Show DRUN CHICKENS I Prohibitionist 1 F cd d owl Wih With Witt Per Ter PerS FeI S a Blackberries lac be es Indianapolis News News 1 The neighbors of W S Ferrier Ferier the te well weIl man and temPerance tem rn worker are hai h having Ja lug hUf a alot lot of fun fan at his hl ex cx expense eI pease pense Mr Ferrier formerly conducted the I Clark County Record R or a a prohibition paper 1 Charlestown In Ind tad and he Is one of the Uie most roost prominent men of that party pary la in I this ti section se ton of ot the state He retired from business however and his hs chief chef care cr Is Isa I isa a large rge flock of fine chickens Last week eek he ran rn across acrs a jar ja of black bl blackberries k berries left It let over ocr from last lt season They were w re spoiled by fermentation and with wIt without out ot a thought of the result he threw them out to the chickens Now Mr Ferrier Ferer is a a believer bolever in soberness as in indicated Indicated by by his hi whole career In life me He lie would no tie more deal in intoxicants than he ne would tut ut off his right lund but that did not help the chickens xa a bit They ate freely of the blackberries g g g and d moP it tas was plain Je that tat the they were befuddled One One staid old hen tried trIe to look lk as though she didn t intend to go so home till ti m executed a fancy facy spin and fell feU fellon fellin on in her cropIn a beastly baty state of Intoxication intoxication tion Another tried ted to pick up corn but was ws so that It I could no more locate the te k mes mel than It I could read red a book on n morals A dignified rooster roster got gt the notion noton that his body would go so over was waa wa room for his neck neck and he In Insisted sited sIse on walking through trough a knothole A Ayoung s young with witha witha a full ful tide on flew fe feon on top of a fence and tried tre to crow ana fell tel oft off striking on Its it taM tall tU with wih scandal scandalous ous Otis awkwardness then rolling over on Its back and clawing the air al The geese seese over in the next yard looked on 01 In amazement when an old hen tried to flirt using her right leg as a the te signal A number of the younger fowls tried tred to todo todo todO do the split spilt and went around In a circle some dragging their crops crop on the ground gound others looking and nd some s ng en on own icet Mr air Ferrier Ferier thought of bromo but the th chicks were out for a time and turned him down dawn ld They want Bromo while the jag laSted lite When roosting time came a few of at them tried tre to get Into position to sleep off of the effects of ot the th carousal but it It was was no use ue In some cases cass the tail tU overbalanced the head and in other the head got ot away with wih the tail taU and they would go spinning around the roost line like athletes A motherly moth old creature overcome by b remorse remore jumped jumpe into a water trough and tried trie to drown herself She was too light lightheaded lightheaded headed to sink however ana an was waa corn com polled palled paled to stay sty with wil it it Three of tho the chickens died ded and the others went w nt to the bum room for Cor the tho night Next morning moring all al had hac yellow combs and coated tongues tongue and acted as a though they thoy were ashamed Mr Ferrier F has net not explained why he permitted his his barnyard pets pet to get tanked up but he ho says SS the affair furnished a powerful UI object leson lesson for ter the liquor drinker and nd that when the big rooster I tried to crow the following morning his ls tre effort eq sounded as though he Were ere trying tring i to ta to say I Oh what a night |