Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-04-28

agreeing to pay his board and give him a
!! little something besides if he was good boy.
, The boy SAID he Just ached to become
| lawyer, and he was 50 enthusiastic to get
| ahead and become known to fame that he
broke a chair and pane Of glass the first
atterooon. When the lawyer gently sug-
gested 10 him 70 restrain his ardor Thomas
promptly replied
"Theres nothing like making 4 law
Office get up and howl :"
1t was amazing how quickly that boy
picked up a knowledge Of legal business. 1t
was his duty to stay in the Office when the
lawyer went out. and he felt all the import
ance of his position. When big boys came
around TO ask for job OF curTying up coal
Thomas went for them heavy.
boy ;" he would ans wer in severe
voice. Il don't want to see YOU come to
grief, but If YOU don't hurry right down
stairs III get out capias. switch you be
hind the bars, and have you hung before
grass starts
The attorney had 70 20 to Chicago one
day, and he told Thomas that he might wash
the windows and slick up a little Thomas
went in. lie had new mating put on the
| floor. put painter at WORK and hired an
old woman to wash everything that could
be washed 1t was neat job all around,
and he felt as if he ought to be praised for
his enterprise. The attorney began to
scold, bat Thomas remarked
Amt We a, good as those one-horse
1 Lawyers across the road Is q law office
barn. or is it a law Office ,"
Two weeks ago he was told to 90 down
and order half ton Of coal 10 keep the
stove going till warm weather. some one
told him that coal would be considerably
/ higher next year. and 50. on the ground OF
economy. he ordered FIVE tons sent up, and
most Of it had been dumped on the walk
before the attorney discovered the situation.
Thomas would probably have lasted week
OF 50 longer than he did but for his recep-
tion OF a lady client who came TO see the
LAWYER about applying fora divorce. The
LAWYER was trYIug case in court, ami the
boy had sole charge of the ohse. lie re-
ceiyed the lady in hi, usual urhane manner,
and when she inquired for the atiornes, he
replied
He j. out, but my legal services are at your
disposal"
She didn't seem inclined tn consult him
and be went on
Is it case OF wiie-beating OF divorce 2'
She iutima;ed that he was an impudent
boy, and lie replied
Very we'll madam We can't take YOUR
case at all ''
She sand She d call and see ,Ae lawyer, but
Thomas answered
at won't do You any good We can't
.ake your case at all-uot for love or
money
She returned two hours later, when tie
lawyer vas in and Thomas wa- cut, and d,
was decided that the boy wouli have to
/ seek some other profession.
"All right. II I'm going to be lawyer
! want things to get up and get around.
on don want IA lively boy around here and
saw that week ago.
1t was intimatel that he hadn't better
''sass any one, and lie blandly replied
mo one is saSsing you. II you want
this partnership dissolved we Il part friendly
/ If you don't want to rush things, this is no
place for me sc
He Is Tetdling peanuts now, and the way
/ he dust- around Is the cause Of his having
halfa dozeni ghts per day.
Hints on CofrEE.-Professor Daniel c.
] i-dA9u. " no OCCUPIES lut tudlT lol bultuN III
lale College, IN the course of a lecture on
q" Coffee, brought out the following
points
Coffee, as it comes to u. Is commonly
called the seeds of the coffee tree. and for
common usage this statement Is sufficiently
correct. But it has long been Known to
botaui~ts that a grain Of coffee l. really
/ something more than seed Ii Is really a
seed enwraDped in a herny portion Of the
fruit. and l., therefore, more strictly analO-
gous to peach pit. which is the stony in
ner portion Of the fruit with the seed con-
tanned in 1t. The tree is not large, gene
rally from six to ten feet high in cultiya-
ton, hut when allowed to grow freely. per-
haps three times that size The leaves are OF
good size, handsome, polished and ever
green, not very unlike orange leaves. They
grow in pairs on the slender, straight
branches. The flowers are little clusters Of
/ fragrant white stars it is said that in a
/ coffee plantation there is DO time when
some flowers cannot be seen The flowers
are succeeded by green berries, which ripen
to beautiful red, and look not unlike
small cherries. except thai they are closely
| clustered along the branches.
/ In 1883 the whole production OF coffee IN
/ the world was estimated at $4,000 900
/ pounds, Of which Brazil furnished 400 600,
] 600, Java l40, 600. 600. Ceylon and San Do
miDgo, each 40, 900 200, Cuba and Porto
| Rico, %, 900 600, Venezuela and Sumatra
each as much. and all other countries. IN
| GLIDING Arabia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, etc,
/ only 100000. From these figures 1t will
! be seen that only one man in three drinks
| Java coffee, and probably only one in one
! hundred gets any Mocha, and yet You will
! find it difficult to buy pound of coffee in
] 81 80 oh b. {,
call Rio 1t is all called Mocha, or Java, or
/ possibly Maracalbo.
By far the greatest part of the coffee
used in the United States Is Brazilian or
| Rio coffee. Indeed Brazil produces more
coffee than all the rest of the world togeth-
er. There are marked differences in the ap-
pearance of some of these cofiees, as well as
considerable difference In the flavor. Taking
three of the best known kinds, for example,
! Rio, Mocha and Java, we notice that the
grains of Java are larger than either of the
others, and of a slight yellowish- brown
color. Rio coffee has rather larger grains
than Mocha. and the color is usually con
siderably darker and somewhat more in
cline6 to greenish.
The flavor of Java is much milder than
either of the Others. and Mocha is richer
and spicier than Rio, while Rio is the
strongest of the three, and, indeed, is per-
| haps the strongest of all the cofees. Ii is
true of all coffee that the fewer broken and
discolored grains in it the better the coffee.
and no cup of coffee can be really excellent
unless all imperfect grains are removed be-
| fore the coffee is roasted.
| The best coffee here obtainable is an equal
mixture of Java and what is called Mocha.
As the grains of one are much larger than
that of the other, they should be roasted
separately, but ground together.
The common cheap ground cotiees contain
usually little coffee, and here the bulk is
supplied mostly with either peas or rye.
Chicorv is too high priced to be used to any
great extent. and the people who think that
| it their coffee is not really pure it contains
only little chickory, are probably drink
ing peas and rye. made dark and bitter with
burnt sugar. The higher sounding the title
of the coffee, the poorer the quality. as
general thing.
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