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clergyman; David is a doctor; 

 Eleanor is a school teacher; Frank 

 is a lawyer; George is a dancing- 

 master; Harriet manages the poul- 

 try; Isabel is married to a stage- 

 driver; Jacob is a juggler"— 



"Hold," said the good godmother, 

 ^'Which of you boys is the forester?" 

 The Children Are Rebuked. 



"Oh godmother dear," they said in 

 pained voices, "we are practical, m- 

 dustrious people and we do not be- 

 lieve in 'fancy' professions." 



"Fancy professions," retorted their 

 godmother warmly. "Your fore- 

 fathers were foresters before they 

 were farmers. So far as you know 

 more than half your estate is fit only 

 for timber. If you had kept timber 

 on that near woodland you would 

 not have had the mill dam washed 

 away, you would not have to burn 

 coal to run the mill, your crops 

 would not be blown down or eaten 

 by insects and Andrew, the lumber- 

 man, would not have to spend two 

 seasons in getting his logs to the 

 mill. The man who could help you 

 in all this you call a man with a 

 ^'fancy" profession while you practi- 

 cal old-fashioned children are jug- 

 glers and dancing-masters and what 

 not." 



And for all she spoke so tartly 

 they did not resent it but resolved 

 to take heed to her advice because 

 they knew she loved them and wish- 

 •ed them well. 



name of the godmother is Dame 

 Nature. The estate she gave is 

 called Canada and her children are 

 you and me and all the other people 

 you see in Canada. We had not a 

 single forester in all Canada in 1898 

 nor for several years after. We do 

 not yet know how much timber we 

 have and we allow every year great 

 forests to be burned. Insects are 

 destroying our crops, our wells are 

 drying up, our rivers are being des- 

 troyed and still we think we are 

 some of the cleverest of Dame Na- 

 ture's children. Have we not been 

 foolish and is it not now high time 

 to become wise? 



Now you will say that no family 

 ever acted in such a silly fashion as 

 to have a great estate given them 

 and not to find out how large it was 

 or what it contained, or who would 

 neglect and burn up their second 

 ^reat source of income. 



But this, alas, is a true story. The 



PROTECTION ON UPPER 

 OTTA WA 



During the summer Mr. M. J. 

 O'Brien has established a very ef- 

 fective fire protective organization, 

 under the direction of Mr. W. G. 

 Sweezy, on his extensive timber 

 areas of the Upper Ottawa region. 

 An efficient force of fire rangers is 

 kept constantly busy cutting trails 

 to facilitate rapid movement from 

 point to point, and look-out stations 

 have been established on all the 

 prominent heights so that it is now 

 possible for the staff of rangers to 

 overlook every day the entire area 

 of some 1,200 square miles of Mr. 

 O'Brien's limits besides an enormous 

 area of adjacent forests. More trails 

 are constantly being cut and every 

 ranger is kept busy. Mr. Sweezy 

 has also commenced a detail cruise 

 of every square mile of Mr. O'Brien's 

 limits to ascertain the exact quantity 

 of timber and the best methods of 

 operation. In this work the fire- 

 ranger trails serve a most useful 

 purpose. 



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