Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1914 — The Miller’s Turkeys. [ARTICLE]

The Miller’s Turkeys.

Condemning political grafters, John A. Hennesy said in New York: “When I look at these sleek millionaires who never did a day’s work in their lives, I think of the miller. “The miller, on the way home from church one Christmas morning, met the village idiot and said, thinking to have a little sporty, __ “’Sam, I’m glad to see you. Now,, Sam, look here; some folks say you know a lot, and some say you know nothing. Tell me, Sammy, my lad, what do you know?’ “‘I know,’ Bald the idiot, with a crafty smile, ’that the miller’s turkeys are fat’ “ ‘Ha, ha, good,’ said the miller, for the compliment pleased him. ‘And now, Sam, my lad, tell me what you don’t know.’ “Sam smiled more craftily still. “‘I don’t know whose meal fattens ’em,’ he said.”