{"id":7953,"date":"2022-02-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2022-02-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T06:00:00","slug":"two-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/two-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Topeka State Journal, February 16, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ezry Haskins was a feller
With a disposition meller;
Never graspin\u2019, never greedy,
Always helped the poor and needy.
Ezry made an honest million
And he might have made a billion
If he hadn\u2019t always parted
In a manner open-hearted
With such liberal wads of boodle.
Never got it in his noodle
That Dame Fortune\u2019s always fickle,
And he should save every nickel.
When \u2019twas too late to repent it,
Ezry found that he had spent it\u2014
All that he\u2019d accumulated.
Carriage to the poorhouse waited,
Ezry passed to life eternal
And the home town\u2019s weekly journal
Hardly gave him any mention,
He attracted no attention.
It was just a \u201cVillage Jottin,\u201d
Poor old Ezry was forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiram Haskins, Ezry\u2019s brother,
Seemed like he was of another
Breed of cattle\u2014and he looked it,
If there was a cent, he hooked it.
He was miserly and graspin\u2019,
And his voice was hard and raspin\u2019.
He was always with the bidders
On the mortgages of widders.
He grew most amazin\u2019 wealthy,
In a manner sharp and stealthy,
Even when so rich he couldn\u2019t
Count his piles of gold he wouldn\u2019t
Give a nickel to the needy,
He was that tarnation greedy.
But the folks all catered to him,
And gave him all honors due him,
And his funeral was glorious,
Like an emperor victorious,
And the paper had a column
Of a notice sad and solemn,
And the whole town joined in grieving
O\u2019er the old man who was leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t know what happened to \u2018em
When they both got what was due \u2018em,
But we bet old Hi is wishin\u2019
Fer a change in his condition\u2014
Wishin\u2019 the eternal graces
Would let him and Ez trade places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Topeka State Journal, February 16, 1914. By Roy K. Moulton. Ezry Haskins was a fellerWith a disposition meller;Never graspin\u2019, never greedy,Always helped the poor and needy.Ezry made an honest millionAnd he might have made a billionIf he hadn\u2019t always partedIn a manner open-heartedWith such liberal wads of boodle.Never got it in his noodleThat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}