Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-12-26

"lOtS or less Il danger. We were ONT
tAe day the bomb was thrown on
-Notle lame and made a very mar
70" escape from being there, for in
starting out for Vespers which is
HeId III Paris at 2:3U in the after
noon we heSllated to 90 TO Nolrp
Dame or the Maceiene and hapDeueu
% choose the latter as we mad recent
y seen most DcautiDuI ceremony
->uuc Dane ana had not yet been
90 the Madeleine this trip WnlIc
ne damage was not great TO NOIre
lame the same 'IauDS' dropped Sc.
-.e4 OIHef DOlnDS, one OF WulcA XIII.
- iouf persons and wounded TWEEN
,y-jWO. The following dav mon.
Ju...DS were GrOppcu III ParlS Wa:
"a, !rI.cn uuiuaSC the "IduDle" o.
-.'l1 DAY pdSaGu over the street upu.
"44IIu -AaNIer was WulnIuS DuL -.
-ltnately he did not happen 70 DE nea
Dca!ttul monument OF art which
German kulture' wanted to deStrc.
III nc Irt"Iutu 10 me uuuurt. .4.I4
&c 50 !1,.ny French acrOV.anUS uO,.
on the watch that danger from DomD.
mas been reduced to the minimum
"a October Z3 it was particularly
exciting to be cut. 1t was discover
"a that a ''TaubC" had CROSSED the
-.l-G and was Sailing towards Paris.
Ine alarm was given from the top
d the Elllel Tower and Il hOtilla Oh
french airshipS was sent out to
meet it. 1T took but a short time
4Cr the German "Taube" to decide
'uiScretiOn is the better part OF va
lOr' so it returned to own country
or at least 20 that part of France
IN the extreme east and north OcCu-
pied by the Germans. We did not
see the chase but saw the return OF
several alrShipS for we were out that
whole afternoon. We were not Ger
tain when we were looking at them
that they were all French for one
was flying SO high that it's wings
seemed to me shaped like those OF
the Germans. You know our only
way Of knowing the French from
the German airsnips is by the shape
Of the wings Of the monOplane and
by the location OF the propeller OF
The biplancs. One French biplane
looked particularly beautiful as it
sailed in the afternoon sun, for the
war arslips are covered with metal
SC when the sun strikes them at Il
certain angle they look like pure gold
and of course now there is much
more excitement in Seing them fly
through the air for we know when
we see them that "There is some
thing doing" about to be done or
that has been done.
/ look at an airship with much
the same feeling as | think Of my
guardian angel--that is of course if
her wings are straight-a German
"Taube" has curved wings $50 has
the devil | am inclined to think)
Some Of my friends are very un-
easy about US on account OF bombs
thrown from German airshipS ana
are urging us to come home. l fear
much more to embark on nome
bound steamer because Of the hOat-
ing mines than / do to walk under
a German airship. Not because ! am
not sufficiently high minded to pro
fer to be blown UP rathea than doWn'
because the risks on the ocean on
mis- side of the world seem greater
nan those in the city Of Paris Parl"
that city coveted by the Germans.
whose rage, in being Prevented IRON
reaching it is spending itself on IN
10ccnt. women and children, on dc
.,roving beautiful monuments OF ar
We have great faith that thcE
-.,." take Paris even thOug
" are not this minute 20 nil.
,.r-s Notw;thstanding they boast
II that they could take Paris n thfe
weeks il is now three months an"
Lolf and thew are still finding sons