The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-01-16
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ALL WERE SO

The following remarkable document
was drawn up in legal torn by q man
who recently died at the Cook Coun-
ty insane asylum at DuDnins, Ill. {:
|, Charles Lounsbury, being of
sornd mind and disposine memory,
do hereby make and publish this. my
last will and testament. in order as
justly as it may be to distribute my
interest 10 the world among succeed.
ing men.
That part of my interest which 10
known In law aud r, copnized In the
sheep bound vdlnnse 4, =. my pI operty,
being In consider able aud OF no &C.
count, maze no disposal Of in this
MY will
NV right - live. being hut a life
estate, IL not at my disposal, but
t,ese t ines excepted, oil else In the
world now proceed TO devise aud
beuueath:
Item: give to good fathers aud
mothers. In trust for their children,
all good little words Of praise, and
encouragement. aud ail quaint get
names an endearments, and ! charge
said parents to use them justly and
generously, as the needs of their chill
DIR Il may require.
Item leave to children inclusive
ly, bnt only for the term Of their
childhood, all and every, the tiowers
of the fields, and the blossoms Of the
woods, with the right to play among
them freely according to the customs
Of child en-, warning them at the same
time against thisties and thorns. And
! devise to children the banks of the
brooks, and the golden sands beneath
the water thereof and the odors Of
the willows that dip therein and the
white clouds that float high over the
giant trees. And | leave the children
the long, long days to be meIry in,
In Thousand ways, and the night
and the moon and the train of the
milky way to wonder at, but subject
nevertheless to the rights hereinafter
given to lovers. g.. ..g A..
Item. l devise to boys Jointly all
the useful idle fields and commons
where ball may be played all pleasant
waters where one may swim, all snow
clad hills where one may coast, and
ell streams and ponds where one may
fab or where, when grim winter
comes, one may skate; to have and to
bold the same for the period of their
boyhood. And ali meadows with the
clover blossoms and butter flies there.
of, the woods and their apEultenanc.
90 the squirrels aud birds, the echoes
and strange noises, and all distant
places which may be visited, together
with .he adventures there found. And
give to said hoys each his own place
at the Hreside at night, with all pic
lures that may be seen in the burning
wood, to enjoy without let or hin
drance and without any encumbranct
of care.
Item: To lovers, devise theil
imaginary world with whatever they
may nesd-as the stars of the sky. tbt
red roses ty the wall, the bloom o.
the hawthorn, the sweet strains o.
j. music, and aught else they may desire
y to figure to each other the lastn sn es'
and beauty OF their love.
Item: 10 young men Jointly, de
wise aud bequeath all boisterous, in
spring sports Of rivalry, and ! Civ,
to them the disdsin OF weakness ant
undaunted confidence in their owl
strength, though they are rude. !
give to them the power to make last
ing friendships, and OF POSSESSING
companions, aud to them exclusivel!
give sIt merry songs and brave chor
uses, to sing with lurty voices.
Item: And to those who ale NJ
longer children or youths or lovers,
leave memory, aud bequeath t.
them he volumes Of the poems o
Burns and Shake speare and OF othe
poets, IL there be others, to the enc
that they may live over the old day
again. freely and fully, without tith
or diminution.
Item: To our loved ones witt
snowy crowns ] bequeath thu happii
ness Of old ege, the love and gratitud
OF their children until they fa'
aslaen