Arizona republican., 1910-04-14

Il that two bits of her dollar was earned by behe iding d chicken for neighbor who didn't have the nerve to 70 it her self
 Many f the experiences were told in II verse. So me of them were lyric gems ! Several of them. which were surrep- titiously oh tained. are printed with this Il article. but there were others which ! were unavailable for publication be- | cause of the foresight of their authors 1 in destroying the manuscript as soon as the poems had been read. The chicken poem. which reads like the execution of Marie Antoinette. fol | lows:
 1 One morning she came to me troubled.
 This bountiful 9eighbor of mine. ] Do you know any one near about here 1 Who to murders at all inclined? l want so much to have chicken. A chicken. for dinner today. | But there's no one there that will kill it. ! Though a quarter I'd gladly pay i Then I thought of the club meeting Tuesday. And the dollar rA)t vet complete. So I took up my Rttle hatchet 1 And went out vii h hurrying feet ! To the scene of the execution | Lest my courage should ebb away 1 And fail to make good the dollar For our club exper fence day. | ! grasped the legs Of the chicken And laying it down on the block. Nor needing the squ:iwk or the Tapping 6My heart was as hard as rockD. I raised high the blood curdling hatchet ffs-l,t hut itnf han Then down came the blade-and the chicken. Why. bless you, that chicken was dead, So here am bringing you my dollar With part of it dread fully earned. In hopes when you knew my fowl story.
 That blood money will not here be
 spurned.
 or course nobody was restricted to giving a single dollar if they could earn more. one member who brought in g recited a clever little poem telling jus; how she earned every bit of it. The readers heart goes out to her at the very start for in the first verse she says that one dollar of the five was earned by eating cold victuals. As one reads the verse the astonishing thing about it all is that she charged such reasonable prices for her labors. Mending hose at cents pair savors more of charity than good business. And one also wonders why the au- thor of such excellent verse should be compelled to mend hose. One would suppose that she could make more money and make if faster and easier by contributing little sonnets and the like to the magazines. Her poem follows: To help the Woman's club to beer and
 skittles,'' took to lunching daily on cold vic
 tuals, Result. one inch of loss around the
 collar. Bmt in the bank beautiful round
 dollar sallied forth on money making bent, | And planned hold-up for dear Madam l
 Kent. Helping her move her bric-s -brac and |
 China.
 or Dnah.
 
 thrifty. Netting the handsome sum of two and
 fifty. Also, I saved the trip of Round the
 World"
 For which my plans were into ruin
 hurled By my side partners fear of nal de
 mer,
 Thugs. bandits. pirates or some other
 scare:
 And as "a penny saved's ! penny
 earned. This sum may to the building fund be
 turned Another thought for mending Hubby's hose.
 Twenty pairs at two cents each my
 money grows; For sewing putting. five at two makes I'll warrant they will ne'er come off
 again. Unable now to find more opportunity of proving on this generous community Let me at once count up my little
 . treasure And hand it in today with greatest
 pleasure. For the joy of the gift is giving. not
 getting. It leaves in the heart no hint of
 regretting. But sweetens and wdens the heart of
 the giver. And yields him the peace that flows as
 river. But remember. remember! From now till December The gift whose gold will need no
 regilding Will be that which will help the
 Woman's club building.
 The total contribution to the building fund yesterday amouEeed to nearly s90. with many more precintS to he heard