The Arizona sentinel., 1908-07-01
A PAUPER'S WILL

with whom reason is dethroned. , Although called a lunatic this man in dying left behind him a beautiful fancy, a will in which he bequeathed, not gold nor lands, for neither were his, but a wealth like that which good men are said to garner for them selves in the great beyond; un- tarnished and which thieves can not despoil. The testator must have enjoyed pure happiness even though living a clouded life for he bequeathed good wishes, the innocent joys of childhood i and an appreciation of the beau ties of the fields and woods to the boys and girls; to youths and maidens a world of rOse-tinted romance; to old age the calm content which should crown life's efforts and the sweet retrospect of memory. The beautiful imag- cry and the words in which the document is clothed would mark it rather as coming from the pen of one famous in letters than from the inmate of an insane ward. Perhaps the cloud lifted as death drew near and gave a feeting glimpse of an intellect such as the world might have counted among it's choicest treas ures. The will read;
 "I, Charles Lounsbury, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make and publish this, my last will and tes- tment, in order as justly as may be to distribute my interest in the world among succeeding men.
 "That part of my interest which is known in law and recognized in the sheep bound volumes as
 my property being inconsiderable
 and of no account, I make no dis
 posal of in this my will.
 My right to live being but a
 life estate, is not at my disposal, but, these things excepted, all
 else in the world I now proceed
 to devise and bequeath:
 'Item: I give to good fathers and mothers, in trust for their children, all good little words ot praise and encouragement, and all quaint pet names and endear- ments, and 1 charge said parents to use them justly and generous r lv. as the needs of their children ! may require.
 "ltem: give to children ex clusively, but only for their tern
 of childhood, all and every, the r flowers of the fields and the bios s sons of the woods, with the righ to play among them freely ac
 cording to the customs of child ,- ren, warning them at the sam' t time against thistles and thOrns
 And I devise to the children tht
 banks of the brooks, and thu
 golden sands beneath the water:
 thereof, and the odors of tn , willows that dip therein, and tn i, white clouds that float high owe
 the giant trees. And 1 leave thu r. children the long, long days t.
 be merry in a thousand ways, ,an' d the night and the moon and tn T. train of the Milky Way to wonde e at, but subject, nevertheless, t
 the rights hereinafter given t lovers.
 e "Item; 1 devise to boys joint > ly all the useful idle fields an IS commons where ball may b It played; all pleasant waters wher IT one may swim, all snowclad hill '" where one may coast, and a y streams and ponds where on
 may fish, or where, when griI Il winter comes, one may skate; |, have and to hold the same fC n, the period of their bOyhood. An y all meadows with the clover bio: ], sons and butterflies thereof, tn D. woods and their appurtenance' 5o the squirrels and birds, an m echoes of the strange noises, an a. all distant places which may [
 visited, together with the advel y lures there found. And 1 give
 said boys each his own place {
 the 6reside at night, with all pi
 lures that may be seen in tt
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