The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-24

ordered to put his pen and paper
| the pupils, who had stopped work
| ing, and then resumed his writing.
81 took him by the collar, dragged
him out of his seat and gave him a
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 YES
sells classed as frst-rates, and they
were obsolete and unfit 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 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 Mr..
Weeks bought the business, the lat
ter borrowing the money with which
to begin his career as banker and
broker.
Hornblower acted for the firm on
the floor of the Boston Stock Elk
change. Weeks kept the books and
waited on the customers as they ap-
peared. In few years the two young
men had Offices all over New England
and in cities as far away as Chicago.
II got my first valuable business
idea from a 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:
1T 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 woman replied, the dress
is satisfactory to me. Whatever is
wrong is so small that it is not worth |
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
was given a new one.
Il repeated the story to my partner
1ext 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
Three years ago, following at once
lis election to the upper House OF
Congress, Captain Weeks sold out to
lis partners and disposed of every in
crest that might be thought, even in
lirectly, to influence his judgment as
| lawmaker. 1t it said in New Eng
and that he has always been very
careful about his reputation as bust
less man. An anecdote told of him
n State street. the Wall street of Bos-
on, shows how his sensitiveness to
,ublic opinion on one occasion proved
tightly profitable to his partner and
imself
A run on bank In which Captain
Weeks was a director, though he
wned but 5000 of the stock, threat
ned, so he feared to injure his stand
ng In the community. He spent =
ay and night at the bank, pledged
wo-thirds of all the property he and
is partner owned for the payment OF