Show r Chinese Take to Smoking Cigarettes UT ASHINGTON America h has a s sU W WASHINGTON U taught the people of the Chinese empire to smoke cigarettes In a report report report re re- re- re port to this government on foreign trade by Consul General Charles Denby Denby Den Den- by of Vienna In which I he lie e described the class of ot foreign markets which may be created by American enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise and then supplied the consul general says sas One One of ot the most conspicuous exam examples examples ex ex- am amples pIes of such a market is the demand de de- mand wand for cigarettes In China Ten years ago the cigarette was an article used In China by a small number of people chiefly foreigners The field attracted the attention of a group of American manufacturers manufacturer's who examined ex ex- examined Into it and decided to Introduce introduce Intro intro- duce the cigarette to the Chinese pec pee pie by American methods The result Is that now the cigarette Is popular throughout the empire The international opium conference to be held at The Hague n next fall will have a very general representation of the powers according to the latest Inform Information In In- form formation reaching the state department depart depart- men ment mentIn L LIn In re reporting rUng to this go government er nt on opportunities In Malaysia for tor rubber rubber- growing enterprises Consul General Genera James T T. T Dubois at Singapore cited I as follows an instance to show how the he investing public Is sometimes taken taken ta ta- ken In In the tho exploitation of ot the rubber rubber rubber rub rub- ber Industry there An estate was sold to promoters for tor The s syndicate got an old planter who knew the estate to put pul pula puta a n flotation value on It He named The promoters were not sat sat- L Another expert examined and reported His IUs price was British and American gold was pourIng pour pour- Ing lug Into the country and the rich get quick spirit was born Another expert was called In He was told of the tho for for- former former mer valuations and that they were un un- un satisfactory He valued the estate at Just at this time rubber took tool a big jump in the London and New York markets and another expert was asked to report and anti he placed the flotation price at nt an and the syndicate In order to have it in round numbers made it an even and floated It at this price People fought fough for tor the stock the tho share Issue was oversubscribed and man many of them Immediately sold at a good advance All this was done within with with- in n a few months without the slightest improvement on the property except the natural growth of ot the few hundred acres of Para plants which had recently recently re reo b been en planted Trained white supervisors on tho rubber estates are In demand the consul con sul suI general reports and there Is a sc scarcity of labor and and consequent high wages Heads of Navy Are Annoyed By Women I I Iv v J JOHN jOHN OHN HAY had bad a saying that the fue he J ideal diplomatic service service service-it If any government ever s succeeds ds in having one will one will be composed exclusively of ot unmarried men Mr Hay had no experience experience ex ex- In naval matters or he might have included th the navy In his m maxim There There probably Is no branch of the he gov government service the Washington Post says where petticoat Influence Is so strong as in the navy Ask any secretary ex-secretary of the navy nay about It and he will tell you how the navy women In a thousand different ways sometimes sometimes some some- times unconsciously and occasionally deliberately annoy the navy depart depart- ment He will tell you how they scheme to obtain desirable posts of ot duty for their husbands or sons and how they annoy the department with requests for a change of oC orders when their husbands are transferred from froman an ran easy Job In Washington to sea dut duty on the Asiatic station or some other far away tropical post The recent row at the Boston navy yard which cul- cul were revoked and Instead of spending his honeymoon In Tokyo he will have less Interesting service at the naval training station on the Pacific coast He will however have his wife Girls Girl's Good Looks Are a Bar to o Work I j t I II AFTER losing four tour p positions within a year Just because of her beauty Mary Todd has left Washington and will try try her fortune elsewhere else Miss Todd set out to be bea a a a- stenographer Her employer got mixed up in his dic dic- dictation dIctation dictation tation and In Included phrases that could not have been part of ot the correspond ence As a the floorwalkers strolled too loo often near her counter As Asa a milliner she aroused the envy and Jealousy jealous of or customers Miss Todd has been living In Georgetown George Georgetown town for a little more than a year She came hero from a small Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania town well welt equipped to work with money enough to wait walt until a reasonably good position was open Ollen to R j i I D 1 Lo 10 o has suffered P POOR many privations priva- priva privations i lions at the hands of the national government In the process of civilizing him but the hardest blow blew yet must be beno beno beno no more fire firo water sold on tho the ceded lands of 1 Lo La will take his seat on the water wagon at once The order Includes several counties and if carried out to the letter would even prevent the tho sale of liquor in St St St. StPaul Paul and Minneapolis which stand on ceded lands I Under state laws the counties embraced em em- braced in the order Decker order Becker Cass Cam Clay Clar Hubbard Mahnomen Norman Norman Beltrami Itasca Hasca Polk Clear Water Water Red Lake Crow Wing Wadene and Ottertail have Ottertail-have have enjoyed the license Fon M t i cf cr tr- tr tate state and Lo who dear- dear I 1 o J I tr I WI water I IT aa tas been able ablo urinated In the martial court-martial of two officers illustrates the prominent part women play In navy circles Almost everybody knows of the mutual ill III feeling existing between the navy women and the department Every once in a while something happens hap happens pens to widen this breach Only a a afew afew few days dars ago Ensign Charles M M. Austin Austin Aus Aus- tin Un son of Representative Richard W W. Austin of oC Tennessee was deprived of an especially desirable berth by the navy department merely because he got married He had bad been detached from the dispatch boat Dolphin at the Washington nav navy yard an and ordered to Japan Tapan for duty as a student at at- tache at the American embassy at Tokyo for the p purpose of oC studying the Japanese language On the way to his new post of duty he stopped at his former home In Tennessee and was waa married to a girl he had known forman for man ninny many years rears This was too much for the unromantic mantle mantic departmental authorities who wha suddenly decided that a married ensign ensign en en- sign would not make as good a student student stu stu- dent lent of the Japanese language as a IJ bachelor Accordingly his orders her Yes she said half angry and half half- amused I have been overwhelmed with offers of marriage as well as of employment But these offers do not appeal to me Most men forget torget that I have my own sweetheart and If I were Inclined to consider a second time It seems that mine should be bethe bethe bethe the privilege of ot Inviting his attentions without having them thrust upon meAt meAt meAt me At first I did not take such things seriously but since then I have known other girls who have shared the same fate tate merely because they are more beautiful than their colleagues I have worked In offices office where there were 17 girls an and by th the end of the third week I was embarrassed assed by repeated offers otters of company compan- pleasures pleasures pleas pleas- ures and the like by various men In Inthe Inthe inthe the office This gave rise to some bitter passes between some of or theother theother the theother other girls and myself I I hope to be married by the autumn of or next year but until t then en I wish to todo do something Sad Red Men Must Ride on the W Wagon a on I to procure It without restriction By the new order he will have to go dry The provisions of the treaties by which the lands were r ceded ded prohibit the introduction of Intoxicating liquors In the whole northern part of ot the stab except by consent of congress or th the president but up to the present time the provisions have not been enforced owing to opposition from the white I population which vastly outnumbers I the thu reds I |