Show ALL GOOD THINGS TO ALL HUMANITY Beautiful Be util l Will Over Which No Lawyer Lawyers Fought Perhaps the sanest and most beau will wilt ever r written was the production production production pro pro- of a II lunatic At least th the writer of It It one one Charles Ix lounsberry a member of the Illinois ba bur died bar died lcd In Inan Inan an nD asylum but bow how much more admirable admirable ad ad- mirable was his will than some of the embittered testaments of men eminently eminent eminent- I ly Iy sane the reader shall judge for him him- I self Here lIere It Is I HI 1 Charles Charle Lounsberry being ot of sound pound and unU disposing mind and memory memory mem memo ory do hereby make moke and publish this my last will and testament In order as justly as os may be to distribute my Interest In lu the tho world among succeedIng succeeding succeeding succeed succeed- ing men That part port of my Interest interests which Is known In law and recognized in the sheet bound volumes as my property being Inconsiderate and of no account I make no disposition of In this my will My Iy right to live being but a life lite estate Is not at my disposal but these things excepted all else elso In the world I now proceed to devise and bequeath Item I Ilea leave ve to children Inclusive Inclusive- Iy ly but only for the term of their childhood childhood childhood child child- hood till all and every the flowers of the fields ant and the blossoms of the woods with the right to play ploy among them freely according to tho the customs of children warning them at tho the same time against thistles an and thorns And AndI I devise deUse to children the banks of the brooks and the gulden guidea sand Baud beneath the waters thereof and the odors of the willows that dip therein and the white clouds that float high over the giant trees And I leave to children n the long long days to be merry In la In Ina a thousand ways and the night and the moon and the train of the Milky way to wonder at at but subject nevertheless nevertheless never never- to the tho rights hereinafter given to lovers ers Item I devise to boys jointly all the useful Idle fields and commons where ball boll may be played all pleas- pleas I waters h 1 e u. u i It a u w YU here vu one may sw YOU m j a snow clad hills where one may coast and all ail streams and ponds where one may fish or where when n grim winter comes one may skate to have e and to hold these same for the tho period of their boyhood And all ull meadows with the tho clover er and butterflies thereof the tho woods with their appurtenances tho the squirrels and the echoes and strange noises and aU distant places which may be bo visited together with the adventures adventure there found And I I give to said boys boy each his own place I at the fireside at night with all the pictures that may maT be seen In the burnIng burning burn burn- Ing wood to enjoy without let or hindrance bin hin drance and without any encumbrance or care Item To lovers I devise their Imaginary Imaginary Im Im- world with whatever they theT ma may need as al the stars of the sky Iky the theros red nod ros roses roses by the wall the bloom of the hawthorn hawthorn the sweet strains of mu mu- 1 aid aag fl glee else t they i may i i require to figure to to each other the lastingness a and beauty of their love 2 Item To To young l young ii men jointly I derise de- de devise vise rise and aDd beque bequeath bequea h all aU boisterous inspiring in- in Inspiring In sports ru of rivalry ir and and d' d I give ive to them the disdain of weakness and undaunted c confidence dence In la their own strength Though they are rude I leave to them the power to make lut last tug ing friendship and of ot possessing companions com corn and to them exclusively I 1 give all merry songs and brave braye choruses choruses chor chor- uses to stag sing with lusty voice vold Item And to those who are no DO longer children or youths or lovers I leave memory and I bequeath to them the volume of th the poems of Burns and Shakespeare and of other poets If U there be others to the end that they may mar live Uve the old days over again freely free free- ly 17 and fully and without title or diminution Item To our loved ones with snowy crowns I bequeath the of old age aie the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep This has been described enthusiastically cally cully as the most beautiful and comprehensive com coin lve will ever er made one made one under which all ull humanity Is beneficiary and which disposes disposed of all tho the w wealth alth In the world thatIs worth having Montreal Montreal Family herald I |