Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — A TRUE TURKEY STORY. [ARTICLE]

A TRUE TURKEY STORY.

Thorn was a time not long ago when turkey roosted too high for the man with a moderato rent roll, but cold storage lias changed all this. Tho public has but a misty idea of cold storage, but the business is full of cold facts. In one- ®f the twelve warehouses in Novo York, citj, according to a certain veracious reporter who was detailed to hunt up somethingcuriousturkey of the harvest of 1878 still in a remarkable state of •preservation. This featherless bird has a post-mortem his torv. Ho was raised in Orange county and passed an uneventful life till his neck was wrung in the interests of the lmtnan race. lie was hung up in Washington market 03 the prize turkey, weighing forty pounds. Nobody wanted a turkey of that weight on that Thanksgiving Day. While it had been a good year, nobody felt blessed to the extent of buying turkey by the frnctionof a ton. ” After Thanksgiving was over tho turkey disappeared. Patrons of Washington market missed him, and imagined his fate. It was given out that an uptown hotel had bought him, In a week ho was forgotten. A year later and a forty pound turkey \yas again suspended by the feet on tho saine beam in tho market place. He the rosy glow of youth, and nobody suspected that it was tho ghost of a year-de&a bird. Stylos ran to small turkeys that year, and the butcher advertised steaks off the big fowl, but tho public was not educated up to turkey steaks. That, is why the turkey remained intact, •and again flew out of the market. Years followed and still a prize turkey weighing forty pounds was displayed each latter part of November nnderthc inscription: “Orange county’s pride. Raised by Farmer Biggs, of Meadowlake farm. Boarders summer.” Marketers began to recognize tbo big turkey as coeval with Thanksgiving. Nobody not in tbo business suspected that one turkey only was in tho plot. Boarders from Biggs' swore they saw the identical turkey in the summer time walking around in the.best hen society. Cold storage did it. Tho turkey was this year cu exhibition in Washington market, as usual. His toughness was somewhat tenderly inquired for somewhat early in the season, but the answer then was that Biggs had not yet sent in his animal carload of turkeys. Later the order was sent to tho cold storage warehouse to reproduce the monster, and &U , was busy about the place in consequence. I i But up to tho hour of going to press there havo been no advices from the metropolis to the effect that any ono had tho nerve to buy tlie frozen antiquity. If you should ever visit the big city across the North river from Jersey City about Thanksgiving time, go to Washington ! market and ask for Biggs’ big bird, and it will undoubtedly be pointed but to you. _ All mav give thanks who are -Stirred4iythoughts of the betterment of the world ! and can rcjoico at its cent muons and in* i creasing-fulfillmcnt. God reigns and Gcd : wills, and ho ueitlier reigns nor will* fcf 1 naught.