Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26

wrapped up the incidenta mentally
and thrust it into a pigeonhole to be
! forgotten.
Badly sold only teas and coffees,
and of these only limited quantities
OF the David Bellew brand, yet during
the year he had been able to put
money into new store building, Nor
did he stop here; through his friend,
:; the old notary, who was secretary of
! the company. he had bought from
T. Ezra White a controlling interest in
!, the Eden Center creamery. and was
now its president. He had become an
| important man in the town.
/ Had Harrington been suspicious of
! Baldy he would have followed his
! rise in Eden Center with greater
4 cfoseness. Certainly he would have
delved deeper into the causes of the
4 creamery strike.
The editor had heard that the strike
lmpended the day before it took place
through Jim Burroughs. driver.
! Its like l tell you" Jim had said
p, Not more dough. and not shorter
hours. though we ought to have them
i at that. We don't want to strike Rut
when the boss nails up that notice,
what can you do?"
You say he applied it to every
f"All except three or four. got
nicked for five bucks
| Five month";
! "A week. All the drivers got nicked
| 1--WE week"
Whats the idea?"
Search me. Orders from Mr. Mat
tiers. the boss says. Reducing ex-
j penses. he says
II think I'll have a word with Mat
ters I'd like to know more about
this cut in wages"
80 like a word with him myself-a
word across his thin lips with INV
tknuckles"
Harrington had his talk with the
haIrless president. but learned moth
J Ing about the strike he did not al
tEeady know. The cut in wages had
osen dehn,tely decided upon and would
STAND. the reasons were business
ones. Badly supposed that some of
the men would quit. If they did the
creamery would hire others He hoped
there would be no violence, but il
tnere We're. the creamery would prose-
| law.
+, = VIII guarantee our customers
against outrages." he stated, speaking
with great positiveness.
! Now, why did he say that?" Har-
rington asked himself.
j But he did not follow up the meg.
ton, which perhaps would not have
ted him anywhere anyhow at this
time. and returned to his office with
| out a suspicion that Badly was not
IAN ne seemed.
1t required an incident of the Thurs
DAY Following to cause him to use his
microscope upon that busy bee.
MRS. Blake's house stood in half
block upon the north side of Main
street. at the edge of the town. 1t
had been built facing east A few
1eet beyond her front gate the street.
to the left. ran down the hill little
distance to the bridge beyond the
bridge climbed another little hill. and
then Strengthened out into the Emer-
! son highway past the creamery. The
|. bridge crossed a small stream lust
above its expansion into an irregular
! marsh. -
Harrington had long intended TAX
ing a daybreak picture Of this marsh.
He had already photographed 1t many
times IN many seasons and many
lights but none Of these pictures quite
pleased him. What he needed, he
thought. was the light of earliest
morning. The marsh was an interest
ing tanEle. of reeds and cattails,
grasses. parsnips and duckweed. he
water. Touch these parsnips and
these cattails with early light, show
!, the reflections of white morning in
the dew upon the grasses, perhaps
catch frosted cobweb before the
SUMS first faint reflections in the deli
cate east had disentangled themselves
from it's fragile meshes. and the pic
ture would be his.
On this cool August morning he
had risen before day and. with tripod
in hand and camera on it's strap
set out to look for beauty. The town
Yves asleep. not even the kitchen win
dows of Charley Kane. who liked to
leave his livery stable before the
sparrows became too noisy. were
lighted
the bank and the Matters coffee store
and the Congregational Church and