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Show earned cash for a worse than useless use-less luxury. But they do not stop there. They then add $40,000,000 worth of tobaco, most of which 1 goon up in smoke, and for breakfast break-fast they drink 550,934,337 pounds of coffee for which they pay $120,-000.000, $120,-000.000, which is followed at supper sup-per time by 93,500, 000 pounds of tea which adds another $31,ooo,-ooo $31,ooo,-ooo making a total of l,o52,ooo,-ooo l,o52,ooo,-ooo which is paid out every year for that which does very little good, and a great deal of harm. Now, the remedy we would suggest, sug-gest, is for the people to ceaso this useless extravagance, cultivate culti-vate habits of economy and industry, in-dustry, patronize Home Industries and Home Institutions, not forgetting for-getting the home papers, and then see if the "Dawn of Prosperity" that we have been looking for so long will not heave insight! HARD TIMES- -t. ' The cry of hard times has rung ' " in our ears so often, and for sueh : a length of time that we aro get- ting used" to itand almost feel ' that we must accept the inevitable and make the best of it. Now what is the cause of this ever present pres-ent cry of hard times, and is there no remedy? Some will answer j the demonetization of silver is the cause, and if Congress would re-: re-: store it to its proper place the sun of prosperity would shine upon u ; once more. Others will say that unwise tariff legislation is the ; cause and that if we had a high protective tariff the higher the better industries would spring up all over the land, and the cry of hard times would be heard no more. : Others again will assign other causes, and suggest other reaied-ipq reaied-ipq Now wo wish to call our V readers attention to a few items that we think have at least a bearing bear-ing on the question in a national point of view. . In the first place we find that the people of these. United States driuk 1,036,319,222 gallons of beer, anually, and as beer is classed among the mild drinks not strong enough for the american stomach, it is braced up with a "stick" consisting con-sisting of 90,5-41,209 gallons of Whiskey and Brandy, then to improve im-prove th j Uavor 21,293,121 gallons ' of wino are mixed in making a grand total of 1,143,153,555 gallons gal-lons of liquid refreshments that go down the American throat every year, the per capita consumption 'being 10 82-100 gallons. This does not include the Pure Dixie, Dix-ie, the "White Eye" and other brands of moonshine liquors that -Uncle Sam knows nothing of. The consumer.: of tMs poison pay over 801,000,000 of their hnrd |