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New-York tribune., 1913-12-27
McGuire's Big Business.

WU.r asked h.s business, the "I'"'''
mentioned these concerns oI "h''h NJ
,vs. the head OF connected Win: Ne
Ggir,. Contracting COMPANY. doIns oHsi-
,... ,r the South. Mcclure a Go. con
tracing. .n North Carolina; cape Cd
Gravel and sand Company. steam sh"N'I
pr.ut In North Carolina. Canadian MAG
ni.ite COMPANY United States fia''l'I
and Guaranty Company, Mcclure u Co.
insurance. az syracuse. and syracuse
Printing and Publishing Company.
81 also own" h, said. printing and
pibishing plants ir six or seven o'h'i
cities. and otheg thinbs cannot thinA
oi IL the moment
Mcclure var called 10y Henry \ hN-
biuo. attorney Tor the Narner-VdInIan
Ssphalt Company, 10 s,ve testimony con
reru'ug the bribery accuse suon ma",
,p,lntt him iu the charges against Johh
y Carlisle. state Highway COMMISSIONS .
The -Quinlan COMPANY. Whlch
brougnt these charges. alleged mat Nc
Guir,. as The representative "t the bai
uer Asphalt Company, Iassed money u
Governor Sulzer and John \. hehhess'
The SulZer Investigator SHORTY aIteT Il
conference at CooperHtown, attended -!
Sulzer. Carlisle. Hcnnessy ana others.
Following this conference IT - charged
that an order from the Highway Com
omission eliminated all asphalt III ROAD
nu,lding exceut that of the Barber CON-
many. a subsidiary OF the Asphalt Trusl.
I'm leading up TO this bribery accusation
Rubiuo cot from the witness the admi'
.io, thai he had been general scllins
agent throughout the United states W,
the Barber company, ana th"t ne h"u
owned about 5000" worth o' the com
pany's stock. The witness aso lost ho
opportunity TO display MS OiuerheS7
ogainsr the Warner-QGi1lan company
which he said had yicIously ssSaIled NM
for a dozen wears. tUs attorney seVer"'
times had to remind him to be caretul.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-27
To Attack Two Cities.

Cmdsd Camarsgo is TO be retaken Dy
one OF the divisions OF Castro's army, ac-
cordng 10 Estrada. Juncture with n
command from the south will be formed
there and the reinforced division VIII
move on Juarez while the other two diVi-
sons sent from Ojnaga are attacking
Chihuahua city from two sides.
For the first time I'm twelve months
train was run over the Mexico North
western Railway from Juarez TO MADEIRA
to-day. The road has been restored ny
the company under protection by rebel
troops under the threat Of General villa
that. unless it was rebuilt and operated
he would conhscate and operate II for
the rebel government
Millions of feet OF lumber owned by
the Pearson Company is awaiting ship
ment at MADEIRA, and tine first effort VIII
be 10 get the lumber to the border. The
rebels will also use the road for troop
movements and to carry supplies south
The Northwestern extends from Juarez
10 Chihuahua city. but is west Of the
country through which the Federal forces
are moving.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-27
Federals Say They Have
Cut Off Villas Men
from Chihuhua.
MERCADO NEARLY
SHOT BY SALAZAR
Commander at Ojinaga Drew
Revolver on General, Accus'
ing Him of CoWardice.
BY Telegraph to The Tribune.l

FL Paso. Tex. Dec. 26.-Bearlns seCret
advices TO the Mexican Consulate mere
CAPTAIN Jose Estrada, of the O)ihaed
Federal garrison, arrived to-day WIN III
formation that the Federal forces az
Oiinaga are moving i'm three columns 10
attack Juarez and Chihuahua CITY, ana
that General Francisco Castro the ne"
commander. is not lodging the reoei
army but Is seeking II.
clash between the vangua'ds OF one
Federal body and the army sent fro"'
Chihuahua to Ojinaga already mas oo-
CURED I'm the desert west OF OjlnaSa'
Captain Estrada SAYS the rebels retreat
ed after the sllirmish and the FederaIs
continued moving toward Juarez.
Rebel leaders say that final batue
for the possession Of Eastern Chihuahua
probably will be fought in the desert
country west of OjinaSa. Otherwise the
Federals will succeed in getting either 10
Juarez or Chihuahua.
That the rebel force sent against o!'-
naga by General Pancho Villa has been
outuitted and is wandering in the desert
seeking the Federals is the declaration
OF the latter here tonight They say
Castro. men have moved around the
rebels. cutting them off from Chihuahua
and rendering them useless for the pro-
lection OF either city.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-24
THE WAR DAY BY DAY
Fifty Years Ago.
Dec "a 1S63-Federal Officers in Libby Prison Gave Christmas Eve En-
tertannen which eded Minstrel Show and Masquerade Ball
An Attempt Holiday Cheer Amid Melancholy Surrounding
cwritten expressly for The Herald,

Fifty years ago today few buoyant
spirits among the 1.10o Federal officers in
Libby Prison, Richmond, attempted to
brighten the gloom of their surroundings,
deeper in the holiday period than at any
other time, by giving a Christmas Eve
entertainment.
Among all the inmates of Libby Prison,
there were few-wh had not known the
Joys of the Christmas season in homes
of plenty and refinement. Not few
were natives of Europe, where the holi-
day season had a deeper significance
than in some of the newer and more
Puritan communities of the Northern
States. All looked back with the deep
sentiment of home love in their hearts
to the last Christmas they had spent
with kith and kin, before the war called
them to the hardships Of march, battle
and prison.
In the case OF many of the prisoners
months had passed since they had
breathed the sweet air of freedom. The
arrangements for exchanging prisoners
had been interrupted, through bubbles
on the part of both belligerents, and the
heart-sickness of hope deferred made the
lot Of the prisoners doubly hard to bear.
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number, the performers being seated on
semi-circle of cracker boxes. Musical
instruments were not forbidden in the
prison, and the guitar was favorite.
The character of those played by the
troupe" is not stated. OF the songs that
followed. two never failed to appeal to
the soldiers in the war, whether in camp
Or in prison. These were, who VIII
Care for Mother Now?" and DO They
Miss Me at Homer The title of the lat
ter was incorrectly given on the program
as "Do They Think of Me at Homer
Both pieces appear in collection of war
songs that was published at Boston. DO
They Miss Me at Homer" was written
by s. M. Grannis, and was first published
in 1852 The : ords of the first verse were
as follows:
Do they miss me at home.
Do they miss me!
rTWould be assurance most dear.
To know that this moment some loved one
Were saying, l wish he were here
To feel that the group at the freside
Were thinking Of me As l roam.
o, yes, 'twould be JOY beyond measure.
To know that they missed at home.
A SONG of Mother.
The text of Who viii Care for Mother
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been enjoyed, for when the perform
ance ended. the audience showed a dis
position to continue the entertainment
'As the call, lights out" was by spe-
cial order in our favor delayed until
midnight wrote Lieut.. SZsbad. eve
were enabled, after the theatricals, to
make efforts at sundry other sports.
up We marched to the 'bcn-ton'-th5
central room of the prison-Where a
purely musical entertainment was ex-
temporized." Lieut.. Jones gave. "D5
They Miss Ne at Homer" A Hunga-
rian major, 'tfTe most sickly looking
figure in the prison, guitar in hand. sang
Schubert's 'Serenade:' whilst Lieut.. RAN
dolph, United States Artillery. called
forth much applause by a witty ditty OF
his own creation"
In the midst of these meIodious
strains. creative at once of mirth and
continues the account already quoted.
THE guard, with rigorous punctu-
ality, now began to send US up the echo
OF the hated lights out"
The solitary tallow candle, threaten
ing soon to expire in its own sweat,
had to be extinguished, but not SO the
strains Of music.
There we stood. crowded into the cor
ncr Of the room, performing and listen
ing to the grand finale in the darkness.
Now every one withdrew to his own
quarters-an operation, as many lay
stretched out on the floor, by no means
easy in the dark. There was lii
tie music in our souls when We woke up
Eext morning to the sound Of the
roll calr.''
Tomorrew-AyereII Ends March
Through Ice-covered West Virginia
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Adjutant n. c. Knaggs, business
agent for the Libby Minstrels,' and a
reproduction of a program used on the
evening of fifty years ago today.
COriginals in possession of Capt. f.
W. Atwood, Co. B., 18th Maine Volun-
teers, Auburn, Me-
The programs were printed in a
Richmond printing shop and paid for
by the Libby prisoners.
Some of them, whose strength was not
great, had been buoyed up with hope of
exchange before the holiday season.
Now they were cast down with despair.
1t was to cheer these detected ones, as
we'll as to strengthen their own souls,
that the projectors of the Christmas Eve
entertainment had set to work on their
''show." 1t was sorry business, but they
bTavely made the best of it, knowing that
a laugh is often balm for aching hearts
While they received no announcement
from the prison officials, they were free
to make such arrangements as they
might for their show" and were per-
mitted TO use the prisoners. kitchen for
their "theater."
Libby Prison was divided into three
distinct parts by transverse walls of
brick, and the kitchen was in the central
part, on the ground floor. Its windows
were barred with iron, and were destitute
of glass.
Inc FURNITURE OF tnlS room consisted
of three cooking stoves, on which the
prisoners could cook their rations, sew
eral long pine tables. with benches built
along them. and a water trough, with
faucets that always leaked. Owing to
the overflow of the trough the floor was
usually wet. 1t was always dirty.
10 They Miss Me at Hemef
The stage for the entertainment was
platform in a corner Without tools or
other materials than a table and few
boxes, no elaborate stage effects could
be secured The scenery was COM
posed of army blankets. The stage, in
deed, was fitting, for the pale, bearded
and not always clean actors.
Several of the witnesses of the per-
formance have left references to the en-
tertainment. One of these is to be found
ir the diary of Lieut.. Col Emeric SZa-
bad, a Hungarian officer, who, had served
in the Third Corps and was captured
near Bealton. October &c, 1858.
He describes the ragged, ptIe-faced
audience" standing for want of chairs,
the Confederate guards peeping with
amused faces through the bars of the
windows, the "'wretched structure of the
extemporizei stage in the cold, splashy,
thickly-reeking kitchen" ~and gives an
OutliLe of the program. which, despite
the general poverty, had been printed at
our expen3e."
The performance began with a musical
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TWO DEANS TO ATTEND.
G. w. U. to Be Represented at Con.
vention of Scientists.

George Washington University will be
represented by two of its deans at the
annual meeting of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
to be held at Atlanta, Ga, December g
TO January 3. These representatives are
DR.. William Carl Ruediger, dean of the
Teachers College and DR.. Charles Ed
ward Munroe, dean Of the School OF
Graduate Studies.
Dean Ruediger will attend as the repre-
sentative of the Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, of which he
is secretary-treasCrer. To Dean Munroe
has been awarded one of the highest
honors Of the association-that of deliy-
ering one of the two public lectures
complimentary to the citizens of Atlanta,
which are to be given during the convo.
cation. The subject of his lecture will
be THE Explosive Resources of the
Confederacy During the War and Now;
A Chapter in Chemical History"
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fifteen minutes. Drain of and put in
clear. cold water, letting II boil slowly
for two hours. Remove from the kettle
and when cool enough to handle, cut
OF the rind. covering the upper part
with a thick paste Of -four and water
then put in a pan half filed with water
or sweet cider and bake till tender. Lift
into another pan and after removing
the crust stick whole cloves in the TOP
and sides, sprinkle with fine cracker
crumbs and set in the oven to brown.
Garnish with a fancy paper frll over
the little bone, with parsley over the
top and on the platter.
Alligator Pear and Grapefruit Salad
Peel, cut in quarters, and remove the
seeds and pith from two good-siZed ALL
gator pears, and cut them in slices. Cut
a grapefruit in half across the sections
Remove the seed pockets and seeds.
Loosen the fruit from the rind by run
ming q sharp knife all along the inside,
then lift out the sections with spoon.
Mix the grape pulp and slices Of the
pears lightly in a salad bowl. Pour over
the whole a French salad dressing. with
less than the usual amount OF vinegar
and use papriks. Serve with cream
cheese and thin toasted waters.
CHRISTMAS NIGHT SUPPER.
Bouillon in cups
Creamed Mushrooms
Waldorf Salad.
Wine Jelly Nut Cake
Coffee Tea
CrcAmed Mushrooms.
This recipe is particularly adapted TO
cooking in a chatting dish. Prepare the
mushrooms by washing and peeling.
Take two rounding tablespoonfuls OF
butter for each pound OF mushrooms and
melt in the blazer. Add the mushrooms
and cook slowly for ten minutes. Add
half cupful of cream, simmer five min
utes, season and serve on toast.
English StumnE.
Chop a little fat salt pork enough to
make one-fourth of a cupful. Add one
orion finely chopped, and cook ten min
utes. Strain and add two cupfuls OF hot
riceJ potatoes, one and One-tourth cup
fuls of soft stale bread crumbs, one table
spoonful of butter, half a cupful of
minced celery, half 4 cupfsi of English
walnuts in small pieces, and one egg
slightly beaten. Season with salt, pepper
and sage. II this dressing is too rich for
your taste any turkey stuffing will do
just as well. But use the herb. sage, in
stead of the usual kind Of seasoning.
Apple and Cranberry Jelly.
Wash two quarts of tart apples and cut
in small pieces without pairing. Place in
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a kettle and add enc quart of cranber-
ries, and almost cover with cold water.
Bring slowly to the boiling point and sim
mer uncovered for one hour. Strain
through a jelly bag; there ought to be
about three pints of juice. Return this
to the kettle, place over the fire and boil
twenty minutes, then add three pounds
of sugar which has been warmed. Cook
for five minutes, or till it will jelly. Pour
into cups or molds and let stand to
stiffen.
Sweethreads- In Cnses. GA.
Parboil two pairs of sweetbreads and
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remove the membranes; separate them
into small pieces. Melt a tablespoonful
of butter. add half a tablespoonful OF
butter and half a tablespoonful of flour.
a pinch of salt, a dash of cayenne, mix
and add half a cupfui of hot milk and
half a cupful of cream slowly. Cook to-
gether until smooth. Serve in patty
shells or timbales.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR
CHRISTMAS MENU
Woman of Small Means and One
Servant Can Have Delicious
Holiday Repast.

The housewife with only one servant
can serve a delicious dinner on Christ
mas just as well as her richer sister II
she only takes the time to plan out her
meal and trains the maid to pass the
dishes properly.
Oysters on Half Sheel. Horse Radish-
Bread Sticks. Olives.
Cream of Asparagus Soup
Roast Goose With English Stuffing.
Feathered Celery.
Potato Puffs. Turnips.
Apple and Cranberry Jelly.
Sweetbreads in Cases.
Mince Pie. Plum Pudding.
Fruit. Nuts.
Cheese. Coffee. Crackers.
Cream of Asparagus Soup.
Melt one-fourth of a cupful Of butter.
and add one-fourth of a cupful Of flour.
When thoroughly blended. add two cup
fuls of cold milk, and cook till thick.
Add two cupfuIs Of asparagus which
has been boiled tender, and about two
cupfuls of the water In which the as
paragus was boiled. Season with salt
and pepper. and II too thick dilute witt
boiling milk. or stock. to the proper con-
sistency. Add a tablespoonful OF whip
ped cream and a few OF the aspara-
gus tips to each plate OF soup.
Roast Goose.
SINCE and remove. the pin feathers.
wash thoroughly the skin and then draw
the bird (which is removing the inside
contents). Wash inside In cold water and
wipe dry. Stuff Il with the English
dressing, place the wings and legs close
to the body and tie them firmly. Sprinkle
it with salt and pepper, and lay a few
thin strips of salt pork over the breast.
Place on the rack In the dripping pan,
add little hot water and put IN hot
oven and bake two hours basting about
every fifteen minutes with the fat In the
pan, removing the pork tho last half
hour of the cooking. When done place
on q hot platter. cut tho string and re-
move II and skewers. Garnish with cups
made of halves Of small red apples 1lled
with apple-sauce and watercress.
Baked JIam.
Trim or all the biaokened parts and
place the ham In cold water to boil for
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Now" written by Charles C. Sawyer. is
as follows:
Why am 50 weak and weary?
See how faint my heated breath,
All around to me seems darkness
Tell me. comrade, is this death!
All! how well know your answer;
To my fate meekiy bow,
If you'll only tell me truly,
Who will care for mother now!
CHORUS
som with angels III be marching,
With bright lsurels on nv brow,
! have for my country fallen,
Who viii care for mother now!
Who will comfort her in sorrOwH
Who will dry the falling tear,
Gently smooth her Wrinkled forehead
Who will whisper words Of cheer?
Even think see her
Kneeling. praying for me! how
Can leave her in her anguish:
Who will care for mother now?
Let this knarsack be my pillow,
And my mantle be the sky;
Hasten. comrades To the battle.
will like a soldier die.
Soon with angels I'll be marching.
With bright laurels my brow.
l have for my country fsllen;
Who will care for mother now!
Bills of the Evening.
The remainder of the program is de-
scribed in the bills for the evening. In
these the names of the actors. unfor-
tunately, are not given in full. and ow-
ing to the obscurity of the records of
Libby prisoners II is not possible to
identify the various performers. Doubt
less some veterans who recall the Christ
mas entertainment in Libby Prison may
be able to do so. The bill of the show"
was as follows:
THE LIBBY PRISON MINISTRIES
Manager. G. ". Chandler
Treasurer. h W. Sawyer
Costnmer Lieut. j. T. Jones
ccenlc Fentress
Captain Of the supeB- Lieut.. Bristow
THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER q, 1865.
PROGRAM
Part First.
Overture, Norma" troupe.
Opening chorus. "Ernani," troupe.
Song. Who viii Care for Mother Nowl" Capt.
SchelL
Song. ''Grafted in the Army Lieut. Kendall.
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Music In the Dark.

The musical members were warmly
applauded.
OF the characters Of the original
third part Of the program, or Of the
masquerade ball" but slight refer
erces are to be found. They must have
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Woman school Head Reinst.tes.

Chicago, Dec. 23.-Mrs. Ella FlagR
Young, the recently ousted city school
superintendent, today was reelected by
the school board by a vote of Il to O,
seven members refusing to vote.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-24

Use salt water to clean straw mating,
wiping it very dry. 1t will not turn yell
lew, as is the case when washed with
soapy water.
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CHRISTMAS EVE.
Tho ky was gay and frosty.

The ky was gray and frosty,
The woods were cold with snow: D.
/ scattered nuts beneath the trees
Where chattering squirrels 50;
Oh. early in the morning,
Before the sun was high,
We went to pluck holly spig
To deck the Christians Pie.
We hung the boughs with tinsel
In many a shining line,
We tied the little gilded balls
To glitter 'mong the pine;
Oh. all the pleasant morning,
As merry as could be.
We strung popcorn and cTanberries
To trim the Christmas Tree.
We sliced the citron neatly
And beat the eggs up white
And spices. rzisins. c1Tants. too.
We mixed with the batter light,
Made tumovers and tzrtlets,
And set them in TO bake:
And, oh, made q sugar rose
To top the Christmas CakeI
The sun went down, all golden;
The moon came. silver bright;
I listened for the reindeers' bells
Across the fields Of night,
Till could almost hesr them
Thinking faint and far;
And Close beside the sailing moon
I saw the Christmas Star.
Cecil Cssendish. in Wonan's Home Companion.
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Song. "when the Bloom Is on the Rye" Adit-
Lombard.
song, ''Barnyard limitations" "...........cspt Mas
song. DO They Think Of NJ. .. HOmss" Adjt-
Jone&
Chorus. Phantom" troupe.
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Performance to commence at O'Clock.
Admission free. Children In arms not admitted.
Adjt r. O. Knaggs. Business Agent.
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Part Second.

Duet violin and fute, serersde from Lncs'
Heuts Chandler and Rockwell
Song and dance Root Hog. or d" "....Capt. hasl
Banjo solo, Lieut.. Thomas
Duet, .'Dying's Girls Last Request" Adjts. Lon
bard and Jones.
Magic Violin, Capts. Mas. Chandler. and Kendall
Song 'My Fathers Custom" Lieut. McCaulley.
Clog dancr. Lieut.. Ryan.
RIVAL LOVERS.
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Roast Goose.

Trim or all the biaokened parts and
place the ham in cold water to boil for
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Tomorrow-AverelI Ends March
Through Ice-covered West Virginia
Mountains.
tCoF5risht lslaD
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English StumnE.

Wash two quarts Of tart apples and cut
in small pieces without pairing. Place in
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-12
STAGE ILLUSIONS.
Not the Least of These Are the BaH-
quets on the Boards.

NOT the Least OF heSe Are the baH"
quets on the Boards.
Nothing is so deceptive as the stage
meal, although the art of the property
man makes such repasts appear de-
ltciously appetizing.
A favorite stage substitute for meat
is sponge cake. which cut into the
shape Of outlets or steaks and judi
ciously Drowned with sauce, presents
most genuine appearance. The ad-
vantage of such material is that it is
easy for the actors to consume and
does not present any difficulties to the
carver.
Outlets composed of soft toast are
also popular in stage culinary circles,
and when decorated with dainty paper
frills and parsley look quite the real
thing.
Do not let your mouth water at the
sight of those dainty slices of ham re-
posing on lettdsce leaves on the baron's
festive board. Ham is invariably rep
resented on the stage by strips of limo
leum, the reddish under side of which
makes a convincing substitute for the
real article. AS to the surrounding let
tuce, that is generally represented by
white leaves from the humble cab
bage.
The larger and more impressive the
stage edible, the greater the fake. Huge
pies which when cut produce a cloud
Of realistic steam are absolutely uneat-
able. The crust is merely colored pa
pier mache which incloses a dish Of
hot water and sometimes a few boiled
potatoes, which supply the necessary
steam. The big sirloin Of beef which
apparently weighs pounds, has about
six ounces Of eatable meat about it.
The joint is wooden affair, over
which a few thin slices of genuine beef
are placed, giving the impression of a
really fine piece of meat.
Were you to obtain peep behind the
scenes just before banquet scene was
to be staged you would find a number
Of stage hands busily slicing up toma-
toes and bananas. You would see those
slices being laid out on plates sur
rounded with parsley or white cabbage
leaves. Under the glare Of the lime
light this dish assumes an astonishing
resemblance to lobster salad, and in
similar fashion sliced banana is a gen
eral substitute for fish, entrees and
hors d'oeuvre.
One of the most astonishing illusions
with regard to stage food, however, is
where soup Is concerned. This is In
variabiy sawdust, which when ladled
out Of a tureen has all the appearance
of a thick liquid.
No banquet would be complete with
out a turkey. A loaf Of bread deiicately
Drowned and decorated with pegs COW
cred with Drowned dough, saves the
management the expense of running up
a poultry bill. Moreover, the come
dams can with comparative safety
sling this asset to the feast about the
stage without damage to life or prop
erty.-Philadelphi Ledger.