The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-12
HEN MADE TROUBLE.
CAUSED MucN coMMoTIoN ifI
 MEETING HOUSE.
Attempt to Eject cIucking Bddy Caused Much Loss of Temper and Some Damage to the Clothes
 of the Congregation.


 They have had more trouble at oui meeting house.
 Last Sunday Rev. Mir. Moody wal Just beginning his sermon and had ut tered the words, Brethren, wish to direct your attention this morning ts the fourth verse of the twelfth chap ter of Saint" when a hen emerged from the recess beneath the pulpit As she had just laid an egg, she in terrupted Mir. Moody to announce the fact to the congregation; and he stopped short as she walked out into the aisle, screeching: "Kuk-kuk-kuk kuk-te-kol kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-te-koH
 Mir. Moody contemplated her for moment, and then concluded to go on; but the sound os his voice seemed to provoke her to rivalry. and so she put on pressure of i've or six pounds to the square inch, and made such 2 racket that the preacher stopped again, and said
 "Will Deacon Grimes please re move that disgraceful chicken from the meeting house."
 me uedCOu rose anu pIotcSdSO with the task. He first tried to drive her toward the door, but she lodged him, and still ciucking vigorously, got under the seat in the front pew. Then the deacon seized his umbrella anc scooped her out into the aisle again, after which he tried to "shoo" her toward the door, but she darted into al pew, hopped over the partition. came down in the opposite pew, and in the side aisle, making noise like steam blaming mill. The deacon didn't like to climb over after her, so he went around, and jus< as he got into the side aisle the hen flew over in the middle aisle again. Then the boys in the gallery laughed and the deacon began to grow red in the face.
 At last Mir Binns came out of his pew to help, and as both he and the deacon made dash at the chicken from opposite directions. she flew up with wild chuck to the gallery and perched on the edge, while she gave excited expression to her views bl emitting about 500 clucks a minute The deacon flung hymn book at he to scare her down again, but ht missed her and hit Billy Jones, Sun day school scholar, in the eye. Then another boy in the gallery made a dash at her, and reached so far over that he tumbled and fell on Mrs. Mis- keys summer bonnet, whereupon she said out loud that he was predestined to the gallows.
 The crash scared the hen, and she flew over and roasted on the stove pipe that ran along just under the ceiling, fairly bowling with fright. In order to bring her down the deacon and MT. Binns both beat on the lower part of the pipe with their umbrellas, and at the fifth or sixth knock the pipe separated and about 40 feet of it came down with crash, emptying barrel or two of last winters soot over the congregation.
 There were women in the congrega ton who went home looking as if they had been working in a coal mine, and wishing they could stab Deacon Grimes without being hanged for mur der
 The hen came down with the stove pipe, and as she flew by Mir. Binns he made dash at her with his umbrella and knocked her clear through $l5l pane of glass, whereupon she landed in the street and hopped off cluckine lnsanely. Then Mir. Moody adjourned the coneregation.
 They are going to expel the owner of that hen from church when they discover his idsntity.-New York Weekly.