THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY WITH...THURSDAY EVENING, FLYING WITH SHAFFER "OVER THE LINES" LETTERS...

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THURSDAY EVENING, FLYING WITH SHAFFER "OVER THE LINES" LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN' BOY TO HIS MOTHER Somewhere in France. Dear Mother: Two t>L' your letters received to- lay. Army life has not affected me one way or the other, and I imagine I still weigh the same. My pictures seem to have given you the im- pression that war bread agreed with me. You were away off in picking Ihe cause. Flying agrees with me and not the bread, for I don't eat much of it You know, I am realiz- ing a lifelong ambition now, so why should it not agree with me? Out- side of freezing my nose yesterday while flying over the lines at 5,000 meters. I am a pretty healthy speci- men. 1 will write you about that little trip later, just now I want :o answer your letters. From the tone of the firs*, letter, I must have been at Avord train- ng on Nleuport and I sure did have i lot of hard luck there, some of t my fault and some the machine's, or they were a punk assortment to JC sure. Good enough for training, jf course, but nothing to -compare to the little silver baby I fly now, nil spic and span with her new instruments and shining brightly ifter her wash down, for she gets nore baths than I do, and hot ones .00. I have been here 15 days now ind have not even taken a cold >ne. Can't. The wash bowl won't lold me and I am not Eskimo inough to enjoy ice water. I know have been here 15 days because t was paid to-day. It seems im- jossible time could fly as fast, but lews and interesting things serve o pass the time very - quickly. The 10 francs I received looked very WHES YIELD TO TANLAG Suffered With Them For Years and Got No Relief I'ntil He Took Tanlao "1 suffered for years with chronic leadachcs," says George Stewart, a lorter at Kresge's, who lives at 1124 lerr street, Harrisburg, Pa. "I suffered a lot from indigestion, 00. "But Tanlac's the great stuff for t fixed me up in two shakes of a nmb's tail. Headaches and every filter ache just melted away; my toniach woke up and my appetite ame back and I can now pull up to he table and eat with the best of: hem. "And sleep! I sleep like a log and iake up in the morning as fresh as daisy. Fine medicine that Tanlac. | Everybody ought to use it for what! ils them." Tanlac is now being introduced ere at George Gorgas Drug Store. Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas )rug Store in the P. R. R. Station; n Carlisle at W. G. Stevens' Phar- nacy; Elizabethtown. Albert W. 'ain; Greencastle, Charles B. Carl; .liddletown, Colin S. Few's Phar- nacy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's -harmacy; Mechanicsburg, H. F. '"-unhouse.?Adv. big, but when one considers that 20 of that "goes In the pot," as they say when the escadrllle buys extra food besides army rations, and say 10 mote to buy flowers for dead pi- lots, it don't loom up so big. Sure, it's Just my luck to land in time to help decorate somebody. The mor- tality rate seems to be low in this section, only three men being killed last year, and two were accidents, and 32 Boche were brought down. Pretty good record, eh? Of course, my escadrille has only been in exist- ence for several weeks, so we don't come in on any glory. DangiTs of landing You don't >have to tell me it's the little things that count, because I know it from experience. Luckily, the experience has very seldom been bitter. And I don't forget to fasten my safety belt any more, although one is in very little danger of fall- ing out while flying. It's surprising I how many stunts one can do with | out the belt aiding one in staying with his bird. It's in landing where the danger is. for if one is not strapped in and upsets he is in a bad way. However, I have a very good belt now, adjusted just to suit me, and the two belts which pass over the shoulders and the other two which go around my waist most cer- tainly make me a part of the "zang" (airplane). The beauty of all these safety belts are that they can be re- leased instantly by pressing a but- l ton?just like pressing the nigger I baby and hear him say "Mamma," | for the button is right over one's dinner basket. Prayer Helps Him I Considering how great is your be- \ lief in prayer, I am surprised my I description of the happenings at Pau , caused you any uneasiness for me. ! Anj'way, here I am still kicking, thanks to my own hustling around, and maybe your prayers. Whether it was more of the latter than the 1 former I don't know, but the com- | bination seems to have worked pretty well to date, so I'll keep hustling and you keep praying and we'll see how quick we can end this ; war. The way I talk you might ; think I was the whole army, wouldn't you? Was wondering i whether those cards I sent from Pau ; would get there. The sad part of it was, they did not do the scenery ; justice. One had to fly over the | country to really see its beauty. One could sec sfttnuch in so short a time ; that way. That's rather amusing* about measles and mumps breaking out in | camps?the soldiers must be rather ! young. ' Gee Whiz! the way you write, I I am still a little boy, hoping I may grow t obe a good and noble map. Do you realize that I am due to have another birthday soon and I'll be?- say, how old will I be anyhow? It's been so long I've forgotten the date. I will do my best to please you though, but just now I am so busy trying to ( learn the rules of this fly- in? game without the aid of the French language that I have no time for anything else. There are an enormous number of little things to remember while flying in formation, and owing to my ignorance, I broke another one, yesterday. Naturally- got in Dutch again, since the Cap- was leading the party ?there were eight of us. Sky Climbing (All new pilots at Hie front). Everything went along lovely, and I sluyod In my allotted position quite easily while we climbed to 6,000 meters and then 1 began to get mighty chilly. First ono finger got stiff, and then another, and pretty soon I only had throe or four use- ful ones left. But orders were to follow and I kept right on follow- ing, despite the fact that my face, and nose particularly, wore begin- ning to feel rather numb. This didn't worry me any, since 1 thought It was merely getting that healthy glow I recommended for the girls' sallow complexion. I had never been up this high before, and It never occurred to me it might effect my breathing until I began gulping for air periodically, about once every two minutes. And then I looked at my altimeter and saw It was be- ginning its second round of the dial, since It only registered up to 5,000 and I was past that and still going up. We were over the German lines then and still headed for Berlin, when I noticed the man I was fol- lowing suddenly turn and apparent- ly start for camp. That didn't sujt me a little bit, as the newness of be- ing so high and looking down on the pock-marked ground of "No Man's Land" was wearing off and I was en- joying it. furthermore, I was cur- ious to see a German plane and since there were four Nieuports fly- ins above me, I climbed up and followed them. I don't know what the big idea was, but they kept zig zagging up and down and across, and every which way for all the world as if they were being shot at with shrapnel. Ix>st In the Clouds Naturally I followed suit, although I could see nothing to dodge as I saw no shrapnel breaking anywhere, although several times I did feel myself bounced up as if by a sud- den explosion beneath me ?and then my engine began missing something fierce, and T feared it would stop. "Well," thinks I, "I'm pretty high, and I might make camp, at least I won't fall in the trenches." So I turned right about and with the motor giving about half her power, started down in the general direc- tion of Rheims, for I was not quite sure where I was, and I knew if I found Rheims I could find camp. I soon found that city, got my direc- tions from land marks below and headed home. All this had taken but a few moments, and no sooner had I noticed a plane high over the city being shrapneled to a far-u-well. Apparently, he was headed my way, so not knowing whether he was friend or foe it occurred to me it wouldn't be a bad idea to get my gun ready. This was quickly done, by shoving a safety lever which con- nected the gun with the motor, this timing the shots so the propeller would not be hit. And now that I was ready. I wondered whether the doggone thing would actually shoot. Nothing like trying it so pointing in the general direction of Germany, I pulled the trigger. She worked all right, and then I looked around again for the suspicious plane, but it had disappeared apparently, so my motor picking up again, I de- cided to learn somewhat of the topo- graphy of the country, and most of all was I curious to see actually where the lines were. They were drawn on my map. but I'll be dog- goned if I could find them. All this time I had been coming down, since one can't see anything from 5,000 meters, and was getting a line on a number of towns, picking out rail- roads and big roads, and following them up until they came to where the "lines" should be. but still I could find no well-defined "lines." By the time I had reached 2,000 meters I was right over where the "lines" should be and then I nearly had heartfailure, for the engine be- gan missing again and from the way it sounded was going to dlo any. minute. Thoro are nine cylinders on my engine, but the way it sounded then, only one was running, so once again I headed for camp with the engine coughing and spitting all the way, and me expecting any minute to havo to pick out a nice soft forest to land on. Being all alone this way and with no engine to speak of, I knew I would be easy prey for any Qerman who happened to see me, so 1 kept a sharp lookiut, as I had been doing all the time, and Ilnally reached camp all right, only to lind 1 had busted another rule on the calendar, for the Captain was sure on his ear, and wanted to know from one of my American comrades whether 1 had been drinking the night before, and was I all there in the head, for he sure thought I was lost. Not me though, I had a compass, map and the sun. And I'll say I had quite an interesting hour and a half all by my lonesome. . The thing that made the Captain so sore was the fact that I had left the patrol with- out giving any signal of distress, and then to crown it all had stood right j on my nose in my anxiety to reach the earth. The first was correct, owing to ignorance on my part, since I did not know what the signal of distress was, but the latter I was not guilty of, and it turned out later it was another plane. The latter was caused by the Captain's anger, be- cause he had called me down once before for peaking too steeply. This morning I made it a rule to have all the rules translated for me, although I could read some of them myself. And this afternoon a number of typewritten papers in English were given lis, which sure helped a lot since it told me a lot of things I never knew before. Indeed, it's no wonder time flies so swiftly since I am always guessing as to what I am supposed to do. Now that the pap- j ers have been given me, I know, and can devote more time to learn- ing the French language. Walter. Somewhere in France, i Dear Mother: It sure is cold here, there being six inches of snow on the ground. Also, since it's so cold on the ground, you can imagine how cold it is at three or four miles above it. I say you can imagine it, but I know, for that's the height I have been flying the last three times I over the lines. The first time, I . froze my nose and now there is a little black spot on each side of my nose where the goggles rested. If | you didn't know I was an aviator, I you would think I was a school i teacher and had left my iron-bowed I spectacles on my nose too long. The I second time I froze two fingers ab- solutely numb, and my, oh my! how [they did hurt when I had descended jto 3,000 meters. Strange to say, at I that height my hands and nose al- | ways warm up. I don't know why, I but they always do. You remember : I told you about that trip with the | Captain and my motor went bad and |he thought me lost. The way ho i raved around one would think 1 was ; real valuable. The next day he led | us over the lines again, and in order i to.keep an eye on me placed me on j his right. However. I stuck by him this time despite a frozen finger and j trouble in regulating my motor, for at high altitudes I always do have trouble with the motor regulation. The air gets thinner as one goes up, you know, and this has a decided effect on the power of the motor, since so much air is required to mix with the gasoline to give the requir- ed power. Naturally, one must so regulate his motor as he climbs higher so as to get the necessary amount of aid. This I find very hard to do, but hope to get the hang of it soon. A Tough Landing To come back to the Captain, I was right by him all the time, and when he peaked for the ground I was still near him, for all the world like a baby hanging onto its moth- er's apron. No, I did not break any rules that trip, but I did break the "Becky" and hent an axle, for I made the most awful landing I ever made in my life, leveling out ten feet above the ground and landing so hard I knocked both wheels knock-kneed. The funny part of it was, the landing was made right in front of the captain, who had land- ed before me. I don't know whether he saw the joke or not. At least, I did not get the calling down I ex- pected. You see coming down from high altitudes, the distance to the ground is very deceiving and to ac- custom the eyes to the change one must make a circle of the field at a low altitude. I had done this, and as I circled around and saw the Cap- tain sitting below waiting for a me- chanic to start his' stalled motor, thinks I "I'll land right beside him, and show him how to make a good landing?without stalling the motor. And so I did, for I Handed beside him all right, but oh, what a landing! That's where the joke came in, for I was so busy watching whether the Captain was noticing the beautiful landing I was going to make, that the first thing I knew I lost all my speed and sunk like a stone. Here- after, I'll watch the ground and not the Captain, and probably "Becky" won't suffer so much then. How- ever, the Captain had troubles of his own, which probably explains why I wasn't told about it. since he had two fingers frozen also, and had to depart as soon as he arrived, for a distant hospital, where one of our men was wounded. The other pilots and the head mechanic sure did kid me about that breakage, saying that if I drank "pinard" such things would never happen, for the fact that we don't drink "pinard" sure does surprise these Frenchmen?the other American does not use it either?. However, I came right back by reminding one of the pilots that he had taken a whole wing off while making a landing. It was the truth too and he is the heaviest drinker in the crowd. That come- back sort of stopped the kidding that "beaucoap" pinard would help. My habits sure arouse a lot of cur- iosity-on the part of some of my countrymen. One fellow, after studying me for a week or so, and noticing that I neither drank nor smoked and did not know how to play poker, was certainly astonish- ed. And wanted to know whether I enjoyed life. My prompt "Yes, In- deed" surprised hlrn as much as my habits, for it was utterly beyond him to understand how it was possible to enjoy one's self without painting the town red. Of course, I did not sug- gest the fact that enjoying life his way, cost a lot of money, for he, be- ing rich, would not have under- ?' stood. Out on Patrol Had to stop to go on patrol work, j Am glad to say our escadrille Is finally in existence, with its own Captain, office and work, and this afternoon the whole escadrille was working. My nanrje was at the top of the list, which means 1 would go out on the first "mission" that re- quired protection. Unfortunately, It wp.B cloudy all morning, which made taking photographs impossible, so I dod not get a chance to help pro- tect one of these machines. But the afternoon was clear?and cold, as usual ?so we were sent out In groups of threes to patrol the lines and clmse any Boche away which inter- fered with the work of observation planes, which direct artillery lire. We only liew at 2,000 meters, so I did not mind the cold, but Golly! how they did bombard us with shrapnel. It's the lirst time they have ever came real close to me, I have been shot at before. Tire first one I saw In the mirror as it broke some 20 meters behind me with a loud bang and a puff of black smoke. Right away I began doing the ocean roll up and down and' cross-ways with black puffs appear- ing now on my right and now on my i left. As far as I could see about all the damage they did was to pol- lute the atmosphere with a few more j clouds. However, none broke over me, else I may have changed my mind about their harmlessness. One time though, that old boy below was getting my range pretty close, as half a dozen black puffs appeared under me, and two seconds later half a dozen more bursted along side of me with a loud boom. It was then I began changing my direction find altitude and to lose my con- tempt for the man behind the gun. All he could do was guess at my height, but I always got the last guess; and as soon as he got the range I changed my altitude, . and then he would have to begin guess- ing all over again. We patrolled up and down the lines for an hour and a half, being shot at four different times as we passed over certain hot sectors. It's quite a sight to see an airplane being bombarded with shrapnel, and to see it fly in, out and around, the innumerable black and white puffs. Reminds me of some one throwing eggs up against a barn, the way those black puffs splash around the sky. The other American in the escadrille was up to-day and saw them pumping lead at us and according to his account they certainly were burning up a lot of powder. It is while on these airplane are called that one gets airplane are colled that one gets bombarded, and I was remarking to-day that I had never seen shrap- nel break real close to me. Gets Taste of Shrapnel However, I got a taste of it this afternoon so it won't be anything new when I do go on a "mission." These photo-taking planes go away behind the lines to take their pic- tures and naturally get bombarded to a far-u-well, not to mention being chased by Boches sometimes. Have not been lucky enough to go on onfe of these protecting trips yet, but now that our escadrille is organized I hope to soon have a chance. One of our men was killed the other day while on one of these "missions" being shot in the back by a Boche. Badly wounded as he was he came down in a "vrille" from 4,000 meters and made a good land- ing. For this coot-headed work he was awarded the "military cross and Croix de Guerre," but unfortunately he had lost so much blood that he died in the hospital soon after. Which accident makes my grudge against the German much move per- sonal than heretofore, since he was the liveliest fellow in the escadrille, and incidentally was the man that led me through my first shrapnel fire. I called it an accident because so it seenird to me since the fel- lows with him said the Boche was fully 1,000 meters behind him. Eith- er that Boche was some shot or his luck was with him. The escadrille bought him a crown of flowers, the five francs of which I do not be- grudge. The saddest part of the death, I think, was the fact that seven letters arrived for him the day he died. And now the last candle has gone out, so I'll have to stop, as one can't very well write by the aid of an open fire place. Received a package from the Misses Kelker yesterday, which cer- tainly was a surprise as well as appreciated, especially the "Wash- ington coffee." None of your pack- ages have showed up yet. Walter. Somewhere in France, Jan. 10, 1918. Dear Mother: I flew an hour yesterday, but it was very bad wea- ther at that, the clouds being very heavy and low. First we have a little snow and then a little rain, which makes hunting wood rather sloppy work. Since all five pairs of shoes are wet I went hunting itj my wooden shoes, which was more diffi- cult than successful, as I found it nearly as hard as skieing, for there were no hobnails in the soles to give me a grip as with the army shoes. They kept my feet dry though, and we sure have some fire now! A new pilot joined the escadrille yesterday and it was most amusing to watch him shiver with cold as' he ate in our fireless dining room. I say amusing, because wc have I grown used to it, which goes to show j one can get used to anything if he has to. You should have seen said pilot I out hunting wood to-day. He was I a most ardent hunter indeed and was not shivering as much during I supper as of yore. However, after j the meal I found him in our room J with his feet resting in the ashes of ! a dying fire, in a vain attempt to warm them ?the feet, not the fire, i A Queer Bird The saying that aviators are queer birds is certainly proved by one of cur members, who is learning to toot the flute in his spare time, of course we have other music also, but that occurs regularly twice a day and I have grown used to it. but 1 will suffer from the flute. Fortunately, the cold freezes up his footer when he has no fire, and since his bed fel- low refuses to furnish any more wood, we haven't heard from hint for sometime. Indeed the man him- self presents an interesting study to me, for I never have seen a more timid man and my wonder grows as to how and why he ever entered aviation. Just an instance: We live some two miles from camp, and one day, he, another man and I were starting for camp, when a truck came along, stopping nearby to un- load something. Naturally, wo asked for a lift and got in. We had climbed aboard and the truck was getting under way when the timid gentleman caught up with us, since he had gotten some distance behind as he picked his way over the slip- pery rood, instead of jumping on the GAS ON STOMACH SOUR STOMACH INDIGESTION HEARTBURN Instantly Relieved by IN 5 GRAIN TABLETS AM) FOWIIRR FORM BISURATED MAGNESIA Is Mag- nesia especially prepared for the safe, speedy and certain correction of dangerous stomach acidity. It comes only in the form of five-grain tablets and powder In sealed blue packages. 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He had been up at 5000 meters for an hour with only one pair of gloves on, so I don't wonder ho nearly froze. The wonder is there were not more frozen. Fortu- nately I was flying at 2000 that day, and one feels nice and comfy at that height, although not safe, for the way they chuck shrapnel at one Is a caution, not to mention the danger of a Boche come pouncing down from 5000 meters, shooting as ho comes. Have not seen a Boche ujJ yet, at least not close enough to rec- ognize him, although I have flown somo 14 hours over the lines. How- ever, I have hopes, for peace looks about as far off as my packages. They have been on the road so lon that my mouth has stopped water- ing. and 1 am getting so used to the cold that I won't need the clothins. either. WATjTER. 0E30E3 STORE OPENS 8:30 A. M.?CLOSES 5:30 P. M. aOBO j A STIRRING BANNER VALUEDAY § ] or ne Only--To-morrow, Friday J 1 Store Opens At 8.30 A. M. 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Page 1: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY WITH...THURSDAY EVENING, FLYING WITH SHAFFER "OVER THE LINES" LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN' BOY TO HIS MOTHER Somewhere in France. Dear Mother: Two t>L' your letters

THURSDAY EVENING,

FLYING WITH SHAFFER"OVER THE LINES"

LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN' BOY TO HIS MOTHER

Somewhere in France.Dear Mother:

Two t>L' your letters received to-lay.

Army life has not affected me oneway or the other, and I imagineI still weigh the same. My picturesseem to have given you the im-pression that war bread agreed withme. You were away off in pickingIhe cause. Flying agrees with meand not the bread, for I don't eatmuch of it You know, I am realiz-ing a lifelong ambition now, so whyshould it not agree with me? Out-side of freezing my nose yesterday

while flying over the lines at 5,000meters. I am a pretty healthy speci-men. 1 will write you about thatlittle trip later, just now I want:o answer your letters.

From the tone of the firs*, letter,I must have been at Avord train-ng on Nleuport and I sure did havei lot of hard luck there, some oft my fault and some the machine's,or they were a punk assortment toJC sure. Good enough for training,jf course, but nothing to -compareto the little silver baby I fly now,nil spic and span with her newinstruments and shining brightlyifter her wash down, for she getsnore baths than I do, and hot ones.00. I have been here 15 days nowind have not even taken a cold>ne. Can't. The wash bowl won'tlold me and I am not Eskimoinough to enjoy ice water. I know

have been here 15 days becauset was paid to-day. It seems im-jossible time could fly as fast, butlews and interesting things serveo pass the time very - quickly. The10 francs I received looked very

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Suffered With Them For Years andGot No Relief I'ntil He Took

Tanlao

"1 suffered for years with chronicleadachcs," says George Stewart, alorter at Kresge's, who lives at 1124lerr street, Harrisburg, Pa.

"I suffered a lot from indigestion,00.

"But Tanlac's the great stuff fort fixed me up in two shakes of anmb's tail. Headaches and everyfilter ache just melted away; mytoniach woke up and my appetiteame back and I can now pull up tohe table and eat with the best of:hem.

"And sleep! I sleep like a log andiake up in the morning as fresh as

daisy. Fine medicine that Tanlac. |Everybody ought to use it for what!ils them."Tanlac is now being introduced

ere at George Gorgas Drug Store.Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas

)rug Store in the P. R. R. Station;n Carlisle at W. G. Stevens' Phar-nacy; Elizabethtown. Albert W.'ain; Greencastle, Charles B. Carl;.liddletown, Colin S. Few's Phar-nacy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's-harmacy; Mechanicsburg, H. F.'"-unhouse.?Adv.

big, but when one considers that20 of that "goes In the pot," as theysay when the escadrllle buys extrafood besides army rations, and say10 mote to buy flowers for dead pi-lots, it don't loom up so big. Sure,it's Just my luck to land in time tohelp decorate somebody. The mor-tality rate seems to be low in thissection, only three men being killedlast year, and two were accidents,and 32 Boche were brought down.Pretty good record, eh? Of course,my escadrille has only been in exist-ence for several weeks, so we don'tcome in on any glory.

DangiTs of landingYou don't >have to tell me it's the

little things that count, because Iknow it from experience. Luckily,the experience has very seldom beenbitter. And I don't forget to fastenmy safety belt any more, althoughone is in very little danger of fall-ing out while flying. It's surprising

I how many stunts one can do with| out the belt aiding one in stayingwith his bird. It's in landing wherethe danger is. for if one is notstrapped in and upsets he is in abad way. However, I have a verygood belt now, adjusted just to suitme, and the two belts which passover the shoulders and the other twowhich go around my waist most cer-tainly make me a part of the "zang"(airplane). The beauty of all thesesafety belts are that they can be re-leased instantly by pressing a but-

l ton?just like pressing the niggerI baby and hear him say "Mamma,"| for the button is right over one'sdinner basket.

Prayer Helps HimI Considering how great is your be-

\ lief in prayer, I am surprised my

I description of the happenings at Pau, caused you any uneasiness for me.

! Anj'way, here I am still kicking,thanks to my own hustling around,and maybe your prayers. Whetherit was more of the latter than the

1 former I don't know, but the com-| bination seems to have workedpretty well to date, so I'll keephustling and you keep praying andwe'll see how quick we can end this

; war. The way I talk you might; think I was the whole army,wouldn't you? Was wondering

i whether those cards I sent from Pau; would get there. The sad part ofit was, they did not do the scenery

; justice. One had to fly over the| country to really see its beauty. Onecould sec sfttnuch in so short a time

; that way.That's rather amusing* about

measles and mumps breaking out in| camps?the soldiers must be rather! young.' Gee Whiz! the way you write, II am still a little boy, hoping I maygrow t obe a good and noble map.Do you realize that I am due to haveanother birthday soon and I'll be?-say, how old will I be anyhow? It'sbeen so long I've forgotten the date.

I will do my best to please youthough, but just now I am so busytrying to ( learn the rules of this fly-in? game without the aid of theFrench language that I have no timefor anything else. There are anenormous number of little things toremember while flying in formation,and owing to my ignorance, I brokeanother one, yesterday. Naturally-got in Dutch again, since the Cap-

was leading the party?there were eight of us.

Sky Climbing(All new pilots at Hie front).

Everything went along lovely, and Isluyod In my allotted position quiteeasily while we climbed to 6,000meters and then 1 began to getmighty chilly. First ono finger gotstiff, and then another, and prettysoon I only had throe or four use-ful ones left. But orders were tofollow and I kept right on follow-ing, despite the fact that my face,and nose particularly, wore begin-ning to feel rather numb. Thisdidn't worry me any, since 1 thoughtIt was merely getting that healthyglow I recommended for the girls'sallow complexion. I had never beenup this high before, and It neveroccurred to me it might effect mybreathing until I began gulping forair periodically, about once everytwo minutes. And then I looked atmy altimeter and saw It was be-ginning its second round of the dial,since It only registered up to 5,000and I was past that and still goingup. We were over the German linesthen and still headed for Berlin,when I noticed the man I was fol-lowing suddenly turn and apparent-ly start for camp. That didn't sujtme a little bit, as the newness of be-ing so high and looking down on thepock-marked ground of "No Man'sLand" was wearing off and I was en-joying it. furthermore, I was cur-ious to see a German plane andsince there were four Nieuports fly-ins above me, I climbed up andfollowed them. I don't know whatthe big idea was, but they kept zigzagging up and down and across,and every which way for all theworld as if they were being shot atwith shrapnel.

Ix>st In the CloudsNaturally I followed suit, although

I could see nothing to dodge as Isaw no shrapnel breaking anywhere,although several times I did feelmyself bounced up as if by a sud-den explosion beneath me ?and thenmy engine began missing somethingfierce, and T feared it would stop."Well," thinks I, "I'm pretty high,and I might make camp, at leastI won't fall in the trenches." So Iturned right about and with themotor giving about half her power,started down in the general direc-tion of Rheims, for I was not quitesure where I was, and I knew if Ifound Rheims I could find camp. Isoon found that city, got my direc-tions from land marks below andheaded home. All this had takenbut a few moments, and no soonerhad I noticed a plane high over thecity being shrapneled to a far-u-well.Apparently, he was headed my way,so not knowing whether he wasfriend or foe it occurred to me itwouldn't be a bad idea to get mygun ready. This was quickly done,by shoving a safety lever which con-nected the gun with the motor, thistiming the shots so the propellerwould not be hit. And now that Iwas ready. I wondered whether thedoggone thing would actually shoot.Nothing like trying it so pointing inthe general direction of Germany, Ipulled the trigger. She worked allright, and then I looked aroundagain for the suspicious plane, butit had disappeared apparently, somy motor picking up again, I de-cided to learn somewhat of the topo-graphy of the country, and most ofall was I curious to see actuallywhere the lines were. They weredrawn on my map. but I'll be dog-goned if I could find them. All thistime I had been coming down, sinceone can't see anything from 5,000meters, and was getting a line on anumber of towns, picking out rail-roads and big roads, and followingthem up until they came to wherethe "lines" should be. but still Icould find no well-defined "lines."By the time I had reached 2,000meters I was right over where the"lines" should be and then I nearly

had heartfailure, for the engine be-gan missing again and from the wayit sounded was going to dlo any.minute. Thoro are nine cylinders onmy engine, but the way it soundedthen, only one was running, so onceagain I headed for camp with theengine coughing and spitting all theway, and me expecting any minuteto havo to pick out a nice soft forestto land on.

Being all alone this way and withno engine to speak of, I knew Iwould be easy prey for any Qermanwho happened to see me, so 1 kepta sharp lookiut, as I had been doingall the time, and Ilnally reachedcamp all right, only to lind 1 hadbusted another rule on the calendar,for the Captain was sure on his ear,and wanted to know from one of myAmerican comrades whether 1 hadbeen drinking the night before, andwas I all there in the head, for hesure thought I was lost. Not methough, I had a compass, map andthe sun. And I'll say I had quitean interesting hour and a half allby my lonesome. . The thing thatmade the Captain so sore was thefact that I had left the patrol with-out giving any signal of distress, andthen to crown it all had stood right

j on my nose in my anxiety to reachthe earth. The first was correct,owing to ignorance on my part,since I did not know what the signalof distress was, but the latter I wasnot guilty of, and it turned out laterit was another plane. The latter wascaused by the Captain's anger, be-cause he had called me down oncebefore for peaking too steeply. Thismorning I made it a rule to have allthe rules translated for me, althoughI could read some of them myself.And this afternoon a number oftypewritten papers in English weregiven lis, which sure helped a lotsince it told me a lot of things Inever knew before. Indeed, it's nowonder time flies so swiftly since Iam always guessing as to what I amsupposed to do. Now that the pap-

j ers have been given me, I know,and can devote more time to learn-ing the French language.

Walter.Somewhere in France,

i Dear Mother: It sure is cold here,there being six inches of snow onthe ground. Also, since it's so coldon the ground, you can imagine howcold it is at three or four milesabove it. I say you can imagine it,but I know, for that's the height Ihave been flying the last three times

I over the lines. The first time, I. froze my nose and now there is alittle black spot on each side of mynose where the goggles rested. If

| you didn't know I was an aviator,I you would think I was a schooli teacher and had left my iron-bowed

I spectacles on my nose too long. TheI second time I froze two fingers ab-solutely numb, and my, oh my! how[they did hurt when I had descendedjto 3,000 meters. Strange to say, at

I that height my hands and nose al-| ways warm up. I don't know why,I but they always do. You remember

: I told you about that trip with the| Captain and my motor went bad and|he thought me lost. The way hoi raved around one would think 1 was

; real valuable. The next day he led| us over the lines again, and in orderi to.keep an eye on me placed me on

jhis right. However. I stuck by himthis time despite a frozen finger and

jtrouble in regulating my motor, forat high altitudes I always do havetrouble with the motor regulation.The air gets thinner as one goes up,you know, and this has a decidedeffect on the power of the motor,since so much air is required to mixwith the gasoline to give the requir-ed power. Naturally, one must soregulate his motor as he climbshigher so as to get the necessaryamount of aid. This I find veryhard to do, but hope to get the hangof it soon.

A Tough LandingTo come back to the Captain, I

was right by him all the time, andwhen he peaked for the ground Iwas still near him, for all the worldlike a baby hanging onto its moth-er's apron. No, I did not break anyrules that trip, but I did break the"Becky" and hent an axle, for Imade the most awful landing I evermade in my life, leveling out tenfeet above the ground and landingso hard I knocked both wheelsknock-kneed. The funny part of itwas, the landing was made right infront of the captain, who had land-ed before me. I don't know whetherhe saw the joke or not. At least, Idid not get the calling down I ex-pected. You see coming down fromhigh altitudes, the distance to theground is very deceiving and to ac-custom the eyes to the change onemust make a circle of the field at alow altitude. I had done this, andas I circled around and saw the Cap-tain sitting below waiting for a me-chanic to start his' stalled motor,thinks I "I'll land right beside him,and show him how to make a goodlanding?without stalling the motor.And so I did, for I Handed beside himall right, but oh, what a landing!That's where the joke came in, forI was so busy watching whether theCaptain was noticing the beautifullanding I was going to make, thatthe first thing I knew I lost all myspeed and sunk like a stone. Here-after, I'll watch the ground and notthe Captain, and probably "Becky"won't suffer so much then. How-ever, the Captain had troubles ofhis own, which probably explainswhy I wasn't told about it. since hehad two fingers frozen also, and hadto depart as soon as he arrived, fora distant hospital, where one of ourmen was wounded. The other pilotsand the head mechanic sure did kidme about that breakage, saying thatif I drank "pinard" such thingswould never happen, for the factthat we don't drink "pinard" suredoes surprise these Frenchmen?theother American does not use iteither?. However, I came rightback by reminding one of the pilotsthat he had taken a whole wing offwhile making a landing. It was thetruth too and he is the heaviestdrinker in the crowd. That come-back sort of stopped the kiddingthat "beaucoap" pinard would help.My habits sure arouse a lot of cur-iosity-on the part of some of mycountrymen. One fellow, afterstudying me for a week or so, andnoticing that I neither drank norsmoked and did not know how toplay poker, was certainly astonish-ed. And wanted to know whetherI enjoyed life. My prompt "Yes, In-deed" surprised hlrn as much as myhabits, for it was utterly beyond himto understand how it was possible toenjoy one's self without painting thetown red. Of course, I did not sug-gest the fact that enjoying life hisway, cost a lot of money, for he, be-ing rich, would not have under- ?'stood.

Out on PatrolHad to stop to go on patrol work, j

Am glad to say our escadrille Isfinally in existence, with its ownCaptain, office and work, and thisafternoon the whole escadrille wasworking. My nanrje was at the topof the list, which means 1 would goout on the first "mission" that re-quired protection. Unfortunately, Itwp.B cloudy all morning, which madetaking photographs impossible, so Idod not get a chance to help pro-tect one of these machines. But theafternoon was clear?and cold, asusual ?so we were sent out In groupsof threes to patrol the lines andclmse any Boche away which inter-

fered with the work of observationplanes, which direct artillery lire.We only liew at 2,000 meters, so Idid not mind the cold, but Golly!how they did bombard us withshrapnel. It's the lirst time theyhave ever came real close to me,

I have been shot at before.Tire first one I saw In the mirror asit broke some 20 meters behind mewith a loud bang and a puff of blacksmoke. Right away I began doingthe ocean roll up and down and'cross-ways with black puffs appear-ing now on my right and now on my ileft. As far as I could see about allthe damage they did was to pol-lute the atmosphere with a few more jclouds. However, none broke overme, else I may have changed mymind about their harmlessness. Onetime though, that old boy belowwas getting my range pretty close,as half a dozen black puffs appearedunder me, and two seconds laterhalf a dozen more bursted along sideof me with a loud boom. It wasthen I began changing my directionfind altitude and to lose my con-tempt for the man behind the gun.All he could do was guess at myheight, but I always got the lastguess; and as soon as he got therange I changed my altitude, . andthen he would have to begin guess-ing all over again. We patrolled upand down the lines for an hour anda half, being shot at four differenttimes as we passed over certain hotsectors. It's quite a sight to see anairplane being bombarded withshrapnel, and to see it fly in, out andaround, the innumerable black andwhite puffs. Reminds me of someone throwing eggs up against abarn, the way those black puffssplash around the sky. The otherAmerican in the escadrille was upto-day and saw them pumping leadat us and according to his accountthey certainly were burning up alot of powder. It is while on theseairplane are called that one getsairplane are colled that one getsbombarded, and I was remarkingto-day that I had never seen shrap-nel break real close to me.

Gets Taste of ShrapnelHowever, I got a taste of it this

afternoon so it won't be anythingnew when I do go on a "mission."These photo-taking planes go awaybehind the lines to take their pic-tures and naturally get bombardedto a far-u-well, not to mention beingchased by Boches sometimes. Havenot been lucky enough to go on onfeof these protecting trips yet, butnow that our escadrille is organizedI hope to soon have a chance.

One of our men was killed theother day while on one of these"missions" being shot in the back bya Boche. Badly wounded as he washe came down in a "vrille" from4,000 meters and made a good land-ing. For this coot-headed work hewas awarded the "military cross andCroix de Guerre," but unfortunatelyhe had lost so much blood that hedied in the hospital soon after.Which accident makes my grudgeagainst the German much move per-sonal than heretofore, since he wasthe liveliest fellow in the escadrille,and incidentally was the man thatled me through my first shrapnelfire. I called it an accident becauseso it seenird to me since the fel-lows with him said the Boche wasfully 1,000 meters behind him. Eith-er that Boche was some shot or hisluck was with him. The escadrillebought him a crown of flowers, thefive francs of which I do not be-grudge. The saddest part of thedeath, I think, was the fact thatseven letters arrived for him the dayhe died.

And now the last candle has goneout, so I'll have to stop, as one can'tvery well write by the aid of anopen fire place.

Received a package from theMisses Kelker yesterday, which cer-tainly was a surprise as well asappreciated, especially the "Wash-ington coffee." None of your pack-ages have showed up yet.

Walter.Somewhere in France,

Jan. 10, 1918.Dear Mother: I flew an hour

yesterday, but it was very bad wea-ther at that, the clouds being veryheavy and low. First we have alittle snow and then a little rain,which makes hunting wood rathersloppy work. Since all five pairs ofshoes are wet I went hunting itj mywooden shoes, which was more diffi-cult than successful, as I found itnearly as hard as skieing, for therewere no hobnails in the soles to giveme a grip as with the army shoes.They kept my feet dry though, andwe sure have some fire now!

A new pilot joined the escadrilleyesterday and it was most amusingto watch him shiver with cold as'he ate in our fireless dining room.I say amusing, because wc have Igrown used to it, which goes to show jone can get used to anything if hehas to.

You should have seen said pilot Iout hunting wood to-day. He was Ia most ardent hunter indeed andwas not shivering as much during Isupper as of yore. However, after jthe meal I found him in our room Jwith his feet resting in the ashes of !a dying fire, in a vain attempt towarm them ?the feet, not the fire, i

A Queer BirdThe saying that aviators are queer

birds is certainly proved by one ofcur members, who is learning to tootthe flute in his spare time, of coursewe have other music also, but thatoccurs regularly twice a day and Ihave grown used to it. but 1 willsuffer from the flute. Fortunately,the cold freezes up his footer whenhe has no fire, and since his bed fel-low refuses to furnish any morewood, we haven't heard from hintfor sometime. Indeed the man him-self presents an interesting study tome, for I never have seen a moretimid man and my wonder grows asto how and why he ever enteredaviation. Just an instance: Welive some two miles from camp, andone day, he, another man and I werestarting for camp, when a truckcame along, stopping nearby to un-load something. Naturally, wo askedfor a lift and got in. We hadclimbed aboard and the truck wasgetting under way when the timidgentleman caught up with us, sincehe had gotten some distance behindas he picked his way over the slip-pery rood, instead of jumping on the

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ags andic memoryails andlie.v becomeeak, nerv- Dr. Ferdinand King,

us, irrit- New York Physicianb1 e , de- and Medical Author,pondentnd melancholy. When the iron goes?om the blood of women the roseso from their cheeks. ,

"In the most common foods ofmerlca, the starches, sugars, table?rups. candles, polished rice, whiteread, soda crackers, biscuits, maca->ni. Spaghetti, tapioca, sago, farina,"germinated corn-meal, no longer ison to be found. Refining processesave removed the iron of Motherarth from these impoverished foods,id silly methods of home cookery,

\r throwing down the waste-pipe theater in which our vegetables are>oked. Is responsible for anotherrave Iron loss."Therefore you should supply the

on deficiency in your food by usingime form of organic iron, just asiu would use salt when your foodis not enough salt."Dr. A. J. Newman, late Police Sur-?on of the City of Chicago and form-

\u25a0 Ilousr Surgeon. Jefferson Parkospltal, Chicago, in commenting onuxated Iron, says: "It has been myirtieular duty during the past six\u25a0nrs to assist In keeping Chl-

Mr. a,S 0' a. "vet no u b a no

'. A. J. Newman. Inte pr o m pfed"nice Surgeon of the through anty of Chle aK o and endorse-rmer House Surgeon, me nt ofnerson Park Hospital, N uxated

Chicago. Iron by ITr., Schuyler C.ques, Msltlng Surgeon of St. Ellz-ieth s Hospital. New York, to givea trial. This remedy has proven

rough my own testa of it to excel

thousands of new rod blood cells, it ofen quickly transforms the flabbychecks of weak, anaemic men and women into a glow of health. In-

ite, nervous, run-down folks in ten days' time in many Instances.

any preparation I have ever used forcreating red blood, building up thenerves, strengthening the muscles andcorrecting digestive disorders."

Doctor E.S a uBostonp h y slcian,who s,

both in thisand

in Kroat %JSE3?E urop canMedical In-

utions.

have said a _2rh un .1 r ? il

times overor g a n i ciron is the pr> 13. saner, a Bostongreatest of ]? hylc In n , who hasall strength Htudled In (irrat Kuro-builders. If pean Medical Instltu-people tlonN.would only , ..

take Nuxated Iron when they feelweak or rundown, instead of dosing

.themselves with habit-f.orming drugs,

stimulants and alcoholic beverages, Iam convinced that there are thou-sands who might , readily build uptheir led blood corpuscles, increase

their physical energy and get them-selves into a condition to ward off

the .millions of disease germs thatare /almost continually around us.It Isl surprising how many people sur-fer from iron deficiency and do notknow it.

"Ifyou are hot strong or well you

owe it to yourself to mafce the fol-lowing test: See how long you canwork or how far you can walk with-out becoming tired. Next take twofive-grain tablets of ordinary nuxatediron three times per day after mealsfor two weeks. Then test yourstrength again and see how muchyou have gained. I have seen dozensof nervous, run-down people whowere ailing all the while increase

their strength and endurance in fromten to fourteen days time while tak-ing iron in the proper form. Andthis, after they had in some casesbeen going on for months withoutgetting benefit from anything. Manyan athlete and prize-fighter has wonthe day simply because he knew thesecret of great strength and endur-ance which comes from havingplenty of iron in the blood, whilemany another has gone down in glor-ious defeat simply for lack of iron."

Dr. Schu-

aWMBHMiMBMDHnnvI>''rr C.

Wques, Visit-ing Surgeonof St. Eliza-beth's Tlos-ol t a 1. ofNew Yorkcity. said:"I havenever he-fore givenout any me-dical infor-mation oradvice forpublication,as I ordl-nari 1 y d cnot believeIn It. But In

Dr. Sehnyler C. Jaqnes the case ofYUltlag Surgeon, St. Nux at e dElisabeth'* Hospital, Iron I feel

New York. I would beremiss i nmy duty not to mention It. I have

taken It myself and given it to mypatients with most surprising andsatisfactory results. And those whowish quickly to Increase theirstrength, power and endurance willfind It a most remarkable and won-derfully effective remedy."

Dr. T. Alphonsus Wallace, a phys-ician of many years' experience inthis country and who has been givenmany honorary titles in England,says: "1 do not make a practice ofrecommending: advertised medicinal

products, but I have found NuxatedIron so potent in nervous, run-downconditions, that I believe all shouldknow of it. The men and womenof to-day need more iron in theirblood than was the case twenty orthirty years ago. This because ofthe demineralized diet which now isserved daily in thousands of homesarwl also because of the demand forgreater resistance necessary to off-set the greater number of healthhazards, to be met at every turn."

Dr. James. Francis Sullivan, for-merly physician of Bellevue Hospi-tal (Outdoor Dept.), N. Y.. and theWestchester County Hospital, said'"I have strongly emphasized thegreat necessity of physicians makingblood examinations of their weakanaemic. run-down patients. Thou-sands of persons go on vear afteryear suffering from physical weak-ness and a highly nervous conditiondue to lack of sufficient iron in theirred blood corpuscles, without everrealizing the real and true cause oftheir trouble. Without iron in yourblood your food merely passes throughthe body, somewhat like corn throughan old mill with rollers so wide apartthat , the mill can't grind.

"But in my opinion you can t makestrong, vigorous, successful, sturdyiron men by feeding them on metalliciron. The old forms of metallic Ironmust go through a semi.digestiveprocess to transform them into or-ganic iron?Nuxated Jron?beforethey are so ready to be taken up andassimilated by the human system.

"Notwith-standing allthat hasbeen saidand writtenon this sub-ie c t b y 1 jWell - known!> hyslclans, t T Jthousa n d h f0 f people I- jM

Insist t ,in dosing \ 1themselves JKfil /with metal-lie Iron sim_

'

ply, I sup-pose, be-cause it Dr. Jniun Francis Sal-costs a few llvan, Formerly l'hysl-

\u25a0cents less, elan of Hellevue Hospl--1 strongly tal (Outdoor Dept.)a d v i s e New fork, anil thereaders in Westchester Countyall cases, to Hospital.get a physician's prescription for or-ganic Iron?Nuxated Iron?or If youdon't want to go to this trouble thenpurchase only Nuxated Iron In itsoriginal packages and see that thisparticular name (Nuxated Iron) ap-pears on the package. If you havetaken preparations such as Nux andIron and other similar Iron productsand failed to get results, rememberthat such products are an entirelydifferent thing from Nuxated Iron.

NOTE?Nuxnted Iron. which Isprescribed and recommended abovebv physicians- Is not a secret remedybut one which la well known to drug'gists everywhere. Unlike tho olderInorganic Iron products. It Is easilyassimilated, does not iniure the teethmake them black, nor upset thestomach. The manufacturers guaran-tee successful and entirely satisfac-tory results to every purchaser <rthey will refund your money, ft Is""ersert by a" *ood druggists. CrollKeller, O. A. Oorgas and J. NelsonClark.

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step behind and climbing over theendgate as any normal person woulddo?what do you think he did?Actually made the driver come to adead a|top while he carefully gotaboard.

Frozen Hands

While flying the other day one ofthe pilots froze four of his fingers sobadly he-had to have medical aid.You should see him with his handsall bandaged up, looking as if some

wouid-bo nurse had been practicingon him. He had been up at 5000meters for an hour with only onepair of gloves on, so I don't wonderho nearly froze. The wonder isthere were not more frozen. Fortu-nately I was flying at 2000 that day,and one feels nice and comfy at thatheight, although not safe, for theway they chuck shrapnel at one Is acaution, not to mention the dangerof a Boche come pouncing down

from 5000 meters, shooting as hocomes. Have not seen a Boche ujJ

yet, at least not close enough to rec-ognize him, although I have flownsomo 14 hours over the lines. How-ever, I have hopes, for peace looksabout as far off as my packages.They have been on the road so lonthat my mouth has stopped water-ing. and 1 am getting so used to thecold that I won't need the clothins.either. WATjTER.

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