The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-22
WlRD PICTURE
IS BEAUTIFUL
4 PAINTING or INDEScRIBABLRI
LONELINESS IN WORDS
SAID no HAVE EMANATED FROM
a CRAZY MAN.

Justice walter Lloyd Smith, who
presides over che third department Of
1 the appellate division Of the supreme
court brought with him to the dinner
OF the New York University Law
School Alumni Association, held in
the city OF New York on the night Of
April 20, what he said was the most
remarkable document that ever came
into his possession. Others who read
the document, the last will and fiesta
ment Of Charles Lounsbury. who died
insane in the Cook County Asylum, at
Dunning, Ill. were disposed to agree
with him. Here it lis:
II, Charles Lounsbury, being of
sound mind and disposing memory, do
hereby make and publish this. my last
will and testament, in order as Justly
,as1 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 ac7
count, ! make disposal Of IN this, my
Twill.
my right to live, being9but life.
estate, is not at my disposal, but
these things excepted all else in the
world now proceed to devise and be-
queath:
+Item-1 give to good fathers and
mothers, in trust for their children
all and every, the flowers OF the fields,
and the blossoms of the woods, with
the right to play among them freely,
according to the customs OF children
warning them at the same time
against thfstles and thorns. And I
devise to children the banks Of the
brooks and the golden sands beneath
the waves thereof, and the doors ofths
willows that dip therein, and ithe
whit, clouds. that float high over the
giant trees. ! And 1 leave the chill
dren Of the long, long. days to be mer-
ry in, In d thousand ways, and the
Iipight and the moon and train Of the
Milky Way to wonder at, but subject
nevertheless to the right hereinafter
given followers; {
"ftem--T devise jointly all the
useful. ideal fields and commons
where ball may be Played all the
pleasant waters. where one may
swim; all snow-clad hills where one
may coast, and all streams and ponds
where one may fish, or where, when
grim winter comes, one may skate;
to have and to hold the same for the
period Of their Eboyhoodl And all
meadows with the clover blossoms,
and butterflies thereof. the woods and
their appurtenances, the squirrels
and 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 tireside at night, with all pictures
that may be seen in the burning
wood, to enjoy without let or hind
rance and without any incumbrance
of care.
4 "ltem.-Fo lovers, devise their inn
agtnary world, with whatever they
may need; as the stars of the sky,
the red roses by the wall; the bloom
of the hawthorn; the sweet strains of
music, and aught else by which they
may need; as the. stars of theSsky;
the lastingness and beauty of their
love.
"Item.-To young men Jointly, 1 de-
| wise and bequeath all boisterous, In
spring sports of rivalry, and give
to them the disdain of weakness and
undaunted confidence in their own
strength, though they are rude. I
give them the power to make last
ing friendships, and OF possessing
companions, and to them exclusively
I give all merry songs and brave
chorusses, to sing with lusty voices.
'Item.--And to those who are no
longer children or youths or lovers, /
leave memory, and bequeath to them
the volumes Of the poems of Burns
and Shakespeare and of other poets,
IL there be others, 10 tie end that
they may live over the old days again
freely and fully without 1.-THE or
dimtnution,
"1tem.-To our loved ones with
snow crowns l bequeath the happi-
ness of old age, the love and gratitude
of their childrn until they fall asleep"
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