The Detroit times., 1914-11-12
Mr.. AND MRS.
STANISLAWS, YOUR
6.YEAR-OLD is HERO

morning There was terrlnc rush
& ne about. There was more coffee
>>vith some bread. The bandsmen
n1cked up their horns and things and
&oHnn footing like Barnum q Bailey .
Ind. % everyone started the march.
xhore were 100000 men, but Stanny
=1fnck TO the band. still cant see
at u was Stanny's fault that these
kondsmen didn't stop playing and
Eoak up and 90 home 70 their wives
md children as other bandsmen do.
There's q censor who has TO read
What I'm writing, and II ] tell too
such he'll tear up the whole thing.
10 can't tell you at what place II
happened, but all OF sudden there
<01s shooting far up ahead. Men be
IN 20 yell; oficers gave orders; sol
Ior1 rot out their shovels and began
y dig trenches. Stanny found him
o1f IN q big field, near good sized
ond. The men lay down In the
|lonches and waited. Stanny crawled
|1nto . trench beside the big soldier
'ghose blanket he had shared. The
ring grew nearer and nearer. Pretty
1oon some men In nearby trench
oknn 70 shoot. Stanny liked II. II
oundsd like million nrecrackeres
ping on; Il didn't stop for hours.
hat was the beauty OF II.
6talny and the soldiers had lain
y the bitches eight hours when sud-
only the big soldier turned to STAN
~ and said
'.say, kid, viii you take my can
Zen over to that pond and get me
|Dome water? I'll die II I'll don't get
drink pretty soon"
Would Stanny carry water to real
o16iers In o real battle, with real
lad and dying men around him, and
tai bullets flying and shells scream
The answer was canteen full OF
9oter which Stanny shortly handed to
NE big soldier. Then the canteens Of
NE desperately thirsty soldiers began
1<o come down Stanny's way. When
1Ae soldiers found Stanny insisted
<IDon tending wounded under FIRE"
Hoy loaded him with canteens. He
1ade dozen trips between the dusty
|.ronches and the pond. The water
n1xiy sixxled down the parched
kroats Of the soldiers. On the army
|ccords Il says that Stanny "watered"
10 men that afternoon.
n the evening orders ran down the
,Ines. The man jumped out Of their
1ronches. Many OF them fell. but
|o<hGB dashed on. Pretty soon the Rus
0lnn firing ceased. The Austrians had
Won.
All through the woods and over the
1e1ds and along the roads the Ian
|torns OF the Red Cross doctors fitted
hat night. There were hundreds OF
6ead and wounded. About midnight
m o6lcer trying to sleep on a shack
'noar the pond. heard a moan. He got
~ lantern and went out. Now the cry
vns palmer. II was that of a little
boy. Following the sound the officer
poon found little hunched up pile OF
|crying boy on the edge OF. the pond.
"a was Stanny.
Almost all the soldier feeling" had
zone out OF him, for the pain of a
Daping wound In his chest had turned
HIN into q little boy again Just as
1overe pain Is liable to turn any big
colder into a whimpering, moaning
helpless boy That Is, almost all OF
/. he 'Soldier feeling" had left Stanny.
there was spark enough left TO help
( nanny keep his grip on the canteen
which he had been filling.
. While the officer wrapped. the boy
With HIS military coat and carried him
, % the shack, the spark OF Soldier
feeling" wouldn't let Stanny drop that
kcanteen Of water.
Here's that mans can" said Stan.
10y when finally he landed on a cot.
That man" had been In eternity six
&ourn.
The officer wormed stanny's story
M OF him Gust as had to dol after
~ doctor had washed and dressed
- Wound. don't have to 20 away
om here pleaded Stanny, as he fin
Y Should say not" replied the ON
- You must rest in 'NeN hospital
u awhile, but you're our - here
TER. What color hcl 10 you
You have to be boy. Mr.. and Mrs.
<1nislaws. to know how your son felt
Men ne answered. "A brown horse"
s They had TO bring Stanny 400 miles
.1ck to Vienna TO save his life, but
&oy succeeded.
The fact that he was able 10 stand
the explosion-like beats OF his
nrt "a Emperor Josephs messenge-
cned the Iron Cross TO his night
~ shows that he's getting well,
- that, all the excitement 81
~ hands with ladies' from the
~ oni0lnk flowers they bring
90 talking to pestersoms