Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-23
The Introduction Of Coffee.

Coifee-drinking, though a much more
modern custom than tea-drinking, began in
England "A little earlier It was first prac-
tictd IN Arabia about the middle of the
fifteouth century, when the story goes that
the chief Of company OF derYishes noticed
that his goats frisked and played all night
long, whenever in the previous day they
had eaten of shrub growing wild in the
nejgaborhood. Fiudin. it difficult TO keep
his disciples awake during their evening
deyotions, he prepared a beverage oil the
leaves or berries of the shrub, and Ii proved
50 helpful 10 the midnight pic'y OF the
dervshes that from that time coffee came
into use. The coffee plant being abundant
and easily cultivated, the new beverage
soon became "A fay0rite all over Arabia.
Great opposition was offered to it by many
good M0s.ems. VINO urged that 1t was an
Intoxicating drink quite as bad as the wine
forbidden i'm the Koran. and numerous raids
We're made upou the coffee houses; but the
very fact Of IfS serving as. IN some sort, a
substitute for the juice of the vine tended
to make Unpopular. Itreached C0nstauli-
nop'e about 1904, and was OF universal use
in all Nahomedan countries before the
close eff the s'xteenth century. 80 essen
tial was 1t deemed to domestic happiness.
that Turkish law recognized a mans re-
tus4i TO supply his wlIe with coffee as
sufficient ground for her claiming divorce.
About the year 1000 it began to be talkya
of iu thri~'euiom as a rare and preclo
Medicine IN 1913 il was brought t.
Venice. anu in 1921 Burton spoke oflJ ira
b. F-.4'
able article which be had heard OF but not
seen. La loo SIR Nicholas Cr,spe, a
Lcyaur merchant. opened ,n London the
first coffee house in England. the beverage
being prepared by a Greek girl brought
over tor the work Other coffee houses in
abundance were soon opened Ia William
IlI's and Queen Anne days they were the
great places ct resort ior wits. beaux. tops,
gaiaur-. wise meu. ana fools. and as such
arr amply described the Spectator and
other works of the time And catfae was
not merely AN excuse for social intercourse,
its first drin,eI- ia England knew hoT 70
drink it. Pope says:
"Fa-. De-. .ae .asrI Nita cups anI spoons IL
1He H.ru,- .ra-... .a., ,.-i ia... -.e- eaunf-
Ou -hiu-n-. .'.I-- 1t.art t.t.g I.lI-.
Tie silver l-..... ta. t.rt -a--lt' blHze.
lAtre t.Ir..i-- ..l..l -..er,-Tre .-.utslt- t.ta.
tt .are t... -s.t..I- t1s.r -.ef. .-..- tl~te-
N.l.t tt,.t tucut cuI.- prD.au- -ae rI.h l,IH-i
The growing demand Tor coffee. of which
more than 30.UuUuuu pounds are now au-
uua.Iy consumed in Great Britain, caused
the plant ro be cultivated nj other districts
a, wei. a- Arabia. where II Is Indigenous
aud ,arive- best. Ata very early date the
Dutch began TO grow it in Java and their
other Ea>t India possessions, aud they
were uniutentionaily the cause OF its in
PRODUCTION to the New World In 1920
some eds were brought from Mocha to
the Botanic Garden at Amsterdam, and
from the produce OF these seeds a single
r'au- was. in l1Il, sent as e present TO
Louis Nv and hy him treasured up in
Paris. In l7l7 a Frenchman named
Dec..eux obtained plant raised from one
81 lis seeds and carried il to Martinique.
The ship was weather-b bound, and before
the Atlantic was crossed the crew were in
-rievous trouble for want OF water here
was water on board. but the captain. anx-
ious above all things to preserve his trea-
sure. ioled It out IN meager quantities TO
the mcu. while he nourished the coffee
plant without stint Aud the plant made
rood return for the care bestowed upon
it, From its seed, we are told have des-
ceudcd all the coffee trees now abounding
in the West Indies and Brazil