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Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

of great value in getting the finest
blooms and the longest bud develop
ment. Good wood dirt is excellent.
Fine, strong plants, set while entire
ly dormant, should give satisfactory
quantity of flowers the first summer.
In planting, the tops should be cut
down to two or three buds.
Many fail at this point to prune close
enough. On well grown plants there
is usually too much wood left. The de-
sire to obtain blossoms the first sum-
mer is so great that frequently the en-
tire top is left to grow. which is too
much for the root to support.
The reverse should be done, for by
close pruning the few buds left will
develop into strong, vigorous shoots
that will produce buds, and only by
this practice can they be surely OBJ
tanned.
A good general rule to follow in
pruning is to cut severely all teas, hy
brid teas and kinds that do not make
strong growth, and to cut all strong
growing kinds moderately. The more
luxuriant bush grows the less prun-
ing will be required, but the weakest
growing kinds require the severest
pruning.
While florists have their own way of
propagating roses, amateurs usually
get start of everblooming roses either
from cuttings of the blooming wood,
or from cuttings of mature wood rooted
during winter while in semi-dormant
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

The hot monday sun Is very hard
upon the blossoms, and if the rose bed
could be so located as to get shadow
cast from a clump of trees for two
hours after noon such location would
be ideal.
The greatest pleasure to be derived
from flowers is to have them for the
freest possible use and to give to
friends and others who may otherwise
not be able to have them.
The soil needs to be well suited and
properly prepared. For hybrid per-
petuals heavy soil is better, one that
has some portion of clay in its COM
position. The rose requires for it's best
development cool, moist soil, and for
this reason the heavier type is better,
carrying as it does large amount of
moisture, and being also little lower
in temperature.
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now walk with perfect COM
fort with the aid of the
Fischer Bunion Protector.
Here is one of them.
Fl. WAYNE, INDIANA.
THE FISCHER MFG. CO..
436 Scott st. Milwaukee, Wis.
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THE OLD FASHIONED MARY WASHINGTON ROSE.

are quite apt to throw out shoots from
their own roots which are vigorous
and soon overcome and run out the
bud. They may be readily discerned
when they do come out, for their leaves
and wood are of different character
from that of the bud, the wood being
covered with fine, prickly spines and
the leaves being seven in number of
three serrations instead of five, as in
most of the budded kinds.
Budded roses should be planted deep
so that the bud is at least three inches
below the surface of the soil, when
there will be less trouble from the
suckers. The roots should be examined,
and any eyes or buds that are starting
upon them should be carefully taken
out.
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Have Your Soil Rich.

The soil can hardly be made too rich.
Well composted manure should be
worked down deep into the bottom of
the bed or of the rows if they are not
in the latter form. This should be COW
manure, as that is of cooler nature
and better suited to the requirements
of the plant. Horse manure is too
heating and will injure the roots if
used in large quantities. Liquid
manure used in a diluted form once a
week after the buds are formed will be
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

The Fischer Bunion
Protector is a neat, soft
leather device that is worn
over the stocking, inside a
smaller shoe than you have
been in the habit of wearing
on YOUR bunion-tortured foot.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
Rl,.,FISCHERoQ
oNlOii' ii''iF;il,llijf iPF;Ril,olliijfClw

Name furnished on application.
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They will fly off when you are attempt
ing to treat them.
The white grub is another parasite
upon roses, the list of which is becom-
ing somewhat formidable This grub
comes from eggs deposited in the
ground by the June bug or May beetle.
After pairing, the male dies, when
the female bores down in the soil, de-
posting her eggs from six to eight
inches deep. The small white grubs
which are Matched from these live upon
the grass roots or the roots of other
plants.
In making up the soil for the rose
bed sods frequently put in the bottom
to decompose have these grubs in
them, and as they live in the grub form
for three years, they frequently eat the
roots of the roses, causing them to
wither and often to die. On the first
discovery of whiting plant the soil
should be dug over to find the grubs.
Toads Are Friends.
There are no better friends to have
in the garden than the toads If they
could be protected and encouraged to
live there they would eradicate many
Of the grubs and cutworms that do so
much damage to garden plants.
The great enemy of the toad is the
small boy. Bands of schoolboys have
been known to go out, and in a single
day, kill as many as 300 of these use
full animals. The boys regard this as
innocent sport, being untaught and not
knowing that the toad is a most valua-
BILE insect destroyer
To the lovers of the rose, these diff
ficulties in its culture, great as they
are, are not altogether too discourag-
ing. They rather incite to greater
energy and determination to overcome
them, knowing that eternal vigilance
is the price to be paid to win and to
enjoy this queen and most beautiful of
all flowers.
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How to Kill the Aphis.

This will be discovered on the tips
of the bushes and also upon the buds
and about their stems. The insects
suck the sap from these tender parts
and greatly check the growth and de-
velopment of the buds. busting with
hellebore will keep them in check, or
they may be sprayed with one pound of
caustic potash whale oil soap dis
solved in eight gallons of water. This
is easy work.
One of these insects will be the pro-
genitor of over 5000 million descend
ants at the end of five generations,
which makes the discovery and prompt
treatment of the first ones highly i'm
portant.
The leaf roller is another enemy that
rolls up the leaves and also works upon
the buds, eating small holes in the
ends,
Then there are other caterpillars,
the young of moths and butterflies, that
feed upon the foliage and also upon the
buds. These should be hand picked or
crushed, as it is difficult to reach them
after they have protected themselves
by the folding of the leaves.
The rose bug or rose chafer is a
small brown beetle that appears in
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
How to Grow Cuttings.

How can you root summer cuttings
Make or 5-inch cutting of a rose
branch that is coming into bloom, or
is just through blooming. Cut just be
low an eye, leaving a small "heel' or
strip of bark attached. Trim off the
lower set of leaves even with the wood
Leave the end leaf entire and trim the
leaf or two remaining, back to the
first pair of leaflets. Insert these cut.
t1ngs in wet sand up to the last eye
Put them in the window and keep con
stantly damp until they root, which
should be in from 3 to 4 weeks. Teas
root easily by this method.
To root from semi-dormant wood
About the beginning of autumn, Sep
tember in the North, October in the
South, take your cuttings. Several
may be made from one cane, as pretty
well ripened wood roots after this
method as well as any. Make the cut
tings about inches long. Cut just be
low an eye, making a slanting cut
and trim off the lower leaves. Now
dig a hole by the parent bush. Put q
handful of sand at the bottom if you
have it, and put in your cuttings, set
ting them one inch apart and firming
the earth very solidly about them
Only about an inch of the upper stem
should project above the ground. Pu
a glass fruit jar over the cuttings
sinking the jar we'll into the ground
then bank up the earth a couple o.
inches around the can. Let the cut
tings, jar and all, rigidly alone unit
spring is well advanced. 1t will b.
found then that nearly every cutting
has rooted. This plan seems to be {
success wherever it is tried, North
South, East or West Nearly all hybriC
teas and perpetuals root we'll in thi!
way. So do moss, memorial and ram
bier roses.
In the culture of roses the creates
trials and disappointments are me
with in the insects that persistently at
tack them and of which there ar,
many. One of the first in the earl.
summer is the green fly or aphis.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

The teas and hybrid teas will do
better in little lighter soil of the loan
type, but for either class there must
be perfect drainage.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

condition. The latter is the surest
method for the inexperienced flower
grower.
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long as the teas. These have been OBJ
tanned by crossing the French and Da-
mask roses with the China rose.
Roses are propagated by cuttings, by
budding, grating and layering. All
varieties will not root equally well
from cuttings and layers, and budding
is largely done.
The budding roses have to be care
fully watched, for being started on
strong brier and Manetti roots they
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09

ing about the vice, discontent-we are looking at
discomfort virtue.
In the home circle discomfort is that which
makes woman sweep dirty room, instead of
lying down a sofa and reading the advertise
ments of bargain sales. If she were perfectly
content with the room, she would not touch it,
1t is only the discontented woman, the woman
with the nervous, Unsuitable desire to be always
doing something, who makes good housekeeper
and good mother.
Discomfort, if it is of the right kind, spurs peo
pie on to that greatest of all blessings work
People Will tell you that they hate work, and
that they don't see why their employer doesn't
make their vacations longer. "Only two weeks
of the pure country air, and then back TO that
stuffy unhealthy officei It's scandalous! He
ought to be made to lengthen our vacations"
But suppose that these same fault-inders are
compelled to take a vacation some time and that
they are not embarrassed for money, then thew
will find that they really lost for something to
do. Their time will hang heavily upon their
hands, they will get nervous and irritable and
contract a chronic headache, and they will find
themselves actually inventing something to do.
They will have found out that work is really a
blessing in disguise
The more dscontented man is, and the more
he consequently devotes himself to work, the
surer he is of making a name for himself in the
world Without the inspiration of discomfort he
would never be able to advance step, and in
these days a an'must either 90 forward or drop
out entirely.
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A VIR I u E?

much time and energy trying to concoct con-
veyance capable of journeying to Mars. They
would continue to look at the blue sky, but the
sight of it would never fill them with discontent
for the green earth.
You read in poetry and in Sunday school books
about 'sweet content" and you have had the
virtues of a contented disposition preached to you
all your life long. Any other kind of a sermon
is little short of blasphemy AS matter of
fact content is stagnation 1t means getting in a
rut, and sticking there. You never saw con-
tented person who got along in life. The con-
tented man or woman is the meek sort of person
who let's everybody walk over them.
[ contented person is never the hustling kind,
who stirs things mp wherever he goes, and doesn' t
mind walking on the toes Of few people in or
der to get what he wants
When man of the good, old-fashoned, con-
tented kind fails in busness-as he generally
does-his wife goes around telling people that he
was too honest to succeed, As a matter of fact,
he was probably too easy-going to take any trou-
BILE with his business, and too much in rut to
make any Innovations in business that had been
founded by his father.
It is the discontented boy who becomes a mil
lionaire a great politician. 1t is the discon,
tented man who develops into great reformer,
or who leads revolution.
Content never accomplished anything yet, ex,
cepting TO suggest subject for poets rapsodies
Even in the home circle dscontent has It's value
OF course, if II only gives rise to faultinding
thsR 3 dossnt do any good, but we are not talk
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
IS DISC ONTEN EVER

1t will be found that the dscontented, fault
finding woman is the who lives in board
ing house, who has no regular employment and
who has no household duties to perform. She
has nothing to do but find fault with things,
and make life as unpleasant as possible for the
other people in the house.
If she is rich, and lives in a large house with
so many servants that she never has to lift her
hand to thing, she is just as dscontented as
the woman who lives in boarding house. I'm
der these circumstances she contracts nerves in
order to occupy her mind
On the other hand, there are people upon
whom discomfort acts as a spur to action. These
people are so aroused by conditions that are un-
congenial that they spurred on to make radi-
cal changes, to act contrary to public opinion,
if necessary, and even to stand alone and unsup-
ported for the sake of the thing they want They
are the George Washingtons and the Napoleons
of their age.
If there were no strong discontented, obstinate
spirits the world would not progress, and every
body would be perfectly satisfied to go on in the
same beaten track that humanity has followed for
centuries.
If some men had not been discontented there
would have been railroads, no telegaphs, no
telephones; people would not be so ardent in
their search for useless North Pole; and scien-
fists would not spend hours and hours in stufy
laboratories hunting for things that people in
general don't care snap of their fingers about
If everybody was quite satisfied with this earth
as a place Of residence, nobody would spend 50
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09

Sophie, did you not pursue the subject. A
few moments later they finished their meal, and
Clevenger prepared to take his departure. He
was getting into his coat when Sophie came over
to him.
Frank, did I ever ask you for your word of
honor?"
Whats up now?" demanded her husband,
half laughing at her seriousness
Answer me, Frank Did I?''
He considered. mo, don't think you ever
did, he said finally.
well, | want you to give me your word of
honor now that you won't speculate with this
money"
Sophie, you're foolish" he said half irritably.
Isn't it enough if l say l won't?'
PLEASE give me your word of honor, Frank"
"All right. I give you my word of honor"
he replied, "but l think you are making an
awful lot out of nothing"
A few minutes later he was standing on the
corner waiting for car to take him down
town. Suddenly some one slapped him on the
shoulder, and he wheeled to meet the jovial
countenance of his friend Bill Anstruther
Hello, old man, how are you?" cried An.
struther.
'Fine. How's the market coming alonr?"
Pretty good-pretty good. We don't see much
of you any more. Where have you been keep
ing YOURSELF"
''Wel to tell the truth, L haven't had any
money to speculate with for the last month or
So"
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was nothing less than the theft of it. He had
stolen his wife's money, speculated with it, and
lost it. Anstruther might insist that the deal
sure to pan out all right in the end, but
then that was what Anstruther always said. He
knew him of DID, and he remembered bitterly
now how many bad specuations his friends
plausible argument and suave manners had got
ten him into. AS presented by Bill Anstruther,
a deal always appeared to be SO and so
easy that it was only child's play, but often it
worked out very differently. Bill was always
Boosting about his inside information; but often
this inside information did not amount to much
Clevenger mentally called himself fool for
allowing himself to be taken in by him. And
Sophie had been so anxious to get that mortgage
off. How would he ever be able to face herr"
In no very pleasant frame of mind, he went
out and partook of solitary lunch When he
returned, he found that Anstruther had called
him up. Finding that he had left no message
he at once went around to Anstruther's Offices
''What did you call me up for% he asked, as
soon as he saw his friend.
Anstruther turned upon him triumphanty.
Gust to tell you that they did call that assess
ment, and that he stock has consequently fallen to
eightysx. Hows that?"
"It fell three points? Why, we had only been
bargaining on two"
81 know it. And you have made six thousand
instead of four, old man.
Say that's great. And 1 had thought I was
wiped out"
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Not in this case. You'll be sure to cover"
All right. Just as you say | happen, luckily,
to have some money with me, and I'll step into
your office and give it to you'
very good III put in your order as soon
as the market opens'
An hour later, Cevenger called up Anstruther.
Hello, Bill he said. "How about my order?''
Il went short of two thousand shares at So
VERY good And how about the assessment"
"No news OF it yet. But that's all right The
rumor ought to get around pretty soon now. I'll
call you up"
"All right. I'll be waiting"
AT eleven o'clock the broker kept his word.
Hello, is that you Clevenger? Sorry but I've
got bad news. The news of the assessment did
leak, and the stock at once fell half a point; but
they have since hushed the thing up and the
stock has not. only recovered the half point it
lost, but it has climbed to ninety"
"The DEVIL"
There isn't any reason for giving up hope, old
man. They have just got to make the assessment
know exactly what condition their affairs are
in, and they simply must have money. Just have
little patience"
"All right, Bill. I'm in your hands. Goodby.''
Clevenger hung up the receiver and turned
away from the phone. Was he going to lose
the money that Sophie had worked for? And ht
had given her his word of honor that he .woulo
not speculate with it, too. He saw now clearly
that what he had termed the "use" of the money
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09

he'd cut me out with that delightful young per-
son he's engaged to, to help him. All, it all
drifts back to you, Peggy the enthusiastically
And so back he drifted to the photograph
He took it out of its frame this time, and
read the writing on the other side. "To dear
Gordon, wishing"
He had often wondered what she meant to
follow the Wishing" He knew what ought
to have follooed it. When two years ago she
went off to India with her stepfather, mainly to
take charge of her young stepbrother Bobby,
she had let him think the best possible. She
loved him, certainly; and she promised she
would not let any Anglo-Indian male dsplace
him in her heart.
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''You did? Well, next time you'll trust me,
guess. Shall l buy it in for you now? 1t might
rally little bit before the market closes, you
know, and you don't want to take any chances
'All right, buy it in"
FFVery good. You will get check in day
or two"
f'All right. So long"
When he got outside Clevenger was not in so
exhilarated mood The excitement of his sue.
cess had left him, and he remembered his wife
He had won, but then the fact remained that
he had broken his word of honor to her, and it
the first time that she had ever asked for
his word of honor. How would she take it?
Clevenger was late in getting home that after
noon. He found Sophie all dressed up, apparent
ly to celebrate the payment of the mortgage.
"Well dear, did you do as asked you?" she
said, as he had his hat and coat off
''What was that?" he parried, pretending not
to understand.
''Why, about the mortgage, silly Did your"
as he remained silent ''Why don't you answer
Frank%
"Well, no, didn't" he replied in an almost
inaudble tone.
''You didn't" she cried "Why not? You did
MT speculate with it, did you?"
There was silence for a few moments, while
she waited anxiously for his reply.
'1 did," he said at last.
"You did? Oh, Frank, and YOU broke vour
Clevenger said nothing, and she turned her
back on him. After a few moments she began
to cry softly.
"You know it's not the money I mind; it's
that you broke your promise to me. I suppose
1 get the money together again, but it will
take some time"
"Get the money together agan?" cried Clev-
enger "Do you think I lost it?"
She wheeled swiftly. Eyes Didn't you?"
"Why, I cleared six thousand dollars
just trebled your money
"Six thousand dollars! Oh, Frank, that's
great! Why, can pay off the mortgage and
do lots of things besides. We can get new
piano. and a new set of furniture for the sitting.
room, and maybe an automobile and-and--"
She stopped for breath
Her husband looked at her in astonishment.
81 thought you angry with me?''
ANGRY with you? Why, Frank dear you've
made six thousand dollars How can / be an
gry"
"But broke my word of honor" he persisted
"There are cases" she said, demurely, where
it is all right to break a promise"
Clevsnger shook his head hopelessly. 81 never
did understand women, and don't expect ever
shall"
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"But in a bear market you wouldn't need to
have much money to start out with. If you had
a little this morning, for instance, you could
make money in C. r. r. because / have it on
good authority that the stock will be assessed
this morning You know that the affairs Of the
company have been in bad shape for some time. -
Eyes, know they have But 1 think that this
morning"
At that moment their car came along, and
Clevenger was forced to cut his sentence short.
On the way down town Anstruther talked nces-
sanity about c. R. r.. insisting that the stock was
sure to fall at least two points when the news of
the assessment became rumored. His arguments
were quite plausible, and in spite of his good in
tentions, Clevenger could not help being Impress
ed by them The money Sophie had given him
was in his wallet; would it be such an awful
crime if he used it? He was so sure to win,
and if they could make some Improvements in
the property as we'll as pay off the mortgage,
ought not Sophie to approve of the use to which
he had put the money?
By the time they had reached the street where
Anstruther was to get off, Clevenger had come
to the conclusion that it would be really wrong
for him to let this opportunity go by
II guess I'll get off with you, Bill, he said.
~ want to talk to you some more about this
G. r. R. business"
"All right Do you want me to go short of a
couple of thousand shares for you?"
"a couple of thousand shares? Don't you
think that's rather risky?"
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over Gordon Helme "Y ouns Pncher will soon
be all right. Anythine's better than letting
them loaf about and give Satan chances with
their idle hands. STILL I'll bear your words in
mind"
But he hadn't appeared to do even that with
much success. There were Accidents" in the
Southsde infrmary most Of the time.
What's the matter with me-" asked Gordon
Helme of the study atmosphere after much
irritable pacing. This is a nice way to begin
another term. Looks as il we're developing
nerves. Won't do, Helme, my boy. 1t will not
do, in these competitive times. Why, I shall
have Corield starting that further opposition
school we've laughed about. Yes, and, by Jove,
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took up the schedule of his forty-four young
gentlemen at ninety-nine guineas per annum
without extras A peculiar sum, ninety-nine
guineas! 1t worked out comfortably, however,
divided by three That simplifed the bills at
term time. Unlike Peggy, he detested figures.
Peggy, ere sailing. had reckoned up the number
of days in five years, which was the most she
expected to spend in India. She had told him
she would mark off each of those 1926 days
reckoning one Leap Year in the bunch-evening
for evening, until they were gone And when
they we're all gone she hoped
To see him again. She had given that, simply
enough, as perhaps the sole reason for such a
methodcal marking-of of days.