LOTTO Tao ea Te Ta OTe Te TAT OTe TOTTI) XOCX - XX Eugenic scientists say like produces like, and that while environment has an influence in the development of a child it does not materially alter inher ited temperament. Old Man % Sheridan and Mrs. Sheridan lived entirely in the material world. Bibbs, their youngest son, is a dreamer, 4 " 1 a, CO Ta T OTT ele Tee Te Tee eee Te ee CHAPTER I. — There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and won- derful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke. The stranger must feel the dirt before he feels the won- der, for the dirt will be upon hi stantly. At a breeze in whirlpools of dust, and if he should decline at any time to inhale the smoke fhe has the meager alternative of sul- cide. Not quite so long ago as a genera Se 0 0 0 0 eee - - an. See wv ata 4 y Im in he must smother city: there was but a pleasant big town of neighborly people who had under standing of one another But there was a spirit abroad in the land, and it was strong here as else- where—a'spirit that had moved in the depths of the ) and la bored there, sweating, till it stirred the surface, the and emerged, tangible the god of all good American hearts—Big- ness. And so the place Aud grew strong. The Sheridan buildin gest company i and Sheridan himself has gest | and and buster under from a the beginning had gone up and rel time American soll rove mountains, and monstrous, grew it g was the big Trust kind, been the t and skyscraper: the Sheridan was the of its Me $y Histor He had yailder come country of the and down of tpses { he went dow: tittle higher of ove not de possible, mer in himself under his it fi safe.” unabated, rw ork Tensed of recuperat pen wi the on feet; But for it and grew He was the city it, calling it God's « the dingy w top, and his ] of him smoke Prosperity cloud with as Hie langhe He Called the Smoke Prosperity, ngainst it. "Smokes what brings your husbands’ money home on night,” he told them jovially ‘You go home and ask your husbands what stoke puts in their pockets out o' the pay roll—and you'll come around next time to zet me to turn out more smoke instead o' Chokin' it om!” It was Narcissism in him to love the eity 80 well; he saw his reflection in it: and, like it. he was grimy, careless, rich, strong, and ably optimistie, beile his city fo the world, sov fly to be—in spite of his son Bibbs the finest family tu the world, As a tnaiter of fact, be knew nothing worth knowing about either, Bibbs Sheridan was a musing sort of boy, poor In health, and considered the fallure-~the "odd one”-—of the family. Born during that most danger. ous and anxious of the early years, fie was an ilbnourished baby, and ew mengerly, only thrangh feeble childiiood, At hia christonlng be was «1 for life Saturday unquench- i commit fo “Bibbs imagination it strong through mother's mainly on his wis pit name, it her maiden she affection though had no for veliemen vith requested with unwonted to be allowed to exchange names his older br lo : Sheridan, 16 oldies coe Conkling ther or with ti being refused il re And re- a the still Removed nd »d upstairs, he maintained a eryp a under who Sheridan, Jr, and upon nt down into the Wi mained there the rest 1 Hesse nding toward dusk had that ie cook ported that he vanished: but { search res ealed he was In completely covered and by force a demeanor, of syl refusing to utter je even the explanation, This obvious thi mystery to both nonplused, and the son as a stubborn and mysterious fool, ne iy wis ents: the mother to trac ud regarded 1 a was ny par f failed © connect; father is an impression not effaced as the years | went by. At twenty-two Bibbs was physical than scaffolding i man, waiting for the building to be inside—a long-shanked, long-f: youth, sallow and hollow and dark-haired and dark-eyed peculiar expression of indeed, at lan seemed upon the point of gaze, not led h ly no the outer f more rin reed a counte first he slight] longer srt h mirth, was Hibbs life v reven as is buat never, on any o¢ in his her laughed aloud it «it } FT wept i i He 1 } i was At confirmed “disappointment” t th tae a 0 H least that was parent's and established »r his first attempt to make nn" of the bo } THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. h il she i d move rapidly through distriet” neighboring “Mother sald she'd men it their doin’ | morning” well t got all BOYS and worth their sait, why, I have | to keep my mind on Jim and Roscoe | ind forget about Bibbs.” i Mrs, Nl tossed head fully pillow d a8 they began the the “whole witnt hard her y she hed proachin’ yourself for it He 1 at her indignantly Mf snorted ‘1 ain't of the Kind! What In |t ime oo goodness wonld 1 want to | fi And it r It was erida fret the best you could, papa,” n the | be througt d impa tipon mi anid tnd I Ww mntry h it wouldn't keep “Ile any YL] SORURS 8B many tiently, “so come to re Patron 4 . en they glares proachin' m he doin’ the n invthing my aplf I best any body conld wasn't | the | « was givin® him reproach nr? could. eit} [ what the ‘hest 1 a chance to show was in him and | 3 ne himself of “ts make a man and here he | goes and g nervous dyspepsia’ on me!” He fixture, old-fashioned the morosely the out mt to turned way into bed, “What?” wife i bothered by a subsequent mum! Kas ght, and mut tered his sald his crossly, | ling. “More lke hookworm, I sald,” he ex “I don't pinined louder what speaking know y do with him!" CHAPTER IL. at and the Beginning from thg beginning ground a for Bibbs at sanita milk and “zwieback” f instru and and tiresome redd near k earning ap Was 1 ne Ong he ns the be he basis o tion; months were many fore he was conside enough leaning | 1 i graduation to on a nurse and a cane » and sub sequent months saw Pp the tion of the new to that INNIGg, bullding and the con * abode of Bibbs was brought when ithonut 1 1g * ae nurse port supj Bibbs tho the thin Y I eturned, in f: 8 4dr when Bibbs tried to speak quickly travelers from wk well! "i ome” - 1 att, Willcom » i “But etter,” he “| Didn't Have Any awl that was a8 nec iy Up to about a month | { 1 rar it te an Hse 1 0 t got ied Yon find ¥ oy don’ 3 i Kk over, and that r pe cent of the = i know are either won ’ “Hones again, drowsily “son better come to bed.” “Look at the other boys.” her hue band bade her. “Look at Jim and Ros Look at how they work. Right there isn’t a harder-workin’, | brighter business man in this city than Jim. [I've pushed him, but he give me something to push against. You can't | push dyspepsia” And look at Roscoe: just look at what that boy's done for himself. and barely twenty. | seven years old-—married, got a fine | wife, and ready to build for himself | with his own money when | put up the new house for you and Edie.” “Papn, you'll eateh cold in Your bare feet,” she murmured “You'd better | come to hed.” “And I'm just as proud of Edie, for | {a girl,” he continued, emphatically, “as I am of Jim and Roscoe for boys. She'll make some man a mighty good | wife when the time comes. She's the prettiest and talentedest girl In the | United States! 1 tell you I'm mighty | proud o' them three children! But Bibbs" He paused, shak'ug lis} bead. “Honest, mamma, wien | talk | en or losfera she Yes, ma'am?” said Oe, now ‘uervous } uer lo any Mamma tion today NCAINST THE BACKGROUND OF A GREAT CITY BLACK WITH THE SMOKE AND FILLED WITH THE TURMOIL OF MANUFACTURING, MR. TARKINGTON HAS DRAWN FOR US THE PORTRAITS OF A MAN AND HIS SON WHO STAND OUT BOLDLY AS DIS. TINCT AMERICAN TYPES AND MAKE THIS STORY WHAT IT IS—NOT ONLY A STORY OF BIGNESS, BUT THE BIGGEST STORY OF TODAY. ighborhood coming and f House ware vaa3ty ] go hint Panis out inds, She's firet enor minting vanished Kept Ww Hi } $ } UR wie wt her Asly he then yg i boarding thie hat isn’t for shops,” she informed | him Fhat’'s a i the ‘Sheridan well,” he murmured { Rheridan’ was almost enough known bere already.” “Oh, we're well enough known about!” she said, impatiently. “1 guess there isn't a man, woman, child or nig | ger baby in town that doesn’t know who we are. But we aren't in with the right people.” I “No!” he exclaimed. that? “You know what I mean: the best people, the old families—the people that have the real social position in | this town and that know they've got £1 A , Bibbs engaged in his silent chuckle again; he seemed highly amused. “1 thought that the people who actually had the real whatdoyon-eallit didn't know MH.” he sald. “I've always under stood that it was very unsatisfactory, becanse if you thought about it you didn’t have it, and If you had it you didn’t know It.” “That's just bosh.” she retorted “They know it in this town, all right! new papas Well posed apartments.’ “1 sup well “Who's ali a HARPER $i BROTHERS | “Papa Had Never Even Heard of the Name of Vertrees.” cham Dan’l Boone's the they will call “Papa knows what a break he made with Mrs. Vertrees. | made him un derstand that,” said Edith, demurely, ‘and he's promised to try and meet Mr. Vertrees and be nice to him. Bob. by Lamborn told Sibyl he was going to bring his mother to call on her and on mamma, but it was weeks ago. and I notice he hasn't done it; and If Mrs. un ws that or = Vertrees decides not to know us, I'm darn sure Mrs. Lamhorn "1! never come. That's one thing Sibyl didn't manage!" She said Bobby offered to bring his mother." “You say he is a friend of Roscoe's?” Bibbs asked i i 3 i TATOO TAN INTO Te How will Edith use Bibbs in her efforts to “get thick” with : 8 ty! ; § boone A BRD 3 Do you think Bibbs will the aristocratic old families hy - a LONILN
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