The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-01

as that quiet landscape never had framed since the days of its old In dian wars, and perhaps not even then 1 It saw housewives hanging from bud | ding apple trees with placards pinned i to their breasts saying that they had 1 helped to murder soldiers. 1t, saw New l England people who twenty -Four hours i earlier would not have killed a chicken l without a pang of pity surround soli- taTy soldiers and do them to death with their bare hands while they beg l ged for mercy. It saw unarmed citi- zens seized on the roads and hustled to walls and shot while they were screaming for somebody in authority that they might prove their innocence. The authorities of a score of towns were hanged in their town squares be- cause troops had been fired on. In many a park that never had seen any thing more formidable than children at their play hung dead men in a TOW the executed hostages who paid for the acts of men whom they had not known. A.s thousand Iuen and women ef Connecticut and Massachusetts. it was reported later, were shot or hang ed in that one afternoon.
 And over the two states, rising slow Iy and spreading until the sunny sky was darkened, there hung, like a fu- neral curtain over the place of death, the black smoke of burning villages and towns.
 When that April day ended and the night came down there was no place in eastern Connecticut in all the seven Ey miles north and south, from New London to worcester, where men could not see the fire burning towns or houses. In Massachusetts, from New Bedford to Taunton, and from Taunton north to Brockton, there were fires. All the sky around Providence was red with it. The smoke drffted over Bos- ton, and the strangling odOr filled it's streets.
 All night the country burned. All night wounded fugitives lay hidden, gritting their teeth, or, forced by in tolerable anguish, crawled out and sur rendered. All night long the troops swept through town after town, wreak- ing vengeance.
 It was finished in the morning '>The country is pacihed,'' were the reports that went to headquarters. There were no gatherings of citizens any where within the province of the army's operations. They were forbid den. There were no arms left in the hands of civilians Houses in which weapons were found had been destroy ed Men who had been found with them in their possession were shot Men with explosives were shot In all New England tt1at morning every man had to be ready, for his life, to hold out his open hands whenever he met soldier and submit to search.
 Through the two armies ran the or 2 < soldiers came to leash, and the big ma chine shook down The patrols went out grim1y, with a new meaning in their peering. scrutinizing frowns. They found 8 terrorized country, through which they moved unhan- pered
 Worcester Occupied'' was the early news that went through the United States Motor Raiders at Fitchburgs' was the next report. Bit. by bit the enemy was cutting Boston and all eastern New England off from the rest of the United States.
 East of Providence the advance guard of the army that was threaten ing Boston reached the line from At tleboro through Bridgewater and Si1- yer Lake to Kingston thus extending across that part of Massachusetts all the way to Plymouth bay.
 Washin gton received news of an enormous unfolding of cavalry. The reports came from East Brookfe1d, halfway between Worcester and Springfield in southern Massa chusetts; from Wflhnantic, in central Connecti- cut and from New London, on the Long Island sound shore in the south
 (To Be Continued.)