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Leas Owi cent, HnHnHnants. the f a i n South H|H^^^H^H|^fti?.sipni, aho nn operated <<i.g up the fer^^ ^^^^^ nluctiveness ^^^^HHflH^^Ers under our i^l^H^HBem, I of the constantly : cent which is in the tenants? Here, roblem big enough e thought of any PO Til K KKSCIIK. ions of acres will ysteinatically coniproved under our pstcm. The reason pal reason, at least, in is willing }<> go Mise of terracing, dying manure, ami ilanting high-priced mproving crops uiiroiig assurance that seme other man. ) land for tiio next His interest, plainf of exploitation? i much out of the jist as little back y cun. i what actually hapsoil conservation always been the tening problem we 3 intend with in our J! I JLfl sy it' L H. TROTTI, President. ?> a / EXECUTI \' E COMMITT1; * BI G 0 T\ Grand Nin \ Gin J Tuesday Mr. Automobile Ovvi ''Booster trip aroun Chesterfield County 4%County wanted to tal to visit every town ii Fill up your car with 3'our fric fbis i* the first rime anything 1 the first effort along this line si held for the benefit of all the j> START WILL BE MADE AutomoLile Marl Arrive 6:15 p. m. 9 a. m. 1<>:<K) a. in 11 ;0() a. niv L V2:00 noon k_ A?. W * ses Will iers and Renters Til K PKdRKSBIVK PAKMKR work among the farmers. Realizing, as every other thinking man does, that the first fundamental requisite to a more productive ugriculture is richer land and, at the same time that nearly all of ou~ '"mproved farm- ' ing land is becoming poorer and poorer year by year, we have at- ' tacked this problem first in everv r.?,mminiit v in WW... .?? VJ * " ?? ?I?VI? "" '* I have labored. But in nearly all j instances our pleadings fo* the1' improvement of the soil, where ! the tenant farming was concern- ( ed h'ave met wirh the same dis- ! couragtng response? nothing ' could be dun >. "I don't know : whether 1 will farm this land next year or not," says the ten- 1 ant, "and I cannot afford to go 1 to the expense of improving the land for someone else, perhaps, 1 to make a crop on." "I know 1 the land is getting mighty poor," says the landlord, "but 1 can..ot ^ alFonl to put out money on lam) ' that is being exploited by a care less shifting, and mercenary lot of tenants." The landlord can 'r do nothing and the tenant can do nothing; what is to become of the land? Yet to both of them, the land-j lord and the tenant., rich land is a matter of the most vi'al importance. What can be done tn | make soil conserving possible?! We believe the thing to do is to , change from the present indeti- , nite, one year, generally verbal j contract, to a ten or fifteen-year t legally executed lease, setti g e forth the rights, privileges and ( dories of both the landlord and t the tenant. Such a lease would not only make systematic soil ] consevation and improvement c 1 II \V. .1. 'IILLER, Vice President. ',E-L II TROT I'l, .). A. W ELS I tOSTE, ety-MHe Parat Qsterfield Gout 7,' Octobe tier:-- You are invite d Chesterfield County Fair. Every Autorn kp nnrt in tVllG rrr^nrl I? S1UUVJ V ti the county. nds who will "HOOST" for The (} like this has be-?n attempted in th lould be made in th? interest of i li "oplo of G'hesterlie'.d County. FROM CHESTBRFIRLD, 9:00 A. P ke<l "SCOUT CAR" Will Tate Lcac TlJe Following Is the Schedule: Chesterfield }y. Kuby Mt. Crogkun | P aye la nd .Jeirerson Catarhh MoBee :. j... Middendorf X_, r -i~ Patrick \ Cheraw ' 50c ? Pu4 ^B possible: it would confer a number of other important benefits on both the landlord and the tenant. It would give the landlord a better tenant, and i* would 6ave him trouble and expense of fr< quently changing tenants, and of having part of his land, often, butchered or lyng idle'; and would give the tenant a place he could feel to be home, save him the heavy expense of fnquent tiioves, and enable him through permanent residence to become a a citizen if some prestigo and consideration . WHAT TilK LANDl.OKD MUST l>0 But, as we see it, it will be necessary before this long lease system can he inaugurated and : ,1 i. e l _ Ai At i n ? jarneu uui', u>r oom me landlord md the tenant, to change radically his attitude, in certain respects, toward the farm and the business of farming. Let us exinline briefly the more important things that each must do. The first move?the comincement of the fundamental change must be made by the landlord; ne must exert, himself to make permanent tenancy of his land possible and desirable. One lung that he must do is to provide better houses and improvements?better tenant homes. Tenant, houses in the Sooth are lotoriously had ; and this creates i feeling of dissatisfaction and estlessness which keeps the enting class forever on the liove in search of more comfort ind better homes. This is true r. an especial sense of the better class of tenants?tiie only ones vlio are worth having. We do int believe that any other one hing causes so much changing imong tenats?so much pulling ibout from pillar to post?as the li lapidated, ram-shackle houses hat many landlords furnish. Another thing the landlord must do is to furnish a better ;lass of rural schools. Nothing n a ifi U. L. IiUNLEV, Secretary. I, EMSLEY A KM FIELD. R TRIP tie 7\round nty. r 5,191 5 d to join the Great in the interest of the obile in Chesterfield arade of ninety miles reat. Chesterfield County Fair, is County. It is fitting tliat h County Fair which is to be II., OCTOBER 5th, 1915. I; Others Follow. Depart 9 :<M)a. m. 9,4<> a. ni 10:U> a. m. 12:50\ ni. 2:4o iAm. . 4 :19 p. IL r> :8?P' f else you can think of is drawing as many people from the farms to the town8 and cities today as the superier facilities of the city schools. Self respecting, ambitious people naturally gravi- j tate towards good educational i advantages for their children. The better c'ass of tenants?the i ones the landlord wants?are no i exceptions to this rule. They i may not be able to keep their \ children in school all tne time, but they are deeply concerned about their training and want \ them to have ihe best advantages procurable when they are in ] school. We cannot help f?qling that from the landlord's standpoint the present idea of economy now ' very general, in the handling of tenant-operated farms is fundamentally wrong. A very large 1 percentage of landlords seem to j think that they cannot afford to ( put up good, comfortable Houses on theli places ana to keep up the improvements: it costs too much. Suppose the manager of a business concern?a factory, for instance?should conclude that he could not all'ord to go to the expense of keeping up some important part of the establishment, and stop putting money into it; how long do you suppose that business would continue to run? The business concerns that make moupy are those that, are kept up; and the same is true in equally as gre&J, a degree of farms. Look around you and see if you do not see everywhere' confirmation of this statement. I Unquestionably, we think, more money put into better houses and improvements, better schools and better roads would be the best investment that Sourthern landlords ooukl possibly make. And the most encouraging feature of the situation is, that)' it can be handled by the land- , lord as an individual proposition. 1 We are discussing it here in an abstract, collective way; but any man can change from the present system to a long-lease system of tenantry whether bis neighbors join in helping him in making toe change or not. By providing better accommodations lie can got the best tenants, and iie can keep them as long as he wants them. WHAT Tin: TKNANT A1KST DO But. the landlord cannot do it all and must not be expected to do so. The tenant must do his1' part. He must quit his everlast-:1 ir.g roving, find him a suitable location and settle down, and then go to work to make a home of !iis rented place and permanent, substantial citizens of himself and wife ami children. We have a class of tenant farmers wno are never satisfied, who are forever pulling about from place [ i 10 piace, Kearcnitig inr some fabled paradise where oppm tuni-j ty and money grown on trees. < Such men instead of finding the 1 i ' best opportunities, are always!, missing ihem and getting the1 i very worst of the deal. The best: places are naturally occupied by ] men who are stayers; an 1 the ] perpetual movers have simply to 1 take what is left, whatever that' maybe. Not only this, but t he j i inveterate moving man never . 1 wins that prestige nor forms those neighborly and friendship i ties which are so essential to 1 any man's success, llcrt, again, , "the rolling stone gathers no moss." The eminently wise and profi table course, we think, for the tenant farmer is to find a good location and take as long a lease as he can get, having it stiplated in the contract that he shall fie. paid at customary prices for any 1 improving which he may do by \ i agreement with the. landlord I an j then proceed to improve his land, to improve his stock, and to establish himself as a citizen of prestige and influence in the community in which he has cast his lot. That this system would probably work out in this country is shown by the fact that it hah worked out with entire satisfaction 'in the old country of Europe. In England for instance, where the long-lease system of farm tenantry prevails, the land, al though much of it has been in cultivation for aenturies, is pi^i ducing larger ofops today udflj| ever before. The lori^lease is th^^^HBB| to be tak^ib co 11 m e r v a t I fLfarmu^HNH^^^^Hn | The Wrong ! J Rushville j I |> Bu Marion Warrington | } (Copyright, 1915, by W. O. Chapman.) "I am tired of it all," spoke Myra I Cloyd, and she sighed and really ? looked weary and discontented. 1 Mrs. Verner, her aunt, glanced at ( her quickly, shrewdly. She traced i 3igns of worry in the fair gue3t she l had entertained through a busy social < season. * "You need a rest, a change, dear," j Bhe remarked soothingly. c "The change, perhaps, yes," admit- t ted Myra. "Rest? Oh, just the reverse of vnat, dear aunty. I can never i thank you for all the trouble you havo i had to give me the grand time of my f life, but there is so much hollowness t and insincerity to all the people I t have met, that I am not only disap- t pointed, but weary of it all." 1 "I am what they call a worldly woman, Myra," spoke Mrs. Verncr grave- < ly," but down in my heart of hearts 1 f commend your point of view. My t thought has not been, to merge you t into the social whirl, but to give you the experience that will enable you to a contrast the varied issues of life. I 1 had hoped, though, that the pliilan- r tliropical work would interest you?" i "Aunty, dear," broke in Myra pas- t sionately, "it is there that I have seen t the weakness of the system followed. < I will not say that good results in the ! 1 concrete are not attained, but so much e expense, so much time wasted by im- t petuous members with a theory to ex- e ploit. Oh, aunty, if only 1 could go direct to the poor and suffering! 1 x would give my services, the fortune t jear (lead father left to me to relieve i them." "You would be deceived, robbed on i svery band," declared Mrs. Vomer. 'Good, kind soul that you are! spend i week or two with Aunt Martha at Rushvillo. It will quiet you and settle lown your ideas after the turbulence jf the past three months." Myra had never been to Rushvillo, but she had twice received a visit rrom Aunt Martha when her father tvas alive. She recalled the plainfaced but charitable-hearted old lady, mticipating guidance and help in Traming up her life work, for Myra Telt that she had a call to assist in the great benevolence her fortune j | | IWI- 'P "Rushville," Sl-.e Spoke. * would allow. She was tired and had ? a headache and longed only for a restful sent on the train, when she reached ' the big crowded Union depot. "Rushville," she spoke, approaching one of the many ticket selling windows, received a bit ol stamped cardboard and was soon past the iron guard gate and selecting a scat on the ' shady side of tho car. | Myr#i let her mind drift. Then she must have dozed. It was quite dusk and the car lamps were just being lighted when the train slowed up and the conductor sang out: "Rushville." I Myra caught up her satchel and Btepprd out upon tin? platform of a little flag station. It was surrounded by freight trucks, there were no houses In sight, only a crippled flagman, whom Bhe approached. This train had gone on. "I must have made a mistake," she Bpoke flutteringly. "My ticket was for Ftushville and the signboard on the little depot is "Way 22.' " "Yes'm," nodded the old man, "Rushville is a mile and a half west They have no railroad there." Myra looked dubiously across the level twilight stretch before her. There Beemed to be no way of obtaining a vehicle, "So she set out to walk the distance. She hastened her steps as tho gloom of night began to develop the dreary landscape. She had nothing to go by except the broad direction from the flagman that iluBhville was "west." She was startled and affrighted as suddenly a vague form loomed up In her path Myra came to an irresolute standstill as the figure confrontedher. It was that of a haggu^Bt-\l tenuated man, whose N v ho kept coherently. Almost lnj^ A AI "I have readh Rushville easy, utrr.n^e Ho i^9|HHHH|HBUayfl "way, ialf a dozen "cots" and as many reclln- ?*"(l bW11 hait ng chairs. Each was .filled with an ,^ve3 * ^L* nvalid?the bloodless faces and lan- ,f" ap*?9**y ~ EUid poses told this much. roW' * ?**? r^ "Ah!" spoke a sudden brisk voice. *retfu'- T> wl" chj^my sisters lo you come back," and Myra noticed hoar from you ocrasfnally. I ho speaker as a professional looking M hcr cTeTr? trlthful tay ^ThlJ foung man, who at onco called some- f e e u v y' y tody from outside. Two men appeared lo11 th"'IT tl plt+will bo stamp. ,nd bore her guide away against his ""l,wlU"" ? n'?C' ,n<1 ">?' " will. The young man stared strangely U take up a cttarttAbls work n tl a . .. .,o city. Let mo assist |you?oh, pleasi ?! 11 my. a. Dlease'" "I cannot understand why you aro , rere," he spoke, and trembling, fear- *?d ,rora ""J" J""6 died Myra explained. The young man f tte"ro"e IU,u,hvl " ?r?w tho M? ookod serious and troubled, *?? ?f ^"d'nilt?e.r J, T ""'IV "There are two Rusbvllles aeees.l- side by side with her,noble husband.' )le from the city Union depot," he j" _ i ;aid, "on different railroad lines, nnd On account cf tlietal being po [ fear you pot a ticket to the wrong high, we have a lot of Nos. 1 and ;ne. The Rushville just beyond hero 2 shingles oil hatnl. So if ydju s a poor industrial town. Typhus has are in need of roofing come in iroken out and 1 am Doctor Willis, in an(i s00 us.?Cholsterfield M(fr;harge of the hospital here. I am very i pantile Co ;orry, miss, but you have been ex- * J losed to the disease through the folly . . __ J >f that escaped patient, and will have iViOlN tl V / o be quarantined. Tlio mint, makes it and under |tho It came upon Myra with a shock, but terms of the t'ONTI NRNTALMORlever was physician more gentle and IT?JA(5K Cn.V.L'ANY yi>u can secure it] at eassuring than her courteous, intelli- ; 0 per cent for any legs I purpose on up. ;ent host. He explained to her that proved renl estate, 'f ernm easy, telll lib he law exacted her isolation for four- .vour wants and we will co-operate wjitli een days. He assured her, however, 1 . hat she should have a room in the 908-9 Munsey Bltig-. Baltimore, louse himself and Ms sisters occupied. J 1 "I shall give you preventive medi- SaJc 0f Lantllfor Taxes | :ines," ho explained, "and from your * L ? .1 jeneral appearance I believe you will # Under and by virtue 01 autlilor>e immune from infection, as I am ity contained ill certain Kxecunyself." tions issued by \V. P. Douglass, The sisters Of the dnetnp were likft t\iiirvftr 'IVooLtii.ni, anil rl 11.0.014- n.,1 - " WW vvuuvj I i vciruicijt U'lgvf.uu ^arm-hearted sisters, indeed, to Myra. to mc, 1 have levied upon tind rhey gave her a room by herself. 'I ho taken exclus.ve possession of ^ho text day she had recovered her nat- f()):owing real estate, to wit, iknd irnl poise and becahno interested in -m ??ii *1 ? heir helpful duties. They took care of ?'' . . ti. ' heir brother's dispensary, nursed the hidfller, Ibefore Ithe ronvaloscenta, and Myra felt really Court house door p.t Chesterfield, \ iappy and contented as they gave her (>,l tile lir-t Mondlay in Oct. & I ^ iome cloth to make bandages of, and between tho l&gal) hours of Bile. .ecame a helper in good work of tho J77 A teflerson T|wnitockado hospital. , , . m<L . "It is my first experience in netnal ?h,P k,,ow" Mf McOaskllllEst. vork among the poor and sick," Myra 9 old Dr. Willis one evening. , "Yours loO acres in St.feer I'en Tftwiis a blessed task." , , ? v> vi B She regarded him wiih genuine ad- "'"P as ' B' M?n|n?0, niration. llis tirclcssness. patience laud. r n t t n Ki I ^ V/ JL ja JL N I Q I N N E jD J The Uhesterlield Gin Co., will gin your, cotton Hfor ONE DOLLAR per bale of ordinary weight#* Our pflins are in good condition and turn out a good, smooth, Blive sample that commands the top of market. 1 K <1 We are also buyers of seed, and will a^ajl times ^Bgive you tlie highest market price for your see!P^U^Hgi||^^^^B^H TO wnv' very best of bright meal from sound seedA have done no business ?>'itli us, ask some one w\ ** > ^ CHF:STERPsCLD GIN CO. ' ,l '* 111 i i?_J mi ?i ?"?-. "?' iiiwianMMMMl A X!) ^e a As and