Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-03-31
FACE \ C

sauHuuiaT youth, M was recon,
mended by his principal TO the "pru.
Dental committee" that called nj the
academy In Lancaster on a hunt OF a
teacher for their district school. The
school was then closed--a gfoup OF
the large boys having carried the
teacher into the road, Slammed him
down in the dirt and warned him
W 10 return
Lick 'em and lick EN- good" the
prudential committee said. wen
back you up II you do"
The third day, Captain Weeks
told me, "a big, red-faced boy took
his pen In hand and laboriousl; be-.
gar TO write n letter that Is, he was
seemingly engaged In writing a let.
ter. as a matter OF fact, he was show.
ing on before the school and experi.
mnnting with the new teacher. When
ordered 10 put his pen and parer
away he smiled around the room at
the pupils, who had stopped work
ing. and then resumed his writing
II took him by the collar. dragged
him out OF his seat and gave him a
thorough whipping. lie turned out
to be the son OF the chairman OF the
prudential committee. The old man
never spoke to me again. not even
when met him In the road. he rid
ing ), = buggy and ! walking to or
from M work"
Went to Sea for Two Years.
On his graduation at the Annapolis
Naval Academy. young John Win
gate Weeks went TO sea for a cruise
OF two years. Seventy men were ~
hta aIaaa l.,t kkaro u,o enAVa far nRlv
10 OF them In the navy The navy
itself consisted Of but Ave steam YES
sells classed as ii~rst.rates. and they
were obsolete and unit for active
duty. George Barnett, his roommate,
went into the Marine Corps and Is
now a major general and the com
mandant OF that branch Of the naval
service.
In Florida, where he had been en-
gagged as a surveyor on a railroad. the
late Midshipman Weeks learned that
an old Arm In Boston was going out
OF business. One Of the partners had
died and another had become blind,
Henry Hornblower, a son OF n OF
the partners, and the youthful MIR,
Weeks bought the business, the lat.
ter borrowing the money with which
TO begin his career as a banker and
broker.
Hornblower acted for the firm on
the floor of the Boston Stock FIX.
change. Weeks kept the books and
waited on the customers as they ap
peared. In a few years the two young
men had Offices ali over New England
and In cities as far away " Chicago
II got my first valuable business
idea from a famous Nav tlngland
dressmaker," Captain Weeks said tC
the writer OF this artiel ~ friend
Nno anne TO spend the night at oui
house was talking to Mrs. Weeks
while was reading a newspaper.
heard her say that she had bought
dress IN Boston, and that soon after
on returning TO the store, the pro
prietor, noticing her at the counter
asked II she had purchased the dresi
she was wearing at his establishment
On learning that she had. he said:
IT Is not right. Please give YOU
name and address 10 the clerk and WI
shall correct the matter at once
A story Of Great aluo.
But the woman replied. the dresi
IL satisfactory to me. Whatever II
wrong is so small that It Ia not wortl
mentioning.
Small to you. madam the mai
answered, but yery large TO us
And do you know the womaI
told Mrs. Weeks, the dress was no
only taken back, but Il was kept ant
was given q new one.
Il repeated the story 10 my partneI
next day" Captain Weeks said, amt
from that time onward W tried Il