Excerpt from Small Potatoes Century - and all indications show that they will be wonderful - there will always be those who, by their enter prise and genius along chosen lines, start wide ripples of fame in all directions upon the sea of life, and also those whose best efforts in the same lines are only rewarded by a slight tremor on the surface, or not at all. When a man discovers, after exhausting every effort, that he can not occupy a high place among his fellowmen that the hopes and ambitions of his youth are not to be realized in short, that the ideal towards which he has striven is beyond his power of attainment, he should not consider this fact to be humiliating. For as there have always been the high and the low, the rich and the poor, among mankind, so there has always been the man who can perform great deeds and the one who 18 only capable of small things. So, in publishing this little book of commonplace poems, I know that it is not liable to attract the attention of the public in general; but if it finds its way into the homes of some of my friends, whose many kindnesses Ihave known and appreciated hitherto, where it may serve as a remem brance of me in years to come, I shall be perfectly satisfied.introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.