Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-02-08
Local Affairs in Hundreds of Iowa Towns of
Interest to the General Reader.

and weary with over-work, child
bearing. nursing. etc. All that is not
romantic. and who wants to read these
too common sequels? Accordingly.
hardly any novelist dare take us be-
yond the nuptials. Who would want TO
read The opinion held by dame of 60
or 90, of her own highfalutn notions
during her romantic teens2 Much lass
would we like to read what the average
man of three-score would say Of his
Years when romantic yeast was work
ing in his poetic dough and setting all
his nerves in a ferment and Jingle The
novelist knows that his public does not
wish to be bored With cynicism, sar-
casm and vitrol. or even good natured
banter To prolong love stories beyond
marriage would be nothing much but
anatomical demonstration of fatty de-
generation of the heart.
Yet it is great fun To read novels, IL
for nothing else than to see how lsan.
conventional and poverty-striclsen they
are. There is no originality, no art. no
genius. Hardly in a century are there
d dozen read novclists, whose books are
worth reacing aside from the amuse-
ment one gets from realizing how poor
and dog-rommon they are Now and
then heaven sends us a Cervantias, a
Fielding. a Goldsmith. a Dumas. IA Bal
zac,0a Hugo. a rhackeray. a Dickens,
a Hawthorne, a George Eliot. who can
write fiction that is worth while be-
cause ii is nature Illustrated by SUI
lpreme art. BIZ, this mob of novelists
that swarns day by day amy one
could Write such books, as any one can
hoe corn or boil soap.
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THE. Pic 'IlE.2,S BLOODY TASK.
| Humboldt Republican.
A visit to a poultry dressing estab-
liishment would furnish nothing new 10
some OF Ilunlboldt's people, but would
be a decided novelty to very large
The business in total is a large
lone. and compels the outlay of thou
sands of dollars. About forty pickers
arc employed in Humboldt They han
Idle about seventy-hve birds per day
leach Then there are the handlers
packers. finishers, buyers and men OF
all work Each firm has its out-of-towr
agents, who pick up all the poultry al
many local "cappenst who watch the
1 main roads entering town ana Waylay
3any man who enters With ducks. chick
shed, The door leading TO the rickers
Ireom is thrown open. and the driver
lshouts. All ready n The pickers come
with I. rush. fer they are paid 81 cent:
fer each bisd picked 50 there are few
lloafe,s. The picking room is usually
3tef medium siz There is a nangeff
Hike box along each side in which tt'
4 feathers arc thrown. While at ever,
5Ipicker,s elbow Is a small box in whici
sIthe tail and wing feathers are placed
THE pickers select their own birds
\ When turkeys are on, hens are prefewe'
4 because they are more easily dressed
j Poultry Gressers detest white turkey
Hand claim that they are always coy
Tered With pin feathers. When the bir'
lis caught it is taken to the picker
isstand. it's feet fastened in the loop of
iTope extending from the ceiling. an
sat.tery in the birds neck is severed
1.-THE Knife forced into tie back OF tn
). Throat Il can hooked into the lower iaN
q 10 catch the blood. ard the picking
len. Great care is required in using III
lsnife If the brain is penetrated III
Third Immediately s,iffens and the feaih
ters set. The man who picks thu Dir
has u job he Will remember. II III
Fl lsnife strikes the spinal cord 50 as I
produce parslyses. Dut not iiastal7
& l,is>th the feathers Will roll OF wit
lbut little effort The tail and Win
/ Feathers are removed al one yark. HI
Il nfcksr grasps the legs II the body, an