The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20

f (Continued.)
 CHAPTER xxIlI.
 A Nation In Arms.
 l KIM was taken farther on. He came upon encampments now, " great groups of tentsTthe tent makers must have been busy dur \ lng the last months. He came in sight of E regiments of men, almost all in uni fprm-the uniform makers must have EE n busy, There were men every Where men cleaning camp, men dig Ing trenches, men drilling with Tiles, men working at transport trains, men With field guns and cavalrymen riding M in troops. Now he came to little S0ction of regimental encampments, where ne saw, besides the regimental c63ers and thes.c camnanys guidops, square flags of crimson here, blue there, orange and black beyond, with yellow and blue next.
 EThese colors brought him strangely Qshew thrill and jingle. He knew l uhat they were before he asked his l c<eort. ff @4 .- 1 4That? oh, that was the Harvard ' IT Eiment, made up of Harvard boys
 m the west, who enlisted together. $ Massachusetts men, of course, are d5put Boston. The Yale regiments n&xt, and Princeton and Michigan.
 ssf : All the state universities have their regiments or battalions. I'm a Wisconsin man myself ss You
 are from Illinois? We'll, there are your < Rtcllows, then. They've just been of
 on a hike" F 4, Jim gazed down the road where Q \ long, winding column of infantry was 1 returning from route march, marching 1 1T case aud headed by band, which WIS playing while the soldiers sang q tune which stirred Ashby at that mo | ncnt more than any other tune in the
 world could have.
 zJim heard the words and knew now tfey were being altered just little: ssWe're loyal to you. Illinoisi
 We're here to make stand 'Gminst the foe of our land, K
 And we'll show you have sand, nlinois!' An hour after reporting he was en- { f6iied in the Sixtieth Illinois regiment. Having seen, active service he was made second lieutenant with a platoon ! kaq fifty friends and Classmates under MI command.
 xbo the new American regiments [s <killed and marched and dug trenches alfd trained and drilled again behind 01eir positions across the upper Hud- Gth, while the regents regiments moved, almost unopposed, into New England. Here and there citizens { tf1ed to improyise resistance; but wtere they did, they saw their towns aklasd, their homes burned, ,.then they 1 faced firing squads. At the same time others of 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 rAhewly conscripted millions from the ! central states were drilling in camps in Ohio, in Indiana and in Illinois tc be ready to reinforcS the army of up
 per New York.
 [-t maintained 5000 men as a border gpard along the Mexican frontier; the rest of their recruits went farther Mcst-instead of ecst-to the camp: along the Pacific const, where the naer of California, Oregon, Washington Idaho, Nevada and Utah were await iIiE the coming of the orientals. For the Philippines already were loFt; tho Hawaiians now were ar onicntal naval base. There was nt American fleet for the oriental fec tp clear away before the transporti c6aid land troops on the California cOnst. " 4There was no new or strange caus, war between the, pnitSd States ant he east; the orient simply had choseI hc hour when the United States wa. Helpless to further its plans and pur loses. NThe chief of stafr-he had knew1
 Tor some days both of the approacl
 5 of the orientals and the preparation v for the regents advance up t',e Hud I ton-issued orders at first for re I Treat from the positions in New York hut before the retreat was under wal q Etcle was obligcd to change his orde Z &r throw the country into complet, E3haos.
 The nation-thc nation with its cap z ital and it's chief cities of the Atlanti, seaboard already in ruins and with al the cost in the possession of the in vnder, with millions of its peopl'
 homeless, hopeless paupers- the nation
 threatened now with disaster on tn other coast, would not endure nor without nshtng
 Defeat was certain, Stone knew. Tn army in northern New York was no yet ready; the machine shops an ' steel works and foundries of the Mis Assippi valley weresyorking day an
 night to supply cannon, machine guns rifles, shells, cartridges, uniforms, tn thousand and one munitions demande by the r1ohster army. but the guns an, shells were only beginning to reach th front pefeat was certain, but if defea might be turned into retreat wfthou complete disaster it would be bette now than thrp Ing the country int revolution. Accordingly the chief o staff altered his order to the genera in command in New York state. Two fractional subdivisions of tn