4 McAdoo Wants Figures Regarding Steel Rails Washington, D. C.. March I.—Di rector-General McAdoo called upon presidents of the leading railroads to i urnish immediately detailed infor mation regarding their use of steel rails and their needs for 1918. in formation requested by the Director- General includes: "Number of gross tons put in tracks during 1D17; estimated num ber of gross tons required for 191S separately from maintenance and construction; minimum number of gross tons absolutely required to maintain track in safe condition dur ing 1918: total number of tons con tracted for delivery during 1918. in cluding number due on previous con tracts or carried over from contracts for previous years; tonnage of rails < n hand January 1, 1918." HENRY 11. FI.OREY DIES Marietta. Pa., March 1. Henry R. Florey, oged 41, of Pleasant Grove, died from a complication of diseases after a long illness. His parents, his wife and a daughter survive. KEEP LOOKING YOUNG It's Easy—lf You Know Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets The secret of keeping young is to fee! young—to do this you must watch your liverand bowels—there's no need of hav ing a sallow complexion dark rings under your eyes pimples— a bilious look in your face—dull eyes with no sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety percent of all sickness comes from in active bowels and liver. Dr. Edwards, a well-known physician in Ohio, perfected a vegetable com pound mixed with olive oil to act on the liver and bowels, which he gave to his patients for years. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the sub stitute for calomel, are gentle in their action yet always effective. They bring about that exuberance of spirit, that natural buoyancy which should be en joyed by everyone, by toning up the liver and clearing the system of impurities. You will know Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets by their olive color. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. i New\fictor Records jjj for March f® Jascha Heifetz again displays his genius The wonderful young • Russian's mastery of the violin is Eg!!! evidenced in this brilliant rendition of Elgar's dainty "La Capricieuse" which cannot fail to captivate you. Victrola Red Seal Record 64760. Ten-inch, $1 A charming Neapolitan song by De Luca A simple, tuneful Italian "Pastorale." The noted baritone §llllll sings it in a lively mood that is altogether in the happy spirit of the SOng. Victrola Red Seal Record 64686. Ten-inch, $1 |U | De Gogorza sings the fascinating "Margarita" jjjj ZlT~ll "Thou Art Near Me, Margarita" is a beautiful song with a. haunting melody, and de Gogorza's interpretation is one vou will delight to hear.* * ' i ■] p| Victrola Red Seal Record 64722. Ten-incb. $X ' Sousa's Band plays two stirring new Sousa marches. Iljjj! Delightful solos by Werrenrath and Murphy. Two lively dances by Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra. Two Collections of Musical Comedy "Gems." Three Superb Operatic and Concert Arias. |j Six Interesting Popular War Songs. Two Descriptive Trench-life Specialties. -. - J 6 Hear these new Victor Records to-day at any Victor dealer's. He will gladly give you a complete descriptive list and play any music you wish to hear. Saenger Voice Culture Records are invaluable to a J: g vocal students—ask to hear them. jg ■ . Victora and Victrolas in great variety from $lO to S4OO. Period styles to order from $375 to $950. -—§ Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. |=sifsl §1 Important Notice. Victor Records and Victor Machines are scientific- j ally coordinated and synchronized in the processes of manufacture, and their j g use, one with the other, is absolutely essential to a perfect reproduction, f s= v g' New Victor Records demonstrated at all dealers on the Ist of each month g= ■ - I Victrola J "Victrola" is the Registered Trade-mark of the Victor Talking Machine Company designating the products of this Company only Q FRIDAY EVENING, Praises Community Work Done in Training Camps PAUL. HERMAN" BRATTEN Paul Herman Bratten is one of the lads who answered the call of Uncle Sam and joined the Army last summer. Bratten was cartoonist for the Tatler at the Technical High school and was one of the cheer loaders of his alma mater. He is now a member of Headquarters Company, 320, Field Signal Battalion. Eighth Division, U. S. A. In let ters to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Bratten, 618 North Third street, he speaks in glowing terms of the work of the lied Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus in the camps. He was sent from Harrisburg to Camp Dodge, lowa, and from thence to Camp Fremont. California. "I never felt better in my life," he tells in his letters. SHAKESPEARE PROGRAM Hummelstown, Pa.. March 1. —■ The High School Literary .Society will give a Shakespearean program on Friday afternoon. March 15, to which all pa trons and friends of the school are Invited. Soldiers at Camp Meade Enjoy Best of Health H. D. P*ENNSYL American soldiers are filled with an unquenchable optimism and con fidence in victory. Every one of them is sure that the Kaiser is go ing to be defeated. One of these competent lads is H. D. Pennsvl, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Pennsyl, i' 43.1 Reel street, who is with Com pany C, Twenty-eighth Engineers, stationed at Camp Meade, Maryland. His letters are very encouraging and he is in the best of health. Prior to his enlistment, he was a fireman ir the Pennsylvania railroad freight yards. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH PEACE AND THE PEACEMAKER International Sunday School Lesson for March 3 Is "Jesus Bringing Peace"—Mark 4:35-5:20 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS "Over and over it comes to me. The thought of Christ on the stormy sea." The weary worker holds our im- I agination more than the raging j waves. Worn out with spending His soul's* substance for other people, Jesus was lying, in stern of a Galilean flshingboat asleep. He was tifred with just the same sort of tiredness that comes to this world's tired toilers who have' spent them selves to the limit. The Son of Man was akin to all His brethren in all their experiences. The world would not willingly lose this picture of the weary Christ, sleeping in sheer ex haustion. Modern "prophets," who profess to monopolize the mind of the Gali lean peasant, travel nround the country in private cars, but this was no private yacht in which Jesus sailed. Instead, it was just an ordi nary, clumsy, odorous flshingboat, with the scales of yesterday's catch smeared over the thwarts. It had no cabin, but under the overcast sky on a simple pallet lay the great Teach er, heedless of the bobbing of the boat or the shrieking of the wind or the pounding of the waves. It was such a storm as sweeps down from the hills of the eastern shore of Galilee; or as makes sailing on Lake George dangerous. It does ftot take a great ocean to make a dangerous storm. The little craft was in as much danger on-Galilee as if i{ had been in the middle of the Atlantic. The Friends to Whom We Turn There are some persons to whom their friends naturally turn In trou ble. They are the efficient ones. Emergencies bring them to the fore. Just as the apostle Paul dominated his shipwreck scene, so It was, in an Incomparably higher degree with l Jesus, He was master of men and of conditions, His fishermen friends had no thought that He would still | the storm, yet they wanted to take refuge in the shelter of His strong | character. Therefore, their petulant • j arousal of Him as He slept. "The ' ' s ! n ? .. *' lat carries Caesar cannot 1 sink." That boat with Jesus aboard . was safer than one of the limestone 1 ca^. es ' n " le bills of Nazareth. I ■'he flshermen wanted only com fort, and they got instead great ' calm. It is a glory of the Christian faith that Christ always exceeds ex i pectations. They who ask for little get much. His givings are always I more than we.desire or deserve. The • affrighed Galileans were still fur ther amazed when, instead of words of counsel or assurance, Jesus spoke i in majesty to the sea, "Peace, be still. And the winds ceased and ! there was a great calm." 1 Nature is but a servant whose ' master is God. If we will go part of the way with Christ in acceptance of His character and work, we are bound to go all the way and believe 1 Him when He says, "All authority is given unto me." To any who are troubled by this miracle, the words 1 of the Master to the disciples in the boat may be repeated. "Have ye not faith?" True, we may marvel with them and cry, "Who, then, is this tl-.at even the winds and sea obey him?" Marvelous beyond compare was that wondrous deed, yet what about Jesus is not marvelous? He who rules the winds and waves Is still master of this world as in all human history. Let us stand by our simple faith that our Christ is om nipotent. Amid nil the changes that we face in these troublous times, this assurance holds us steady, "He who rules is our Redeemer." -V Wnrrlng World's Peocemnker When we apply this truth to the storm and wrack of war it is not so easy to realize that the Christ of peace is having His way with the world. Doubtless He would have had a better way had men let Him. Nevertheless, "He maketh the wrath of man to praise Him." We can see through this tempest only by the il lumination of the cross, which is the symbol that righteousness Is worth supreme cost. God will go to all lengths to serve His holy ends of justice and love. Nothing necessary | to that purpose has He withheld, not I even the life of His Son. As Jesus died in human service, by the divine will, so are men dying to-day to bring to pass a peace that will serve all the generations to come. Recently, we perceive that amid all the tumult and wreckage of war, the mind of Christ is being victor iously fulfilled. What a wonderful demonstration of comradeship and helpfulness and mercy and practical ministry and religion we are having | from the battlefields to-day. A sin , gle hysterical outburst concerning moral conditions in London from one uninformed preacher may get more publicity than all the glorious truth as those who really know have seen it. For myself, what I have beheld in London, of quiet strength and dignity, on the part of soldiers and civilians; of service offered as a matter of course; of the world's greatest city attuned in every de partment to exalted but practical patriotism, is nothing less than one of the wonders of the war. I saw much of religious activity in London, and little of vice. After investiga tion it seemed to me that righteous ness is victorious in this particular battle. The spirit of Jesus is out working to a new life in the heart of mankind; and to a new and bet ter order for the whole world. When l.ife Is at Stake Stormy waters are less tumultu ous than the storms that rage in the J human breast. If we marvel at the : miracle which the fishermen saw, let j us marvel more at that power which j can say, "Peace, be still" to a tur ! bulent life. The miracle of trans- I formed characters of evil men made good, of passionate men made serene, of avaricious men made generous, is still, as it has ever been, the su preme miracle of nature. The succor extended to the imper iled boatmen by the stilling of the storm must take second place to the calming of the furies of the demon iac's nature. This poor creature, who dwelt amid the caves and the tc-mbs of the hills that rise abrupt ly from the eastern shore of Galilee, was an outcast beyond his friends' power to bind, control or appease, his strength was abnormal and his delirium was ferocious. In frenzy he cut himself with stones and rent the air with shrieks. An outcast from men, he was feared and yet accorded that strange sort of rever ence that the East gives to the in sane. I rocalled him as I looked upon a poor naked creature wander ing about one of the villages of Northern Syria, a mendicant and an outcast. The plight of this demoniac was extreme. Yet Christ cured him. That is the gospel: Jesus saves "unto the uttermost." There are no men be yond His power to change into new ness of life. When one calls the roll of his acquaintances who have been outcasts and drunkards, but who are jiow men of godliness and power, he realizes the potency of these present experiences as wit nesses to the miracle-working power of the Saviour. If any man finds his faith in Christ's ability to save growing dim, let him visit one of the city rescue missions and hear the testimony of the made-over men. What Jesus did to the demoniac of Gadara He is still doing for tor mented mankind. "Let Us Alone" Strong characters always create foes, especially if they be stnong for righteousness. When the demoniac came to Jesus the evil spirits cried out against Him. They recognized Jesus as their Implacable antagonist. The Master always had enemies in the spiritual world, and among men and wpinen. That sugar-and-water philosophy which thinks it can get through life without any strife finds little support in the biography of the gentlest of earth's Teachers. Goodness, when it is really effec tive, always provokes enmity. There never was a real revival that did not create u flareback of slander. One of the "woes" of Christ was spoken against that type of character which finds its reward in the praise of men: "Woe unto you when all men speak well of you." The evil legions asked nothing of this Master except that He let them alone. When a party arose in poli tics a few years ago. representing prosperity and "big business" and began to cry, "Let us alone," it did not realize that this quotation was taken from the lips of evil demons. Evil always "stands pat." It wants merely to be let alone. Existing conditions are good enough for it, for it knows that any change will make them worse, from its stand point. - About Those Swine The evil spirits from the demoniac pleaded to be permitted to enter the neighboring swine, and Jesus grant ed thl* request. Straightway the swine ran down the declivity and were drowned in the sea. two thou sand of them. What a howl there has been through the centuries, but especially in our own time, about those two thousand pigs! Doubtless they belonged to renegade Jews, who w ere raising them to sell to the Roman soldiers, it was an illegal I ASTRICH'S I 308 Market Street f. * Food. 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Special MARCH 1, 191* business for the Jew to be i. but, nevertheless, the same sympathy that is created when revenue officers pour into the gutter casks of confis cated liquors, is called forth by this spectacle of the sacrificed pork. Some persons see nothing in the story but this injury to vested inter ests. They seemingly care more for the stock than for the man. Let us grant that it cost two thou- sand HWIUQ to save olio man. The conscience of our time will say '' ,r transaction was a guod one. The old days, when six per cent, from an investment was more important than the conditions of the toller art passing: rapidly away. The sanctity of the stockholder's right to profit IH considered less than the sanctity of health and happiness. Life is seen to be the more sacred thing-.
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