The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-10-16
CONTINUED from Saturday,
CHAPTER XIII.
A Nation In Arms.

form-the uniform makers must have
been busy. There were men every
where-men cleaning camp, men dig
ging trenches, men drilling with rifles.
men working at transport trains, men
with field guns and cavalrymen riding
by in troops. Now he came TO little
section of regimental eneampments.
where he saw, besides the regimental
colors and the company guidons,
square flags of crimson here, blue i
there, orange and black beyond. with
yellow and blue next.
These colors brought him strangely
new thrill and Jingle. He knew
what they were before he asked his
escort
That? Oh, that was the Harvard
regiment, made up of Harvard boys
from the west, who enlisted together
The Massachusetts men, of course. are
about Boston The Yale regiments
next, and Princeton and Michigan
All the state universities have
their regiments or battalions. I'm a
Wisconsin man myself You
are from Illinois? Well. there are your
fellows. then They've just been of
on hike"
Jim gazed down the road where a
long, winding column Of infantry was
returning from route march, marching
at ease and headed by a band. which
was playing while the soldiers sang
tune which stirred Ashby at that mo-
ment more than any other tune in the
world could have.
Jim heard the words and knew now
they were being altered just little:
Were loyal to YOU Il1inoisl
We're here to make stand
'Gainst the foe of our land,
And wen show you have sand, Illinois!'
An hour after reporting he was en-
rolled in the Sixtieth Illinois regiment
made second lieutenant with platoon
OF fifty friends and classmates under
bis command
So the new American regiments
drilled and marched and dug trenches
and trained and drilled again behind
their positions across the upper Hud-
son while the regents regiments
moved, almost unopposed, into New
England. Here and there citizens
tried to improvise resistance; but
where they did, they saw their towns
shelled, their homes burned, then they
faced firing squads. At the same time
others of 1.-The enemy's columns con
tinued through New Jersey and into
Maryland, while the regents ships
ravaged the coast from Maine to
| Florida and even about the Gulf The
newly conscripted millions from the
central states were drilling In camps
In Ohio, in Indiana and In Illinois to
be ready to reinforce the army of up
/ per New York.
Texas and Arizona and New Mexico
maintained 10000 men as border
guard along the Mexican frontier; the
rest of their recruits Went farther
west -instead of east-to the camps
along the Pacific coast. where the men
of California. Oregon. Washington.
Idaho. Nevada and Utah were await.
ing the coming of the orientals.
For the Philippines already were
lost: the Hawaiians now were an
oriental naval base There was no
American feet for the oriental fee:
to clear away before the transport
could land troops Oh the California
coast
There WIS no new or strange cause
of war between the Jnifea states ants
the east; fire oiieat simply hal eliosct
the hour waa1l The United States wa
helpless to further its plans ana pur
| poses
The chief Of staff--he had known
for some DAYS both of the a;srnaci,
of the orienta,s and the preparation.
for the regents advance up the Hud
son-issued orders at first for re
treat from the positions in New YORK
but before the retreat was under way
Stone was obliged to change his crdes
or throw the country into complete
chaos.
The nation-the notion with its cap
ifal aud It's chief cities of the Atlantic
seaboard already in ruins and with ali
/ the coast in the possession of the In
vader, with millions OF its people
homeless. hopeless paupers-the nation.
threatened now with disaster on the
other coast would not endure more
without fighting.
Defeat was certain. Stone knew The
army III northern New York was not
| yet ready; the machine shops and
steel works and foundries of the Mis-
sissippi valley were working day and
night to supply cannon. machine guns,
rifles, shells, cartridges. uniforms. the
/ thousand and one munitions demanded
by the monster army. but the guns and
shells We're only beginning TO reach the
| front Defeat was certain. but if defeat
might be turned into retreat without
complete disaster it would be better
| now than throwing the country into
revolution. Accordingly the chief OF
staff altered his order TO the general
In command In New York state
Two fractional subdivisions of the
order reached about the same time the
tent in the encampment Of the Sixtieth
Illinois, where Mart Ware, trooper In
| the First Illinois cavalry. was giving
to Lieutenant james Ashby the last
letter he had received from home. The
fraction of the order which Jim receiv-
ed informed him that an attack was
to be expected and he was immediate
LIZ to inspect all equipment of his pla-
toon, which. with the rest OF the com
pany aud with the other companies OF