Evening journal., 1913-08-16

THE EVENING JOUF
Prediction is made by representatives Of large Chit
cago packing houses that the prices Of win
to Unprecedented heights this winter It is aug-
gested that choice cuts will sell forty cents pound
and that the price may go up to hfty cents be-
fore spring opens The predictions are based upon the
fact that there has been record-breaklng drought
in Kansas Oklahoma aud the Southwest Il viii be
well for persons in moderate circumstances TO begin
to for such sky-high prices else they
through the distressing experience Of almost
meatless Winter
Professionally and politically Dr Thomas C. Moore
Of Smyrna, of the most prominent men
in Kent county. Six years ago he was paralyzed and
forced into retirement It will be gratifying to thou
sands of friends and welwshers In this city the
rural sections of the State to learn that he once more
is able to be out not well by any means
but much better than IL was thought he would
be after he had suffered the stroke.
It now is possible for any one to send packages
Weighing much twenty pounds by parcel post
and also obtain cheaper rates for that admirable
government service. This system. inaugurated by
President Taft the transmission Of parcels through
the mails grows In popularity daily Everybody likes
it except the express companies whose rapacity
brought it into being
So long as the United States and Japan content
themselves with bombardine each other with diplo-
matically- -worded notes, need worry We are
willing however TO bet basket of prime peaches
against peck of cholera -morbus apples that secre-
A.. tftff.
the Orient
We have here in Wilmington scores of men who
have visible employment Of support
who dress better and seemingly live better than do
thousands who work hard from eight to ten hours a
day It is well for the world that they do not seem
be able impart to others the secret of how they
do it,
It must have been great blow to vice President
Marshall when he lost his purse and the $40 it con
tanned Il will be useless for him to appeal to secre
tary of state Bryan for assistance. because that Off
cial is having a terrible time to get along the s12-
600 he receives from his cabinet position.
We wish 10 inform those ormer Wilmngtonians who
had contemplated returning for the Old Home Week
celebration, that the city win be here just the
with the gates aiar In consequence Of Councils ad-
action things may look little drab buthey will
not be unbearabe.
Publicity is tho cure for lynching prescribed by
Booker r. Washington. Our opinion is that the cure
has been tried for many years In fact there has
been complaint that in the last decade there has been
too much publicity about such occurepes.
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Governor Foss Of Massachusetts is unquestionably
outside the Democratic breastworks. He may gain
comfort from the thought that he will not be of
the mourners when the Democracy is buried four
years hence.
Henry Lane Wilson, Ambassador to Mexico, will
have the satisfaction of knowing. when he retres from
office that the American people know just where he
stands every important phase OF the Mexican sit
uaton.
For man who is destined TO have only two years
in Congress Representative Brockson of this state is
commendably attentive to his official duties. even
though mistaken in his public policies
II the hord men would look more at the faces Of
the girls and less at the sts in their skirts, every
body would be much happier and those garments
would not be in such general disrepute.
No one can blame New York for being worried by
her gubernatorial twins. They and the Tamman,
Tiger arc too much for any well-ordered state tc
! stand without becoming hustered
eiprano Castro has the body Of a man and the dis
position Of a hornet The outlook is that of his
old in Venezuela win feel his sting before the
present revolution is over.
The impending National Convention Of Hoboes vii
not worry any the proposed advance in the price
of soap.
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GEMS OF THOUGHT
Better TO wear out than to rust out.-Cumberland
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II there God it would be necessary TO in
vent him.-Noltaire
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