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ACADIENSIS

Vol. II. October, 1902. No. 4.
David Russell Jack,
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 Editor.

A Milestone.

WITH this number closes the second volume of Acadiensis. Another year has come and gone, during which the subscription list has been increased by about fifty names, but, with the effort to provide a better magazine, with more and better illustrations, the expenses have at least correspondingly increased, resulting again in a debit balance of about two hundred dollars.

This is not as it should be, and, if each of the present subscribers could secure one additional name, the fund would be sufficiently increased, not only to pay all costs of publication of the magazine as at present issued, but to provide more pages and illustrations, to the direct benefit of all who are connected with the enterprise.

There has been no lack of assurance that the work has been both a literary and an artistic success. Then, why not a financial success as well? The question naturally occurs, should the work be abandoned? Why waste time and money in catering to the supposed wants of an unappreciative public? Far better to let matters take their course than to struggle against the inevitable.

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