4 PREPARING FOR 1918 CONVENTION Being Made to Accommodate 15,000 C. E. Delegates Pennsylvania Endeavorers are al ready planning for the big State con vention to bo held in Philadelphia, in July, 191$. President Bert E. Ru dolph, of the Philadelphia Christian Endeavor Union, and his large corps cf officers are looking forward with the anticipation of entertaining be tween 15,000 and 17,000 delegates. Endeavorers will be pleased to learn that the work In Philadelphia lias been going along splendidly. Walter M. Causland, a live wire j vorkcr. says: "We feel in the union j the impetus of the convention. Al-! ready the awakened interest of our ' delegates has borne fruit: all 'bf the) seven branches are reporting larger | attendances and greater interest at, their rallies: and the branch in their' Union workers are feeling In their lives that power that comes only through prayer. The increased Inter est is not mere temporary or super ficial excitement; it is a genuine, deeply-rooted enthusiasm that, I am pure, will work up to the Philadel phia convention as a great and won derful climax." Endeavorers of this city and coun- GO AFTER THAT 51 TROUBLE WITH POSLAM Those Pimples may be easily ban ished. It may not be necessary long er to endure that Rash. There may be no need for Eczema's awful itching to cause you distress —try Poslam. Foslam is safe. It is able to bet ter your skin's condition. It is ready Trlie'u you are. Once see its work. You will never think of using anything else to heal your skin. Sold everywhere. For free sample write to Emergency 'Laboratories, 243 "West 47th St., New York City. I'rse your skin to become clearer, fairer, healthier hy the use of Pos lam Soap, the tonic soap for the skin, i j Kidneys Retain Poisons Whenever"the excretory product of j the kidneys is not promptly and nat- | tfrally passed, you may be absolutely! sure you are retaining vile poisons in l your system. This fact is manifested | by terrible headaches and backache; j by dizziness, dry, harsh skin, fever and chills; by failure to Void the'poi sons although the desire is strong; by Irritated condition of the passage, etc. If you will take a great physi cian's prescription, to-wit: you will relieve your system of the | poisons, allay irritation, restore nor- I mal and natural urination, and get on the *nifck > ROAD TO HEALTH! Sold by all druggists. J Everyone Should j 1 Drink Hot Water in the Morning Wash away all the stomach, liver, and bowel poisons before breakfast. To feel your best day in and day | but, to feel clean inside; no sour bile | to coat your tongue and sicken your breath or dull your head; no consti pation, bilious attacks, sick head ache, colds, rheumatism or gassy, acid stomach, you must bathe on the inside like you bathe outside. This ! Is vastly more important, because the skin pores do not absorb Impuri ties into the blood, while the bowel pores do, says a well-known physi cian. To keep these poisons and' toxins well flushed from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, drink before breakfast each day, a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of lime stone phosphate In it. This will cleanse, purify and freshen the entire alimentary tract, before putting more food into the stomach. Get a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from your pharmacist. It is inexpensive and almost tasteless, except a sourish twinge which is not unpleasant. Drink phosphated hot water every morning to rid your sys tem of these vile poisons and toxins; ft.lso to prevent their formation. To feel like young folks feel; like you felt before your blood, nerves and muscles became saturated with an accumulation of body poisons, be gin this treatment and above all, keep it up! As soap and hot water act on the skin, cleansing,sweetening and purifying.so limestone phosphate and hot water before breakfast, act on the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels.—Adv. Ambition Pills For Nervous People ________ The great nerve tonic —the famous Wendell's Ambition Pills—that will vigor, vim and vitality into ner vous tired out, all in, despondent people In a few days. Anyone can buy a box for only BO tents, and 11. C. Kennedy Is author ized by the makef trf refund the pur chase price if anyone Is dissatisfied ■with the first bo* purchased. Thousands praise them for general ' debility, nervous prostration, mental i depression and unstrung nerves i caused by over-indulgence In aleohol, tobacco, or overwork of any kind. For any affliction of the nervous j System Wendell's Ambition fills are j pnsurpossed, while for hysteria, trembling and neuralgia they are j simply splendid, Fifty cents at H, C, ; Kennedy and dealer* everywhere, | Mail orders |llleo were ail the rest, When the Bun goes down and the moon comes up, The orchestrat did shine. . The Harrisburg Christian Endeav. or Choral Union will continue to shine during tlio coming year, The Illustrated lecture given in the Central High school last even ing under the auspices of the Senior and Intermediate C. E. Societies of the Immanuel Presbyterian church, was very interesting and entertaining. Miss Elsie I. Sliultz knows how to entertain and the selections rendered by the Mandolin club v.ere highly ap preciated. Mrs. John German sang several high-class selections. "Fellowship With God," will be the topic for discussion at the services on Sunday evening. J. Llvlngton will have charge of the C. E. services in the St. Paul's -Lutheran Church, New Cumberland, on Sunday evening. Field Secretary Dewar, of the Manitoba C. E. Union, will soon Join the British forces in France. At the First Church of God, New Cumberland. Jacob Baker will lead the C. E. services Sunday evening. A Congregational church in Michi gan, being without a pastor, would have been closed if the Endeavorers had not'kept things running. Ira Shell will have charge of the services at the Trinity United Breth ren C. E. Society, New Cumberland, on Sunday evening. The failure of street cars did not balk seventy Massachusetts Endeav orers on their way to a union social; they walked three miles there and three miles back. At the Harris Street K. L. C. E. meeting. United Evangelical Church, Miss Lydia Kutz will have charge of the services. Twenty-six young men in Davidson College. N. C., have formed a class to study "Expert Endeavor." The Rev. H. Nelson Bassler will conduct the C. E. services on Sunday evening at the Second Reformed Society. Nearly one hundred Endeavorers became life-work recruits t the last Manitoba convention. Miss Miriam O. Carl will lead the services at the Derry Street United Brethren Society on Sunday evening. The national convention of Dis-1 ciples of Christ, has taken steps to ward active work in forming Junior j Christian Endeavor Societies. Mrs. Charles K. Curtis and Miss Grace McKelvey will have charge of j the C. E. services at the Park Street ■ United Evangelical Church on Sun- i day evening. At Zion Evangelical Lutheran j Society, Enola, Miss Katnryn Famous I will lead on Sunday evening. Willard Williams will conduct the C. E. services at the Christ Lutheran ! Society on Sunday. r The Scranton C. E. Union was the only organization, out of 1,000 appli cants, that was granted the privilege > of holding a mass meeting on the public square, during the recent semi-centennial week celebration. This religious mass meeting was held on Sunday afternoon, and opened the week's festivities. Endeavorers of the First Church of God, New Cumberland, are doing active service. The society is Increas ing In membership and interest. The officers are as follows: President, E. P. Conley; vice president, E. B. Ep ley; secretary, Mrs. N. R. Bair: as sistant secretary, Mrs. W. Z. Parthe more; treasurer, William Kohler; pianist. Miss Vera Bair; assistant pianist, Miss Alma P.air; Junior su perintendent, Mrs. Edward Flelsher. For the first time the Detroit union held an open-air sunrise service at Easter. About eight hundred En deavorers and friends attended. The meeting was a great Inspiration and success. A special meeting of the C. E. So ciety of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, will be held on Sunday even ing. Eafi person present will re ceive a souvenir. The following pro gram will be rendered: Hymn, pray er, anthem, "To Thee o Country;" lesson, address by A. S. Dellinger, duet. Misses Blumenstine, address by J. W. Fortenbaugh, benediction. NO HEADACHE OR NEURALGIA PAIN Get a 10 cent package of Dr. James' Headache Powders and don't suffer. When your head aches you simply must have relief or you will go wild. It's needless to suffer when you can take a remedy like Dr. James' Head ache Powders and relieve the pain and neuralgia at once. Send someone to the drug store now for a. dime package of Dr. James' Headache Powders. Don't suffer. In a few moments you will feel fine—head ache gone—no more neuralgia pain. —Adv. Not a Headache Since First Dose Feels Like a Different Man Since He Has Been Taking Tanlili- WAS ALL WORN' OUT "My stomach and kidneys had I been all out of whack for a, long! time," says George W. Bailey, a steel worker, of Bressler, Pa., near Ilar ristmrg, "and they had let the | poisons accumulate In my system i until I was completely run down i and felt tired out and miserable all the time." "I had headache after headache until it seemed as if my head was sore Inside and out and I felt miser able for a long tiiae after eating my meals." "But as soon as I started taking Tanlac I began to brace up. My head stopped aching and I haven't had a headache since. My stomach seemed to tone up because my ap petite got back on the Job and I could enjoy my meals again and I began to feel .stronger every day un til now I feel equal to anything." "Now I turn in at night and sleep like a log'until morning and wake lip feeling fresh and rested and ready to pitch Into my day's work," Tanlac, the famous reconstructive tonic, Is now being Introduced here at Gorgas' Drug Store, where the Tanlao man is meeting the people and explaining the merits of this master medicine, Tanlao is also sold In Carlisle at W, G, Stephens' Pharmacy; Eliza - bethtown, Albert W, <'ain: Greencas tle, Chan, B, Carlj Mlddlotown, Colin R, Ffew'rt Pharmacy; Waynfesboro, Olavence Croft's Pharmacy,—Adv, THE URION THAT MEANS STRENGTH Terse Comments on the Uniform Prayer Meeting Topic of tlio Young Peuplo's BocJotic*—Gliristlon Endeavor, Etc.—For May 131 "Fellowship Willi God."—Ps. 119:07-101 By WI I'M AM T. ELLIS AH of the Bible's truths are prac tical. So Is this one, perhaps the loftiest of them all. There are at least three essential means by which we And this mystical union with the Saviour, Which Is the Christian's highest goal. First of all we must havo the aid of the helping Spirit. He mukes Christ real to us and brings us near to Him. Without the. strong Spirit's assistance we can ' never realize union with Christ. The second means of abiding in Christ is through His word. There never has been a saint who has known the blessedness of communion without finding It through the Holy Scriptures. Through knowledge and obedience of the Lord's words we come to understand what it means to abide in Him. The third channel through which the blessing of union conies is prayer, in the'sacred silence of the prayer closet we learn to know and love Jesus as a familiar friend. He draws nigh to us as we draw night to Him. We cannot neg lect prayer, Bible study, and depend ence upon the Holy Spirit, if we woujd be united to Christ. • • • Out and out for Christ, in and In with Christ. • • • If we walk with Christ day by day we shall surely meet Him at His own table. • • • The disciples who get closest to Christ, and who live most constantly in the sunshine of His near presence, are those who have passed through the valley of self-surrender and who have there learned the secret of a submissive spirit. Jesus delights to walk with those whose hearts de clare. "Not my will, but thine, be done." • • "A missionary from India said: 'ln India I gave half an hour a day to prayer, but here I am so busy that I have to give two hours to prayer.'- Prayer-time is not wasted." We hat'e many needs in the Chris tian life, but the one need which in cludes all others is the need of Christ. Do we lack Joy? It comes by having more of Christ. Have we WORK AT HOME FOR ENGLISH VOLUNTEERS London, May 11.—There are 2,804 volunteers at work in this country under the national service plan start ed four months ago as a reply to Ger many's industrial conscription. These and other figures were given in Par liament the other day to show the progress made in putting everybody on work of national importance. The figures showed that there arc 11,826 volunteers who were still await ing replies from employers. A total of 16,000 volunteers had been offered to employers. The employers accepted 2,804, did not reply to 11,800, which left a balance of about 1,400 who were rejected or otherwise disposed x^f. Opponents of industrial service are elated over the showing thus made. They say that national service has been a failure in Germany. This is because there is such a wide and im passable gulf between military con scription and Industrial conscription. Forced military service, they point out, is easily applied, because raw ma terial is taken and quickly trained by one system of machinery. Any healthy young man can be turned into a soldier in quicker time, they say, than it takes to teach an officeljoy to copy letters. On the other hand, un der industrial conscription the critics point out the government has to train men to become farm workers, engi neers, shipwrights, miners, etc., and it has no organization for doing so. IRISH DON'T KNOW THE TIME OF DAY Dublin, May 11.—Ireland as a whole was utterly unprepared for the inau guration of the summertime clock this year. Last year Ireland had its own local time, and the difference between the newly-instituted summer time and the local time was only thirty-five minutes. But this summer the Irish clock already had been legally push ed forward to correspond with Green wich time; consequently noon to-day would have been only 10.35 a. m. be fore the two alterations. With the double change there is nothing like general agreement. The Irish are entirely at odds regarding the time of day. For some business purposes in the cities the new time has been accepted willy-nilly. Trains run by it and governemnt offices de mand it. Several privately and re ligiously-controlled schools also con form to it, but the commissioners of National Education have given half an hour's grace for the rollcall in national schools. In the farming communities a con siderable portion of the population is still going by the old-time schedule, on the ground that the earlier time disarranges farm work and the milk ing of cows. NEW MEXICAN RAILROAD Mexico City, May 11.—The new rail road between Durango and Canitas will be opened for traffic early in May. This road off a long distance in traffic between Mexico City and | Durango, which formerly was routed via Torreon. The road runs through a rich mining region and will shorten the distance from the Durango mines to the Aguas Calientes smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Com pany which is expected to resume op erations after a long period of Idle -1 ness with the next few weeks. PEAS AS SUBSTITUTES New Castle, England, May 11. Small dried peas called "carlins," or maple peas, are now uelng eaten as substitutes for potatoes in the north of England. They are cooked like marrowfat peas, soaked overnight and boiled for twenty-five minutes the next day. In early times "carlins" were eaten very generally on Carlln or Passion Sunday. They are light brown color outside and cream-color ed under the skin and sell for from eight to twelve cents a pound, much less than beans and peas, SHEEP HELD I P Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 11. Two million carcasses of frozen sheep are In cold storage In New Zealand, wait ing shipment but no vessel can b obtained, recently declared Premier Massey, of New Zealand, while on a visit here. By the end of May the number, he said, would be increased to three Rnd a half million carcasses and If shipping could be obtained New Zealand oould export this year f40,- 000,000 worth of dairy produce. SEED CORN SHORTAGE By Attoclated Prut Stockholm, May 11, —Sweden's I supply of sowing corn is reported to I be 200,000 tons short. need of power? It Is only our nee J of Christ. Is peace absent from our heart? The presence of Christ alone gives peace. Do wo want more love? We may have It by having more of Him whose other name Is Love. All the problems of religion, positively all. resolve themselves finally Into, this one supremo problem; How can more of Christ be brought In the be liever's .heart? We have everything when we have Him. • • • God does not give the Holy Spirit at one time In auch power that we can forever afterward dispense with its presence and purifying power. We must be renewed day by day In the i Inner man.—Anon. • • • The written word In the heart draws the heart to the Incarnate Word. • • • The Christian's is the happiest life, because it is lived In Him who is Joy incarnate. The other religions of the world are rollgions of penance, of fasting and of gloom, but tho Christian's strong confidence Is in the Sun of Righteousness, "in whose presence there is fullness of Joy." • • In prayer we speak to God. In si lence and meditation God speaks to us. But how can He speak if we do not give Him a chance? —R. P. An derson. • • • A life lived with God is a peaceful life. The old, old question, "Where can rest be found?" is answered in the presence of God. Peace, perfect peace, is the peculiar possession of those who have found pardon and protection with the Lord. Just as all the pictures that have ever been painted, and all the poems, and all the written or spoken descriptions, cannot make plain the beauty of a sunset, so no human words can re veal the sweet tranquillity wljlch is the precious possession of those who walk with the Lord. • • • A body cannot be in two places at the same time. Neither can a spirit. It is impossible for us to abide in worldliness, selfishness, and sin, and abide also in the fellowship of Christ. Woman's War Relief Will Sew Bandages at Enola Enola, Pa., May 11. —The local branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad Women's Division for War Relief will sew surgical bandages every Thursday afternoon at the Y. 11. C. A. beginning with next week. Re cently the Railroad, chapter was re organized and new provisions made I regarding the membership of the branch chapters. At present the lo cal chapter has but twenty members, the maximum under the old ruling, but under the new rules the branches can recruit any number ob tainable. Plans are now being worked out whereby the Enola wom en will wage an extensive member ship campaign, and men as well as women will be asked to Join. Next week Mrs. A. E. Buchanan, of Har risburg, will explain tho new duties of the members. HOLLAND-AMERICAN LINE lIEPORTS PROFITS Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 11.— So remunerative, albeit difficult and risky, was trans-Atlantic traffic in the past year that the Holland-American Line, which maintained the service between New York and Rotterdam, re ported a profit of $10,982,976. This is a new record, being an increase of nearly J1,900,000 on the 1915 total, which in its turn was more than three times as much as the profit obtained in\l9l4. Out of the sum mentioned the company proposes to distribute to shareholders $2,802,810, as a divi dend of 55 per cent., as compared with 50 per cent, for the previous year, $3,- 416,053 being devoted to writings-off and $3,400,000 reserved for the war profit tax. This policy is dictated by the uncertainty of the outlook. The company appears to have been fairly fortunate in the matter of losses, losing only the BloomersdiJk, off the American coast, on October 8 (for which Germany is to pay com pensation) and, since the financial year closed, two steamships among the six Dutch vessels destroyed by a German submarine off the Scilly Isles on February 22 last. TWO YEARS TO RESTORE FRENCH COAL FIELDS Paris, May 11.—It will take nearly two years to put the coal fields in tho neighborhood of Lens into work ing condition again after the de struction effected by the Germans there, according to Carlos Devian, head of one of the large coal-mining companies of that district. "The success of the British around Lens is of inestimable value to ! France," he said to-day. "We have been awaiting the return of this dis trict for a long time, and have pre pared all our measures so that there shall be no more delay than neces sary. The mines of Lens produce 4,- 000,000 tons of coal and 1,000,000 tons of coke yearly, but it is doubtful if this production can be reached again within two years. "Some of the shafts may be put in working order in a few months, how ever. The assistance of the United States will be a matter of vital Im portance to us in this work, for the Americans can furnish us quickly with the powerful machinery neces sary, which co".ld not be obtained in France for many months." CAPS IN ARMY j London, May 11. Ten thousand members of the poljce in England afnd Wales have joined the army and naVy. This has reduced the actual strength of the force to 28,802, many of whom will soon be taken Into the army. Spe cial constables have, to a large extent, made up for the reduced number of regular police, 121,908 having volun teered for police duty. This large j number includes constables for spe cial occasions such as Zeppelin raids, coast bombardments and other emer gencies. pi||||||||||||||j||iitiiMwimiiii|[|||||||||||iiliu* "Now Summers here I want my POST TOASTIES Christian Endeavor Leaders Are Enlisting For ' Production and Economy Mi\ny of the leaders of the Chris tian Endeavor with headquarters at Boston, havo enlisted In the great army of production and economy, which the President, the Governors of many Stutes. and the leading j newspapers tell us Is as Important an the army In khaki. The army of the 1 lioe and the spade la more neededj this than the army of the i sword and rifle. The following motto has been adopted: "More food pro duced and no waste in our country's! time of need." The Rev. Francis E. I Clark, D. D., will offer twenty dollars for the Christian Endeavor man or boy, girl or woman, who gets the largest results lrom a piece ol' ground twenty feet square (four hundred square feet): ten dollars for the one who gets the second largest results, and four other prizes of five dollars each for the next four. The same prizes he will offer for the six who obtain the largest results from an acre of ground. The cast value of the crops raised is to be reconed up by the first of November, according to the retail prices prevailing in llie New York produce market during tile four week in October. Each com petitor shall submit to the United Society of Christian Endeavor a written statement of the value of his produce, on or after November 1, 1917. This statement will be accept ed, as he will rely upon the accuracy and honesty of all Christian Endeav or recruits in this army. Dr. Howard B. Grose, Dr. Amos 11. 1 Wells. Dr. Daniel A. Poling, A. J. Shartle and J. J. Arakelyan have of fered twenty-five dollars each in prizes to the Endeavorers who raise the most valuable crop of corn, po tatoes, beans, tomatoes and cabbages, respectively (one kind of vegetable only for each competitor), on a piece of land four hundred square feet. WRINKLES Wrinkles disfigure, and a dry, sal low rough skin spoils any woman's good looks. To those whose skin has reached this condition we suggest the application of Usit, a pure nut oil, liquid preparation (not a cream or paste). It is the only thing that will feed the hungry, dry skin back to youthful smoothness, freshness, and plumpness, and drive away dis figuring wrinkles that come so quick ly when the skin Is not properly nourished. A few applications of Usit prove its worth, and in a reasonable time brings wonderful results. It is neces sary to apply it only at night when retiring. Gorgas, the druggist, or any first-class dealer can supply it. It is a splendid skin food, daintily perfumed, an# a fine treatment also for freckles, black-heads and many forms of eczema. —Adv. When Will the Stars and Stripes . Be Unfurled in France? When it comes to the question of an immediate expeditionary force to France, there seems to be a division of public opinion. Opponents of the idea argue that our trained soldiers are at present more needed here to train the new armies we are raising, and that for the moment our ships can ac complish more by taking food to our Allies. But the other view finds eloquent advocates among our press, and Washington dispatches seem to indicate that the administration has been converted to it by the arguments of the French Commission. Marshal Joffre addressing the American people through the correspondents urges us "to let the American soldier come now." In THE LITERARY DIGEST for May 12th, you will find all phases of the Government's war activity at Washington covered in an intelligible comprehensive way. The full force of public opinion as indicated by the newspaper press is presented in all its shades. Other articles of immediate interest in this number of THE DIGEST are: "What Can I Do To Serve My Country?" This Article Answers the Question For All, No Matter What Your Age or Condition The Cash-Register of Patriotism ) Birth-Control For Flies Rainbow Visions of the War's End Why Drinkers Drink Feeling the Mailed Fist Modern Shoes a Menace to Health Ireland a War Factor Ourselves as Posterity Will See Us Mr. Root as a Friend of Revolution The American "Camouflage" England Hard Hit by Submarines German Crimes Against Art Russia's Greatest Danger Too Dangerous For Us to Read What Will Latin-America Do? Steps In Russia's Religious Emancipation What One Charge of Gunpowder Means War-Perils For the Children The Best Illustrations, Including Cartoons "The Digest"—the Busy Man's Bible, the Doubting Man's Dictionary Those of us who are busy, and which of us is not in of the news not merely from a single paper, which would these superstrenuous times, frequently sigh over the be to retain the. latter's viewpoint, but from a weekly arid wilderness of irrelevant information through which gleaning of all the worth-while publications of the world, we have to struggle in our daily papers in order to ob- recording the result without comment or partiality, tain those diamonds in a dust-'heap, the •items of vital adhering to no view-point but reporting all. The facts news for which we are seeking. THE LITERARY of the day, focused from all points, are yours in "The DIGEST not only sifts the news, but derives its resume Digest." May 12th Number on Sale To-day—All News Dealers—lo Cents \TIT\X7Q A T in? Q ma y now °^ >ta * n copies of "The Literary Digest" from our local agent IN Hi W -LJ L/H/ Iv Cj j n their town, or where there is no agent, direct from the Publishers FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publisher! of the Famous NEW Standard NEW YORK ♦ Tills money is to bo divided Into four ! prizes, one of ten dollars and three of fivo dollars each, for each of the crops mentioned, the value of the crops to bo decided, as In the other cases; by the prices In the New York produce market In October. Two The Autocar l'A-2 Ton Truck Used by More Than 4000 Concerns Adams Express Company Owns 150 Autocars YOU can now see The Autocar right in Harrisburg— we have been appointed dealer by The Autocar Com pany, of Ardmore, Pa. The Autocar is being used by thousands of concerns in every line of business—express companies, merchants, manufacturers, coal dealers, contractors. 4 We keep a full stock of Autocar repair parts and are ready to render complete after-sale service to Autocar users. Write for Catalog Showing Autocar Vsers or Call on EUREKA WAGON WORKS, Harrisburg, Pa. hundred other prizes of one dollar onch will be given to those who send In tho best records, though they may not win thd furger sums. NIK JOHN HOWARD 1)10 AD Brighton, Kngland, May 11. Blr ' ' John Howard, a widely-known engi neer, who planned tha BpanUh-Amar lean oabla routa, 1* dead hart. Ha waa formerly mayor of thla aummar resort, and was a great benefaotor to tha town, hla last gift being twen ty-four cottage homes ror nurses, in memory of Miss Kdlth Cavell, who was executed by tha Oermant.