Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-27

worm, who never organizes street pa rades or hires brass bands. or adver- tises what great things he is going to do who never asks for pay or even. ra- tions-who never goes on strike or re- fuses to do his part in the Big Scheme who just Wriggies and sQuirms his ap pointed way to his appointed ends with out ever asking for advance notices of what he is going to do, or obituary eu logies of what he has done?
 After all, it is eur second moral les son which impresses me most, the lesson of the importance of little things. When we are boys we all want and some of us expect to do great things. We may not hope literally to set the North River afire or turn the world 'tother side up, but We intend to make our marks high up on. the steep banks of accomplish ment. And we are apt, in the heyday of this vauiting ambition to disregard the small things of life. They are too un important, too contemptible for us to waste time or effort upon.
 Nevertheless, 1t is the little things, the trifles, the seemingly unfmportant de- tails which make up the bodies and bones of great things.
 Not very. long sEo . powerful touring car. carrying an Illinois state license came to stop in the road just beyond
  after another, and spent the better part of an hour trying to make 1t so, again. Nothing doing It had stopped in the middle of the road, and the whole neigh borhood had to muster, eventually, to push 1t one side so as to permit traffic ito pass. All the endeavors of the trav- ellers failed to elicit even an encourag ing cough from it's balky engine. At last they came to my telephone and sum moned an expert mechanician from the nearest garage. He arrived in due time, tried the starter, applied the crank for trial twist, thumbed a spark-plug or two, unscrewed the carburetor and, taking. broken wooden toothpick out of his vest pocket, picked from the innards Of that device a bit of dirt not half as big as the head of the smallest pin. Ten dollars, please" said he. The Chicago man paid 1t and went on his cheerful way, with his engine purring as contentedly as cat who's just had a mouse for lunch.
 It would h2ve taken I don't know how many million such particles of dirt to make a single acre of soil worth not over ten dollars for pasture. I know where hundreds of acres of just such dirt have been sold for five dollars an acre But that little almost microscopic speck of grit in the casburetors needle valve stopped an $s.0oo car dead be- cause, SIld4i as II HdSJ At "dS Al Ili0 wrong place.
 This world is vastly more compli- cated bit of machinery than even an au- tomobile. The smooth running of hu- manity in it's attempt at progress in wolves the most finicaily exact participa- ton of ten thousand times ten thous- and cooperating parts. Checks and stoppages are less often due to the breaking of some big casting than to the intrusion of some tiny speck of grit in I some hidden valve.
 Notable successes are more often the result of care in small matters than of sensational spiurges in big ways. I have several times quoted Edison's remark that "Geni6s is ntnety-eight per cent. precipitation and two per cent. inspira- tion." And who was 1t that said, Gen ius Is but an infinite capacity for taking painsT'
 One bumblebee makes about as much noise as ten honey -bees-and stores up about one-tenth as much money as one honey-bee.
 It isn't always or often the man or the machine making the biggest rumpus which accompiishes the most desirable results
 The angleworm ranks very low in the scale of life. But 1t has at least two "Hol4y du+Aii aoie QU0iAtIeSJ IL uOeS It's work thoroughly and it makes no fuss doing it.
 The Wisest Man said: GO to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise" A less wise and more talk ative farmer man may perhaps be per- mitted to suggest at the same time, a thoughtful and studious consideration of the industrious angleworm.
 4 good many of US could materially improve ourselves by such observation if we undertook it humbly enough
 THE FARMER.