Letters From the Front | • , HARRISBURG BOY FINDS LIFE IN FRANCE INTERESTING A letter Just received from George Erb, a member of the Bell Telephone Signal Corps, who left for France in August, contains much interesting de scription and narration for those who expect to go to France to serve their country. The letter follows: On Active Service With the American Expeditionary Forces 'Somewhere in France August 24, 1917. Dear Frank: Well, here we are, you know you can't keep a good man down, so when Uncle Sam decided to send us over, there was nothing to it. The Atlan tic Ocean and Fritz's "tin fish" didn t scare us a rap, consequently "yours truly" and his outfit are camping "somewhere" in France. Our days of watchful waiting ut the training camp were finally re warded with the announcement one evening that we were to pack and get ready to leave the next morning. We had breakfast the next morning at 3 o'clock and at 4 shouldered our kits and hiked for the station. Here we boarded the train for our port of sailing. On arriving we immediately went aboard our transport and said good-by to "good old America. 1 must admit there was a good-sized lump in my throat as the shoreline faded away and you could see ing but water everywhere you looked. However, that gradually disappeared und 1 settled down to enjoy the ocean voyage. Didn't Get Sick The trip was mighty fine and 1 wasn't the least bit sick, but then one couldn't possibly get sick for. barring one day, the ocean was as smooth as old "Swatara. 1 spent every minute I could on deck, and 1 didn't miss a trick if I could help it. 1 was detailed as one of the ship s CONSTIPATION CAUS E S OBSTINATE HEADACHES no.* saqo'B pwaii jno.< uatiAV will usually find the bowels have been inactive, and if you relieve this condition, by clearing the intestinal organs of the ferment ing congestion of stomach waste, foul gases and bile, the head is relieved immediately. Remember this the next time you suffer from headache. The combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin sold by drug gists under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, is highlv recommended as a gen tle laxative that acts easily and quickly, without griping or dis comfort. It contains no opiate, narcotic, or habit-forming drug, is pleasant to the taste, and a most effective household rem edy. Mothers find it especially desirable as a laxative for chil dren. You can buy Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin from your drug gist for fifty cents. Get a bot tle and have it in the house when needed. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained bv writing to Dr. W. B. Cald well. 456 Washington St., Mnn'ticello. Illinois. DOCTORED FIVE YEARS IN VAIN HE SAYS Couldn't Even Got Temporary Re lief and His Work Was a Burden SAYS TAM-AC HELPED HIM "For five years I tried in vain to get rid of my stomach trouble," says W. H. Harmon, of 135 E. Baptist street. York, Pa. "I went from doc tor to doctor, but couldn't get any relief and I tried medicine after medicine without result. "The pains in my stomach kept getting worse and worse for I got so bad that I couldn't get the gas off of my stomach. I was so con stipated that I had to be constantly takinx laxatives, I lost my appetite and had become so nervous that 1 couldn't sleep and I could feel my. self growing weaker. It was awful indeed. "Finally after hearing so many good reports about Tanlac I started taking it and to my joy it helped me right away. My stomach was quick ly restored to health, my bowels be came regular and now I feel better in every way than I have in years." Tanlac, the famous reconstructive tonic, is now being introduced hore at Gorgas' Drug Store who have se cured the exclusive sale of this mas ter medicine in Harrisburg. Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas Drug Store in the P. R. R. Station; in Carlisle at W. G. Stephens' Phar macy; Elizabethtown, Albert W. Cain; Greencastle, Charles B. Carl; Middletown, Colin S. Few's Phar macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's Pharmacy; Mechanicsburg, H. F. Brunhouse. —Adv. Miller's Antiseptic Oil Known as Snake 0 il Will Positively Relieve Pnln in Three Minutes Try It right now for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumoago, sore, stiff and swollen Joints, pains In the head, back and limbs, corns, bunions, etc. After one application pain disappears as if by magic. A new remedy used Internally and externally for Coughs, Colds, Croup. Bore Throat, Diphtheria and 'lonsilitia. The oil is conceded to be the most penetrating remedy known. Its prompt and Immediate eftect X WILLIAM H. TAFT, former President of the United States, has joined the staff of the Public Ledger as Contributing Editor, the connection becoming effective on November 1. • . Philadelphia PUBLIC LEDGER The National , . $ / # , One Dollar will pay for the PUBLIC LEDGER daily and Sunday, delivered by mail to any; address in the United States, for a trial period of six weeks. Address Box 1526-A, Philadelphia. The PUBLIC LEDGER may also be obtained at leading hotels and news stands throughout the United States. - - - " v ~ ~ w down refuses Its approval to a merger with a statement of its regret ut being compelled to take such ac tion. Commissioner John S. Billing, however, declines to take the view of the majority of his colleagues and has filed a dissenting opinion in which he holds that there is no con stitutional bar to merger of tele phone companies when it will relieve a condition where there is "half the service at twice the pay." In its decision, one of the most interesting rendered in many months, the commission states that it finds that the operation of the Cochrunton Telephone and the Mer chants and Farmers Telephone com panies, which have lines in Craw lord, Mercer and other counties in northwestern Pennsylvania, as com peting companies is uneconomical and wasteful, but refuses to sanction a merger of the companies because both were incorporated under the general incorporation act, which was enacted the year after the present constitution was framed and under which consolidation of telegraph companies is forbidden. The companies applied for ap proval of a merger and the decision states that it has been ascertained that they have competing lines, but that the opoiation of the lines re sults in a duplication of service and facilities which places a burden upon the public and prevents the compa nies from making extensions neces sary to afford adequate service. The decision says that if the question of improvement of the service and benefits to the public was the only one it would unhesitatingly approve the application filed. However, the courts nave held anil the Legislative has followed the ruling that the act authorizing formation of telegraph companies included telephone com panies so that the commission must follow the constitutional prohibition of mergers of telegraph companies. "If it were not for this constitu tional provision wc would hold that! the public fiervice company law has! repealed those provision of various! acts of assembly which prohibit the | consolidation of telephone compn nies owning, operating or controlling! competing lines," concludes the de-j cision. Commissioner Killing has filed a dissenting opinion containing forty two points in which he holds that the constitutional prohibition applies only to telegraph companies and that "it is a well established rule of constitutional und statutory con struction that the words used must bo given that meuning which they | : had at the time of the adoption of the constitution of enuctment of the statute." He says when the consti tution was framed there was no tele . phone and that the l'ramers of the constitution did not mean anything that was non-existant, while when the telephone was invented anu it became necessary to organize tel ephone companies and there was . no law on the books for Incorpora tion "the courts by a latitudinous: power exercised in rare cases" held | that for tho purposes of incorpora-1 i tlon telephone and telegraph 1 compu • i nies might be included as in the: il same general class. He also holds| | that the public service company law I ■j has repealed former statutes andj ;| that the commission has authority to] (approve a telephone merger which i (would result In "more adequate ser- L vice at more reasonable rates." OCTOBER 29, 1917. Wife of Governor Dies in Auto Crash Wilmington, Del., Oct. 29. The wife of Governor Townsend was crushed to death beneath an over turned automobile and the Governor sustained painful though not serious injuries when the car which he was driving toward their home at Selby ville upset near Georgetown late Saturday night. A rain-spattered windshield and haste to escape the ; downpour are believed to have caused I 1 the accident which sent the machine from the roadbed, spinning over and over. In the blackneßs the Governor, who , had been thrown clear, groped toward j his wife, guided by her groans. She 'I was pinned down by the back of the l rear seat. He managed to free her. she revived as he lifted her. He , had taken but a few steps, however, when she expired in his arms. The ex act cause of death Is not yet known. I The Governor is nearly frantic with grief over the accident. DM. IJI'.MBA COMBS TO LIFE! Amsterdam, Oct. 29. A dispatch received here from Vienna aaya that Dr. Dumba, former Austro-Hunsrarian Ambassador to the United States In f. a . p ?F^ h the Reichstag asserted that the giant naval program of the united States was mostly bluff. RUSSIAN ADKIRAI, MISSING Petrograd, Oct. 29. Admiral! yiadislavoff. who was In command of the submarine flotilla during the Oer man operations against the Russian islands in the Baltic, has disappeared It is believed he fell overboard from a submarine. During Dr. Ellen berger's absence Dr. Phillips will occupy his offices from 6.30 to 8.30 p. m. Other hours in cluding Sunday by ap pointment. 7