The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
given up for lost with all on board. The 
despairing men in that boat—far out at 
sea—saw the light when that hideous bed 
was burned and were able to get to land! 
Some of you self-pitying people ought to 
read how Dr. Grenfell organized a little 
orphans’ home to care for the little waifs 
of this lonely place. In one case a little 
girl of four, while her father was away 
hunting, crawled out into the snow, so 
that both legs were badly frozen. Gan¬ 
grene .set in half way to the knee, and 
the father actually chopped both legs off 
to save her life! Think of such a child 
in the frozen North. I think of her as 
little Rose hugs the kitty close. Dr. 
Grenfell took this child, operated on her, 
obtained artificial legs, and now she can 
run about like other children. I wish I 
could tell you more about this book. At 
one time two men came together after 
medicine. One took a bottle of cough 
mixture, the other a strong turpentine 
liniment for a sprained knee. By mistake 
they mixed up the medicine. One rubbed 
the cough medicine on his knee, the other 
drank the liniment. If I had some fel¬ 
low who thinks the Lord has put a special 
curse on him before our fire tonight I 
would tell him what others have endured. 
The chances are we could make him con¬ 
tribute something to the cause before we 
were done with him. 
# * * # * 
The other book I mentioned. “The 
Great Hunger.” is a story of Norwegian 
life and. as I think, very powerful. A 
boy born to poverty and disgrace grew up 
with a great hunger in his heart—he 
knew not what it was. He felt that 
power and material wealth would bring 
him the happiness he sought. lie gained 
education, power, wealth and love, yet 
still the great hunger tortured him. Pov¬ 
erty. sickness, the deepest sorrow fell 
upon him. and at last the great hunger 
was satisfied by doing a needed service for 
the man who had done him the most hide¬ 
ous wrong! I wish I could tell you more 
about, it. It is a powerful book; but it 
is time for little Rose to go to bed. Off 
she goes with a hug for all. and the chil¬ 
dren follow her one by one. I am not 
going to put more logs on that fire. Let 
it die down. The end of the day has 
come. Let the storm howl through the 
night like a pack of wolves at the door. 
They cannot get at us. Even if they did 
they can never destroy the memory of 
this night. H. w. c. 
Pruning Wistaria That Fails to Bloom 
W. F., Sayville. X. Y.. whose thrifty 
Wistaria is not blooming, may be inter¬ 
ested in my Wistaria experience. I 
bought a reasonably mature specimen of 
a very choice Chinese variety and planted 
it in good ground on the sunny side of my 
house and in due time hoped for the 
longed-for blooming, but I was rewarded 
only by a most marvelous and beautiful 
growth of vines. I read everything I 
could lay my hands on that had a bearing 
on the Wistaria, but for three years I 
was unable to solve the problem. But in 
looking over a most insignificant little 
quarterly on flowers I read the follow¬ 
ing: “If the Wistaria does not bloom, 
abuse it shamefully and cut it back about 
one-half of its entire height and in the fol¬ 
lowing Spring it will bloom.” In the 
Autumn I cut my vine back to one-half 
its entire height; I also trimmed off all 
the lateral vine6 to about four eyes. I 
was eager to see the result in the Spring. 
The first indications of growth did not 
promise well, but when the new growth 
got along a bit it was clear that I should 
have blossoms. By the time the vine was 
in full bloom there wasn’t a bud but had 
its rneme of 12 to loin, long cluster of 
blooms of the finest substance. The vine 
was covered with the purple of the 
blooms. I was fully repaid for the treat¬ 
ment I gave my vine. For 15 years the 
vine has been tending strictly to its busi¬ 
ness of blooming profusely. 
Whether my vine would have bloomed 
in the Spring without the treatment I 
gave it no one knows, or cares. I got 
the blooms, and that was what I was 
after. E. M. H. 
Valley View, Pa. 
Ink from Poke Berries 
On page 1628, C. R. asks for instruc¬ 
tions for making ink from purple ink 
berries, and it. is assumed that poke 
berries are meant. I can remember when 
my grandmother used these berries for 
dyeing. Her method was to boil the 
berries, squpeeze them through a cotton 
bag to extract the juice, and add a little 
copperas to set the color and make it 
permanent. She used the bark of the 
white maple for dyeing black, and that 
of the butternut for dyeing brown, setting 
the color in each case with copperas. 
Alum and blue vitriol were also used as 
mordants, but I believe that copperas was 
preferred. She boiled these dyes some¬ 
what, and thickened them with a little 
sugar and thus made ink of various colors, 
and she made pens of the long wing 
feathers of the old goose. I can remem¬ 
ber them, and I used such pens and such 
inks in my earliest attempts at writing. 
Ink made from the bark of the white 
maple was used in copying the public 
records of this town more than 125 years 
ago, and it is still plainly legible, though 
it has changed from a glossy black to a 
dull brown color. c. o. ormsbee. 
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