DAUPHIN FLYER DODGES SHRAPNEL Walter J. Shaffer Gets First Experience Under Fire and Re turns Safely to French liase Walter J. Shaffer, the aviator who writes such exciting narratives to (lis parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Shaffer, of Dauphin, has lately had his irst experience aloft over the line, right amidst the deadly shrapnel, and ie tells about it in this present message. The last letter from him told of his final dangerous stunts preparatory to getting into actual combat ind very likely by this time he has encountered the Taubs and Zeps. Shaffer's stories are classics, well written and vivid. Xo airman from iny country writes more entertaining articles. Somewhere in France. After we came uacx. I discovered Dec. 22. 1917. Dear Mother: — Hope you will pardon the paper, jut this is all 1 have now and 1 am 00 busy Hying to go to town and ret more. Incidentally, this paper vas bought for use as a dairy, sonic hing which 1 kept very faithfully Int i I tilings got too interesting, vhii h was right after my first flight llone — and now the lire has gone out main. Darn these open lire places invway! This living in a chateau is ill right in summer time, but oh, on Winter! Tlie last two days being fairly ■tear, I have flown regularly morn ng and afternoon, having been on >atrol duty three times to date. I'hese patrols go in groups of four ind five and one has his allotted dace—to the right and above the cader. or behind or left as the case nay lie—and he is supposed to stay here. Something which is easier aid than done, for many a Pilot oses his life by getting out of posi ion, generally on a turn, and fall ng behind, when down comes a 3oche liekity split—and one more nan is missing. Relieve me. little Walter was right in that leader's tail "toujours." for lone of my instruments had arrived et. I had no compass, no altimeter nd worst of all no map, which as uredly made things interesting, if lot a little dangerous, since it was all trange country to me. Why, I lidn't even know which way was iodic territory and which French, 0 you can realize as well as I, the losition I was in, for if my engine lad gone bad 1 would have geen luite as liable to head for Germany is the interior of France. However, he motor ran perfectly and I had ittle trouble following the leader, irho wore a crimson silk headpiece, irobable made from some intimate •iece of his "marrain's" wearing ap larel. Anyway, 1 stuck right behind he old boy, for I had not the least dea where the "lines" were. Officer Monroe Praises Tanlac larrlsburg (Nlicial Much Improved In Health Now KIDNEYS WENT WRONG Officer W. S. Monroe, who lives at 731 Sixth street, Harrisburg, and s so popular among visitors to the •ark, said: "My kidneys had gone back on me ntirely. I was constipated and my iidneys troubled me greatly. 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I had passed over "Rheims" and been flying along the front for half . an hour. Xo, I can't say I noticed i any striking thing about it, because I I was too busy playing tag with the 'j leader, to notice much else. I'p Again. This morning we went out again. .! Four of us were supposed to go, but : j one fellow went on "ponne' near the : i field and another couldn't start at s all on account of engine trouble, i So the two of us started. ' 1 being . the near man. taking my place he hind and above, still without map. ' compass, or anything else. It was rather misty, with here and there i thick, fleecy clouds, which made it necessary to fly close or we would ' lose each other soon. So I stuck i pretty close, for the country was ' still new to me. the only things I had ! I noticed on the first trip being a big forest and two rivers with canals paralleling them, which is not a whole lot. However, this bird kept going until we got near Rheims and then turned to the right and went across the lines. Xaturally I followed not knowing where .1 was, but quite interested nevertheless. I had just noticed a ' large space of ground beneath me which was clear of snow and looked as if it had had a bad case of small pox, for it sure was pock marked. "Well! thinks I. this must be the Front." I was not left in doubt long, for Zowie went something with a loud bang nearby, and I took a look in the looking-glass—yes we have one right in front of us to see if our goggles are on straight— which gives me a clear view behind, but no German was in sight, so I concluded it wasn't a German try ing to "pockmark" me—and then an other one went off, with a little louder bang. Still I did not know what was up but my leader did, and he was heading into a cloud with all the motor at his command. Yes m-a-a-m, I was right behind him, not because I was particularly scared of the shots. I was curious about them, and was wondering what they were, but I was afraid of losing that Frenchman.■ for | without him I was lost. And that's just what I did do, altho I stuck so close to him in the cloud, I nearly 1 ran over him, but lose him I did. | Incidentally, coming out of the cloud | standing one one wing. Fortunately j I soon noticed my partner made i haste to catch him, which was quite 1 easy, since I had a much better motor than his. In fact, it was so good that I could not throttle it down as low as his, and this made following him very difficult, since I was always overrunning him and to prevent this had to make figure B's all the time to keep behind him. Shelled By Shrapnel. He did not try any more daring sorties over the lines and we got home without further adventure, where I was told that we had been shelled by shrapnel. This afternoon we went out again, only I knew something of the country this time, for I had a map. Of course, every patrol is made up of different pilots I each time, with an "old" flyer to ; lead it, for we are not fighting as yet, altho we go armed, being still in training. I'll say the leader we had this afternoon was some flyer, for he sure could handle a plant. Flew along at a low altitude for some time (about 1,000 meters) and then all of a sudden he stood his plane right on its tail and began climbing. "Well," thinks I, "if you can do it, so can I," so up I goes after him, and for a greenhorn I don't think I did so badly, for he didn't beat me by much. We nearly lost the other Frenchman tho, he either didn't want to or couldn't climb that steep, for it takes a good motor to climb that way, I began to notice things this time, looking down curiously at the "sausage balloons" and zigzag ing trenches, which made me think of a buncb of kids playing in the sand, but seeing shrapnel bursting i some distance ahead of us and shells throwing spurts of dirt in the air be low removed the idea of Atlantic j City very quickly. We were near ! ing P.heims at the time and I was j wondering whether my guide was j going to run into the puff balls,' ! which denoted shrapnel ahead of us, j when he suddenly shook his wings i | up and down like a duck shaking i i water off his back (a signal that he i : had seen a Boche) and doing a ver- ' I tical virage. doubled back on his i | tracks. I did not get around as quick as he but I beat the French man anyway. I thought we lost him. Not knowing whether he had seen a Boche or not, I decided it wouldn't jbe a bad idea to load my gun. This was a matter of a few seconds but required steering with my left hand I a rather hard feat for me, as my j left hand knoweth not what my j right hand doeth. Naturally the | plane performed some queer gyra j tions during the loading process. | The fact that I was armed and ready ! didn't give me the confidence you i might imagine because I doubt if I j could hit the side of a barn, anyway, j Fortunately, for me no Boche ap j peared and we landed again with j "yours truly" a little wiser. One j never hears the word airplane here, | the French having two nick names for a plane. One is "Zang" and the other "cookcoo," the latter probably because the wires sing when one ?oes too fast. I never have dis • covered the origin of the word ! "Zang" unless it's for the same sing | ing reason, for those wires sure do [ i sing sometimes. Maybe I didn't get the merry Ha! ! Ha! the other day when I insisted on flying when no others would, and broke the "Becky" while making a bad landing. That is another nick name given the skid on the tail, probably because she proves so un faithful at times. She iftire let me down hard. Oh no, the weather had nothing to do with it, altho the clouds were as low as 50 meters.- It was merely a bum landing and itiught me a number of things. To ! day I got all my instruments, alti ; meter, compass, map and watch, the 1 latter being a young alarm clock, , also some paper gloves, which sure 1 are necessary. Nearly froze two j fingers this morning and then I was only 3,000 meters. So what would I do when at 6,000? We get paper shoes also but have nit got cold feet yet. My hands are cold now tho. The fire's out too. Walter. Somewhere in France. Dec. 23, 1917. I Dear Mother: Xo Plying. / ! I'm at it again—fire—building, 1 mean, not flying, and considering my 1 Inexperience am making some head way. At least the fire is burning even if it gives out no heat. These doggone Frenchmen living with me T know about as much about building I a fire as I know of cooking—and you ! know how much that is, for if I had | to cook my meals for a week I'd starve to death. Then they are so eager to hunt food too, generally waiting until the tire goes out before hunting any. Who, me? ? Oh, I furnish the matches. This is the afternoon of a beautiful day and I sure was sore that I could not fly, but the mechanics said the motor was broken and could not be used with safety until to-morrow. The sad part of it was that I was not ordered out on patrol duty and here's a whole perfectly got>d after noon gone to waste, because there are lots of things I wish to practice that I know I'll need in my first light. Was out this morning with another American, and a seasoned flyer to lead us, and am glad to say he con sidered my flying "tres bien," be cause I stuck so close to him. I was supposed to be a little to the right and above him and the fact that I kept this position no matter which way he went was what caused his j praise. Take it from me, no one knew better than yours truly the value of sticking close to "Papa," for what pie I would be for a Boche now! ! I sure thought I saw one this morning, and he had me worried, because I had no idea the course of action necessary for me to pursue, having been ordered to follow the "chef de group." I was doing this all right and apparently the sight of the plane off to our left caused him no uneasiness for he kept right on going. So did I, but 1 got my gun cocked and ready nevertheless, and nearly dislocated my neck keeping an eye on that suspicious-looking plane as it swung around, behind [and above us.: If it was a Boche he sure co.uld have potted us then, es | pecialiy myself who was directly in line of fire, because he had the sun at I his back. An Important Point. That's a very import point, let me assure you, for if you come at a man with the sun at your back, he can't see you until you are very close. Just about the time that plane se cured this coveted position my leader shook his wings up and down, a signal that he had seen a Boche. There I was up a tree, for I had no orders what to do in a case like this, whether to attack on my own hook, or wait to see what the leader does. The leader kept on going tho and I followed, edging up a little closer to the leader and keeping one eye on the "Boche." 1 had been looking for identification marks for some time on this plane, and as he came closer I found them—not the big. black iron cross I had been ex pecting, but the red, white and blue tail of a "Spad." I assure you, I was somewhat re lieved, end gave more of my time to studying the landscape below, watching shrapnel bursting a short distance away where they were shelling an aviator, and wondering what that litle red toy baloon was doing up so high (3.800 meters! all . by its lonesome, and then I discov ! ered why, because the plane I had thought was a Boche was using this balloon to practice maneuvering. Gee Whiz! but it was cold too. one of those bitter cold mornings when one's breath looks like a stream of smoke and getting out of bed goes hard, especially since it took all night to warm it up—and me floating around In this tuff some 14,000 feet high. Do you wonder I was cold, even with paper gloves on. Those paper gloves are quite an idea. And are made of pliable paper and put on under the fur-lined gloves. For our feet we have sheep skin lined shoes, and also paper ones to slip on over the regular shoes. My feet have never gotten cold, but oh, my face! That's where I mind it. I thought my nose was froze this morning, and as for cheeks, tell the girls its a sure remedy for rosy ones, and beats anything a drug store ever advertised—you notice I didn't say sold? It sure makes it bad tho. to fly when one has a cold, even a small one, for one must needs wipe his nose before it runs all over his face—and freezes there, for a 120 mile gale of December air is not by any means warm. This necessitates letting go all con" trols and digging for a handkerchief —oh yea, she'll fly along by herself, but did you ever notice how hard it is to find one when you need it real quick? Am beginning to get the lay of the land now and could even distinguish the sharp cracks of exploding shells above the roar of my motor. It's very interesting to look down on all this and I am very curious to see it at close range. You know what curiosity did to the cat tho. But then, I'm a bird, and that's different! Spirit of tlie Men. What struck me so forcibly when I first arrived here, was the spirit of the men. Everyone was on the hop and interested in everything go ing on around them, and made a point to make the newcomer feel at home—at least, so I thought until they insisted on hearing me sing an American song. From my four months of association with French men in clerical and official positions in the different schools I passed thro I fear I was acquiring a very bad opinion of the French as a patriotic race. So many "ambuscades" hold ing down Jobs and delighting in showing their authority, I never did see, but here at the front it's all different. Everyone is anxious and willing to do his part for the cause, and my i only regret is that I cannot talk or understand enough French to learn the things I wish to know, for after we come back from each patrol the leader tells us our mistakes, and 1 having to get it translated, lose a lot of it. So I have to use my eyes to catch the rest. My powers of ob servation are fairly keen tho, and j i don't miss much, only I do dis cover some things a little late some times. I have a prince of a Cap tain tho, and he generally gives me the benefit of the doubt, knowing how anxious I am to learn the game, for so I always have regarded it. It sure is getting some interesting now, and 1 realize I have an awful lot to learn or perchance my next move will be to the cemetery and then my mail will ha-ve a Sam Hill of a time reaching me. Plenty to Kat. Grub Is quite good and plentiful here and they have a lot of rules with fines attached, which you might do well to copy, viz: Being late for meals. 10 centimes: coming to table without proper dress, 10 more centimes; hats off while eat ing or you lose 20 rtentimes; spilling a glass of "pinard," one franc, or even forcible exit from the room, for Frenchmen consider tnis brand MltM ili'TiligJ .1 fli WiWiiiWWfc—i^. Every Coffee Drinker! -m. should try * 1 INSTANT POSTEM Made instantly. I A sugar saver | Wonderful flavor. I Contains no drugs. of wine very valuable. There is no fine for drinking soup so we have quite a little music. They make it pretty hard for we three Americans because when they get all lit up with "pinard" and feel in a singing mood, they want us to sing Ameri can songs to them. And no amount of insisting that any singing of ours would bring in the gendarmes would turn them from their desire. The fact that they had heard us hum-1 mlng in our rooms did not quite uphold our statements of being un able to sing. We did not sing, not being used to audiences and they were very much disappointed. Getting hungry now and that's time to stop writing, for all my Interest centers in my stomach then. Walter. ITH QUARTERLY CONFERENCE Marysville, Pa., Feb. 11.—On Wednesday evening Dr. Maurice E. Swartz, of Carlisle, will preside at the Fourth Quarterly conference of the local Methodist Episcopal Church in the church building at 7.30 o'clock. 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Ar 'r*i c 1 111 I 1 llle February Sale prices should secure the attention of " " ; every one having home interests at heart. ' Derry Street U. B. Church | Pledges Members to Vote I and Work For Prohibition j Adding their forces to those of the i Grace Methodist Church, the entire congregation of Derry Street I'nited I Brethren Church and its Young Men's ] Bible CJ.ass resolved yesterday to j make every effort to help toward es tablishing the national prohibition | amendment. The keynote of further activity was struck by the Rev. J. A. ! Lyter, who said, "if the members of j the two organizations which have | adopted these resolutions do not stand , up for them when it comes time to ; vote in the primary election then they I will not be doing their duty as Chris tiana," I Speaking of this church activity in ! behalf of prohibition, the Rev. E. V. I Claypole, .iiiperii'.tcndent of the Anti saloon I.eague. said yesterday: "We jnre gratified at the prompt and favor | able action taken, and we are conti i dent that Pennsylvania churchmen are awake at last to the great importance 'of voting right in the primary elec tion." Lehigh Stands Ready to Hand Over Institution to Government During War Dehigh University is prepared at short notice to turn over its estab lishment to the War Department, re lated Dr. Matt Emery, vice-president ot' the famous Pennsylvania institu tion. and within twenty-four hours most of the plant could be converted into a soldiers' training camp. Dr. Emery was in .Harrisburg to attend the alumni dinner at the University Club on Saturday evening. He and Walter Okeson. secretary of the l.e high Alumni Association, were the guests of the occasion. L>ehigh has lost about 200 men to the service, the senior and junior classes suffering most. The univer sity is preparing to help out if the emergency arises and parts of the es tablishment have been offered to the Government for the use of men sent to Lettish for special training in me chanical and industrial pursuits. The fallowing officers were elected: Mercer .Tate, president; Warren Keim, vice-president; P. L. Grubb, secretary treasurer: board of directors. F. V. Darkln, Howard Reel and John P. Croll. W. D. B. Ainey, chairman of the Public Service Commission, was elected honorary president of the club. Pine Street Sunday School Begins Its 61st Year With a Big Celebration Almost 1,000 members of the Pine Street Presbyterian Sunday school at tended the sixtieth anniversary ob servance yesterday afternoon in the Technical high school auditorium. Features of the program were exer cises by the junior, primary and kin dergarten departments and a short and interesting address by the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presby terian Church. Dr. Chapman also spoke at the morning nnd evening services in Pine Street Church. Henrv H. McCormick, superinten dent of the school, presided at the anniversariy services. The program included the 1-oiig Meter doxology, in vocation by the Rev. John M. Warden; hynins, exercises by the junior, prl- 3 Mary and kindegarton boys and girls; prayer by the Rev. Dr. I* S. Mudgre; address by Dr. Chapman, and benedic tion by the Rev. H. H. Baldwin. Announcement was • made bv Mr McCormick that Thomas C. Wallace, librarian of the Sunday school, who had not missed an anniversary ser vice In flfty-nine years, could not be present yesterday because of illness. A letter from Mr. Wallace was read. The address by Dr. Chapman was on "How to Find Christ." He Rave a short outline of the messages of the four Kospels of Matthew, Mark. L.uke and .lolin. During; his talk he told many interesting stories of his ex periences in his travels around the world. 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