The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-27
A LAWYERS UNIQUE WILL.
Devising the Beauties and Blessings
Which relong 10 All.

IOunSOerry, a chicago lawyer,
who at one time ranked high IN
his profession, died an insane pa
tlent IN the Cook county asylum
at Dunniug. Although this man
iie, absolutely destitute and pen
nile $ he left q will" This will
was duly sent To the probate
court, but there being nothing to
probate the document was mere
ly placed on file.
Referring to this will at the
time the Chicago Record-Herald
SAID that IT was framed with such
pcrfection of form and detail that
no flaw could be found in It's legal
phraseologv or matters. yet de-
vising only those beauties aud
blessings which the Great Father
long ago devised to all human
creatures.
The Record Herald printed the
document as it stood For the
sake Of its intrinsic beauty and
peculiar interest,"" for the same
reason it is now reproduced here:
II, Charles Lounsberry, being
of sound and dlsposlng mind and
memory, do hereby make and
publish this, my last will and tes-
lament, IN order, as justly as may
be, to distribute my interest IN
the world among succeeding men.
"1'hat part of my interestwhich
is known in law and recognized in
the sheep bound volumes as my
property, being inconsideraole
aud of none account | make no
diyposltlon of it in this my Will.
My right TO live, beng but a life
estate, is not at my disposal, but
this thing excepted, all else IN the
world | now proceed to devise and
oequeath.
"Item: | give to good fathers
aud mothers IN trust for their
children, all good little words of
praise aud encouragement, and
add quaint pet names and en-
dearments, and | charge SAID par
ents to use them justly, but gen.
erously as needs of their children
shall require.
"Item | leave TO children IN
clusively, but only for the term of
their childhood, all and every, the
lowers of the fields, and the bios
SONS Of the woods, with the right
10 play among them freely ac-
cording to the customs of chill
dren, warning them at the same
time against thistles and thorns.
And | devise to children the
banks of the brooks and the gold
en- sands beneath the waters
thereof, and the odors of the viii
lows that dip therein and the
white clouds that float high over
the giant trees.
"And | leave to children the
long, long days to be merry in, IN
Il thousand ways, and the night
and the moon, and the train of
the milky way to wonder at, but
Subject, nevertheless, to therlghts
herein after given TO lovers.
Item | devise to boys joint.
ly, all the useful idle fields and
com mons, where ball may be play
cd; all pleasant waters where one
may swim; all llsnowclad hills where
one may coast, and all streams
and p nds where one may fish, or
where, when grim winter comes,
one may skate, to have and to hold
these same for the period of their
boyhood. And all meadows with
tine clover blossoms and butter,
flies thereof the woods with their
appurtenances, the squirrels and
the birds and echoes and strange
noises and all distant places
which may be visited together
with the adventures there found
And | give to said boys each his
own place at the tireslde at night
with all the pictures that may be
cen in the burning wood, to en-
j ~ without let or hlndrance, anG
without any lncum brauch Of care
Item To lovers, ] devise
their imaginary world With what
ever they may need, as the sta :
Of the sky, the red roses by tn,
wall, the bloom of the hawthorne
the sweet strains of music an(