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SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1907.
THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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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
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