Foresft Near Beaudette After the Fire. 



homemakers and should be aided in their work in every legi- 

 timate way. Some of these men naturally regard any law 

 which deprives them of this one method of land-clearing 

 within their reach unfair. They fight it and elude it every 

 chance they get. 



Any system of fire protection must protect all these dif- 

 ferent interests, if it is to be successful ; the present sys- 

 tem in force in this state does protect them all. Why, then, 

 are many of the settlers opposed to the system? Why do 

 they look on it with disfavor as an encroachment on their 

 rights? In most cases the answer is clear, because they do 

 not understand the present law and do not know their rights 

 under it. 



Here are, in brief, the points of the law: 



The destruction of the property of another is no man's 

 right, and punishment for such an offense is unquestionably 

 justifiable. If a man shoots at a deer and kills a horse, he 

 would never doubt the claim of the horse's owner for dam- 

 ages. Why, then, should he resent it if a man objects to 

 having his house or his timber burned by a fire which was 

 meant to clear a field? 



