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The Washington times., 1908-08-24
NEARLY 100000
INVOLVED IN DEAL
Huge Real Estate TranSac-
ton Under Way-DetailS
Not Given Out

A syndicate OF local capitalists, men
pro ninent in rsd estate operations.
has been formed tor the purpose Of
taking over several properties at an
aggregate cost Of nearly 100000.
The offers have been made, and final
adjustments are now uader way with
the owners It is understood that they
are satisfactory and that the deals Will
be closed in a few days. the details to
be published then.
The transactions, taken as a whole,
Will make the biggest real estate deal
consummated so far this summer.
One Of the properties to be included,
for instance. is entered at cost of
$780, 000. and another at $4,000. There
are at least two others included whose
values are $4,000 and $4,000. respec-
lively. Moore & Hill are the brokers
IN the transactions
The brick apartment houses at 1903
and 1H0 G street southwest have been
sold for John H Ontrich 20 +. y. Rich
ards, who will hold the properties as
an investment These two buildings
were constructed about five years ago,
and are but a short distance from tue
Smithsonian Institute and the AgricuI-
ture Department The price paid by
Mr.. Richards is not given. The deal
was made through the offices Of Stone
& Fairfax.
DEEDS have been recorded in the sale
of the Alamo apartment house, the
transfer Of which was recently an
This is a four-stOry, TWEEN
ty-four-apartment building on Twelfth
street. north Of Massachusetts Avenue.
The work of constructing the building
was started last February, and finished
IN June. The house has been occupied
about two months. The price paid in
the recent sale was about SIS. 900
The Washington times., 1908-08-24
German Ambassador Had
Been Patient Sufferer From
Cancer for Ten Years.
WAS WARM FRIEND
OF THE PRESIDENT
Popular Diplomat Achieved Distinc-
ton in Many Posts of Great
Responsibility.

BERLIN, Aug A.-Baron Speck Won
sternburg. ambassador from Germany
10 the United States. died today IN Hei-
deiberg. following an operation for
malignant cancer, from which he had
been sufferer for ten years.
He was one OF the most progressive
and popular officials in the diplomatic
service. ana had achieved distinction
in many posts of great responsibility.
The news Of Baron Won stenburg's
death vas q distinct shock. He was
f1Atysix years old and was born IN
London TO Lillian May Langham, d IA.
nous beauty Of Louisville. Ky, and his
wife was known as one OF the most
gracious hostesses IN the Germea
diplomatic corps. After q brilliant
career as a soldier he joined the diplo-
matte service IN 16sg and was made
first secretary Of the l9eking legation.
He was afterward charge danaires
al Belgrade. and became first sccre-
tary to the German embassy at Wash
ington ten years ago. Two years later
he was made German consul at Cal
cutta, and was then elevated 10 the
Washington ambassadorshiD in 1903.
Warm Friend Of RooseYelt's.
The only word OF criticism made
against Baron Won Stenberg in the
conduct Of his Washington post was
thst his unusual friendship for Presi-
deLS Roosevelt and mis- constant wish
10 please The latter often resulted in a
sacrlnce Of German interests. His con
ouct at times was declared inCompat-
i0le with the dignity OF his off1ce.
The independent press pays warm
ribute 20 the barOn's devotion 70 Ger
many, but Says that he vas overzeaI-
Cus in his efforts 70 increase the Ger
lan-Anericsn friendship.
Baron SteTnbUrg became the ehum OF
Roosevelt. when Re was mere secretary
OF Jhe German embassy. and the Presl-
'ient was Assistant Secretary Of tho
Gavy- These tive with Gen. Leonard
Br1tisn ambassador, were almost ill.,
sepdrable friends. All fond of athletic
exercise. they used TO walk or ride with
each other every day, ana on each
meeting there would be some friendly
rivalry as to who should outdo the
ether.
Young Man For Post.
II vas largely because OF this friend
ship that ln 1905. while still a very
NoutS man hyl sum al 4l-iAfo- ~at-L E7oaLs
he received the appointment OF am
Lassador Of Germany 10 this country.
I. IS understood that President Roose-
welt himself intimated 10 the German
Emperor that the selection would be &
pleasing one.
To his influence is undoubtedly due
in great measure the present cordial
Tela iOns between the two countries, ana
tee smoothing over Of many unpleasant
incidents which have al times threaten
ed to ruffe the waters of diplomacy.
The Washington times., 1908-08-24
Beach Hargis Is Placed on Trial
Charged With Staying His Father;
Smiles to Friends in Courtroom

LEXINGTON, hy., Aug. 24-Beaeh
Hargis was pnt on trial at Jackson,
Breathltt county t5day for the murder
of his father. ,T1dge James Hargis. Of
feud fame. =. Gansdtion was caused
when court conv-9iec, CircCit Judge Ad-
ans announcing hat he would vacate
the bench and not preside at this trial
on account of h's having prosecuted
Judge Hargis for several wears for
Breathitt feud mrrCsts viii e Adams
was commemorative attorney in that
district.
LieutenEnJ Governor Cox, who is act
ing IN ne absence Of Governor Wilson,
viii appoint a success or today. and the
selection OF a jury I'll begin Tuesday
morning.
Beach Hargis entered the courtroom
today with his raother and guard, he
The Washington times., 1908-08-24
WOMEN AERONAUTS
TO ENTER CONTEST

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24-From the
shores OF Huntington Bay, l. l., the
second ascension of the PhiladeIphia
Aeronautical Recreation Society's new
balloon, Philadelphia, win be made
next Saturday afternoon with four phil
adelphia and New York women in the
basket. They hope 10 reach Maine or
Canada before landing.
The t-vo Philadelphia women will he
chosen ~ 'ot from the society's MEM
bership, and they, In turn, will select
two New York feminine aero entbu-
siasts- They VIII contest Tor the ladies'
to the woman making the longest Air
flight DR.. Thomas +. Eldridge and Tor
George Simmernaan will be the pilots
The Philadelphia is equipped with
alright compartments in the basket to
keen IL afioat until help arrives in case
u should land on the water.
The Washington times., 1908-08-24
Young Man For Post.
NewS of Baron'S S Death
Causes Gloom in Capital

The news OF Baron Won Sternburg's
death cast cloud over the State De-
partment this morning. The official no.
tification from Ambassador Hill, re-
ceived early in the day. read as follows;
August p. z n
Secretary Of State:
German ambassador TO the United
States died last night. Heidelburg.
HILL"
Acting Secretary OF state AIDES Imme-
diately sent the usual messages OF con-
dOlence TO the German foreign office at
Berlin, and a private message express
ing his own grief 10 the baroness at
Heidelburss-
Beyond these recognitions Of the death
of the aigsoassadoT, official etiquette
does not go, put IN an unofficial way the
loss is felt keenly- a. the White House
Secretary Latta said that no message
had been received there nor had any
been sent to Germany. II is probable.
he said. that the President viii com
munieate with DR.. Hin and with the
baroness direct
Secretary Adee Affected.
Assistant Secretary Of State Adee VAS
quite visitly affected by the news OF
Baron Won Sternsurg's death. The two
had been friends for many years. the
friendship beginning when the baron
first came 20 the United States as Sec
retary Of the German legation.
Count Hermann Jon Hatzfeldt-W.l-
denburg. charge d'aHaires of the Ger
man embassy, is out OF the city. ana
there was no one representing the ern-
pre- who could speak TODAY II IS ex-
pected, however. thai Count Won Hatz-
feidt will return 10 Washington al once.
All the diplomatic associates Of Baron
Won Sternburg are also absent 1T vari-
Gus resorts along the coast and IN the
mountains, but new expressions OF the
old regard for the German representa-
tive are hardly needed to show how
highly he was esteemed.
FreiheTr Won Sterneurg was a young
diplomat, and 1t was 10 that perhaps
as much as anything else that he owed
his popularity not only with his own
sovereign. but with President Roosevelt,
himself q young man
When DR.. Won HUlieben, ambassador
to the United States, was recalled at
the United States were Tar from pleas
ant-over Venezuel9-and the news
flashed 70 this country that Baroa
Speck Won Sternburg WAS coming as his
representative there was great
rejoicing in diplomatic circles
Baron Won Sternburg,s previous ac-
with President Roosevelt.
dating back 10 iss6. when the present
chief executive was Civil Service Com
missioner and the baron was secretary
to the embassy, was pointed 10 with
exuItation By the friends OF peacs.
Kaiser Acted Wisely.
The outcome of that tangle which re-
suited with credit to both sides while
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was looking well. and is evfdentIv ,n
better health than when he was ,,-
oarcerated. Notwithstanding the renorts
current that he has tuberculosis TTo
smiled and nodded 10 several acousir,f-
anees and looked about the room e,-i-
IDENTIFY taking great interest in his s,~-
rcundings. His mother, Mrs To-, rr,,a.
Hargis. today made a statement 5s1,,-
ing that her son had ever mistra.to5
or cursed her when she was al tba +sel
which he is asserted TO have done ~, ~,
Ida Day, brother Of Mrs. HaTgjs .,ba 20 =
a a mlinopalre, ~ Is aiding In the defense
or MS nephew, and It was mainIv
through his efforts that United Sfefes
senator Bradley was engaged to de-
fend him
All this week will be required to hear
the case. Jackson is crowded with al
herents Of both sides. but there IS little
excitement
The Washington times., 1908-08-24

Temperatures are rather low for the
season, except in the South
Unsettled, shoWery weather viii con-
tinue tonight and Tuesday Ia the South
ern States. and win extend into the
Ohio valley and the middle Atlantic
States. In the lower Lake region the
weather will be generally fair
Temperatures viii change but little
Steamers departing todav for Euro
pesn ports VIII have light to fresh var
liable winds and generally fair weather
10 the Grand Banks.
The Washington times., 1908-08-24
POLICE AID SEARCH
BOY

The washington police have been
asked to assist in locating Edwin L.
Baughuan, seventeen years Of age. who
disappeared yesterday from his home
in HagerstOwn. Nd.
The boy hoarded the excursion train
from Hagerstown at Z O'Clock. and it
is believed he came TO this city. His
parents think he may have gone -
Richmond.
The Washington times., 1908-08-24
/ KnoW / Am UncLean,
Walls Early, the Leper

Il know that L am a leper," he said,
and the pufied lips trembled, as he
made the bitterest admission that can
ever come from the heart of man.
II don't know what they are going 10
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Kaiser Acted Wisely.

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LITTLE WIFE LISTENS TO THOSE BRAGGINGS-

chance. of the grins that 'ud be Pickering
around the faces Of our auditors. and
the knowing winks they'd exchange. and
all that. And about a minute after we'd
started in to plug for ourselves that way
to other people. II we dared to take such
a chance, We know blamed well that
they'd be sending us in hot little cracks
about our swell-uppiness and all that. and
inside of a couple Of shakes Of a lambs
tail we'd be feeling like a nickel's worth
of radium on q coal scales.
But. somehow or another, We just
haven't got a bit Of conjunction about
Dragging to our wives.
We lay It on thick with our wives. In
our confidential chats with our wives we
try to make 'em think that we're Just
about the greatest ever: that we've got II
on everybody else, in or out Of our line,
about forty different ways and then q
few somes: that II 1t wasn't for the jeal-
ousy or orneriness of the world, why.
we'd be way up there, at the top Of the
heap. and all the rest Of the fellers in
our line just nowhere.
And our little wives Just listen and
listen and listen. and the more they listen
the more we brag. and. really, it's a won
der that we don't just swell up and bust
with the puffy-wuffiness of our own self
manufactured gloridedness.
No matter what kind Of wallop we
get downtown-brought upon US, maybe,
by our own burned bull-headedness or in
competence or lack of insight or push or
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thing, as has often been set forth in this
correspondence. grows steadily in New
York.
For example. a shop window displ y
must be exceedingly risque these days 20
engage the attention of New Workers.
They don't call EN- window dressers''
over here any more. by the way-they re
window undressers."
A distinguished French editor who re-
Gently visited New York declared that
Paris has much to learn from New York
I'm the matter Of thece extraordinary win
dow displays-apd he added. nai'-ely. that
Paris doesn't need to learn too much
of 1t.
Everybody knows. OF course. that New
Workers will, tolerate-will. indeed. en-
Enthusiastically applaud-stase utterances
and a degree of stage rankness that no
other American city would think OF stand
ing for. Most Of the so-termed musical
comedies that leave New York after ione
runs here for road tours. have to De Sc
verely clipped of their verbal nastiness
and the draping of the women consider
ably amplified. to suit the decent censor
shin Of what New York theatrical folk
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sixteen days and twenty-seven minutes
and forty-eight and three-eighths seconds
old, hey? Is that the way you've got 1t
sized up?''
Mrs. Jobson demurred at being put in
the position of having stated or inferred
any such a thing. and she said
That's all right" cut in Mr.. Jobson.
you're always sending over those catty
wallops Of yours about my age, and I'm
getting some raw about 1t. I know how
old I am, without your sneaking over
those raps about 1t all the time. And I'm
not worried over my age. either. like some
folks l could mention. When 1t comes
to that. why. s'pose you're just nineteen
years old come next Michaelmas. going
on twenty-four? Is that the idea you re
when you go out with couple O. bushels
of phony rats and puffs on your head, and
your face plastered up with kalsomine
like Humpty Dumpty?"
This didn't call for any particular reply
from Mrs. Jobson. and so she kept still.
! I'm not one of these four-flushers that
tries to hide the truth from 'emselves.'
went on Mr.. Jobson. land I'm getting
bald. That's all there is to It. I'm get
ting as bald on top Of my head as q
darned old something at waxworks
show. and all the fizgigging and evading
and lodging in the world isn't going to
alter that fact. I'm not ashamed Of It,
either. It's honest badness, II l do say
so. It's badness created by hard work.
I've shaved and toiled and moiled to get
that badness. trying to keep a home over
the head of an improvident wife and SO
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smile every other Thursday in leap year.
dropped a clipping on my desk one day
last week as he ambled by. ! don't know
what paper it was from and don't care.
1t Is good enough and true enough to
bear repetition ever SO many times. 1t
was headed Things People Say 70 De-
fenseless Newspaper Men, and here are
the things:
i've got good scoop for you-our
clubs going to give a picnic
1ou want to go easy on that: I'm a
friend OF your boss
Who writes the items for you after
you bring them in?'
If l was you I'd be going to some
show every night
I'm going to Europe this summer.
Would your paper pay my expenses II I
was to send letters every now and then
telling about my trip"
I don't see how You can make up so
many lies"
BE sure and send back this photo: it's
the only one OF me h .e.'
Put In your paper that I've gone to
New York. 1 ain't goine, but I want a
certain girl to See it,
Say. get me pass to the ball game.
will your
Il wish you'd put knock in your pa
per on a fellow 1 know"
Don't you have to vote the way your
editor does?'
What does the Sunday editor do on
week days?''
If you print anything about this TIL
quit taking your Sheet
There's the list! If there Is any I'M
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thinking person who imagines for a mo-
ment that 1t is overdrawn In the least.
let him turn over and go to sleep right.
Why those few remarks are not a thou
sandth Of the idiotic questions that are
hurled at newspaper men.
Right along this same line I'd like to
mention that pretty nearly every near
human that ever stepped in shoe leather
has been a newspaper man at one time
or another-if' you let said near-human
tell about 1t. Why, it has gotten so that
I can't drop in to consult q plumber
about a bum drain or a frozen water pipe
without said plumber assuming a far-off
expression and reminiscing about 1.-The
time I was In the newspaper business"
Every blithering idiot who ever wrote a
PRO bono" letter to a crossroads daily
claims kinship with men who have COW
cred everything in the way Of an assign
ment from a bughouse person hopping
in the drink to the reace conference at
Portsmouth. and every derelict who was
"once a reporter" but who now peddles
mousetraps for a living, tries to come
across with lot Of that "why-I-got-out-
f-the-business" CUFF. Real newspaper
men who have plenty heat under the
brain pan don't get out of the business
until they get stiff in the joints and rusty
under the hat. unless somebody comes
along-as often happens-and offers them
more money than what they is''-again
quoting Charlie Edwards And even these
meanwhile wallOwing in bales Of crude
wealth-throw a high-class compton fit
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and conforming to Mr.. Jobson's explicit
request. pulled out a new bottle OF stuff.
II heard about this today and got some
OF 1t right away" she said to Mr.. Job
son. They say it's really good for bald
ness They don't claim that II absolutely
cures badness. but that ii sort Of stops
1t. You can begin putting IL on tonight"
"Oh, l can. can II" grouched Mr.. job
son, wheeling upon her. "Well. you've
got whole flock OF new guesses about
that, madam. I've been going to tell you
for a long time back that I'm getting
pretty weary Of this bowling around about
my badness that you're doing all the
time-pret-tie sick of 1t. II you're asking
me. I'm not worried about my badness.
1t doesn't bother me ten cents worth.
Just to maintain at least a semblance OF
peace around this drum I've been letting
you inflict these internal brands of al
legged badness dope on me for q long
time past but I feel like a fool toying
with such junk. and I am through with
II. / don't care a hang IL get as bald as
a Mexican dog between now and next
Tuesday week. and I want you to wise up
to that fact, too. Not another word out
of you. II you please. with respect to my
badness. 1t suits me. and that's all you
need to know. If you don't like it-oh.
well la. la! You know what folks do
when they don't like things. But the
next time you make another crack to me
about my badness. why. there's going to
be bunch of people out In front OF this
house listening to what's coming on in
side. and I'm a-telling you now, SOS you
won't forget it,"
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his wife-if we had a photographic repro.
duction of the kind Of talk some other
fellow. caught in the act of Dragging to
his wife. poured into her ears-why. we'd
say that it was a joke, a scream. the
bummest kind Of comedy. and we'd de-
clare that q man that had such an acute
case of the puffywuffies as all that ought
to be in the BOBBY hatch. and that it was
a shame that any woman had to sit still
and listen to such sublimated junk: and
we'd say heap of other things OF about
the same tenor and essence.
Fact Is, some of us snap ourselves to
a sort of consciousness Of things once In
a while when we're in the very article Of
informing our listening wives what won
der-ful people we are-what unusual.
VARY kertish and kertizz folks we sure
are-and we've got to grin sort O.. In our
subconsciousness. over the humorous
figure we're cutting-that is. we awaken
to such a consciousness If we've got any
latent sense Of humor.
No relationship in life. as q straight
matter of fact. Is more fine. more plainly
beautiful, than the profound belief which
our wives have in our puissance.
They accept us for what we AMT.
We could stick around with our caps In
our hands for a thousand million years,
asking the world in general. which means
our own little circle, to accept us for
what We amt. and all that we'd get
would be the long, low, rakish, raffish
raucous laugh.
Everybody on earth else knows us for
just what we are. They've got us sized
up for what we are. They've got our
number. They've got chart on US. and
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Mrs Jobson. Of course. disclaimed any
such idea, and said that she'd be delight
ed II Mr. Jobson could stumble upon some
method to cure or something for his In
creasing badness.
Stumble upon it, hey?" broke out MIR.
Jobson. Cut out that stumble stuff. 1
don't stumble on anything. Least Of all.
I'm not applying stumbling-upon remedies
to the surface of my head. 1t may suit
you to go through life on one of these
stumbling-upon platforms. but that
doesn't conform to my scheme of things
I am nudging along on a plan of delib-
Grafton, and ten or fifteen cents worth
OF elaboration wouldn't do you any
harm. let me tell you that. What I'm
looking for Is cure for badness. L
haven't time to dig around for such
thing myself. but you've got all the time
in North America, and then lot of time
and it's a wonder to me that you wouldn't
as this bald spot of mine began to APP
pear, and looked up some remedy for
me. II you had any interest in me except
for what you can get out Of me you'd
have had this bald spot cured up. or at
least arrested In its progress. long ago."
Mrs. Jobson ventured to say that, while
she'd heard, of course, that most cures
for badness were chimerical and will-o'-
the-wisplike and all like that. why may
be after all there was a chance OF some
thing being done for badness. and she'd
make some inquiries around and find out.
anyhow. :. .. >. ,.
Mr. Jobson. I'm q pretty busy man.
even If you have got the bug idea that all
I do is to sleep on my office lounge. and
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something-why, we can spin right home
and tell HER our own garbled version OF
the story.
We can tell HER that the wallop was
cruel and unjust and contemplate and
measley and all like that. and she'll
look US over alphabetically and tell
us that she knows that without our tell
ing 1t and that she JUST KNOWS that
time will vindicate US and that the world
will have to acknowledge sooner or later
what hot tamales we are.
Then we begin to brag about ourselves
to her.
We brag In that four-hushing sort of
self-deprecatory way that is meant. every
word of 1t. for q personally conducted
boost for ourselves.
20 course" we say to the little listen
ing wife sitting on our knee "a Teller
hates to come right out. just like that.
and say to anybody. much less to his
wife, that he's THERE when It comes to
being on to his Job and that IL he didn {
have 1t on the muckers knocking him
II he didn't have it on 'em nineteen DIFF
ferent ways from the ace-oh, well, what g
the use?"
Then she comes right smack-dab out
and tells US that she knows perfectly
we'll that we've got 1t on all Of 'em. and
that she's always known 1t, and that all
we've got to do Is to sit tight and WEI II
be dead sure to get our deserts. and as
she goes on in that strain we just sit
there. like large phony globules. and lis
ten to 1t. and gulp It alive. and swell up
over 1t. and we Jes' nachully can't make
ourselves believe otherwise than that the