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Show oo THINGS MORE DESIRABLE THAN MONEY. A friend has passed to us a most remarkable paper, which Justice Walter Wal-ter L. Smith of the third department of the appellate division of the New York supreme court, says came Into his possession from a patient in Cook County hospital. It Is the last will and testament of Charles Lounsbury, who died at Dunning, and is as follows: In the Name of God, Amen. 1, Charles Lounsbury, being of sound and disposing mind and memory (he lingered on the word memory), do now make and publish pub-lish this my Last Will and Testament, Testa-ment, in order, as Justly as I may, to distribute my interests in the world among succeeding men. And first, that part of my business busi-ness which is known In the law and recognized in the sheep-bound sheep-bound volumes as my property, being inconsiderable and of none account, I make no account of it in this mv will My right to live, it being but a life-estate, is not at my disposal, but, these things excepted, all else in the world I now proceed to devise de-vise and bequeath: ITEM. And first, I give to good fathers and mothers, but in trust for their children, nevertheless, all good little words of praise and all quaint pet names, and I charge said parents to use them justly but generously as the needs of their children shall require ITEM I leae to children exclusively, ex-clusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and -every, the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according accord-ing to the custom of children, warning them at tho same time against tho thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath be-neath the waters thereof, with the dragon-flies that skim the surface of said waters, and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float high over the giant trees. And T lonvn tn MillrifAn.Mw. u.. "uu -uv .u uiiiuiuu mu long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the Night and the Moon and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at, but subject, sub-ject, nevertheless, to the rights hereinafter given to lovers; and I give to each child the right to choose a star that shall be his, and I direct that the child's father shall tell him the name of it, In order that the child shall always remember the name of that star after he has learned and forgotten astronomy. ITEM. I devise to boys jointly joint-ly all the useful idle fields and commons where ball may be played, play-ed, and all snow clad hills where one may coast, and all streams and ponds where one may skate to have and to hold tho same for the period of their boyhood. And all meadows, with the clover blooms and butterflies thereof-and thereof-and all woods with their appurtenances appurten-ances of squirrels and whirring birds and echoes and strange noises; and all distant places 2ll0bt.mayJ,e vlsIted, together with the adventures there found a d $Ve, to Ba,d byfi to be theirs! And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood or coal to enjoy without let or hindrance and without any Incumbrance of cares ITEM-To lovers I devise their maglnary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, tho red, red roses by the wall tho snow of tie hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, or aught else they may deslro to figure to . each other the lastingness and beauty of tholr love. ITEMk To young men Jointly being Joined jn a brave, mad crowd, I devise and bequeath all boisterous, Inspiring sports of rivalry. riv-alry. I give them tho disdain of weakness and undaunted confidence confi-dence In thoir own strength. Though they are rude and rough, I leavo to them alone tho power of making lasting friendships and of possessing companions; and to them exclusively I give all morry songs and brave choruses to sing, with smooth voices to troll them forth. ITEM. And to those who are no longer children or youth or lovers lov-ers I leave Memory, and I leave to them the volumes of the poems of Burns and Shakespeare, and of other poets, if there are others, to the end that they may live tho old days over again freely and fully, without titho or diminution; 'and to those who are no longer children or youths or lovers I leave, too, the knowledge of what a rare, rare world it is. |