The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
HEROIC DEEDS OF CHILDREN.
A Wolf Attacked by "a Small Child.
4 Burglar Beaten.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
Probably the most precocious hero on
record is a tiny boy called Leonard Web
Der, aged years. who several days ago
received a certificate of honor from the
Royal Humane Society for saving from
drowning the life of his little brother ag
8. The children were playing with some
other boys on the edge of a pond when
the youngest Weber fell into the water
The others, frightened by the incident,
took to their heels, but Leonard, without
the slightest hesitation, plunged in and res
cued his brother from watery death. The
youthful hero, who is a bright, intelligent
youngster, seemed to think nothing of his
brave feat, and there can be little doubt
that he is of the stuff which has gone 50
far towards building up the mighty en-
pire TO which he belongs.
Quite as remarkable was the case which
comes from a remote corner of Russia,
where boy of years actually possess ed
the temerity to tackle a great, giant wolf
that had assaied tiny playmate the
latter lay asleep. The rescuer seized an
ak that CHANGED to be lying on the ground,
where it had been left by a woodman and
gave battle to the wolf, who finding him
self thus attacked promptly abandoned
numerous
into the wood. So silently was the splen-
did deed performed that the sleeper 81 pt
on through its performance, and il was
only when ne awoke soon afterwards that
he heard how narrow an escape he had
had from a terrible death.
Russia has, indeed, been the scene of
much youthful heroism. Some years ago,
when a peasant woman was sitting with
her little daughter, aged about s years, al
supper. the curtains which divided the iiv-
ing room in which they sat from the al
.oining bed ROOM caught fire, through the
explosion of au oil lamp. The mother snt
dumfounded, not knowing what to 10, but
her daughter, child as she was, posses SEQ
more presence of mind, for, Selling knife,
she climbed upon a chair. cut down the
blazing curtains and then smothered the
flames with he hearth rug. In two min
utes time the fire, which might have de-
Veloped into a veritable conf1agratiou, was
oxtingushed, and the whole business was
carried out by the unaided pluck of mite
of 8. Fortunately she escaped with nofh-
ing worse than several trivial burns, and
her brave conduct was the talk of the VII
lage for long time afterwards.
Even burglars have found themselves
worsted by children little more than ba-
bies. and in Nottingham not so very long
ago a burly disciple Of Bill Sykes was sub
dued and captured by the action Of "a
schoolboy of y. The boy slept in tiny
room adjoining his fathers apartment,
aud was awakened one December night by
sounds Of struggle from the latter cham
Der Without an instant's hesitation the
child seized a poker and gliding on tiptoes
into the room found his relative in tee grip
of a massive burglar. who was gradually
choking him.
Quick as thought the boy hit the ruffian
once, twice and thrice upon the head, with
the result that he loosened his grasp on
the fathers throat and fell to the floor
stunned and helpless. Ten minutes later
he was on his way to the police station un-
der the guardianship Of two stalwart con-
stables and 1t afterwards trauspired that
he was malefactor long wanted BY the
police for a series OF daring burglaries.