Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-13
HEARTS OF GOLD
Sadefs Always Stand by the Unl'
b form.
CONRADE ALLOWED TO SUFFER
T1o Touching Little Incidents Which
Serve to Show That No Matter
How Rough He May Appear, tho
Soldier Always Feels for Others.

berve to Show That No Matter
How Rough He May Appear, the
FSoldier Always Feels for Others.
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Correspondence Of The Yorkyille Enquirer.
sCamp Sewer, Aug. 7.-Speaking OF
Standing by ones friends. the principle
strong among soldiers dnd 1t Is de
vsloped carly. T!.at politician whose
Ercud Lost Is that Il st.mi 10y my
fr1end.,," Is u piker in that respect as
DinlElrcd with the way sol'i'r"s stick
.o.''hcr. bnd there Is no do list OF t.e
fect that the aforesaid politician
certainly sticks to his friends. Let a
soldier get in an argument With one
who Is not a soldier and II there are
any other soldiers in the vicinity he'll
t,e backed to the limit. Let him get
ii any kind of trouble and he's got
scores of sympathiZers among his fell
low soldiers. Let him be in need OF
kpldiers will 20 to the rescue at once.
y There Is, or was, q soldier at Camp
|%evier whom I'll call Donie. His home
in the middle west and like every
other fellow whom I've run across
ON that section OF the country. he
n mighty likable kind OF chap-big
Parted. and kindly. always wearing a
nile and glad he's enlisted In the
fight. But like n good many other
soldiers know he was inclined to be
just little wild at times. He liked
to hear the music Of the "ivories"
along about pay day. He liked to hire
a big automobile and turn on the cut
out and hear her 20 "a-chug, chug."
ut forty or so while he reared back
in the back seat and pulled on n fif-
teen cent cigar which really isn't
worth but five.
This fellow of whom | relate had a
position in this army which had to do
with the handling of little of Uncle
Sans money. The shaking OF the
"ivorics" Is frowncd down on by tho
military authorities. but boys will he
boys. and occasionally little game IL
staged somewhere along about pay
night, the players taking n chance on
getting juggcd for their fun. Don't
get the idea that there Is any great
amount OF gambling at Sewer or any
other camp, because there isn't. You
know how II IL. The sale Of liquor,
for instance, is prohibited in Green
vile and Charleston and Yorkville and
other South Carolina towns. Yet one
who knows can buy liquor in any of
those towns.
Well, DOME sat in a big game one
night with q big bunch Of kindred
spirits, Nothing but deuces and trays
tasa ksale sss ,tes BIG; saa
say that you lose on those figures.
Donie lost his roll in short order He
didn't want to quit. They never do
when they're losing. He thought Of
that government money in his care
and he couldn't see any reason why 1t
wouldn't he all right to borrow little
of II from himself as custodian. Civ
ing himself his note or something like
that. He did it and another fifty or
so went to the fellows whom luck was
with.
Some time during the night that
little game was broken up by one
who had authority, and Donic with the
rest of 'em was hailed up for an ex-
PLANTATION. II came out that he had
lost some Of Uncle Sans money
along with his own. There was the
deuce to play.
Some Of the fellows who were in the
party with him and had gotten hold OF
the lucre and some Of the fellows who
never play but who never 20 back on
a soldier friend, got their heads to-
gelhcr. Without consulting DOME or
anybody else, they started in his COM
pany to raise enough money to make
good his shortage. They raised it, too.
in quarters and halves and dollars.
There Is more to this story, hut no
more Of interest in this connection.
This much of It has been related
merely to prove my assertion that
soldiers stand by soldiers, no matter
what the circumstances are. The ques-
tion as to whether or not the boy did
wrong in using this money though he
intended paying 1t back and there was
no doubt that he would, never enter
ed their minds. That part didn't in
terest them. It never does. Here was
a fellow In dutch" as they say. He
wears yellow and brown. same as
they wear. Therefore 1t was up to
them to give him lift.
That's the way they look at 1t. So
far as religion goes. the average SOL
dier may not be as strong on church
attendance and the mid-week prayer
meeting as he ought to be. But so
far as doing good to their fellow SOL
diers, they're pretty good. I heard
preacher for whom I have lot of re-
spect. say one time that putting
stills under the other fellow was
ntnety-nine one -hundredths OF re-
ligion." The oftener I think OF that
statement the more think Of that
preacher.
There Is at Camp Sewer a soldier
who Is married. Furthermore. he has
three children. or course he isn't the
only Sewer soldier who Is married
and 1 don't guess he's the only one
who has three children, though /
haven't made close inquiry into do
mestic affairs of many soldiers.
Prior to induction into the service
he was a tenant farmer in a certain
section Of South Carolina. He didn't
have much except maybe a mule and
a COW or. something, and it was just
little hard for him to go to war.
About a month ago he received a