Show the company I 1 feud BY will am H wassell U S As I 1 by at history buu lo 10 ln mm 11 t V corn tit I 1 i wt barked backed up tit hn I 1 hie his tol tollo loers ere awe wilh with 1111 ate johnson of I 1 15 aill ill any tiny no one of the coin II 11 IOUs hut that were to follow lir a ill 9 time johnson luul had iwen been he the fleet 1 I i man ilk in IT the tile gabrilson garil gar ilson Bon 1 coin coil I 1 ill had gloried in lit his libers chev 1 asted about him laev andul f lill nih when he it ills of another corn coin I 1 in ill waa wile spoken of av all a tui rutin ini i they til 1 that 1 COll 1113 hii dl the beet in ill he tile and ae as here there un 01 foundation for their claim 11 blis milled iho the ophillia of or the tile ii 1 4 i of F 1 company boguse 1 they alo also 11 I 1 it clulow claf las to lorit di 11 a it lecault cam to 11 corn coni an he ile was man a well ell built fellow and ait it som baked out tint 11 ll wag flet of or foot P kompany took hlin film out on h off a hundred ids 1 blanid him ill with a blank cir ctr and ind timed him with mith the baat bitell in ho tile coni then tilt billed hick back to the and anti 1 1 company in n tho the face and 1 I compin bick hick at fit them thern and bent P F company a chalk ngy the tho men to nn ill for all the money he tile two corn coin would draw on oil their next pay da das till this was at more than 11 corn coin 1 ill no had bargained barkal ned for but they had in their man and th chin itske is accepted the garrison never forgot that race ilk I li lk unleash tI hounds the to run shot eliot from the mark not ft it lilath was as dran dra n by either li U conci an or V company ally as if the contestant contestants tore doan the th side h b side aide then a might cluer eller ent ui up from H company as its at the finish theli theil man forred forged ahead and aon on b a baldi aid how ilow they ind and hugged euch cach other and the they carried private johnson back to batticks bai bat lacks tacks hoy thoy thought too much of him to allo allow him to walk alk the cinder track origin of the feud had been all but lost in a larger and more Compie hensle when one fine fire morning the colonel a pretty 1 r city niece Ir rived at the post for a visit four tour boure hours after her arrival her heart hani and dainty smile were ere all vio bentiv besieged bv by the respective st second cond lieutenants of compi nica 1 11 and F and tl if en tho the company fight found i i inspiration and was aas maged for nil all it was has worth aien the F company second lieu tenant was allowed to take her sweet nisa to the first post hop following hei arrival the hearts of the men who slept on iron bunks in P F company full of rejoicing nhen the second lieutenant of E company stood highest in finor I 1 E company at once in body to the canteen as a but this Is not a story of the loves of two second lieutenants absorbing ae a was mae tho the competition into which these officer officers of E ird ard F coni companies panics re had entered and ardent as a was va the passion that inspired it it neither have hane more than an incidental interest in this tale ono one october morning the sentinel el in rear of fincers line saw flames 1 bursting burgling from tho file roof of the colonel a quarters qu artera fire number three he yelled at tho tile samo same time firing his rifle the stillness of tho the autumnal morn ing was eone gone buelta blow the re gun was fired soldiers tumbled out of barracke barracks officers dropped their cards or their babies the deserted parade was at once alive with ith men and littered with ith lire fire buckets buc keta with hose carts and with ladders the second lieutenants of corn coin parties E and I 1 rusha out of the colonels houte together between them was as miss but which one carided can led her or ul whether lether neither r or both of them enjoyed this lexe lege not e even ell the colonel a cook could tell they left he hot reluctant reluctantly is the sidewalk and each with a dorting lr tin look of undying love fairly flew new tho the parade to conduct hlf hie own corn coin mand to he the scene of danger the first sergeants met them half may wa with the hastily formed companies and back again they madly aced raced to the burning house easily leafing all competitors in a dead heat beat for first place in every well ell conducted g arrison girr lson each company Is assigned a fire duty some braag the ladders other the hose and others still fire buckets for the latter duty were it d tailed companies 1 E and F but finding no w water at e r for their bucket buckets they were ere ordered into tho the quarters to carry out the colonels olo oln nel nels a belongings with F company rushed its second lieutenant A moment later he hut hunka t ild forth bear ing a divan pillow under tinder pach each arm and his eyes caught the second lieu tenant of I 1 not only calmly standing on the sidewalk with miss Wilc kena but actually actu illy wrapping bis his cape mound her A mortie moment tit later the eiria girls pretty shoulders were ere co ered with another second leuten ints cipe and from front that time alm or in panten E V and r worked without their junior officers the colonels colonel a quarters were mere old and the puny streams of ot water that were thrown upon the blaze seemed but to double the tile anger of he the lame flames tho the little tongue of fire on the roof grew in ill pile spite of all effort to subdue it un tin til tit ahe be attics were a seethie se ethIL liae tits cloud clouds of smoke poured from DUI stole Aill dos and a regi of or men ruell stood b anxious will mill ink et io orless coll pall I 1 Coin puny V do close to th tit building bull dIng each loafing longing for a drat first chance nt at anything arly thing among nelas lic kenia possessions posses siong WAS A dinald ami jut just all a hie tile lieutenants of companies Cuni panlee 1 11 1 and alli 1 to be allowed to do solle tiling an th ingIn in h hir r behalf ilass Ile kons denly ex claimed oh choice holes baker throb link bal er or MISS Ilc kens chorused tile lie ili thit waa as enough for V compan nn tin I 1 more than enough for E company lill just i st cond a start II 11 company blushed ulain into tho the burning build ing up tip tho tile stal through a rain of water mater from front the hose that con coil 1 d I at alii tahl no ito greater height to gioco through tho the moke and flamo flame for the tile missing nilE eIng in mild ild started abend of F company thea the blocked th thy door way ay and packed the tile ut stairway alra eo so that not a man mail of clial tinted body except little dorgan the recruit could get into the house the smoke us and X coln company Pan rasped fur for arf alb but rivin fully held to ite its task limes darted f it I 1 VIA 1 it fainted in n the arm arms of both second lieutenant lieutenants out from ill if parti parts of tho the second floor but 0 company u gao gave no thought to to its singed haira hairs and blackened faces hut but where vaa as the girl anaa aa all their search to bo be in ili vain where here Is site lelch ie is her room and anti its tho the flimel raged with fill nn all ferocity the tile waiting croud of soldiers if tit it the premonition of death in hearts Sud deul euli a cheer broke from some one in the burniet building they hod bad found her the tile li honroe carile smoke choked aljer ran through tho the men on oil the swelling loud r and louder until the outsiders caught it and ernt it back to tho the reaca ers a fotr of applause for their bravery eich so gently the sweaty orpia on the stair stairway muy stretched out to reef receive vo the unconscious form thoughtfully aral ped in woolen blankets carefully yet they passed her down anas aa eho she burned where was wait the dolter live give her air get her away from that building and another cheer was riven alven cheer for N company and to their lasting credit bo be it eald said that V coni con inny iny started tho the cheer th tho to last six beartha with their burden reached the bide walk miss 1 Ilc kens glanced away from tho fire up along the line of of fibers quarters then ehe the gave a lit tie ehrlen there a e damerl she in tho the fire at all aill and prompt ly IY fainted in the anna arms of both second lieutenants at the same moment there wae was a lively scrambling rambling Bc in tho th woolen blan kete A second later little dorgan tho the F company recruit was sprinting across the partle pan lo 10 at though the lo 10 glone glons of satan were after him much obliged to N company hd fir idled ae as he ran I 1 knew know she son I 1 in the firel I 1 knew it all ill iliac hut but much obliged to N company foi rot carroli carr yli an F company nan man eo so nice nicel little dorcan dorgan got dix six months in he the guard hoube house but ho he la Is F com company hero A week eek after tho the fire it tall cit came calno out from clr cost lie did no know the difference between foure retire right nud and toura four I 1 let it I 1 but hr knew how to put a e ring 1 on the proper inter finger of 1148 pretty left hand tha a lieuten ants of companies E and P F bl bini ultan po uly isly aepli d for lemes of absence t A laugh Is I 1 batter than all elc else so to be laughed at ie to worse than al all I 1 elo else therefore F company came out 0 of I 1 the company fud aud with ith flying cot col ore ors |