The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-05-02
SOLDIER WHO HAS SEEN.
Says the American Soldier is the
Best in the World.
Passed by the Cersor.l

for thCn, he will run ;,,r,Ss many
soldiers AZ Camp Sewer who will not
be crossing the pond for the first
tim" when the Old Hickory Division
goes over to take a hand in the big
scrap some time this year. Especial
ly among National Guardsmen here
are many fellows who have been
soldiers of fortune for years and who
have crossed the Atlantic and wan
dered over Europe scores and scores
of times. Take Dutch" Tilton, for
instance. Dutch" is now a soldier of
the line in an infantry regiment and,
by the way, he's a good soldier, too.
Up to the time Uncle Sam got into
this war or rather just Il little while
before, Dutch was sailor on Danish
merchantmen. He has had berths on
English, French, German, Swedish
and Spanish vessels. In fact. about
twelve of his thirty years of life
have been spent on the sea and in
hoboing in every country of the
world. Pronunciation OF the names
OF the places wher, History is now
being made in connection with the
great war doesn't worry Dutch at
all. He is authority on EurOpen
geography in his company and it is
an every day occurrence for puZ-
Zlcd soldiers to come to the Dutch"
with their newspapers for informa-
ton. And he rattles off French
names and German names Of Bel
sium and those Italian and those
Russian. Just like one OF these new
Browning guns shoot steel bullets.
The Dutch was never inside of
the purpose, as he says, 'of attend
IN some little old concert or other
laugh producer that my best girl had
hand in. His lack of training,
however, cuts no figure. He has
gotten his froE knocking around the
world and his education has been
quite thorough.
He has seen the kaiser Il number
OF times he says. and none OF his
comrades have reason to doubt it,
because nobody has ever caught the
Dutch" lying yet. and he has done Il
powerful lot of talking He has look
ed the crown prince over on one or
two occasions and he has also
chanced to be around when the pres
ident of France, the queen of Hol-
land, the king of England and the
former czar of the Russians happen
ed to be passing by.
There amt nothin' remarkable
about any of 'em as l was able to see
= from the long ranges l have had at
EN-, he said one day to bunch of
us who were gathered around him
trying to get little dope" about
the country where the present great
struggle is going on, as well as in
formation about things European,
generally They are Just folks
though all of them are better look
ing than l am the Dutch has a long
hawk nose and his legs are bowed.
while he is tatoOed from head to
footl and their ribbons and badges
and one thing and another helps
their looks. The German kaiser
looks like the picture You see of him
IN tn" newspapers. He's Il pOmpouS.
hard-looking guy. and honest. those
cartoons that depicit him as the devil
look most like him. The president
of France is little bit of Il fellow
not much taller than |. The king of
Britain looks a lot the fellow that
used to boss Russia-wcll. Won have
seen both their pictures. The best
looking one Of all the crowned heads
who are now especially on the bill
boards because of III" war. is the
queen of Holland. If she wasn't a
queen and if wasn't a soldier. and
happened to be i'm Holland and had
a chance, why niyh, Sc, M TO
her"