The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 13

‘(== | The Seattle Star ("=~ SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1920. . BUILDS WHOLE RAILROA MONE MAN _ YEARMYERS mm PLUGS AWAY ‘ Constructs Well Planned and - _ || Rave been an unparalleled fit of com- L 1 Supplies, ~ &re closed. He has steadily refused fem talk about bimdelt cr what he te . ‘doing. | anywhere round here,” he said, sit- Built Line on the Kansas Prairie BY MABEL ABBOTT JETMORE, Kan, Sept. Blone on the shadelgas prairie, miles | ftom any town, a man, a team of Mules and a scraper are nibbling, Mouselike, at the immensity of the * * *% WITH TEAM OF MULES Embarrassed? See This Girl/MAN Runs Personality Institute 1Tt—AN| | landscape. Behind them, across the | | folling plain, runs a long scar, its @uts and fills level and true, its| sides raw with fresh-turned earth Bear the screper, but weed-grown as it stretches backward, until it Vanishes in the prairie grass. ‘The man talks to himself as he from his lean body; but his mules @re fat and sleek. FOR 1: YEARS THE PUZZLE OF KANSAS It is Rudolph Myers, building his * ht about 12 miles of Fight of way from nowhere to no ® general southwest di- and winter he lives alone On the right-of-way, in a shack ot} gated iron rusted to a uniform brickred. In a sort of covered pen| @f broken boards nearby live bis mules, Year after year he has,lived and ‘Worked thus, buying another mile @f right of way now and then and Paying f- it with checks on a! - Bank in .ansas City. The checks _ Sre always honored. Jetmore residents remember that | When he appeared in the village, 12 13 years ago, bids were being alled for on the grading of ap | Prouches to a bridge. Bids of $800 and $1,000 had been “I'll do it for $500,” offered Myers, and the city, smiling in its sleeve, gave him the contract. He finished it in 10 days, making a good it and doing a that still tes to his expertness. m he set about his railroad. that time he became prac hermit. As the years have he seems to have lost track and sometimes comes to a@ Sunday for hie meager forgetting that the stores cancys In what {s declared in Jetmore to ‘ Municativenesa, however, he told me Yesterday that he was building a “It's the best route for a railroad ting on the handle of his scraper and looking wistfully to the southwest- ‘ward. “I figured I'd have money enough to buy the right of way, and I could do all the work myself, me and the mules. I thought maybe I could sell stocle and be a stockholder, T've got about all the garding done mow, the rest will be level ground. But I won't have money enough to Put down the ties and rails and get ‘the trains running. And nobody feems [0 take any interest. They “come round and ask a lot of ques tions, but they don't do nothing. ome railroad fellows came and Jooked at it once, but they never fame back.” The route is shrewdly chosen, rest- Gents of the county say. It would e Jetmore a connection with Gar. City, which it has not now, and would shorten the route of the Santa Fe by a number of milea, But— Rudolph Myers’ right of way deeds Provide that the land shall revert to fts original owners when work ceases, or “it becomes evident that there is no prospect of a railroad Being completed.” HERE’S THE MYSTERY MAN OF THE PRAIRIES EVANGELINE WEED BOSTON, Sept. 17.—Ninety-tive per cent of us lack personality. | Without it success in life ip scant | But it can be developed. 4 So says Miss Evangeline Weed, of this city, who has founded a person- ality institute. College professors, labor leaders, lawyers, stock brokera, office girls and club women are on her lst of “patients.” Letters from former students who | have been benefited by a course in the institute fill its files. | A Harvard instructor, who, thou a master of his subject, was always embarrassed before his classes, writes he has befn freed from self. consciousness by Miss Weed's course. A society girl who couldn't under. stand why she wag disliked by her acquaintances came to Mine Weed for ald. She is'making friends’ now. EACH “PATIENT” NEEDS DIFFERENT TREATMENT “How's it done? says Miss Weed. “That's the secret. The method ts simple and the courte easy after the patient's self-consciousness has been overcome. I generally do that in two weeks. In three months the pa tient lias personality. “Each patient requires a different treatment, I can't tell you just how I overcome self-consciousnesa. But} I can tell the minute It has passed. The patient himself never knows how it haa been eliminated. “The treatment is inspirational and thus far I've found no one who can take my place at this stage of the work.” ‘The institute is located in a busi ness building tn the heart of Bos ton. Mins Weed's laboratory is more like a boudoir than an office. It is finished in white and blue Gay chintz curtains cover the windows. A blackboard and a raised platform at one end are the only suggestions of the classroom. Miss Weed has always been a student of psychology. She holds the degree of master from Columbia, and is one of the few women who were admitted to the University of Berlin. CONQUERING SORROW GAVE HER IDEA It was @ great personal sorrow | which she had to overcome that gave her the idea of the Personality Institute, She was engaged to Nor man Prince, the noted American aviator, who was killed in action in the world war. In combatting her own trouble she evolved many of the ideas she has incorporated in her course. After eliminating self-conscious: ness Mise Weed puts her patients tn the “charm school.” This. is to de- velop their “physical persopality.” Upper picture shows Rudolph Myers at work with his team on the right-of-way stre tching over the prairie from gothing to—nowhere! Lower picture shows the hermit rail- re’ ler. who has been on f his puzzling job for 12 years. a HOW TO BE CHARMING By MISS EVANGELINE WEED From the habit of saying pleas ant things to others. Look for @ person's good traits not bis faults. Politeness is the cheapest and often the best capital. It pays a large interest and costs nothing. Personal magnetiam is impos sible if one holds a grudge or cherishes an unforgiving spirit “Physical personality,”. she mys, “tg composed of vitality, polse, com fect standing position and freedom of body. Personality cannot be taught,” she says, “but It can be de veloped.” : " This Happened in Wild, Wild West SALEM, -Ore., Sept. 17)—How old must a girt be to be allowed to wear riding panta, was rs question put | up to Gov. Olcottin «a wall from Miss 8S. D. Wolfe of Madras. Tre | distressed young woman says shy taken up a homestesd, but that Chief of Police Ntxon of Bend, took | WITH ARSON D. L. Clowers Is Accused in Chehalis * CHETIALIS, Sept. 17-—D. L. (Rar. ney”) Clowers, alleged leader of a Pa cific coast arson ring, was charged with second degree arson in an infor. mation filed here yesterday, Clow. ere is accused of burning the Newau kum River Co. sawmill, 12 miles southeast of Chebalia, March 1. English Make War on German Plays LONDON, Sept 17.—Charies B. Cochran, theatrical producer, ts try. ing to get the aid of parliament in hin fight against German plays on the English stage. He says every German play is German propaganda. her pistol away and told her to put | on skirts Instead of pants Gov. | Olcott has passed the matter over to| the attorney general to decide, THEY BAR EVEN | FOAM IN ALABAMA | MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 17—"For fear the foam will have a kick fn it, Alabama Antifaloon League leaders are preparing to fight any change in prohivition laws. Present law | reads “No liquid may be sold in Ala- | bama which looks Uke, smells or| foams like beer Prices High Even _ in Faraway Tunis TUNIS, Sept. 17.—Owing to the) rise in the price of bread to 25 cents | the shops in the Arab quarters owned by native inhabitants and | Jown have been closed by way of protest. Thousands marched thru the streeta forcing the proprietors to close their shops. Robinson Crusoe’s Cave to Be Hotel HONOLULU, Sept. 17.—The Chit | ean government plans to make Rob- | inson Crusoe cave on Juan Fernan dez island a hotel for tourists and the Island a national park and tour. ist center, according to W. A. Bryan | of the Hawalian society. Alterations F, ree * 8 # * S EVANSVILLE, Ind, sept. 17— Pigs is pign, all right, and yet they may also be pups, At least Queen thinks #0, and Queen should know for she's the mother by her adoption of five pigieta, Queen is a white and brown beagle hound. She lived on the farm of Joseph Schneider, of St. Wendel, She had five puppy ba- bles, The hogs of Farmer Schneider killed all five of ‘em. Thereupon CHARGED |Hogss Kill Her Puppies * o Queen Adopts Pig's Queen tured away five piglets and became their mother, Schneider guve Queen to his stepson, Fred Schmitt, here. Queen howled so long and bard when they tried to part her from her step-family that finally the piglets were brought along. A Chinese trust controls the dye used on firecrackers, made from cibuea, a Philippine wood. | Pages 13 to 24 | NEW VOTERS - ARE ‘RUSHED’ Different Parties Clamor for Support of Women WASHINGTON, Sept. 11-—-Now that women have the vote, what are they going to do with it? 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