheld in a vision the letiers "'P.C." and that these let- | ters sfood for "Preach Christ." This | young man came from a farm in the Middle West, where harvest hands | | were sorely needed. "I think you | have made a mistake," sald the | church official whose counsel he had sought. "Those letters undoubtedly stood for 'Plant Corn'." the clergyman. Soon Be Here Columbia Dance Records, as they are ; Played on the Columbia Grafopola, give you right rhythm and ample volume to dance outdoors wherever you want. The dances you get on Columbia Rec- ords are ali those that have stood the test in this country's most famous cabarets where dance enthusiasts gather by thou- sands. Come in and test them for yourself, »y How He Told It. The atmosphere of the smoking | car lent itself to reminiscence, says | a correspondent. "Captain," asked the hardware . "would you mind telling me how you lost your arm?" "Not at #1], not at all," re- plied the bronzed officer with the empty sleeve. ed this way: We were due another turn in Be gnches the next day, so they were giving a dance for us that night 20,000,000 omes, Razor own brings only ving. ; the cost of shaving. increases are in Comfort and 'Sha BRR Get a Grafonola for Victoria : Day. Grafonolas $37.50 up. Records $1 to $3, ene sd Hogan--Phwat's become av Pat? Grogan--The poor fellow mistook an auto horn for the noo whistle an' stopped work crossing the strate. A Peaceful Oval Settlement. - Washington, May 18.--A wsettle- ment, of the controversy over increas- ed SE ontr of anthracite coal h has extended EE