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Show and in 1908. 10.04 pounds. In tea the per capita consumption has somewhat reduced meantime, that of 1878 having hav-ing been 1.33 pounds per capita; 18S8, 1.4 pounds; 1899, 0.94 of 1 pound, and in 1908, 1.07 pounds per capita. ' In cacao the growth in per capita consumption con-sumption has been even more rapid than that of coffee, the quantity imported im-ported having grown from 25 million pounds in 1898 to 83 million pounds in 1908, having thus considerably more than trebled in the short space of ten years. The United States Is thus the world's largest consumer of coffee and cacao, and holds third rank among the Importing nations In the importations importa-tions of tea; her Imports amount to more than one-third of the coffee, nearly one-fourth of the cacao, and about one-seventh of the tea entering the international markets of the world. HEAVY DRINKERS. Even after the country goes dry, there will be considerable drinking. The Unitod States has imported in the past twenty years two billion dollars' dol-lars' worth of coffee, tea and cacao, or $100,000,000 worth each year. Doctors say coffee affects the heart and produces pro-duces biliousness. The American people peo-ple certainly are resisting or enduring endur-ing a great heart weakness and bile for the United States leads the world In coffee consumption. Coffee importations by the principal countries of the world in 1906, the latest lat-est year for which statistics are available, avail-able, amounted, aecordlntr to a state- ment of the Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, to 2,577 million pounds, of which 9S5 millions were imported by the United States. 412 millions by Germany, Ger-many, 256 millions by Netherlands, 21C millions by France, 119 millions by Belgium, and 113 millions by Austria-Hungary, which In no other country coun-try does the total reach as much as 100 million pounds. Of the 336 million pounds of cacao imported by the principal countries of the world In 1908, SO millions were imported Into the United States 75 1-2 millions entered Germany, 51 1-4 millions mil-lions eutered France, 47 millions Into tho United Kingdom, and 24 1-2 millions mil-lions Into Netherlands, making tho United States the world's largest importer im-porter of cacao as well as coffee. Of tea, the United States stands third In the rank imported; the quantity quan-tity of tea Imported into the United Kingdom in 1906 being, according to the same authority, 270 million pounds; Russia, 136 millions; United Statob 86 millions; Australia, 29 millions; mil-lions; and Canada, 26 million pounds. The United Kingdom, it will be seen, is therefore by far the largest Importer Import-er of tea its colonies, Australia and Cana'da, being also largo Importers in proportion to population. The "coffee habit" has evidently grown upon the peoplo of the United States. Twenty years ago, in 1888, the quantity of coffee imported was 423 million pounds, and in 1908, 890 million pounds, though the quantity h88 fluctuated from year to year, having in 1902 and again in 1905 exceeded ex-ceeded 1 billion pounds. The per capita consumption, which in 1868 was 6.52 pounds, in 1878. 6.24, and in 1883, 6.81. was in 1898. 11.68 pounds, |