The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-11-12
HERO OF AUSTRIA
ONLY A BOY
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real bullets flying and shells scream
Ing?
The answer was eanteen full OF
water which stany shortly handed to
the big soldier. Then the canteens
Of the desperately thirsty soldiers be-
gan to como down stany's way.
When the soldiers found Stany Insist
ed on tending wounded under fire.
they loaded him with canteens. He
made dozen trips between the dusty
trenches and the pond. Then water
fairly sizzled down the parched
threats Of the soldiers. On the army
records it says that stany 'watered"
600 men that afternoon. In the even
ING orders ran down the lines. The
men jumped out Of their trenches.
Many OF them fell, but others dashed
on. Pretty soon the Russian firing
ceased. The Austrians had won.
All through the woods, over fields
Cross doctors fitted that night. There
were hundreds Of dead and wounded.
About midnight an officer trying to
sleep in a shack near the pond, heard
moan. He got lantern and went
out. Now the cry was palmer. It
was that Of little boy. Following
the sound the officer soon found a
little hunched up pile Of crying boy
on the edge Of the pond. Il was
stany. Almost all the. Soldier feel
Ing" had gone out Of him for the pain
Of the gaping wound In his chest had
turned him Into little boy again.
just as severe pain To- liable to turn
any big soldier into whimpsring,
moaning, helpless boy. That 10, al
most all Of the soldier feeling" had
left stany. There was spark enough
left to help stany keep his grip on
the canteen which he had been fill
Ing.
While the officer wrapped the boy
about with his military coat and car
ried him to the shack, the spark Of
Soldier feeling" wouldn't let Stany
drop that eanteen Of water.
"Here's that mans cam" said
stany, when finally he landed on a
Cot' nat HidU ft0O 0SSu VI SsS'"'sJ
six hours. The officer worned
STAMPS story out Of him just az had
to do, just after the doctor had
washed and dressed his wound.
n don't have to go away from
here" pleaded stany, as he finished.
~ should say not" replied the Off
Ger. ''You must stay in the hospital
for a while, but you're our mascot
hereafter. What color horse do you
want?" You have TO be boy, Mr..
and Mrs. stanistaws, to know how
your son felt when he answered "a
brown horse.- They had TO bring
stany 400 miles back to Vienna 20
save his life, but they succeeded.
The fact that he was able to stand
all the explosion-like beats Of his
heart az Emperor Joseph's messenger
fastened the Iron cross to his night
gown, shows that he's getting we'll
Besides that, all the excitement Of
shaking hands with ladies Of the
court and seeing flowers they bring
to him, and talking to pestersor1
newspaper reporters and being photo.
araphed by the court photographer
all this excitement doesn't hurt him.
so he ought to be we'll enough soon
to return to the front.
Joseph Wexel Of the Vienna Tase
bIatt, Of Vienna, knows Stany and il
the right Mr.. and Mrs. StanisIaws
write him through the United Press
he will have Stany write and answer
stany's too good kid to have to
struggle along without father or
mother, though I'm not saying he
hasn't the STUFF In him to do 1t If he
has to. Besides we need Stanys
kind In America.