Letters From theF r ont YOUNG FLIER HUNTS QUAIL IN AIRPLANE NEAR FRENCH FRONT Hunting quail in fast little airplanes, is the latest experience of Walter J. Shaffer, son oi* Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shaffer of Dauphin, who is at Tours, France training for air fighting over the batllelines. His experiences ate thrilling. Once he was nearly thrown from his machine when he hit "bumpy" air and another time, he writes, his instructor was going to "keel him" because he had not done quite the right thing at the right time. But that all blcv over and now he has been taken over by the American Aviation Corps and soon will be flying under the Stars and Stripes as a Lieutenant. Three letters received in a bunch follow: Tours, France, Monday, Sept. 10, 1917. Dear Father: Seems strange, but I should get more letters from home now that they have started. I only got the first one about five days ago and none since. Things have been happening very swiftly of late for I have been pro moted three times in the last week, the last one bringing me up to land ing class, which explains itself. One Is taught on this field to make land ings only, it being taken for granted you know how to fly while in the air when you reach this class. The field is very flat and green while chateaus can be seen on the nearby hills. It really was a surprise to me to be sent up to this class and pupils are supposed to have six hours' ti.v- HEADACHESTOPS, NEURALGIA GONE Dr. James' Headache Powders give instant relief—Cost dime a package. Nerve-racking, splitting or dull, throbbing headaches yield In just a few moments to Dr. James' Head ache Powders which cost only 10 cents a package at am- drug store. It's the quickest, surest headache relief In the whole world. Don't suf fer! Relieve the agony and distress new! You can. Millions of men and women have' found • that headache or neuralgia misery is needless. 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The last threat one fellow took so seriously that he would not come to class next morn ing. They say lots of other things not so amusing, neither so elevating morally, but they get results. From the reports 1 get of this landing moniteur he sure is a bird, when it comes to bawling a pupil out. How ever, I can't understand French and he can't talk English so a lot of it will no doubt go over my head, be cause there will sure be some bone head stunts pulled off when he starts to let me land alone. Seven Landings In Ten Minutes. In this field one makes seven landings, in one flight of ten min utes. For a new student the moni teur makes the first landing, and you notice how it is done; thereafter the machine is yours and it's up to you to follow his first example to the letter. Since a man rarely stays in the landing class more than a week if he is any good, engine experience and knowledge is very valuable since one is so soon to fly atone. There fore, this morning's lecture was on motors and how they operate. Be lieve me, I sure listened closely, for a motor is all Greek to me and I learned considerable about how to adjust a motor as one climbed past 1,000 feet and on up. The air gets thinner up there, you know, and one must needs juggle his engine to meet the thinner air. I also learned that a carburetor held captive a "butter fly" and why it was there and whitt it was used for. Not satisfied with this, the lecturer orunici *'l we men in landing to attend a class in shopwork on motors and the erecting of planes an hour each day for the succeeding three days. It looks as If I'll learn why a motor runs and how to keep it going. Finds His Pretty Girl. Saw a pretty girl at last. One of I those kind you read about. Talk! about your chicken! Oh, boy! I just] naturally have to learn French now! She came along In an auto and stopped outside for an American sol dier. Notwithstanding the fact that a very good meal awaited our pleas ure nobody remembered it. She had' the whole camp at her feet, and the "begion etrangire" hanging on the fence, everyone that knew any French at all was trying it on her. She sure was full of zip and pep, and my! what a smile! Did not seem to mind our admiration either, in fact, she liked it, said it was only natural, which conceit only made us like her all the more. You know that tall fellow you saw in the steamship of fice? Well, like a bad penny, he showed up again, having finally got in the • American Aviation ami shipped down here. And, of course, it would just bo our luck to have him come bustling along at this critical moment, the good-looking chump. It's a good thing that the American soldier came out to claim his love just then, else he may have lost her, because she sure was . beginning to fall hard for that 6 foot 6 of mascu line beauty. A man had 3,000 francs stolen here last week. Lined the whole "legion" up and searched us person ally, even looked in our shoes and socko and through our lu'ggpge. DM not find It, but later found the pock etbook containing most of it out on the road. Have to quit now although have lots more to say. Have to get some sleep. WALTER. Tours, France. Sept. 14, 1917. Dear Mother: Doctor Gros has arrived with money at last, also with offer to take TRY THIS FOR A COLD-IT'S FINE! "Pape's Cold Compound" ends severe colds or grippe in few hours. You can end grippe and break up a severe cold either in head, chest, body or limbs, by taking a dose of "Pape's Cold Compound" every two hours until three doses are taken. It promptly opens clogged-up nos trils and air passages in the head, stops nasty discharge or nose run ning, relieves sick headache, dullness, feverlshness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow ing and snuffling. Ease your throb bing head —nothing else In the world gives such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold Compound," which costs only a few cents at any drug store. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, and causes no inconvenience. Be pure you get the genuine./ Could Not Work More Than Half the Time Was In Deplorable Condition Physic ally ami Mentally and So Discouraged NOW FEELS FIXE "I was in a deplorable condition, both physically and mentally," says Paul Simmons, of 623 State street, York, Pa. "I had suffered so long from stomach trouble that I was all run down and I was virtually a wreck. , . "I felt discouraged, had no ambi tion and could not work more than half the time because my stomach was in such terrible condition. I felt tired and worn out all the time but my sleep didn't seem to rest me and I would wake up in the mornings feeling as if I hadn't been to bed at all. "I tried about all the medicines the doctors had ever invented but none of them did me a bit of good and I had made up my mind that there was no relief for me. "However, my friends at the fac tory insisted that I try Tanlac so I decided to have one more try and I starting taking it. It worked like a charm and 1 have been working steadily ever since. "It seemed to be just what my sys tem needed, for it fixed up my stom ach in great shape, it strengthened my nerves and mqde me feel better all over so that now I am happy and cheerful with no aches or pains to bother me." Tanlac, the famous reconstructive tonic, is now being introduced here at Gorgas' Drug Store who have se cured the exclusive sale of this mas ter medicine in Harrisburg. Tanlac is also so.d 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. Brunhouae. —Adv, HARRISBURG SSS&S. TELEGRAPH all of we Foreign Legion men over If we so desired. Being transferred to the American Army has its advan tages, moat of it being financial. Would like to stay with the French but realize that their financial trou bles are as great as mine, so will re move my presence if the American Army thinks I have brains enough to make an officer. Personally, X would sooner be a good flier than an officer, but it looks as if Fate (capi tal letter there) has stepped in again, for I made an awful stagger at flying last night. You remember what 1 told you about the lazy nionl teurs I have now ? Well, last night by the aid of an interpreter 1 asked my particular "lazy bones" whether lie would let me fly along home with him. lie finally decided lie would, so we were soon off, and right away I got in Dutch, because he could not speak English and it was quite a little time before I realized that he wanted to fly low and view the scenery. So we sailed along over the city of Tours, little hamlets and rivers, only 50 meters er lip might suffer frorn frost. It was cold enough last night for that, and they sure did dive down under the covers when the windows went up. Awful kind of you, mother, to send mo boxes of eats, but really I am well fed here. As for the prevalent belief that I am getting thin on this diet of war bread and coffee, there is nothing in it. I got used to the sudden change, I didn't mind. I really think it was good for me. Of all things to send me—a loaf of bread, white at that. 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Seems very strange, but mail has suddenly stopped and 1 see no reason for It to do so, unless the censors are getting busy. Neither have 1 received any package you said you sent. I'm afraid that bread is going to be some stale. Quite a number of fellows are losing mall, no doubt due to our being trans ferred from Avord to Tours. Good ness knows where wo go next. It may please your patriotism and you to know 1 took the exami nation for American aviation and passed. Sure, they put me through all that parlor magic stuff, like standing pn one leg with eyes closed for 30 seconds, hopping backwards and forwards in the same blindfolded condition. Not content with all this, they needs must spin me around on a piano stool, stick a funnel in my ear to look for pearls, give me a rigid eye test, and then make me swear to the whole shooting match, despite my decided principles against profanity. Pretty nearly turned mo down on the mental test though. This consisted of a few questions as to where I went to school, whether I was in a hurry to get to the front, etc. All of which I answered to the best of my ability. Doctor Gros was in charge, along with two other high officers after looking over my record decided in my favor. Then 1 swore, he signed the paper and I drank the ink. Half a dozen more pictures were necessary. That happened Thursday and by Friday all the red tape was finished with and the worthy doctor left us with the ad monition to be good and in about another month we would be through with the red tape, and immediately on our passing the flying tests would be made first lieutenants, with a sal ary that was simply staggering. Saturday things began to happen for me. You know I had been in ihe landing class for a week and had not had a ride, due to the laziness of moniteurs. Took me up and surprised myself and him by doing three landings in a row very good. Then X made two bum ones, and teacher, being very hot-headed, began to grumble and shake his head and finally turned around in the seat and shook his fist at me. 1 quickly corrected the fault, however, and he nodded his head with pleasure. I was feeling perfectly at home in the machine about that time and was watching the ground below as it slid quickly by making a very pretty sight. A rabbit's antics far below amused both the inoniteur and myself for he could not quite decide what kind of an enemy we were, or which way to rim, until our shadow passed over him and then he quickly decided he had business elsewhere and hastened to it. Made another landing pretty fair, hut nearly landed in a carrot patch —and I neved did like carrots either. And then we chnsed up a flock of quail. Teacher took the controls then and began a series of evolu tions that were considerably mora thrilling than safe, He was out after quail, and no sooner was the machine off the ground than ho stood her on a wing and around we fsme, no higher than three feet off the ground. I know because we cut the tops off a potato patch we passed over, hit the ground with one wheel, bounced up again and ma le another turn, still scraping the ground and going full speed (about 70 miles); then we hit a plowed field and stopped on the edge of the carrot patch with four wires broken and a bent wheel axle. Nothing seri ous, of course, but we got no quail and after a lot of grunting and push ing we finally got the machine on level ground again. He said J did very well and proved it by promoting me to solo flying (flying alone). Quails and pheasants are very plenti ful around here and since the hunt ing season just opened the moniteurs s&w no reason why they should not get some of the birds via aeroplanes. They all went quail hunting that night, and my moniteur later got three quail and another moniteur also got three. Of course not, they did not shoot them, simply steered the airplane among the flock, and knocked the birds down with pro peller, wings an<" °f the tons of coal, over a half million barrels of oil, '* taxed to Us utmost, this "St. Paul" achievement WM and the thousands of cars necessary to transport takes on extreme importance. N LWjj When next you journey to the cities of the Pacific Northwest N^| MA I travel the smooth, smokeless, cinderless electric way—via the hicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. sS Send for electrification literature and full information —address 99 j. R. POTT, Dist. Pass. Ag't. Kg Rooms 20.V0-7 I'ark Building I'lttsburgli, l*n. OCTOBER 24. 1917. taken to accomplish thisj have given the American lted Cross multiplied duties, Dr. Fitch continued. His description of the havoc and destruction wrought by the Germans with no purpose but to malm France Is the kind to make every fair minded person willing and anxious to do all In his power to help rid the earth of the Prussian peril. (•rrinnn* Wreck Kroner "The one great effort of the Ger man," I >r. Fitch said, "is to break the henrt of Frame. They have left nothing undone that could In any way contribute to this end. ("In their retreat It is simply amazing the ends to which they went to devastate the country. They fight with the spirit of the ancient barbarians, with the idea that they must fght the enemies In every city and town they have left they have turned their guns on the churches and cathedrals, leaving them in semi-ruined masses with no purpose but to destroy the shrines. "After the churches come the city halls, where all records are kept. The records have been totally de stroyed, in many places piled high and burned. 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