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'That very man was chosen, Much to his own surprise, To scramble through the brambles And put the others wise. But when he saw the job it was, With all his might und main He jumped into retirement-- And never kicked again. McCall Patterns The Best Way to Buy Let it be made known that business done in a business way is the main factor in our lives, and no other medium can compare with' advertising, The wide-awake business man will have his name before the public; while the other fellow will keep his behind the board fence, which is a very poor sample of efficiency in gray matter. If » man says, "Well, T have nothing to sell," -- what is the man in business for? If he sereens on it and keep it under a bushel and sleep with it. Let it be known fur- ther that the people in this community have opened their eyes to the better way of buying, ie, by perusing the ads. in the paper, where they can see what they require and when they want it and just how miuch it is going to cost them sensible and true to the needs of the mo- ment give that satis- faction and confi- dence to the wearer which distinguish the well-dressed. Satisfaction is a re- "liance based on cer- tainty, and Emerson truly said, "Being well-dressed confers a satisfaction: to a woman--which _re- ligion cannot give." 'for This Month Now On Sale C. T. DEVLIN, Barrie: Dealer has nothing to sell, be is better to put the| Influenza's Toll Though estimates of deaths over the whole world from any single epidemic are very difficult to form there seems to be rea- sonable grounds for believing that some 6,000,000 persons have perished of influen- za and pneumonia during the past twelve weeks, Business has been interfered with by the epidemic in every country in the |world, and enormous losses both in earn- ing power and in trade have been suffered. 'The cost of the "influenza war" cannot be reckoned, but that it is colossal does not admit of doubt This plague, then, generally regarded with equanimity, is, it would seem, five times more deadly than war, It has been estima- ted that the war caused the death of 20,- 000,000 persons in four and # half years. In the same period at its epidemic rate in- | fluenza would have killed '108,000,000. |The visits of the raiding Gothas to London |were but as @ summer shower compared with the deluge of germs which we have just received. The air caids cost London some hundreds of lives; the influenza has cost it upwards of 10,000. Never since the Black Death has such a | plague swept over the face of the world; |never, perhaps, has a plague been more |stoically accepted. In India alone over 3,000,000 deaths occurred. Bombay had 15,000 of these; Delhi, with a population | of only 200,000 had 800 deaths « day. The Punjab lost 250,000 persons, South Africa suffered no less' severely. In Cape Town 2,000 children were left destitute as 9 result of the disease, while the plague swept \through the native areas like fire | The Commonwealth of Australia sent a |ship to Samoa with help because the dis- jease was affecting 80 per cent. of the na- tives. The white populstion were only able to feed the living and bury the dead. In New Zealand public services were stopped and business gravely disorganized 'The ravages in America have been sppal- ling, nor has Canada escaped. 1 Ontario and the Western Provinces no fewer than 108 doctors died of the epidemic, while the total death rate in Ontario alone was 15,000 up to November. A large number of American Indians have perished. Europe us a whole has suffered in the same way In Spain the epidemic was described as "truly awful". In Barcelona the desth rate was credibly stated to be 1,200 daily France has bad her share, likewise Germany and Australia--"The Times," London Chamber of Commerce Council Chambers, Collingwood, on Fri- day evening to hear the inside story of a Chamber of Commerce. The speaker of the evening was General T. C. Foster, of the American City Bureau. In a clear and in- teresting way he outlined the functions of the Chamber of Commerce such as his Buresu has established in two bundred cities of the United States, also 8 number in Ontario, where London, Sarnis snd Brantford have completed organization and |Guelph, Stratford and Petrolia ure under | way | The General explained the method pur. sued in carrying on fhe work, the plans fol- lowed to create good citizenship und the principles which it was uimed to inculeate in the community The underlying principles of the organi: zution, he suid are To create lendership To create an atmosphere of progress in community To create an atmosphere of service. To creute un wtmosphere of appreciation Turmng to the modus operandi Genera! Foster said that if the meeting decided in |favor of forming a Chamber of Commerce it would be necessary to appoint 8 nomina- ting committee to choose canvassing teams who would prosecute # vigorous campaign for members, When the campaign closed a complete list of the members would be made up and the election of a Board of Directors proceeded with. This Board of Directors usually consists of twelve per: |sons und they are elected in a most demo: loratie way. Each member ix given a ballot and he writes on this ballot the names of titelve persons selected from the member- ship list who he thinks would make suit- uble' directors. The ballots are counted and the names of twenty-four who have re- ceived the highest number of votes are placed on a second ballot and voted on again. The twelve highest on the second vote will be directors for the year. After the organization is completed program is drawn up in the following man- ner, Each member is given a card on which questions are asked, such as, (11 What improvement in the town of : would most benefit you personally? (2) What improvement in the town, do you think, would be of most general benefit? From these answers the most suitable sug- estions will be selected and these will con- stitute the program to begin with. The members will then be divided into com- mittees and each committee put to work in gome phase of the program. Things to Remember Following the famous sales at Christ last year when jewels and precious bi of art were. auctioned for the benefit of whe Red Cross, there was inaugurated the iden of collecting pearls for the most precious necklaceof all. Princess Victoria undertook the work of collecting aided by the public- spirited women of the Empire. Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary and all the ladies of the Royal Family contributed their choi- cest pearls and the string grew to almost unwieldy length. The Countess of Norbury gave the clasp consisting of a huge rose diamond-rugrounded by, smaller stones ing The sighit the armistice came at sbout the ti the 'string was completed. On December 19 the necklace was sold to a firm of well-known jewellers for £22,000, the money going to the British Red Cross. 'Those interested in Baby Welfare in Great Britain, the women who inaugurated the Children's Jewel Fund, conducted a Doll's Fete just before Christmas and re- ceived many' notable contributions. Queen Alexandra sent a doll dressed in the Welsh costume. A note accompanying the gift jwas from Queen Alexandra herself and gave 8 short history of the doll. It turned out that the gift was associated in a pecu- liarly personal way with the Royal house- hold, When, as. Princess of Wales, Queen Alexandra visited' Wales with the Prince, 'this-dpll was presented to her. Every one had played with the doll ' 'upon it their childish affec- Queen Mary gave a besutiful wax doll dresped just: as Princess Mary was dressed when-she was a little girl wearing » dainty white frock of the finest material and simplest fashion and a pretty blue bow in its golden hair. About fifty of the citizens gatbered in the |. THE BARRIE EXAMINER ! For spring cleaning N Splendid for sinks Yate Me le-Tis (1) Banff Springs Hote). HIRTY-FIVE years .s three and) | jand smoked and steamed for a half decades and a great deal might happen during that time. In fact, one might grow irom & tooth. less, mumbling family pride into a white hope and a nation's pride, or one might grow from a white hope or @ nation's pride into a toothie mumbling civic burden. what happens there are changes, the few things remaining unaltered being the mountains, the ocean, the deep blue sky. Forests wither and burn and draw' in their borders, fences and grain fields are now where the wild lands rolled, towns and cities flourish wher- the antelope and the mile-deer used fear- lessly to slake their thirst, Mountains, having the broader per- spective, see the greatest changes, and and the mountains of Banff could tell much {f they would talk. Forty years ago they looked down on the primeval orests of their' lower slopes and valleys, traversed some- times by red men, sometimes by pioneer whites. 'Thirty-five years ago they sa" the C. P R. gangs siretching the first steel threads which binds the Pacific to the Atlan- tie and have opened the land for the coming millions. The white men lived In the oren. In tents, in dug onts and log cabins. they ate of the rudest tare, and tl jewed @ way for the following hordes who brought with every new contingent. new comforts and new developments Up on the slopes of Sulphur Moun- FORT SOAP @ TORS Sr All grocers Z Thursday, March 13,1919 Sea W \ AT NvvanctAVAAATAUAAAULA all T . "fj Ask for em Comer-\0 (2) The swimming pool at Banff Springs Hotel tain the sulphur springs ba.. rippled. cen turies, known only to the wild ani- mals and natives, but when the rail- way steel was put down white men} came and saw the commercial ross: | bilities of the medicinal waters. One! of these earliest pioneers decided to be forenanded and obta'n possession On the northeast side of Sulphur Mountain, where the sulph ir bubbled and a wondrous cave of gloomy poole and stalactites promised attractions for future tourists he erected & stall Jog but and placarded it with » rough- ly planed board branded "hotel" in letters of charcoal. Consequently, while waiting for the rush of tourists he fed and vathed stray rallroaders trappers, gules and prospectors. He was a free and easy landlord, i* there was room on his floor they could sleep under hir roof, if there was flour in the sack and bacon tho nail they could eat. They what they thought was right. This was the first hotel In Banff park. The governmeft, realizing for the first time the great poss{bilities of the moutains, streams, and medicinal springs of Banff .ecided that it! should be reserved as a national play- ground and health resort for <1 Can- ada and the world. The squatter who had hoped to retain the medi. cinal springs for Lis own profit. wae consequently bitterly disappoin' He took up other work and the "hote) drooped in decay. Wood lice. ants; mountain rats, bears, and moun- tain storms soon wiped out tne struo ture. To-day there is modern housing in the big Canadian resort for three or four thousand transients. The peo- ples of the world visit the sprigs. the caves, the fishing and bunting grounds. They live in the hoteis and go away satisfied witb the comforts provided. In the early days four walls and a roof were comfort, to- day bellboys, elevators, waitre.ves, servants, fine linen, baths, architec- tural marvels are necessities. Roman baths, foodstuffs from the distant parts of the earth take the plac» of the muddy pools and the flour and bacon of pioneer days. The first boni- face of Banff built his hostelry from timbers: which grew on the moun- tains; the great C. P, R. hotel in Banff went déeper and builded from the very stones that underisid the soll which fed those timbers. Tal and grey as the very cliffs the: selves the vig structure looms up in castellated grandeur, not ever seem- ingly pigmatized by contrast with the mighty precipices. Eight guests would nav. strained the accommodations of the first log hotel, elght hundred is not too many for this one great 'uilding which now stands and overlooks the valley of the Bow. As one will admit changes come with the years, though the mountains still stant as they stood when Rome burred afé Nero played--L.V-Ko @ f