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end of which time his friends pro- 

 duced the required sum. 



Mr. Sorgius, of the St. Maurice 

 Association, secured a conviction 

 during the present month by which 

 a guilty settler paid $10 fine and 

 over $90 costs. Sixteen similar cases 

 have yet to be heard. 



One of the difficulties in the past 

 has been the proper circulation of 

 news concerning these prosecutions 

 .so that settlers, trappers, and others 

 in all parts of the Province should 

 learn the facts and pattern their 



conduct accordingly. By a recent 

 arrangement, the Publicity depart- 

 ment of the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation has undertaken to spread 

 information concerning prosecutions 

 of all parties found guilty of brea.k- 

 ing the permit laws or of wilful 

 incendiarism. This will be done 

 through the French and English 

 newspapers of Quebec Province and 

 should considerably enhance the 

 efforts of the authorities to educate 

 the people to a sense of their public 

 duties. 



The Kind Godmother and the 

 Foolish Children 



A Too True Fairy Story For Young Readers. 



(Written for the "Cana 



Once upon a time there was a 

 good godmother with a great many 

 godchildren but as she had great 

 possessions she was able to provide 

 for them all. 



One day she called her favorite 

 godchildren together and said, "I 

 am going away to arrange the affairs 

 of mv other godchildren, and before 

 I go' I will divide among you this 

 estate. It is a very rich and beauti- 

 ful estate and with industry and in- 

 telligence you may live well and 

 make your inheritance even more 

 valuable than it is now, and may 

 -God grant you good health to live 

 long and enjoy it." And when the 

 estate was divided she took her jour- 

 ney to her other godchildren. 



The Godmother's Return. 



After a good many years she came 

 back to visit the family and called 

 them all together to see how the}^ 

 did, and how they had managed the 



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estate. Though the children were 

 now all grown up and married they 

 all lived on the estate, for indeed 

 they had nothing else to live upon. 

 They were all very glad to see their 

 godmother and took great pleasure 

 in showing her how they had en- 

 larged the old house and built new 

 ones and how they had cultivated 

 the part of the estate nearest the 

 village and had enlarged the black- 

 smith shop and the tannery, got new 

 machinery in the saw-mill and re- 

 paired the grist mill. 



When they had returned to the 

 lawn in front of the old homestead 

 their godmother said : 



"I suppose the first thing you did 

 was to call in a surveyor and find 

 out how much farm land and pasture 

 land and woodland you have and 

 what water powers are on the 

 streams, and what mines in the 

 hills, so that you might use all to the 

 best advantage?'-' 



