Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — A Russian Sentinel, [ARTICLE]

A Russian Sentinel,

The sternest ideal of military duty is fulfilled by the Rushan soldier. An Illustration is given by an English officer who has seen service in the East. On leaving an Armenian village, he • passed a beautiful green valley, watered by a river that flowed between strong embankments. His Armenian servant told him that, after a great storm, the river had risen in such a flood that the persons living near the bank fled for their lives. There was a powder magazine near the river. The sentinel who was guarding it prepared to retreat, but the officers who were watching the scene from a mountain forbade him to leave his post. For an hour the sentinel struggled against the rising waters, clinging desperately to the lock of the magazine door.

The yfcater rose to his chin, and then the flood ceased. He was decorated by the government with the ribbon of some honorary order in recognition of his heroic obedience.