The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-10-07
NIiE Sheridan building was the
biggest skyscraper. the Sheri-
BY O
Combination ~ Clarence W. Rasssr

NIiE Sheridan building was tn,
biggest skyscraper, the Sheri
dan Trust company. the big
xest bank, and Sheridan himself, TIT
biggest builder and broker, and TRUSTEE
and buster under the smoke of a dirt
and wonderful midland city that piled
on tower and sprend itself on
over the plain Of = fair country.
Bibbs Sheridan wrS his "odd One;'
The family failure. re grew up only
length2 jr,. Snd NJ Twenty-Five ' a the
dry ~Sc0nuiG."- of a man Six months
81 his i%atlcr'~ rNrp works made nee.
-sSar9 iN" Years IN II sanitarium. He
returned Ia tie new house" on the
outskirts of tIr city in time for the
rouse" @rniHE PARTY. To this came
Mary NCrirCrS. whose family neX door
naintHiucd H." highest air of respect
ability upon II vanishing fortune. She
anne under home promptingS that led
her tO dazzle with her wit and beauty
both Sheridan and James Sheridan, Jr.
When young Jim had proposed, Mrs.
Roscoe Sheridan. his siSter-in-law, Of
fered to help Mary In return for help
n an affair Of her own. Mary saw
hat i'll ~bartering, she was to be bar
erred with. Her soul rebelled and she
declined to marry young Jim Sheri-
Jan. He never got the letter.
Sheridan demanded of Bibbs If he
would quit dreaming OF poetry and
follow with Roscoe and Jim to make
he business and the city bigger. Bibbs
could not understand why anybody
wanted to make things bigger.
ILLUMINATION, roarcd Sheridan.
Did you ever hear the word pros
perity' You niHny. DID YOU ever
hear the word ambition" bid you
yer hear The word progress" Look
at jim, just completing two more big
warehouses at ;lr pump works in half
tI~ time the contractors wanted. jim
took the contract himself. found a fell
low with - new cement process and
we begin using them next week. Now.
I'm @oiu' to make a man of YOU. BY
cod | am And BihbS was given
two m"utl'~ T" -et his mental attitude
ric't l.r 'br pump works.
Miss Nrrirno~' note went to the
senior Sheridan. a> that afternoon one
Of tie new Warehouse walls culIanScd
sending the inventor aud James >hrri-
dan. Jr.. To their eternity.
EilhS had Il MANAGE The funeral
and ride from the cemetery with Mary
V~ertrer>. but neither spoke. Hes
insane said Mary Ia her mother.
"Hr looks d~rcadfully ~ bur has pleas
eyes"
Later Bihbs and Mary met rs if
passing her gale. He al"io@iZrd
''I-I hate 81 frozen fish myself. ana
that three miles was TOO long for you
10 put up with one. I've never been
able !" speak quickly, because if [
trIPd I'd staIumer."
Instantly, Mary saw his nature and
suffering. They walked on and She
him into the church 10 hear
Handel music. II meant, She
said, one thing above all others to her
courage.
Thereafter BihhS went often TO the
OF Mary NertreeS. "You see"
ne confidrd 10 her. at is all so simple.
am To feed long strips of zinc into
JAWS that bite il into little cir
les. 6S Il minute. I used to finch and
he workInen laughed"
ItJ. ,Iog. l,,-, -4,s J,,l
Mary. "AlI day long. III send my
thoughts 80 you: and You must re-
member tha, a friend stands beside
Trouble grew In the Sheridan house
lold. Roscoe took to drink then quit.
lie had enou2fi-a few thousand q
Sheridan SEM for Bibbs. his only
offered him vice presidencirs.
and shares; but BibbS pre-
erred happiness and nine dollars o
week. whats the use" he said, 20:
just bigger. dirtier and noisier?'
That evening Blbbs and Mary read
iaeteriinck together and he told her:
I'm n uf the hands Of
pump works and going 10 stay one.
Mess | ain thrown out and decide to
tudy plumbing"
'Why not give Bibbs a chance to
said the family doctor. '"rhere's
omething finer in BibbS than his ply
lcal body. You're half mad with a
onsuming fury against the very self
f law. But you want to beat the .
sw! So Ajax deied the lightning!"
ayes! And, by God. wilr" cried
heridan. Ajax was a jnckass. If .
been half a man he'd a got away ;
18th it: hitched II up and made it {
for him like Il black steer. III s
ave my way with that stubborn fool, ,
But Bibbs still said, NO" Q
Sunday afternoon Ribbs was work
* over q poem. He might venture 1t {
Don an editor and perhaps