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The Rev, DR.. Herman 4. Berg.

PLAINFiELp, y. j.. Feb. l6.-The Rev.
DIR. Herman c. Berg. IS years old. re-
tired minister of the Reformed Church,
died at his home here to-day. He was
born In Philadelphia and was graduated
from Rutgers College. His first charge
was at Rocky Hin, y. j. The others
were In College Point, l.. L., BROOKLYN,
Ellenyille. n. Y, and Tillson. n. y. His
wife and nine children survive him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-17

Swift q Company saies of Beef In New
VOW Cty for the week ending Saturday, Feb,
IA averaged as follows: Domestic beef. iz.is
cents. Imported Beef. s.S7 cents per pound
ADV.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-17
THE sEAGoERS.
Ne rtures for the Contineat anA
Some Arrivals.

Calling to-day by the North German
riovd liner Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Tor
piymouth. CherbourE and Bremen:
A,hsr, J. BirdssIl. Henry LEshange Ma
James 8 Croll. Ions NJ.
Mrs A. L. Ellie Mrs John T. fNscn'
NJ and MIRA Thomas ing.
J. Fielder. M ana MA "A"'
Harry X. Landsdowne wiihams.
BY tho Hamburg American liner Ham,
burg for the Mediterranean
Mr. and Mrs, Caring. Mrs John Even
ton Avery. MI Ann Mrs . T""P
Mr. and Mrs. GuNsvs kearney.
A. Berghon nj and Mrs. Css'e'oh
DR. and Mrs W. G, MACY &c.,
Garwtn. Mr.: ana MRS. george
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph N Io~ie'
h. Henderson.
Arrivals by the French liner La Savoie
from Havre:
N Howeu Mise Violet Nesbitt.
Gen. and Mrs. c. A. Count y de s'e'henyi'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
UNNECESSARY Alarm.

The casualty insurance interests are
orcaniz;ns for self protection. when
is their right but the public should no'
rake the cry OF paternalis,n too seFi-
ously. Life insurance agents ana hfe
insurance agents are being told that
their houses are in danger and disTle'
organizations are being formed avow-
edlv for defending the right of private
ownership in the insurance business
They are being told and no doubt teaf
that If the state of Iowa goes into
casualty insurance ii will eventually
take over all insurance. life, fire ana
accident and the calling of the insur-
ance agent will be az an end
1t is mostly big noise in the dark:
terrifying so long as it is not under
stood.
The proposition made by Commits
sioner Garst, in charge OF worknen
compensation in Iowa is this: That
the workmen's compensation Law com
pels employers 10 insure their risks
for indemnity to injured employees ana
that when the state compels citizen
to buy it ought not 10 leave him to the
mercy of the insurance companies
which are VIGOROUSLY close in their
sentlenen's agreements as to rates.
carst contends that a state which com :
pels a citizen to buy casualty insurance
should provide the insurance at cost.
He has not contended and 1t does not
follow that other forms of insurance
which people do rot have TO huy M
less they want to should be sold by
the state.
The genus insurance agent need not
| fear for his business life unless he De
| in the casualty business. His line is
not in Jeopardy now any more than II
ever was. The development of society
will eventually include mutual pro-
lection or indemnity for its citizens
from death and accident to bread win
ners and from destruction of property
by fire but this drift, which has taken
place in the older civilizations of Eu-
rope. is not involved now. The state OF
Iowa has not decreed by statute thai
Its citizens must insure their lives OF
their property and the buyer OF such
! insurance is still left a free agent of hi:
own choice in the matter. The casualty
men are using all other insurance mer
to pull their own chestnuts from th'
fire.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
NO RIGHT TO KICK.

Twenty of the merchants Of Elkader
issued stirring appeal to the people
Of their vicinity. in the last issue Of the
Elkader Register to refrain from pa
tronizing the catalog houses and keep
their money at home.
The appeal was we'll worded and
spoke the truth in every line. It will
no doubt have a helpful effect, but
Ten of these twenty merchants are
not represented in the advertising col
umns Of the Elkader.
These ten merchants, who want the
trade of their own people for the ask
ing. lack the gumption to lay advan-
tage which their own stores and stocks
offer.
Knowing that the catalog houses
have built up their business almost
solely by advertising-by. describing
their goods-by quoting prices. these
ten merchants OF ElkadeT sit down
with folded hands, watch the trade
drift past their door, out OF their town
/ and county, and yet refuse to try t.
hold their trade by modern, aggressive
advertising methods.
Now, honestly, what have these tet
merchants to kick about?
| The catalog houses and big depart
ment stores Of nearby cities are willinl
to pay any price to get into the Elka
der Register. They would nay twic,
| the rate the Elkader merchant pays
they could get the space. And yet thes
ten merchants can not see the yaltis o
4 service that their lafser competitor
fare eager to secure, q twice the cost.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

try and all men enjoy their products
only by exchanging the results OF their
labor and this requires time. The
bumper crops OF 1914 are going to be
distributed among all the people in
1915 and everybody is going to be as
busy as cranberry merchant ex-
changing his labor for as big share
Of the country's basic production as he
can.
Easy money, cheap money, increased
employment, better times, more bust
ness are all coming with the new year
and the country is glad of it. For the
year 1914 we can say that we are glad
that we are alive. glad that the crops
were good and glad that the year is
gone and behind US. ooi-hye, Old
1914, not au revoir but good bye.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
Topics of the Times

With Christmas behind and the
ready for another Christmas in, are
we down hearted? Not.
Cliff. Thorne has the best of the argu-
ment but the railroads seem to have
the heaviest artillery
A man can buy an automobile on
almost any sort OF al income-nut
that's only the beginning. He can't
maintain six cylinder gait on a sec
ond hand single cylinder salary and
make success of it.
This is Woodrow Wilson's birthday
whereon the president counts So.
Which is another instance proving that
Osler was altogether too free with his
anaesthetics.
Governor Clarke displayed good
sense in denying the newspaper charge
that he will seek third term. The
| time to talk about third term Is
after the second term has been dem
onstrated and not before. Let all am
bilious Office holders profit from the
wisdom of Clarke in this particular.
| The gloom Of Christmas day which
always comes to the childless home
could have beeu avoided had the home.
less child been investigated and ad.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
Raisina Reindeer.

I'm twenty years the reindeer in
dustry has made the Eskimos OF Alaska
civilized and thrifty men," says the
United States bureau Of education in q
bulletin Just issued.
The reindeer industry began In Alas
ka in 1892 when the bureau OF ednca.
ton imported from Siberia III rein-
deer. The object OF the importation.
according to the bulletin, was to fur
nish source of supply for food and
clothing to the Eskimos in the vicinity
OF Bering strait This importation was
continued until 1902, and total OF 1880
reindeer were brought from Siberia.
There are now 1896 reindeer distri-
buted among sixty-two herds. and SO.
532 of these are owned by the ma.
tives.
This industry has given to the Alas.
kan Eskimos not only food and cloth-
ing. but a means of transportation SUI
perior to dog teams. Instead of being
nomadic hunters ektng out a precarious
existence on the vast untimbered lands
OF the Arctic coast region tho Eski-
mos" according to the bureaus bulie-
tin Now have assured support ana
opportunity to acquire wealth by the
sale OF meat and skins to the white
men,
The reindeer industry is carefully
guarded. mo native IL permitted to
sell or otherwise dispose OF . femal6
reindeer to any person other than q
native of Alaska" This is done, the
bulletin states, Test white mon de.
prive the natives Of their reindeer and
destroy this great native industry
which the bureau Of education has II,
the last twenty years built up and
| fostered."
The reindeer service Is an integral
I part Of the educational system OF the
bureau Of education for northern and
western Alaska. The district super
intendents Of schools arc also superin~
tendents Of the reindeer service.
| Promising and ambitious young ma
tives are selected by superintendents
as apprentices In the reindeer servicA
receiving six, eight, or ten reindeer
at the close Of the first second ana
third years, respectively, and ten morv
at the close OF the fourth year. UpoH
| the satisfactory termination OF his APP
premiership, the native becomes 9
herder and assumes entire charge OF =
herd.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
A GLADSTONE GOODBYE.

Liquidation, tight money, slow sales,
things that will get behind US and be-
come recoIlections of the past with
the closing Of this year 1914. Inc
business world generally will be glad
to bid good bye and the welcome for
the coming year is fringed with glow
of hope for better times. Mr.. Schwao
saws that European contracts for
things made in America already call
for $500 900 600 of goods and the mills
are going to start up all over the
country. Banks in Chicago and New
York have begun to look outside their
own regular customers for somebody
to borrow their money and buying OF
commercial paper has begun again
after more than year of quiesence.
What it was that put such crimp
in business and made the past year
such a hard one for everybody no one
| is that the year 1914 started in with
tight money market and high rates OF
interest and it kept getting worse as
| its DAYS wore on. The result was that
the retailer after talking with his
| banker at home decided TO cut down
the stock of merchandise in his store
and he quit buying of the manufacturer
beyond his most immediate needs. lie
decided to liquidate his debts. The
manufacturer facing extraordinarily
! high rates of interest on one side and
his bankers asking him to cut down his
| line at that found his sales falling
away and the feeling came over him
that he, too, would liquidate and owe
less money SO he cut down his working
force and began ordering raw mater
| ials from hand to mouth. Employment
thus became curtailed and the prob
lem of the unemployed, the gaunt
specter of want was among us.
The business world began year ago
| to uuuidate 1t could not be done In a
minute nor day. 1t required full
lyear or more for large stocks Of goods
to be radically reduced but the year is
now about gone and liquidation has
been general. The inevitable result is
lalready in sight. Liquidation means
that a man is going to use less Dor
lrowed money and when all the men OF
a nation adopt that policy 1t brings the
country to a point at which there is Sc
little demand for money at the banks
that interest rates fall and bankers
have TO go outside their own circle OF
customers to find somebody who will
use their funds. That time has almost
arrived. 1t will strike New York first
move west to Chicago and across the
continent but It is in sight now.
And then the basis Of all wealth, thu
production from the soil has beer
abundant beyond all precedent in thu
lyear 1914. That abundance OF fooi
and raw material can not affect gen
! eral prosperity until the processes o
distributing 1t among the population
. have performed their function. A fev
linen produce from the soil in this coun
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
Iona Newspapers
THE BLACKMAILED.

[
The men who get blackmailed under
the Mann act are rotten roues without
spark of respect for womanhood.
good or bad in their makeup. They are
men of the world and know how to
look out for themselve. Let them do
it. The way to keep from being black
mailed is to avoid blackmailers. The
weakness Of men be blowed. Shall we
let burglary run riot because thieves
are Weak-willed?.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
WHEN THE RoX CONES ROUND.
rClinrnn Adrartiscr


The Stats ician has figured 1t up
that the average church service in the
United states costs about two dollars
for each person who attends. This
may he rather radical figure.
But well take the figure for the sake
If argument.
LOIS of people gladly pay 50 for a
seat in a theatre-and many of these
same folks go TO the theater more
cftsn than they go to church.
Yet in he church, when the deacons
pass the plate they feel content to ex-
press their appreciation by dropping
IN q nickel or dime.
Religion is free. Of course: but it
costs money-big heaps of money-to
run a church nowadays.
So, if you go to church at alias OF
course you should-be sport. Chip
in something worth while when the box
comes round.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
Masonic Meetings.

Mar,hau Lodge. No. 1os A F. & A. NJ
Monday Dec. IS, 1880 p. m. For WORK
third degree. John w. Wells secretary
I. T. Forbes, w. NJ.
STATED coNvocATloN, signe'
CHAPTER No. 3s. R A. NJ" Monoas.
Dec. 81. 1880 p. m. Regular business IS
and installation Of officers. John W y
Wells. secretary; A. D, Meeker, E. h. r.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ. Mondas a,.ea
the third Sunday. I. T. Forbes fecofue1'
A. D. Meeker, T. ]. M.
REGULAR coNcLAvE st. Aldelnaf
commandery No. 80 x. T. Tuesoa :,
Dec 90, 1880. Regular business H.
wilbur f. c., NJ. s. Mcfarland, Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central CHAP np
.er No ST. o. e. S. Wednesday, De
cember 10, 1890 p. m. Election OF on.
GERS. Anna Downing. secretary MARY
Black Collins, w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
SATISFACTORY MENTION.
Nevada Representative

Nevada REPRESENTATIVE
Mentions Of presidential candidates
as made in papers of other states ap-
pear to begin with the possibilities IN
such particular states and then to fol-
low with the name OF Senator Cummins
as the publicist next to the be consid-
cred after home troubles may be dis
posed of. AS viewed at the present
stage this handling Of the subject will
be regarded as satisfactory in Iowa
ard among the friends of the Iowa
senator generally.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

result Of the loss Of his lower teeth.
Mr.. Bishop brought the boss OF tho
cuisine to town and gave an order for
tho teeth after mentioning the case
to the other members OF the board
They decided. however, that 1t would
be only just that the teeth should
be stamped Property OF Spokane
County, Every one at the honor
farm 10 happy, the inmates because
the cook Is working and the cook be-
cause his teeth are working. 7 have
always believed In casting bread upon
tho waters said Commissioners
Bishop. and I believe the teeth will
prove an asset to the county and may
aid US in keeping q good cook"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
THE VOTE ON LIQUOR.
[Des Moines Tribune.l

In CONGRESS 1917 r7e-nbars voted for
prohibition and 1Ss against. As two
thirds majority was needed to ubnlit
a constitutional amendment tho resp
luton was beaten. But the vote Is
none the less significant
When a majority of the members of
congress can be got to vote for ma
tional prohibition Of the linnor traffic
it IS easy to read the subsequent rec
ord.
II nsv not he hevond the campaign
Of 1915 thet liduor will he one of the
main blanks in the winning party
platform.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

mitted to membership. The happiest
of all Christmas Joys has been the
Joy Of many a home which by adoption
has known the love Of q child TOR the
| first time this year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
IL The cuisines, men Of Elkader really

If the business men OF ElSauef feahS
want to hold the trade Of their terri
tory, there is only one way to do 1t.
That is TO advertise what they have to
SELL and advertise It so forcibly, so
compeilingly. and so attractively as to
satisfy the buyer that he can do Just
as well at home as he can anywhere
else. There are stores in Elkader, and
there are stores in Manchester, which
are undertaking the catalog houses and
the city department stores every day
in the week. But who knows anything
about it except the occasional puyer
who happens to run across IT in the
course Of trade? How Is the average
man or woman going to know what
merchant has in stock and what ne
charges for it, unless the merchant
tells them about 1t and invites their
inspection?
Appealing to home loyalty is good
thing. 1t is all right. But better
thing is the direct, personal. convinc-
ing appeal to the buyer thru the col
umns of the home newspaper, backed
up by honest description nj the goods
and an honest price. Every live adj
vertiser is quick asset 10 his town,
for he is a man who draws trade to
that town. Show us town whose
newspa pers are starved to death and
we will show you town whose trade
is dying OF blood impoverishment.
The merchants Of Elkader and every
ether Iowa town must meet the catalog
houses and the big department stores
at their own game or die.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
THE BEND IN THE RIVER.
re. C. Pugh in Des Moines Registe
and Leaderl

For many rods the river runs south
ward. down to where the hills rise alb
ruptly and are clothed in heavy growth
of ash. hickory and oak. Here is the
turn in the river bed and It's waters go
eastward to run under the bridge and
on to Join the larger stream that bears
1t to the gulf.
In the elbow, that is formed by the
eccentric flowing Of the waters. is an
| old field, It's borders hedge grown and
brandy. Down where the quail love
best to come at the falling OF the sun.
and the whip -poor-will and nighthawk
find pleasant haunts as darkness
1 oreeps down the valley. An out-of-
way nook where there is the sweetness
Of wildwood and river unspoiled by
cultivation. Across the river, half way
. IN the bluff, the red fox has his bur-
row where the family is raised in se-
I ciusion; the raccoon takes his noe
] turnal outing with freedom; bit Of
mature runs wild and riotous in rank
1 growth. q bend in the river that is call
ins as II did years ago In boyhood
daV1. for it, primeval.
4 In spring time the willows. at the
i waters edge, flower in fuzzy catkihs;
along the cosy ways the tender shooti
m Rrseh come pushing thru 10 find tht
tWffmtk 81 the sun. The river y II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

The mulct petition in Ida county has
tfty-seven more than the required
number of signatures. and the Clinton
Herald remarks, IF the supreme court
can't knock that many off il has fallen
down wonderfully in its hitting ability"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
COUNTY FALSE TEETH.

L Md6OH lily oAOUCS06DVSOSJ
The county board Of ouDotvisors
hasn't been called upon 70 furnish
any false masticattng grinders for
the county farm force. but In case
there is call they have . precedent
in the case OF Spokane county. Wash
ington. That county has supplied the
cook at the county honor farm with .
set OF false teeth marked. Property
OF Spokane county" which he must
surrender II he gtvea up the Job.
County Commissioners Joseph Bishop
gave an order for the teeth last week
and the bill for IS was approved af.es
some hesitation by Commissioners G.
n. James and A. r. Scott, who fear
that the cook may decamp with the
manufactured molars. Pete MacNil-
Ian. the cook. worked on the SYM
pathies Of Commissioners Bishop RS
Gently during . visit Of the official
to the ranch. sxplainin8 he was forced
to i've on : diet Of ssoft food - q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

Some of the boys with their ham,
ners out act as though Clifford Thorne
had become candidate for governor"
says the Mason City Globe Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

The representative who voted wet
has won the opposition OF the drys and
the repre- sentative who voted dry has
earned the enmity of the vets, while
he ti,nid representative who liked for
home before the showdown stands a
fat chance CT winning the hostility of
both" says the Sioux City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
SUPREME COURT WISDOM.
fDoopa Nows- ReDub1ican I


II IS refreshing to note that the su-
preme court of the United States
settled the Thaw matter on the
grounds of common sense rather than
on technicality. OF course if Thaw
was insane when he escaped from
Matteawan he did not commit crime.
II he was not insane he had no Dust
ness in the asylum. That is the way
that the New Hampshire federal court
looked at it, but the fact remains that
he was a dangerous criminal escaped
from confinement and the supreme
court. taking the advanced ground that
Justice had been defeated by his escape,
ordered him back to the state of New
| York.
Doesn't 1t seem strange that the
whole gamut of technicality has been
run to lberate criminal who has
| money. yet he has not succeeded in
gaining his freedom? Many a man
who has not one-tenth of the money
| and pull of Harry Thaw has escaped
| on technicalities. Recently in Iowa
prisoner in very much more ag-
i grayated case than that of Thaw's
/ was set scot free by the courts.
! The trouble is that the insanity gag
lis worked overtime. We should have
! laws which would confine murderers
| for the rest of their lives on the sup
position that the murderous insanity
/, might strike them any time. Society
| will never be safe so long as a man
! can be insane and murder one day
ana in a few weeks be sane and set
at large.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

AN the money Thorne spent was
spent iegit,mately and for nothing that
was rot absolutely necessary in the
titanic battle ne is carrying on to de-
fecd he shippers of Iowa from the
buccaneer.ng OF The railroads" asserts
the Manson Democrat The lawyers
enSaged in the fight against him are
spending fifty times as much money
and getting five times as much
salary as Thorne is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28


sighting
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

Everywhere the slogan seems to be,
SWAT the saloons!'" observes the Des
Moines Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28

We don't care if Iowa has lost a
few in population so long as we have
bumper crops. good prices and every
body prosperous" says the Algona
X publican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
TERMS:

Evening edition by mail. ........4.
BY the month by mail. ............ 'sSS
Delivered by carrier by the month .eo
Later edition for morning circuia- m
ton M
Twice Week edition per year. Ivy
entered at the postofnce at Mafshah-
town as second class mail matter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-28
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Perhaps half Of the converts won't
stick" admits the Osage News. 1T Is
to be expected tina; some of them will
slide back to the depths from which
q strong appeal to their better natures
has dragged them. Many of them are
misbreeds and constitutional weaklings
i'll whom consistency can not be looked
for. But that is neither here nor there.
II only one man in n hundred and
twenty five follows the paths into
which the strenuous Billy has led him:
il the per capita cost for eteadfast con-
verts rises from so cents to 500, the
money win be we'll invested. Would
tina; the price of 1000 beers could al
ways be put to such excellent USE