6 Flying With Shaffer "NO LUCK WITH DRACHENS i LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN COUNTY BOY TO HIS MOTHKI Escadrille Bpad IS, Secteur Postal 102, O. C. 22. Aug. 25, 1918. Dear Mother: I don't seem to have any luck at all In going for "drachens" by my lonesome, for yesterday made tho second time my motor played mo false, only tills time X was very low and could do nothing but come down .on what ever was under me. which, by the way, was far from Ideal. It had rained early in the morning and the low hanging clouds made it impossible to fly with my hope of finding anything to shoot at. But In the afternoon the sun began to shine through In places and the| clouds began to disperse, so X de-i elded to have another try at the) balloons. I found though when I ] got in the air that the clouds were! still pretty low (1,000 meters) and; 11 was impossible to see very far ahead. 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You simply must keep your kid neys active and clean, and the mo ment you feel an ache or pain in the kidney region, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good drug store here, tuke a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with ltthia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity. It also neutra lises ihfe acids in the urine so It no longer Irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts is harmless: inexpen sive: makes a effervescent llthla-water drink which everybody should tak6 now and then to keep their kidneys clean, thus avoiding serious complications. A woll-known local druggist says he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who helleve In overcoming kidney trouble while It Is only :trouble. FRIDAY EVENING. have grown used to betting on my motor, so kept ambling along keep ing a close watch on my map. As I drew near the front I passed over a French balloon. I know It was Frenoh because I was still In our lines and It had tho rod white and blue Insignia on. _ Balloonist Takes to Pnrachuto- t But to make sure I pnssod fairly close overhead. Whatever tho ob server in tho bosket may novo thought, for he could not help see ing my Insignia painted on tho wings. I don't know. But believe me. no. lost no timo In Idle speculation, promptly jumping with hts para-; chuto, and then I bogan to wondor | whother the joko wouldn't bo car-1 ried still further and French shrap-l nel break around me. But happily | no such a mistake was not mads ana. I went on my way much amused at the quickness with which the obser ver deserted his basket, and It was rather interesting to watch also, as ho floated slowly down via tho para chute, making a very soft landing. Immediately (\ftorwnrds they bogan hauling down the bajloon. On to Solssons. I hied me on up to the linos thon, for my presence seemed to bo caus ing a lot of annoyance In that vicin ity. Tho lines follow a small river hereabouts, and It was this stream j that I was hunting, after some dim- | culty. I finally found It and began j following along its course to Sols-j sons. I didn't follow for tho. for either I lost the river or It ran out; of water, for no glistening water i could I see. Fearing I might bo- j come lost and land in Germany by; mistake, I swung around, passed by l the French balloon, which by this; time was lolling on the ground. , found a railroad I knew, and be-1 gan following it to Solssons, for by this time I had given up all hopes of finding a Boche balloon In the air, j as the clouds were too low. There- | fore, I decided to put In some time ; learning the country. It was with this idea that I was headed forj Solssons, following a big road and checking off as I went along, with; smaller roads, creeks and forests to j be sure I was correct. I had just come In sight of Soissons when my j motor began to vibrate very badly. "There goes a spark plug", thinks I, I and turned right, about face for j home. And then she vibrated come j more, so much so it seems the wings | would he shaken off. "Another spark plug", was my immediate! thought, and shut the motor nearly off to see what effect that would have. Bang! Down I come It had none whatever, and since I \ was coming down all the time and, had little height of loose (8Q0; meters) I saw that would not pay,! for I was a long way from tho home I i jost. Tho way that motQr was pull- \ ing me home, but I did hope at least; it would pull me over some decent! i landing place, for there was noth- j ing under mo but shell holes and! I hills. With this Idea in view I pulled, on the throttle slowly, and then it happened for with a roar like the I bursting of an archie something ex-; ! ploded. What It was at the moment \ the explosion occurred I did not j know, but I did know that some j thing was missing. .-Naturally, my first thougrt was that the gasoline 1 tank had exploded, but one look at the pressure dial proved that theory wrong, and then I noticed that my vision In front of the plane seemed to be clearer than usual, also that something seemed to be missing out in front there. There certainly was.; I had lost my propeller. Even you, I who have never flown can realize what that meant, because its the pro peller that pulla one along, and without it one is as helpless as a bird without wings, almost, but not I quite, for I still had my wings and j j could glide to the ground. I was' I going to say "glide to safety", but I when I saw what was under me I - ! had some misgivings about the ; "safety" part. Never in all my life i had I seen so many shell holes ' and they were everywhere too, and ! so close together that there did not ! seem to be a space left anywhere i big enough to sit a spad down let I alone a space big enough tb roll ! along the ground, for with a spad's terrific landing speed it requires! some 100 meters rolling before It! stops. And there I was, 500 meters! high and coming down all the time.' If I wanted to get out of the pre- j dieament without a broken neck It! was certainly up to me to do some! quick thinking. A Long Fall There was not much to choose! from amid all that pitted and tornup ground, but even as I mechanically "cut" my magneto so that the en gine would not catch fire, and gave all the ground within gliding dis tance the onOe over, I mentally com pared the scenery beneath me to a big mud hole into which I had once watched a hoy throw stones. De pending on the size of the stone and the force with which it was thrown there was quite a splash and a hole to show it. And that's the kind of a country I was coming down in. Truly the little Willie that chucked these stones certainly did it with a liberal hand. "Mine not to ask tho reason why, mine but to do and dive." Directly ahead of me I noticed several brown tents whose color and appearance looked American, so I dove for these tents picking out the most likely looking spot for landing as I came down" It did look rather smooth when i first decided on it, for there seemed to be no big shell holes, but when I got down closer to the ground a lot of smaller holes made their appear ance and there were many of them too. Also a line pf telephone polies sprung up, and not knowing or be ing able to see whether they held wires or not I jumped over them And as if that, was not enough, the smooth (?) place ended in a steep . slope much like ybur front terraces . only longer. But it was too late to change my mind, as I was only 10 meters high then, besides I doubt if a better place could have been found anyway. Thus I came scoot ing across shell hole after shell hole waiting alertly for the plane to lose its speed so that I could sit it down in time to miss several holes I had not a doubt in the world that a wheel would drop in a small hole and I would turn a somersault, but my luck heid. for the plane did not lose its speed until it reached the foot of the steep hill. Fortunately, there were no holes there and a quick pull on the stick sat my old war hor3e down firmly if not gently on the side of that hill. For prob f ably 10 feet I climbed that mlnature Pikes Peak and I was beginning to think I would finish the rest of the slogan and "bust", but I finally stopped with the plane resting it such a steep angle its a wonder I didn't slide backwards. A lot of | French soldiers came up just then and I climbed out- and came around in front to see what the damage wag. I Not only had the propeller flew off. I but It had taken part of the motor | with It, and the spectators imm- dlatelr began to cite instances of Just such ftn accident—with a tragic ending.. Cheerful wasn't it? Farlee vous Yankees? According to them, I Wad indeed lucky to escape with nothing lost but tho propeller, as in many cases the flying propeller struck a wing as it came bff Bhd then everything came down in a heap. One Frenchman said he had seen Ave Americans killed at Verdun in just that way: How much of this talk was true I had ho way of knowing, but los ing a propeller was a heW experi ence for tne. In fact, I had rarely heard of It. And do you know. 11 had not spoken two words before! some Frenchmen said In excellent! English "You're an American, aren't' you?" t admitted tho honor and then wanted to know where ho bad learned my language. It seemed ho had lived In Ban Francisco a num- j ber of years. From his conversa- j tion tho, he must have passed thru j Utah too, because ho had acquired j a mormnn viewpoint somowhero. j He admitted he had two wives al ready—one In Belgium and one now I In Paris, and If they moved him to j another country, say Italy, ho might acquire another one, as it was easier to marry another than pay tho ex penses of carrying the ono he al ready had with him. We was en tirely too much of a free thinker, | or should X shy free actor? for mo, and discovered another Frenchman who talked English I felt my Mor mon Interpreter. This second, Frenchman was in charge of the telephone bureau there, which was; very fortunate for me as it made oommurflcation with my escadrllle I very easy. Fans in French Hometimeg, you know, when we gol "on pnnqo" wo aro far from tele phono communication and then wo 1 have to go by the "foot express" to: hunt one, as the escadrllle must he Informed as quickly as possible where their pllote has landed, whether his plane is damaged and whether he is hurt. I had not broken anything In landing, so of course, had not been hurt, and soon had tho nscadrille on the wire.! They promised to send a car for me right away. Meanwhile, all I could do was wait, and there being nothing' to do or see of Importance I spent! sometime talking French with the ! English speaking Frenchman. Its markable how little the Infantry! know of their own atr service, and 11 was asked Innumerable fool ques- i tions such as would the plane hold ' two people, when only one cochpit was In evidence, and djd I shoot the two, guns flxed on the motor as well as fly? And as for landing an airplane without the propeller and part of the motor, and not break ing anything on landing at that, even tho the country was covered with shell holes, they thought that, was wonderful, one admirer even go ing so far as to say I should have a Croix do Guerre" for It, which made laugh as that was all in the day's work. So I told him, but that was stretching it a little, be cause I'd hate to come down In a place like that every day. My luck; would not hold that long. Among Hnn Prisoners Having landed fairly close to those tents I spoke of I wanted to know what species of soldiers inhabited them, and had the surprise of ray life on being told they were Gor- j many prisoners. Never having seen this Kultured animal before I want ed to have a look, and with the English-speaking Mormon as guide t got a real close one- He explained many things 1 wanted to know abotlt them, but T won't put it down here for fear the censor will ruin the letter, as a letter just came from you today saying that the censor had begun working on one of my letters. When I had tired looking at the prisoners and hearing of their habits, j I walked back ttfru the small village , nearby. There was not much left of the town. It was simply knocked flat. Some Shell Fire My car had not arrived yet and as I it was growing dark the Frenchmen j kindly offered me some supper. Ten I o'clock qame and still no car; so they kindly gave me a bed, and with one | blanket for comfort and flies for companions I tried to sleep, but the I flies were too inquisitive and would it. Honestly, I never saw |so many flies! I thought there were a lot here, but It was not a start to what were In that small room. I said they were inquisitive but after several minutes I changed my mind. I was wrong, they were practising landings on my nose, and consider ing how smooth and shiny the sur face of that organ is they were mak ing many bad ones. Many over shot the "piste" and landed In my eye, or rolled down the side of my nose and Into my mouth. What with my face being used for such a grand scale aviation meet, you can believe I got little sleep. Fin ally gave it up. Anyway, many in teresting things were happening just then because the French were mak ing an attack and the big guns were singing quite a tune. Every once In a while tho whistle of a Roche shell could be heard as he came tearing over and exploded some distance away. And do you know, those Frenchmen could tell by the sound of the explosion just what kind of a shell it was. I remember one corn- ip&l EealSffiSfj 3 Saves lime. Worry and Wast© and a lot of dis comforts when the morning cup INSTANT POSTUM rather than coffee. Posi:u.m is free from caf feine, is made in a moment, is de licious, and the trfme of table bev erage economy. I For a chonrfeiry INSTANT i V POSTUM J fiABIUBBURG SdSS&S- TTEUEGRAPEt ing over afid exploding with 4 very distinct roar. The Frenchmen Im mediately exclaimed "gas shell". Oh no, 1 was not in any danger, for these sheila were landing several mIIBS away, Pretty soon several Berthas came over on their way to Paris, and we were treated to an ° ?£. of July" celebration! as the "Archies" began malting it hot for them. Home on Flat Tiro Around 11.80 p. m. &( motorcycle with a side car arrived for me, and I began my long journey to the home roost. For two hours I rode In that 1 bumny chariot and the latter part ofi the journey was made on a flat tire, but It was Indeed a beautiful vide, i ns the moon was out full, and bathed the worn torn country In Its soft light made It appear Indeed beauti-' ful. Flew another plane on a 6,000. meter patrol today. Did not see ai Hun, but nearly frose my nose andj both hands and got a territlo head ache. * WALTER. | Chopping Off Heads Not Executioner's Regular Job Fnrls,—Tho position of M. Kolbler as state executioner does not exempt! him from military service. He Is mobilized,, and his ago places him! In the auxiliary services, his work being that of a clerk In an office of j the war department. When an e'xecutloh has to be car ried out, M. Delblor receives forty eight hours' loavo. Ho goes to Folle Regnnult street, where tho guillotine: Is Btored, examlno* the Instrument, presides at tho oxocutton at dawn; next day and then cleans It and I etoros It awny for the next occasion. '^"TwoEventSa^ LIVINGSTON'S Frida y and | 1 7 and 9 S. 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