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The awful hot weather just now and the 

 plague of moskeeters and squash-vine wilt 

 that has lit down onto Medina seems to 

 have been inHuencin' me to compose just 

 sober, high-class readin ' matter. Praps 

 I am not very well. Anyhow, I am goin ' to 

 give just this glimpse of ' ' Uncle Amos ' ' — 

 and that's sure to be nothin' but good. 

 Inhere was a meetin ' and supper of all the 

 Roots' foremen and heads of departments 

 in the company 's factory lunch room last 

 evenin'. I got in on a squeeze and A. I. 

 Root got in complimentary, I suppose. He's 

 got some rights here yet, anjdiow, and got 

 in on the feed and seemed hai)py about it. 

 When the talkin' time came, "Uncle 

 Amos" was called iip early, and got onto 

 his feet smiliu ' and smilin' midst a roar 

 of hand clappin '. His smile is a real smile, 

 too — a boy's sort of smile. It ain't 79 years 

 old like his pedigree age. He reminissed a 

 bit about the early days of the Root busi- 

 ness when he carried the load alone onto his 

 own shoulders and told of a recent trip 

 west. Then suddenly the smile on his face 

 sobered up a little bit — just a little, tho — 

 and then he said somethin ' like this: "But 

 I am growin ' old, and I am happy in grow- 

 in ' old, too. So I want to say somethin ' 

 here now that I want you boys all to re- 

 member long after I am gone, and remem- 

 ber your old friend, A. I. Root, said it to you 

 and begged you to remember it. • Some way, 

 today I have been thinkin ' about and re- 

 pea tin' over and over that verse in the 

 Bible that reads 'Let the words of my 

 mouth and the meditation of my heart be 

 acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength 

 and my redeemer. ' I have got so the words 

 of my mouth are pretty well guarded," he 

 went on, "but the hard, hard battle is to 

 keep the meditation of the heart right. So 

 it must be with us all; but how grand a 

 thing it is to keep our meditations right 

 with the Lord. Let's never give up try- 

 in'." Then ' ' Uncle Amos ' ' sot down amid 

 another outburst of hand claps. It struck 

 me all of a heap that Ave had just had a 

 whole summin ' up of A. I. Root in that 

 speech that began with a talk about work 

 and mouey-makin ' and a trip to new fields 

 in Dakota, and then closin ' with a exhorta- 

 tion about what he thought was most impor- 

 tant of all — a feller's heart and soul. A. I. 

 Root's for business and he's also for heav- 

 en, so he is. 



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Probably E. R. Root and Dr. E. F. Phil- 

 lips won't concede it's any of my particu- 

 lar business, but I ain 't earin ' and am goin ' 

 to mention it just the same. Those two fel- 

 lers were at a Courtland County, N. Y., bee- 

 keepers' field meet the other day, kind of 

 bumptious-like, as I spose they have a right 

 to be at such meetin 's seein ' as how they 

 kiKiw so much beekeepin '. It was of a Mon- 



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