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6 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT APKIL 25, 1907. impofl. keep the dige 1 1 o b is bad. Th Bit terf being ab solutely' pure, will tone the SI tem and cure Poor Appetite, Indigestion, Dyspepsia. Costiveness, or Female Ills. las; as the friends of the poor and at the same time offering; to eell thef specpla Ure stocks. And what la the result? Led like sheep to the slaughter, a lone procession of the misguided poor are parting with the savings which have been made possible try the most magniflclent season of pros perity the nation has even known. Many a poor wretch, drawing his Havings bank account now In the houe of getting rich quick, will, in the coming years of Industrial depression, wander the streets f our cities without work and without bread. God give us common-sense. This Is a hard world In business. It always has been, and always will be. There are many good and generous men In it. There are many who will lend a helping hand to you in your adversity, but In time of need you will not find them among the men who tried to get you to embark In speculation with your little surplus and to sell you something which would help you to "easy money." Be self reliant. Make your own inves tigation in investments. When you can not, put your money In a good savings bank. Distrust the financial demagogue. Keep your hand on your pockelbook as you travel through life first, to give al ways in proportion to your means to those who are poorer; seend, to hold lrom those who would take through force or fraud what you need for yourself and yours. You will then have your hand whore most of other fellows have only their eyes. In this alone you will have the advantage of, them. WORLD'S HOP CROP Four Countries Grow Most of Prod action of World. the At an early date the United States department of agriculture will issue JbulleUn COof the bureau of statistics, prepared' by' ftugene 'Meifitt, scientific '"aMsiBtan-r'Mn 'the' division"' of foreign markets. This bulletin is a report con cerning the production of hops throughout the world, the international trade, the prices, the consumption of hops in principal countries, and the relationship of hops to beer hewing. Four countries grow 8G per cent of the hop crop of the world. England Is preceptibiy in the lead with a pro duction of 28.1 per cent of the totaf, the crop of 1905 being adopted as the r leading one . for which information is available for all countries. Next in order stand Germany with 23.3 per cent, the United States with 20 per cent, and Austria-Hungary with 14.4 per cent. The relative present standing of these four countries is fairly indicated by the crop of 1905; but the report shows that .notwithstanding the large crops of 1905, the hop production of England and Germany is declining, while that of the United States Is distinctly gain- .' ing. A peculiarity of hop growing made manifest in this report is that it Is ex tremely localized, not only in the United States, but in other countries. According to the census of 1!)0, less than 1 per cent of the crop of the United States was grown outside of New York, Washington. Oregon, and California, and within these states the crop is confined to certain very re Hi rioted areas, Jn New York most of the crop is grown in parts of the coun ties of Otsego, Schoharie. Madison, Oneida, and Franklin, mentioned in or der of the size of .crop; most of the crop f Washington is grown in three counties of Yakima. Pierre, and King; four counties in Oregon produeo mot of (hu Htttte' crop, nann-ly, Marlon, Polk, Yamhill, and Clackamas; and In California the crop of the stat is grown mostly in Sonoma, Sacramento. " Mrndklno. and Yuba counties. The foregoing xUti'itient holds good for the crop f Vis'), but wiiN-4- tout year there has been a mnrked extension of ureas of production In tho Purine states. Three i-nuntrli'H supply most of the hopH that go into U... iur.r.i!.' or in ternational trade. These countries nre German) which In 154 contributed 37.3 per rent of the world's hop trade; the United Kin tea. which lontrlbutid 22.U per cc-t; and Austrht-HuiiKary. 15.4 Kr rent. The export trade of Kelgluni, which i of ratlur large HAIR OALSAM I wn .. la P"1- rmiU l Cm wva kt Ut , IN.aTOMACHi proportions, is party . based upon the re-exported hops from Germany and Austria-Hungary. . In 1904 the hop-exporting countries shipped 65,000,000 pounds of hops, some degree of duplication being in volved because of reshlpments. This quantity came out of the world's crop of about 170,000.000 pounds, so that in ternational trade handles about three eighths of the entire crop. Half of the hops that go into Inter national trade are shipped to the Uni ted Kingdom, and these hops are chiefly brought from the United States, the fraction of British imports contributed by this country often e lng one-half or considerably more. .The countries of secondary import ance in the import trade in hops, which received from 3,000,000 to 6, 000,000 pounds each in 1904, were Bel gium, France, Germany, tho Nether lands and the United States. - The aparent anomaly of the United States as an importing country, while being second exporting in order of im portance, is explained by the fact that the brewers of the United States pre fer Austrian and German hops on ac count of their extremely high qual ity for certain desired results in brew ing. London, Nuremberg, and New York are the world's three leading hop markets. The price of hops is suo Ject to very wide fluctuation. The quantity wanted by the world varies not greatly from one year to the fol lowing, so that a shortage or abund ance in the crop is reflected Mn the prices in a greater degree than is in dicated by the percentage of defici ency or abundance. The prices of hops in New York are affected more by prices in Iondon than in Nuremberg, the reason being that American hops are largely the ae pendence of British brewers and do noe enter perciptlbly into continent al trade. As far bact as 1880 the United States imported half a million pounds of hops, and the amount grew to 2, 000,000 pounds in 1882, since which lime the amount has ranged from that quantity to 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 pounds annually, with the excepiron of two or three years, until 1905, when the imports rose to 10,000,000 pounds. On the other hand, the domestic exports of hops ranged from a quarter of a million to a million pounds in the period from 1851 to 1859. after which period the exports continued to be subject to great fluctuations, in some years rising to as many as 10, 000,000 to 21,000,000 pounds. -In 1905, which was. a -years of extra ordinary '' imports the exports ex ceeded them by Oi 'y 3,000.000 pounds, or about one-third of the us ual excess in recent years. S4I.T AS A II R A ITT I F I E R , .; In the way of beauty cults there Is always something new under the sun, i.and there never lack women so pa thetically eager to be pretty that they hungrily seize on each new crumb of advice, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. - 1 The latest edict, then, is that to pos sess a fairly peachy skin, soap and water must be eschewed, and salt and milk substituted. One woman has tried it declared that if women who spend so much time over their complexions and s much money on facial beautifiers. would simply wash their faces at night with salt, or apqply a salt and milk solution, they would not only have better kins. but save their money be sides. " Her own rose-leaf complexion, she says, Is duo to this method. At night she washes her face in very hot water, using salt as she would -so? p; 'then rinses In cold water. Tier face feels like ivory. The salt not only whitens the skin, but renders the flesh firm and solid. Then as a cosmetic she takes a teaspoonful of salt and adds It to two two tnblespnonfuls of milk. She applies this to the face, leaving it on over uirrLt. PlnftK unit Moe k rein. The Princes of Montgylon, whose col lin were a feature nf the winter's ken nel shows, was explaining to a young a inan journalist her method of breeding do. "Hut you." thf prince said, "tire siunewhnt. Ignorant of dog breeding, are you not?" "I Jim," th Interviewer confmwil. "You are like." Raid the pr'neess, "that amusing Mark Twain, who Iwmeht In th wert a gitirn Mexican ohiu. tMnkbiic the phmwu meant Mexican plug, thinking something f Hist aort. Yoti are like a von friend of ni'ne who said one even luct t. h. t rtuwlk.mil: " 'Oh, .Ink, I havp m iei a fttirnrlxe fur vim! lAok at tills perfectly nwivt ltttl riK I botmht Hit morning. Only anil the m.tn Runrantertl bins ! he a jutr wenirH l," " (III 111 t.Kl, Mr;, Lot la Ahw Mead f lUwion aroiiMst rood tljl ef oowmrnl wlih her r ent depuration' J hut tin iM.Mwr had a bat! effect on children, bullion In thi'ti a toy "f war. Mr M'-d. rr rfr aether m, a where fellow hu unit innr h tht price at feet down to next to ncthiftt Sure! AfUr wlatcr Wall vrr noted lecturer, was well qualified to speak on this matter, for she has for a number 'Of years studied carefully and intelligently the child mind. In the course of her Investigations she has come upon many quaint instances of the peculiar reasoning of children. The other l.y she said : "I once told a little girl that some folks claimed the moon was inhabited. "The child sneered. " 'Rubbish,' she said. 'It can't be What would the people up there do when there was only a little slit left?' " SHORT STORIES. VOTTNTf! rlprpvmfln in n. remote 13 country district wrote last Easter time to Bishop Potter, saying that he was about to take a wife and asking If, to save some other clergyman a long and weary journey, he could not marry himself. The bishop's reply was tnarvelously concise. It said: ' "Could you ' buty. yourself?" - . , ' ' ' - f t j ' , . , , Miss Corliss Babson. the champion woman high jumper, Is very fond of children, and at a tea at Vassar the other day she repeated a quaint child saying. "I was walking In Gloucester one morning with a little girl," she began, "and looking over my shoulder, I saw the moon large and round and pale, as it Is often seen in the bright blue sky. ' " 'Oh, look at the moon, said I 'The moon in the morning!' "Tho little girl looked at It and frowned. 'Yes, that is the moon she said. "Tain't lighted, thoueh.' .COX CE It M X U V O M V. XV Manila residents to the number of 1,000 are having telehones installed In their houses. The "hello girls are Filipino maidens. The dowager marchioness of Butte and her daughter. Lady Margaret Crichton-Stuart, have gone on a pil grimage to the holy land, where the marquis' heart lies huried. Liady Butte, who owns much real estate in Pa-lestine, is a devout Catholic, and has given large donations to the church m Pngland. After her husband's death she took his heart, inclosed in a golden casket, to the holy land, and had It buried on Mount Olivet at a lonely spot. In accordance with Lord Butte's wish no memorial marks the grave of his heart, which is known only to two or three persons. The "spoiled" woman is never youthful, She Is invariably seinsn, and selfishness is ever aging. Sometimes It is wondered why so many old per sons become disagreeable. Folks for get that It is ill nautre that, has made them old, writes a beauty expert. They have allowed certain things to domi nate them. If you would keep young uf heart, ami Unit mean young out side, in spiU; of the years, banish petul ant moods, combat Irltabillty. Culti vate kindness and the habit of courtesy and thoughtfuiness until It becomes a part of your character, for this pnrt will tend tu the f tmiaS youthful spirit of the rarcs and the troubles of lire are met In the right way. It is to tho credit of Nortva-y posies u remarkable woman composer, Agathu It.U'ker-Gtorulahl. whose merit urc. with tho g nr cohm nt of her countrymen, plarnl upon a level with tliotm of Grrlg, Kays a writer. Without I ie In a In any way an imitator she ha much th same quiet humor and drollery as Grelg. Hut the hlgheat prai that one can beatow upon AKnllu lUekvr-Urondsihl lf. perhaps, that her tootle undoubtedly written lv h woman. Th new oik by nirhnrd Htrau. enr)wtifr (.f 1 1 1 - opera "S.ilorrw-, are always sung in Germany by Mme. ye Anna Strauss, who makes- very little more impression iij them than she did on her visit here several years ago. She has a vinegary voice, little gift of the art of song and no special genius as an interpreter. But,' as she is the composer's wife, she is first to ting his new songs. Only a short lime' f.-go the two had given a concert in a tVr man city and were returning to Berlin. Strauss sat reading the criticisms of his music and grew more ana more contented in expression as he read the praises of his music. On the other side of the coupe sat. Mrs. Strauss, also reading the criticisms, but unable to reconcile herself to the praise of Iter husband's music, while she was harsh ly dealt with for he way in which the had performed it. Finally she could stand it no longer, and, crumpling up the paper, threw it across the coupe at her husband. 'Richard.' she said, in a tone that left no question or her deep indigation, 'the next time you give a concert you can sing vour own trash!' Two women spent the day with each other yesterday and when they parted said: "Well, the only reputa tions in town that are not damaged are our own." SIXGI PARITIES. Here is a modern fairy story from Ire land: "One day about twenty years ago," writes . a correspondent, "I was fishing from a boat on Lough Derg. I inquired of my boatman if they had ever Keen fairies. At first fearing, to be laughed at. they scouted the idea, but one of them told the following: On a Sunday he was returning after mass, and stood with a friend; named Sullivan, on the grldge of Killaloe. Looking toward a potato f.eld on the slope of the rising ground to the east of the town, a held which he was able to point out from the boat, he saw issuing from the liss a troop of 'little people,' one being distinctly taller than the rest. At first they seemed rather blurred, then took distinct shapes and began to play th national game of hurley among the bare potato rigs, lie-called' Sullivan's attention to them, but for some time his friend could not see them, .then said he could, and they watched together for a time.- Then the sun went in,' and the fairies, moving toward the liss, as If returning to it, vanished. Lisses are rough pieces, sometimes hillocks, some times depressions, often bushy, but never cultivated. I have been told they have been left as doorways for the fairies when visiting the earth's surface." Eleven men, members of the crew of the Nerwegian antractic expedition ship Catherine, have been rescued after hav ing been cast away on one of the Corzet. isles in the southern Indian ocean, far off the track of commerce. They were round in exceedingly good health, having sub sided on penguins, sea elephants, albat ross eggs and food from the depot placed there in 1880. The later was not particul arly wholesome, but the men got used to it. One bottle of whisky which was wash ed ashore was kept for Christmas. They were short of matches, and used only one dally, ' and made every effort to keep alight a lamp, owing to the severe coid. Don't Neglect It It is a serious mistake to neglect a "weak heart. It is such a short step to chronic heart disease. 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