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Sunstroke is a sudden prostration due to long ex- 

 posure to great heat, especially when much fatigued or 

 exhausted. It commonly happens from undue exposure 

 to the sun's rays in summer. It begins with pain in the 

 head, or dizziness, quickly followed by loss of conscious- 

 ness and complete prostration. 



How to Rent a Farm. 



In the rental of property, the greater risk is always on 

 the landlord's side. He is putting his property into the 

 possession and care of another, and that other is not 

 infrequently a person of doubtful utility. These rules 

 and cautions may well be observed : 



1. Trust to no verbal lease. Let it be in writing, 

 signed and sealed. Its stipulations then become coni- 

 mands and can be enforced. Let it be signed in dupli- 

 cate, so that each party may have an original. 



2. Insert such covenants as to repairs, manner of use 

 and in restraint of waste, as the circumstances call for. 

 As to particular stipulations, examine leases drawn by 

 those who have had long experience in renting farms, 

 and adopt such as meet your case. 



3. There should be covenants against assigning and 

 underletting. 



4. If the tenant is of doubtful responsibility, make the 

 rent payable in installments. A covenant that the crops 

 shall remain the lessor's till the lessee's contracts with 

 him have been fulfilled, is valid against the lessee's cred- 

 itors. In the ordinary case of renting farms on shares, 

 the courts will treat the crops as the joint property of 

 landlord and tenant, and thus protect the former's 

 rights. 



5. Every lease should contain stipulations for for- 

 feiture and re-entry in case of non-payment or breach 

 of any covenants. 



6. To prevent a tenant's committing waste, the courts 

 mil grant an injunction. 



7. Above all, be careful in selecting your tenant. 

 There is more in the man than there is in the bond. 



