Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-25

(Wrttten Specially for The Buuetim.l
 Keep things humming and don't Forget to hum some yourself" The phrasfng isn't mine, but let's you and l. netghbors, make the wisdom of tt ours. There is no reason why we shouldn't; there's much reason why we should While you're mulling 1t over, don't neglect to note the play on that word "hum.' The bumblet,ee and the humming- make things dynamos of intense energy and drive thetr wings with such phenomenal act 1yify. The jolly man also thums"
 huns tune or an old song as he goes about his business. The word means Pm inclined to take both its msan- inqs as intended in the quoted advice. Keep things humming," as the bee keeps its wings humming by keeping thoGn lon the go.'' Keep things hum ming" as wheels are said to hum when they are whirling at high speed.
 Keep things humminR.s i. e. keep thefn moving as if they were meant to get somewhere sometime. Also, don't forget to hum some yourself" This may mean and doubtless does that it is necessary, if you want those work ing for you to hurry things up, that you open out the speed lever in your own personal machine II always find EtIdl BeJ more WOHk 0Onc WfFem Il say Come boys" than when I say, "Go, men," said an old farmer once. But. besides meaning this. I think 1t means that we shouldn't forget to "hum' a little tune while we work-if it be othfng more than the merry tfnk-a- tank of a banjo clog-dance.
 lt all suggests to mo not only the importance of sneroy and hustle in our business but also the helpful value of cheerfulness. In these days of Christian Science" and mental heal ing'' and the like there is beginning to filter into the general mind some trick les of a truth, suspicion of which was once confined to the initiate. We are all of us beginning to see that onr state of mind much influences the state of our bodies. I, personally, don't be- as good as new in ten minutes, either by denying that 1t is broken or by willing" 1t we'll or by trying to make ourselves believe that it is well when 1t isn't Nor do think that Q farm CT would be apt to raise many pota- toes by sitting on the fence during planting and hoeinE time and hum ming What Will tho Harvest Be?" no matter how cheerfully nor 0low loudly he might hum. Neither faith nor cheerfulness is worth much without works.
 But they both help. And some of us farmers want help more than we want land or manure. Even in the matter of hired help, this habit of cheerful ness counts big. I know two farmers in this. my own town, who occupy op- posite corners of the field. One is a sour tempered, ,grouchy old curmudEeQn. He is too oss-grained and cantank- erous to see anything good in man or nature. He can find fault with the bend of the rainbow and hear discord in the perfect song of the veery thrush. He seems to be fairly satisfied with himself, but not with anyone else on earth. He never has a good word for or to any hired man" doing. his work. He never was known to hum . tune not eve1f 'Hark from the Tombs-" He has big and a good farm. It is going to desolation and waste faster than he alone can prevent. And he is now so well known that he can hire nobody to help him. Now and then he picks up q stray tramp for a day or two. We all know what that sort of s'he1p" Is worth and how long 1t can be depended on. But the really worth while workmen of the vicinity avoid him. won't work