The Prescott daily news., 1916-04-06

never to return
 Lick 'em and lick 'em good" the prudential committee said. Well back you up if you do."
 The third day. Captain Weeks told me, "a big, red-faced boy took his pen in hand and laboriousl. be- gan to write letter that is, he was seemingly engaged in writing let ter: as a matter of fact, he was show inN off before the school and experi- penting with the new teacher. When ordered to put his pen and paper away, he smiled around the room at the pupils, who had stopped work ing, and then resumed his writing.
 "I took him by the collar, dragged him out of his seat and gave him Q thorough whipping. He turned out to be the son of the chairman of the prudential committee. The old man never spoke to me again, not even when l met him in the road, he rid ing in a buggy and ! walking to or from my work
 Went to Sea for Two Years.
 On his graduation at the Annapolis Naval Academy, young John Win gate Weeks went to sea for cruise of two years. Seventy men were in his class, but there was room for only 10 of them in the navy. The navy itself consisted of but five steam ves- sels classed as first-rates, and they were obsolete and unfit for active duty. George Barnett, his roommate, went into the Marine Corps and is now major general and the com mandant of that branch of the naval service.
 In Florida, where he had been en- gagged as surveyor on railroad, the late Midshipman Weeks learned that an old firm in Boston was going out of business. One of the partners had died and another had become blind. Henry Hornblower, a son of one of the partners, and the youthful Mir. Weeks bought the business, the lat ter borrowing the money with which to begin his career as banker and broker.
 HornblCWer acted for the firm on the floor of the Boston Stock Ex- change. Weeks kept the books and waited on the customers as they ap- peared In a few years the two young men had offices all over New England
 
 q got my first valuable business idea from famous New England dressmaker," Captain Weeks said to the writer of this articl "A friend Who came to spend the night at our house was talking to Mrs. Weeks while l was reading a newspaper. l heard her say that she had bought a dress in Boston, and that soon after, on returning to the store, the pro prietor, noticing her at the counter, asked if she had purchased the dress she was wearing at his establishment. On learning that she had, he said
 It is not right Please give your name and address to the clerk and we shall correct the matter at once
 A Story of Great aIue.
 But the v'oman replied. the dress Is satisfactory to me. Whatever is wrong is so small that it is not worth mentioning.
 Small to you, madam. the man answered. but very large to us
 And do you know, the woman told Mrs. Weeks, the dress was not only taken back, but it was kept and l was given a new one.
 'I repeated the story to my partner next day" Captain Weeks said and from that time onward we tried to please our customers before we thought of ourselves and the probable profits we could make in our trans actions"
 Three years ago, following at once his election to the upper House of Congress, Captain Weeks sold out to his partners and disposed of every in- terest that might be thought, even in- directly, to influence his judgment as lawmaker. It it said in New Eng land that he has always been very careful about his reputation as a busi- ness man. An anecdote told of him in State street. the Wall street of Bos- ton, shows how his sensitiveness to public opinion on one occasion proved highly profitable to his partner and himself
 A run on bank in which Captain Weeks was a director, though he owned but $500 of the stock threat ened, so he feared to injure his stand ing in the community. He spent day and a night at the bank, pledged twothirds of all the property he and his partner owned for the payment of t"o pahh uSOtS anu put lHIouBn re- habilitating plan under which the shareholders were assessed 30 per cent. on their holdings. The bank was saved, but some of the fright ened shareholders sold out Their in- terests were promptly bought by Captain Weeks. The bank prospered and later was combin with other large banks. Boston fnanciers say that MT. Hornblower and Mr. Weeks ultimately made $2500 900 on the stock which they purchased when the bank ,lnl Ar hn L.,