9 SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1907. THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. t I Weaver's Knot J Br FRANK H. SWEET. Copyrlcht, 1 by Frank H. Sweet m H. dearl I can't do It. I caat. a n T bwn try'u' whole wt J now, an' I alut no uearer than when I started. I might s well give up tryln' an" go back. Taln't In me." There waa a pitiful despair In the speaker's voice, and the long, lean fact looked so woebegone as to be almost grotesque. But the eves were beauti fulbeautiful and pathetic like the ox's when overworked or the mountain pheasant's when caged and brought from Its solitudes-large, full orbed, lustrous ejes, looking out with frigbt ned uncertainty upon new things. Jo sle glanced Into them and checked the laugh which bad bubbled aa far as her Hps, for the cause of the despair was only the tying of a weaver's knot "Oh, well, Mellndy," she said reas suringly, "I guess you'll get It all right In time. Most weavers have trouble at first I know I did. That knot's the hardest kind In the world till you learn how; then It's the easiest See" And she passed her fingers across a thread, apparently Just touching it and there was a knot. Mellndy looked on admiringly, despairingly. It's the fingers." she declared drear ily. "Tours Is soft an' smooth an' long, an' mine" She held up her big. toll worn hands as more eloquent than words, and Josle nodded an assent "Tea, fingers help," she agreed, "but jrours'H wear smooth In time." 1 don't know," skeptically. "My fin gers are pretty nigh big's your wrist an 'bout as chunked. I ain't a bit o finger tips, an they're what tie the knots. Mine's been all roughed up ciorpin' down trees In the woods an' handlln' the goad drivln' cattle an' peelln' tanbark an" things like that. The inside o" my bands is almost bard's a bone. I don't beleeve they ever can fit toft ag'ln, to have feelin' Ilka yours. I ought to 'a' stayed back In toe woods." "But you said yon couldn't earn orer a dollar a week there at most" re minded Josle, "and here you can make fire or six after you learn how to weave I'm making that now and sometimes more. Tou want to do a lot of things for the brothers and sis am Wn been telling me about and lor your sick mother. If you up. you'll have to give that up too. "If there was a ctanct the least Ditj of a chanct Td never give up." wld Mellndy. a flush com ng to ber lean face, "but I "n't sees ttere i. Pap j choaa?" winter to pay a sickness bill o mas, UT I worecu jcai mm avug V I 1 I ah ila, mm i be did an' got the meals, an' we didn't give up till every last cent waa paid. I Our folka don't give up. That's why Tve stuck to this knot a whole week, when I knew it wan't no use at tbe j end of the first day. If a Jest wastin ; your time an my time, an' the only ( la . mo t m hurk hnnM." I aiug low m w um Tfiere was no nreaK u dm vo.ee now. , lVt 'LrnlZl lay behind flu words, tape, ttan JJ .t r2 Jne1 hand fell upon the big. rough one, S.t you try it a few more aayJi Mellndy," she advised. "Folks never , taow what they can do till k comes. They think they can't, and It's no use. ... . it ' na xney won i iry any more, auu xueu ' rf MT finoees Ait is pkkttt nigh mo's SOUB WKIBT." all at once their eyes are opened, and tbey find they can. If I were you, Mellndy, I wouldn't give up a weav er's knot after Just one week. It ain't so hard as learning a crow to sing, and I was four months getting to that first tune. And I'm not thinking of topping yet And, Mellndy," hesitat ing a little and looking her companion Inquiringly In the face, "I guess this means a good deal to you, more than Just tbe work and the dollars." Mellndy turned her face away, but not before Josle saw In tbe depths of tb big, patient eyes a frightened the .hdilow. "Yes, It Ricins a jro.xl ileal," slowly, "n good deul-wwythlns. If 1 go back Into the woods I shsnt ever coins out ig'ln. I shau't dast. It'll be chopplu' wood au' strtpplu' tanbark all the rvst o' my life, an'-l hate It. 1 hate It!" h.r vole becoming bitter. "It's so-so lit tle when there's so much 1 want to do. But It'll have to conic. I'm wllllu' to try that knot another week or so lon ger. Josle, since you waut me to, but It's time wasted." The cotton mill was a small affair, built many years before and still whol ly dependeut upon Its water wheel for power. Its help was almost as crude as Its motive force, belug drawu main ly from the wild country In back aud learning here Inadequately upon the very machines they were latvr to use. Iu each department a few experienced operators had been brought up from the more couceutrated mill section be low, and thess few were expected to show new hands about the work In ad dition to running machlues. Josle Brock was one of these operators In the weave shop and Mellndy Weeks perhaps the crudest of all the uew hands. But than Mellndy Weeks had come from the wildest of the back country, walking thirty -five miles with her baggage tied In a newspaper. The water supply was a small stream as Inefficient as the rest of the mill out fit During seven months of the year It did all that could be asked, and the mill ran full time, but through the other five, when little rain fell and there was no snow to melt the stream often shrank to a tiny thread, and then the great water wheel ceased to revolve until the stream rose a few Inches, when It would start again and run for an hour or so and then stop for the wa ter once more to rise. During Melludy's first week the mill had made full time, for there had been rains, but the day after her talk with Josle this temporary supply became ex hausted, and the stream commenced to shrink. When they went out to dinner, Josle cast au anxious glance at two sand bars which were beginning to show In the middle of the stream. "When the sand bars run together," she said to Mellndy, "the water '11 be too low to move the wheel, and then we'll have to stop. And from the way the bars look now If 11 be by 2 o'clock. We'll likely stay shut down till 5 or so, then start up and run an hour or two In the evening to help make op. It's likely to be that way right along now until another rain. Well. I'll bring In some crochet work to help fill la time, but I guess my 0 this week won't be over W "I can't do crochet work an' things like that" returned Mellndy. "so If wt stop I guess I'll go on! an" took round i tome." So at 2 o'clock, when, as Josle bad nr,,rt- the machinery began to go - and finally stopped off of tbe Mellndy ner hat fiut InJtead of ooUng around the village, aa she bad first fhnl . t took n naturmlly " ' " up the stream toward tbe woods. She bad been away from them a whole week. In a few minutes she bad van ished among the foliage. An hour later she came hurrying back, an odd look of Interest in her face. "Where can I find a shovel T she rardman. d buMtaV "In the too. bouse there. I be aMwered. ..FoUnd wme Sid pcle. ye want to take up. eb? ofl ye're through an' put it back Jest where e nna j1- A . . . Mellndy nodded and went on to the tool bouse rom which she VgJ cmorafii with a lone bandied spade. - . h, f no.i A tna tt rhp riwrtpra Anil ll UQII yam vu v. " the superintendent were walking on the dam watching the water. It bad risen about three inches. "Not much show for more than an hour's work, I think," said the super intendent ! ' I'm afraid so. In the end we shall have to put in steam power, I suppose, though that will be more expensive than our little mill warrants." They walked on to the end of the dam and leaned against tbe log frame i of the water gate. Fifteen minutes ! passed. Then the superintendent ut tered a wondering exclamation and ' leaned forward, peering down at the i water. i "Great Scott," he exclaimed, "four inches of wuter since we've lieen standing here! That's seven Inches 1 and plenty enough to keep us going : till 0 o'clock. And look yonder up the ' stream! There's a regular freshet I coming down! What's it mean, any j how? There isn't a cloud In the sky, I ho It Isn't a cloudburst But never ! wind, though. I know what It means." i li.-mtllv. "It means a full day's work j for tomorrow and the next day and ' maybe for the next. Excuse me now, ! ir. You can stey aud watch the phe i notueuon if you like. I must run and i get that mill started." ! Twenty minutes later the owner was i still standing there, beaming, but per- ' j n-i v. ... n .,!.! onmlnff plCXeU. A lieu uo bow a IJ""a i toward him with a spade over her I . n.fl 1,.., o Snouiuer, ner liauun auueu mm '-. rpd from recent exertion "How's the water comin onT she asked affably. "Fine," he smiled, "but I cannot un derstand the reason, only the result I hope it will keep on like this for awhile." "It'll keep on pre'.ty well, but not like this." :;hp r.i;;wered in a matter of fact vol':". "I rrucsa the water 'II come down 'bout twice as fast as it did before, an' It'll Come pretty steady." He looked at her in amazement. "What, you know where It comes from7" be exclaimed. Tea. it's Jest a pond I tapped." he answered, "I was lm-kln" for lilies an" went clear round the pond. It covers much a five or six acres, 1 guess, an" en the other side there's a brook most as bltf this that runs off Into 11 swamp. An' I dldu't sew any placs where water run in. That umde.me know the pond was full o' spring UoIm whetv the water India up pretty fust. Hut I dldu't tlituk anything social till I got back to this stream au' sat ilowu. Then I noticed water trlckllu'. and that made me know the poud wa higher, an' I got up an' looked round. Then I come for the shovel." "And you cut throuithr he asked. In tensely Interested. She nodded. "'Twa'n't more'n ten foot I commenced at the river an' dug 'bout three or four feet deep till 1 got Wvi bktst ,.. toso knoCoh to um WHAT HANDS ItO. near the twud. then tapped through An' I got pretty wet au' muddy," she finished, laughing. "I guess Id twltrr run to the boardln' house an' clean up fnr f tfn in ttlA mill." "And you cut through," be repeated. " - - . I 'Strnnze that vou should discover such a thing, and we never thought of It In all the years we've been here. I've hunted around that pond a hundred times, I suppime, aud never thought of there being any difference In the level of the water." "Oh, It was lent oue o' them thing that happens," she answered careless ly. "I set right where the water tric kled down, an' I was thmkln' 'bout the mill stoppln' for water. I couldn't help the rest. If I d set down tea foot on I'd never have thought, an' I might 'a' walked a hundred times round the pond without not loin'. But If I was von I'd send some men ud an' dig that ditch twice as deep. It would let tbe water In better. An' I d stop up tue brook on t'other side. Then you'd have the whole thing." "I'll do It at once," be said quickly, "and thank you for the suggestion. "And now aliout yourself? We must do something In return for all tbla. I don't believe you realize what that wa ter means to uk." Her face flusheJ. "If that means glv lu' me something." xlie answered so berly, " I guess you'd better not study over It any more. Hack where I came from we don't have folks give us any thing, an' my work would 'a' fetched less 'n 5 cents." When she returned to the mill, Josle met her with Holier face. "The overseer's I icon here talking to me," she said hesitatingly, "and and he doesn't wem to think It's any use for you to keen on nt the knot. He wants me to take on another girl to show. I'm awfullv sorrv. Mellndy." Hut Mellndy did not seem In the least disconcerted. "I've known It ince the first day," slio returned ciniiioHedly, "but you wanted me to keep on tryln'. This '11 save both of us w:i -tin' more time." As she was turning a way the over Beer came hurryins toward them, em barrassed nml apol igetlc. "You haven't told her yet?" he asked of Josle. Then, glancing at her face: "Yes, 1 see yon have. Well, It was all a big mistake wlmt. I suid. I've Just been talking wilii the superintendent. We want Miss Melindy to take a Job as spare band." "As n gift';" dhkinl Mclimly coldly. "No." eagerly, "in real, needed help. You've been here long enough to see what the spare hands have to do, You're stronger than any girl In here and can do the work of a man. There'll be warps and cuts of cloth to carry and help of ail kinds to do. Good land, there'll be work enough! We'll pay 4 a week at flrst. Will you Btayr "Yes, please do, Mellndy," urged Josle. Mellndy looked from one to the oth er doubtfully; then her face cleared. "Yes, I'll stay," she answered. "There's plenty of work I can do. I've seen that. I guess I can earn the money." Three months later she came to Josle one morning, her face radiant "See, .Trial " she breathed. "I I can do It I can get a loom an' weave. See." And she took a thread and passed her fingers over It, and, behold, mere wan n weaver' knoti FOR 8ALE MISCELLANEOUS. CALL AT ONCE FOB TOUR ALAS kn mattresses made to order, 604 Bond. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. HELP WANTED. WANTRp TWO UOOV BOYS TO work In .'riming offlce. Apply to Antmlan. W ANTKl) SAL KSMKN. MAlsY MAKE 1100 to $180 pr month. 8un svsa mors. Stock clean, grown on Ener vation, tar, (torn oU orchards. Cash advanced weekly. Choice of territory. Address Washington Nureery Company, Toppenish, Washington." 9-EMf MALE AND FKMALK HELP TORN tuned in and out of the city. 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