MOSBY'S Daring Guerrilla Con 3Etarrassed J^rom the PAt7< Uke reunion of Mosby's Bangers, which took place last week in Balti more, recalls most vividly the stirring times of war, when these same men were not the peaceful citizens of to day, but the much-feared bold spirits thal spent their days and nights in harrassing the boys that Uncle Sam sent out to capture them. It is a long time since the lads in gray had been in a fight ; many of those who had been boon companions are now sleeping undisturbed by the sound of : strife, and over the heads of all Fath er Time had cast a frost that, while it silvered the hair, touched not the heart of those who met around the festal board to talk of the adventures of the days of old. The band known as the Mosby Ran gers was in fact the Forty-third Vir ginia Battalion, a regularly organized troop, in which the officers were com missioned and under the personal su pervision of Mosby, who was subordi nate to General Lee, just as were the other officers of the Confederate army. These rangers, however, were gather ed for a species of warfare which, being exercised in an independent way, was the means of harrassing the enemy and of keeping the large armies of the Union constantly on the alert. As a line is only as strong as it weak est point it sometimes took several thousand Federal troops to guard a road or communications, when they weire in truth menaced by only a few hundred. The Bangers, who were composed of the young men of the State, received no compensation from the Confederate government for their services, other than the spoils of war taken by their own efforts from the emsray. Many of the soldiers were but boys, some scarcely out of school, But the flower of the South could be found in their ranks, while for daring aad absolute fearlessness they had no equal. That part of Virginia which is in cluded in Fauquier and Fairfax Coun ties became known as Mosby's Con federacy, and in a short time was practically under the control of his mea. Ceaseless were thc skirmishes wftieh took place, the thrilling adven tures and hairsbreadth escapes they encountered, but none perhaps are as remarkable as the affair in which they went boldly into the center of a Union t camp and took out from its midst a simnbexing general, escaping with tlnrir prey under the very frown of the ?pus in the Federal forts. This adventure, occurred in March, 1813, just after the battle of Chan cellorsville, and about the time that Lie had begun to marshal his forces foi an intended invasion of the North. Brigadier General Stoughton and a large force were encamped at the lit tle village of Fairfax, which is the County seat of the vicinity, and num- j bers a few hundred inhabitants. The j naen of the force, were quartered about j the place, while the General had his ' headquarters, with his staff, at the brick house which is now used as the rectory for the Episcopal clergyman of the town. This residence is a large one, standing in the midst of a lot of goodly sLee, just about 100 yards from the main road, and the front room in the second story was occupied by the commanding General. The night selected by the rangers was a eold, drizzling one, and they set .lt on their journey from their start i?g point, which was several miles .utside the enemy's lines about the town, at near night. The lines of the federals extended in every direction about the country, some of the Union for?es being at Centerville, a tiny hamlet six miles from Fairfax. In order to escape the pickets the rangers made a detour, and striking off from the main road on which they were traveling managed to? approach thc town in such a way that the Federals could not but suppose the troop was part of their own force. The road was anything but a pleasant one to ride, for the mud was deep as only Virginia mud can be, but the men plodded on, muffled up in their cloaks, till they saw in the misty distance a few lights faintly gleaming through thc trees. The soldiers belonging to Stough ton's force were soundly sleeping, artillery, cavalry and infantry being quartered about in the citizens' hous es. The General was in the center of thc town, and had retired late, having extensively celebrated at a supper at which there was a liberal supply of ehampagne. Mosby, with twenty men, rode slowly into thc town about two hours before dawn, and trotting up to the Court Ilouse green thc little party divided, some going to get sup plies that were procurable, as well as the horses of the enemy, while Mosby and two or three of his men rode down to the headquarters of the General. No sound was to be heard in the foggy darkness but thc slight splash of the horses in the muddy road, and even had any of the enemy been awake they would never have dreamed for a moment -that the guerrillas, as they RANGERS. apany Which Greatly tlie Army. xdelphia Times. were called, were calmly riding about in the midst of their camp, having eluded by strategem the pickets posted along the line. Mosby and his men rode up to the General's house and dismounted, the leader boldly knock ing at the door. The house was shrouded in darkness and silence, but presently a head was poked out of an upper window and a sleepy voice in quired what was wanted. Mosby re plied that he was a bearer of dispatch es for General Stoughton. The head disappeared, then came a gleam of light, and an officer in uniform, came down the narrow stairs and opened the door. In a moment he found himself a prisoner, and was told in a low voice to conduct the men to the General's room. The half awake and startled officer was too much surprised to resist, es pecially as there was a long barrel glittering just before his eyes, so he went upstairs, accompanied by Mosby and his companions. The party walk ed into the room in which Stoughton lay calmly slumbering amid billows of blankets, and Mosby, walking up and shaking him, told him to get up. Hearing the name of Mosby faintly in his dreams, Stoughton sleepily inquir ed if "Have you got Mosby?" sup posing it was one of his own scouting parties come to report the capture of the Banger leader, but he was scared into life when, with-a rough shake and a slap, the Confederate informed him that "Mosby has got you/' "There is no use in resisting," re marked Mosby, coolly. "It means, sir, that you are my prisoner, for Stuart's cavalry is in possession of the place." Knowing it fruitless to strug gle against such a force, Stoughton arose and dressed hurriedly, guarded all the while by the Confederates, who also secured the rest of the staff officers in the house. Placing the General between two of his men, Mos by returned to the green, where he met the rest of his men who had been on a foraging expedition about the town. On taking an account of what had been gathered in it was found that, besides Brigadier General Stough ton, they had secured two Captains, thirty other prisoners, together with their arms, ammunition and fifty-eight horses. The return trip was safely made, though the party, whose prisoners were stronger in number than their captors, were fearful that some outcry might be made that would awake those of the foe who were slumbering. As soon as they were out of earshot of the town they set out a brisk pace and about dawn passed within 200 yards of the Federal fort at Center ville. The grim mouths of the can non could be seen looming up in the dim light, and one prisoner, a Captain Barker, of New York, here made a break for liberty, but was brought back by a timely shot. Passing be yond reach of the fortifications, Mos by's men struck out. at a rapid pace for their own lines, and were soon safe from any fear of interference, deliver ing up their prisoners to thc Confed erate authorities. Another exciting and very remuner ative adventure of the Rangers was when they captured a Federal pay train, from which they secured a large amount of greenbacks. It was io Oc tober, 1864, that Harry Heaton, one of the scouts, came and informed Mosby that there was a fine opening in the valley on the line of the Balti more and Ohio Railroad, so a party was secured and they set out across the mountains for Duffield station, at which place the pay train was to pass, reaching the spot just before it was due. Obstructions were placed upon the track, so that when the express came dashing down it came to an ab rupt stop. A guard was placed over the engine and the Rangers entered the cars. On board were two Union paymasters, having in charge thc money for the troops, the amount reaching $170,000, which was secured by West Aldrich, one of Mosby's men. Aldrich prompt ly reported his luck to Mosby, and when thc full sum was collected it was equally divided out among the men, Mosby refusing to accept his share. The passengers were relieved of their funds, which went as individual spoils. Then the cars were set on fire, and the band went back with twenty prison ers, besides the money and the two paymasters, the latter being pent on to prison. Ooe of the paymasters was a brother to General Buggies, now in the war department. Another time a train was captured near Catlett's station, on what i.s now the Southern Railroad. Honker was covering Washington, while Pleasan ton's cavalry corps was stationed on the river about fifty miles from the capital. General Stuart had sent to Mosby by Captain Fountaiu Beattie, a small mountain howitzer, and it was determined to use it in an attack on the railroad which was employed by the Union army for the conveying of troops. To cripple this service would be a great aid to the Confederacy. So the telegraph lines were cut, a rail removed and with thc howitzer on the bank the men waited for the train. In a few minutes it came booming along, then glided from the track, while the infantry guard fired a volley. In a moment a shell from the gun went crashing into the boiler, at which the troops desented. The hay on board fired up and burned brightly, while the escaping steam made a noise like that of Inferno's caldrons. The cars were loaded with fine sutler's stores and all of this was secured by the hungry Rangers. One Bullet to Three Squirrels. The stories recent told in the Com panion of the manner in which the South African Boers save their ammu nition, and in the act of saving it be came wonderful sharpshooters, are quite surpassed by an account which a writer in the Chicago Inter- Ocean gives of thc -hunting of a Kansas boy in the old days. Ammunition was then so scarce and dear that the bullet had to be used for the killing of more than one animal. Jack Yokely was this Kansas boy. He was "raised" by his grandfather. This grandfather had a gun which he was willing to lend the boy to shoot squirrels within condition that the boy should furnish his own ammuni tion and should know where the squir rel was, before he left the house with the gun. Jack had no money ; but he managed to get a little powder from a traveler for taking care of his horse, and he found one bullet. He selected a fat squirrel which he knew would be a welcome additiion'to the family larder, and set out to shoot it. He could not shoot it on the top of a limb, for if he did he would lose the bullet. He had to wait all the forenoon, until he caught the squirrel against the trunk of the tree, and. then fire at it. The ball went through the squirrel and killed it ; then Jack skinned and dressed it and presented it to his grandmother for dinner, and went back and dug the bullet out of thc tree with his knife. While the grandfather was eating his share of the squirrel and compH menting it, Jack modestly suggested that three charges of powder would be a fair price to pay for so good a din ner. The grandfather smiled, and after dinner carefully measured out three charges of powder. Jack took the battered bullet, chewed it into a form bordering on the globular, loaded his gun, ani was ready for another squirrel. I The next time he "located" a squir rel, very much thc same performance was repeated, though this time he had i to dig the bullet out of a fence rail. He chewed the ball round again, load ed once more, and still had one charge of powder in reserve. Squirrel numbei three was a beauty, but he insisted on running around be hind the trunk of the tree, and peep ing up over a crotch and barking at Jack in the most impudent manner, as if he knew that the boy would not shoot when the bullet would go into the air. ^ Back and forth the squirrel would go, chittering and chattering, peeping from behind the tree ; but as often as Jack manoeuvred so as to get his game against the trunk or a branch, the lit tle creature would frisk about, con tinually peering over the fork or from the side of the tree. Just by way of amusement, Jack drew a bead on the squirrel's head as it peeped from behind the tree, and just at this moment the quirrel bark ed, and as thc boy said, actually "made faces at him." This was too much. Jack blazed away, the squirrel fell dead to the ground-but the pre cious bullet was gone ! ? Jack Yokely has never since, in thc stories he tells of those days, ceased to blame himself for "wasting that bullet when he had killed only three squirrels with it." - The Japanese language is said to contain 60,000 words, every one of which requires a diff?rent symbol. It is quite impossible for one man to learn the eu tire language, and a well educated Japanese is familiar with only about 10,000 words. An Old Doctor's Favorite. Dr. L. M. Gillam, who practiced medicine over forty years, originated, used and claimed that Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) which has now been in use about fifty-five years, was thc best Tonic and Blood Purifier ever given to the world. It never fails to cure the most malignant ulcers, sores, rheumatism, catarrh, and all skin and blood diseases. Beware of substitutes. Use this standard remedy. Price per large bottle $1.00. AKTER SKVKRAL DOCTORS FALKO. 1 have been afflicted with Catarrh f'?r many years, although all sorts of medicines and several doctors did their best to cure me. My blood was very impure, and nothing ever had any effect upon the disease until L used thal Cread Blood Remedy known as Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.), a few bottles of which effected an entire cure. I recommend it to any mer chant or banker of Athens, Ca., and will reply to any inquiries. K. B. SAULTKR. For sale by Druggist. A SQUAN CREEK CHRISTMAS. Jip Jones Tells How Squan Creek was set Back Twenty Years by the Gift Habit. Nobody in Squan Creek had ever paid much attcnshun to Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Christmas or New Year's. It had allus bin so ever since the fust house was built. "We jest went right along, one day arter another, 'tendin' to bizness and tellin' lies, aud the town kept growin' and spread in' out. Silas Draper could never arterwards explain what suddenly cum over him one evenin' two weeks afore a sartin Christmas, and caused him to git up and say to the .crowd of liars assembled in Dan Skinner's grocery what he did. Sum folks reckoned he lost his mind for the time bein' and sum argued that he was mistook in his judgment. Tim othy Flatbush had jest bin tellin' of seein' a mermaid in the bay the day afore-a mermaid with long, yaller hair and mournful blue eyes-when Silas riz up and calmly sez : "Boys, I was up to Fulton market the other day with fish, arid when I had told 'em that we had never had a circus in Squan Creek-that we paid no 'tenshun to Fourth of July, Christ mas or New Year's-they jest fell over in amazement. More'n a dozen different fellers said we was wuss'n heathens, and they made me mighty 'shamed o' myself. I've bin thinkin' things over, and as a liar, as aman, and as a Trustee of this village, I'm goin to say that we orter be more civilized." "How ye goin' to do it ?" axes Philetus Thompkins as he stands up. "By obsarvin' Christmas," sez Silas. "As nigh as I kin make out everybody but heathens obsarve Christmas. We needn't indooce no ciycus to cum yere, and we needn't mind Fourth of July nor New Year's, but we orter do swithin on Christmas to show the world that we hain't bar barians." "I'm agin it," sez Jim Waterfall a?? he riz up and looked mighty serious. "I hev lived in Squan Creek fur twen ty y'ars, and she has bin growin' right along every y'ar. She hain't no Brooklyn fur churches, and no Boston fur eddecashun, but she's fur, fur from bein' a town of heathens. We've got a Methodist Church and a skule house, and we've got inhabitants as ride the bicycle and others as own Webster's Dictionary and hev money in the bank at Keyport. If ye go to makin' any changes ye'll hurt the town." It was a red-hot time fur two hours with sum speakin' fur and sum agin Silas Draper's idea, but at length it was decided to obsarve Christmas and see how it would turn out. Thar' wasn't to be no celebrashun, or any thing of that sort, but folks was to make SaDta Claus presents and go to church, and the reg'lar meetin' of the Liar's Club was to be posiponed 'till next night. Silas Draper predicted that as many as fourteen new IIOUSCB would be built within a year, and that the cooper-shop would be re-thingled and opened fur bizness agin, but Jim Waterfall offered his house and lot fur sale next day and went around telling everybody that Squan Creek was a doomed town. What happened Christmas day was mostly the fault of thc women. Thc preacher had given out that he would preach a special sermon, and Sam Bradbury was up airly and built a fire to warm up things. Nobody went to church, however. It was hardly day light afore Tom Barlow's wife was up and over to Henry Digby's to show his wife a new dress pattern that cost 30 cents a yard. Mrs. Barlow had never had anything better'n calico in her life, as was the case with Mrs. Digby, and it was nateral that jealousy should be aroused. It was so in a dozen other cases. Sum husbands had presented their wives with a paper o' pins or a can of bakin' pow der, while others had bought shawls and dresses and shoes. Breakfast wasn't hardly over before Squan Creek was buzzin' from end to end. Thar' was hardly a woman who wasn't mad at sum other woman, and of course thar' husbands backed them up. Moses Starkweather met David Hobson in front of the post office and wished him merry Christmas, but Dave turned on him with : "Look- a herc. Moses, I want them $;i you hev bin owin' me fur seven y'ars, and want 'em quick ?" "I hain't got 'cm." sc/. Moses. "But why hain't ye got 'cm? 'Cause you bought ycr wife a red and blue shawl fur Christmas-a shawl that never cost lcss'n $4. A man as can't pay his debts has no bizness buyin' Christmas presents." Then they sassed each other sum more and got into a fight, and they was still poundin' each other when .Jim Waterfall came along and sez to I lenry !'anion : "Mcbhc ye don't reinem ber that we swapped jack-knives last spring, and you was to gimme f>0 cents to boot ? I'll take them fifty." "I'm a leetle short to-day," sez Henry. "You ar' a Icctle short 'cause ye bought y er wife a red tablecloth fur Christmas and never paid less'n 12 shillin's fur it. Folks as don't owe money can eat on white tablecloths with holes into 'em, but folks as do owe more'n they can pay must hev red tablecloths to show on with." Then Henry calls Jim a liar, and they had an awful fight. The crowd was tryin' to separate them when Aaron Warner suddenly kicks Hanni bal Jones with all his might and sez : "It's more'n two y'ars now since I lent you 'leven cents to buy fish-hooks with, and I want the money right here and now !" 'TH never pay it!" yells Hannibal, and he gits Aaron by the hair and thar' was another fight. "We figgered up arterwards, and we made o'Jt that thar' was seventeen fights among the men on Christmas Dajr, and afore noon every woman was too mad to speak to any other woman. The preacher went around and tried to smooth things over, but it was no usc. Fur a hull month Squan Creek was in what Deacon Duffield called "a state of tyranny," and it was most three months afore anybody would speak to anybody else. Six different fam'lies moved away, the newspaper suspended publicashun, and bizness run down 'till only one store was left. It was ginerally believed that the town would hev to be abandoned, and though this didn't happen it cum so clus that it took about twenty y'ars to fetch things back whar' they was. We hain't bin celebratin' no Christ mas since that time. The only special thing that takes place is a meetin' of the Liar's Club in the arternoon. and when noses hov bin counted and the jug of bard cider passed around Hart field White rises up and sez : "Brother Hannibal Jones will now riz up and tell us that awful lie about the whale swallerin' the yawl-boat of the Sary Jane with seven men in her." -M. Quad, in St. Louis Republic. Paper Underclothing. The ever-inventive Japanese are now making underclothing of their finely crisped or grained paper. It is very tough, and at the same time very flexible. The paper is not sized, and is not impermeable, and when it has been wetted it is difficult to tear ; in fact, it presents almost the same diffi culty to tear with the hand as does the kid used for ladies' gloves. The garments made of this paper are cut to shape and then put together by means of a needle and thread, and the places which require buttons and buttonholes are strengthened with pieces of calico and linen. One might imagine that a paper shirt would feel somewhat stiff and uncomfortable, but it seems that this is not so, and that after it has been worn an hour or two it no more interferes with the transpi ration of the body than would one of cotton or linen. Who Was Judas Maccabeus! To the Editor of the Journal: I see that Handel's oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" is to be sung in Atlanta Thursday night, and I would like to know who Judas Maccabeus was. SUBSCRIBER. Ile was the greatest hero of later Jewish history and had much to do in preparing the world for the coming of the Christ. He is. therefore, a char acter of singular interest to both Jew and Christian. When, about the middle of the second century B. C. the Holy Land had fallen into the power of Antiochus Epiphancs, king of Syria, who burned Jerusalem and defiled the temple, Judas Maccabeus, with a handful of followers, under took to redeem thc national disgrace. Fighting against tremendous odds, he achieved a succession of remarkable victories to which history furnishes no parallel, recovered possession of the holy city and re-established the religious and national life of thc Jew ish people. His military achieve ments were among thc most brilliant which thc world has ever seen, and have challenged the admiration of all great generals. His name is a syno nym for patriotic bravery and heroism and deserves high rank among the great military leaders of all ages. 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