Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-05-14
The Trade In Coffee.

"The greatest marvel to me, said
gentleman named Nord, who has resided
where Mocha coffee is grown, sis that
coffee labeled as genuine Mocha, which
costs u piastres, or about 4S cents in
the East, can be shipped thousands of
miles after being transported consid-
cradle distance on the backs of camels
and then sold here. as 1 saw it adver-
tised to-day at leading grocery, at 35
cents pound. used to roast coffees
in New York, where We mixed 20 pounds
of Mocha with 80 pounds of other
grades Of coffee, and then sold the
whole mixture as pure Mocha."
The cheapest coffee is the South
American Rio and the most extensive
the aristocratic Mocha from Arabia. The
eItravsgant fiction writer Ouids always
has her fsir-haired heroes daIlying over
a cup of delicious Mocha. To one who
LIS accustomed TO the strong. thick Rio,
Mocha tastes at first insipid and weak,
but when ones palate has once been
adjusted to it he learns to appreciate it
as he does q Havana cigar. Coffee
merchants set much store by the ap-
pearance of the berry, which is frequent
ly colored or glazed after having been
sorted, but Mocha, the rarest brand of
all, is about the most unslghtly In ap-
pearance.
The most singular specimens OF coffee
which were to be seen among the hum
dreds Of little pans which the buyer at
a local house exhibited was Liberian
coffee, large, coarse berry from Africa.
1t is strong, but not popular. The
prince OF all coffees, however, is Java.
Old Government Java has won a reputa-
ton which no other brand can ever
supplant. 1t derived its name from the
fact that the Dutch government, which
largely controlled the coffee crop of
Java. formerly selscted large quantities
of the best coffee, held it in store awhile
and then put it on the market Interior
Padapg Java coffee is raised on govern
ment wild land of the island of java.
the government furnishing the native
the seed and STIMULATING that he shall
keep not less than $50 trees in good
bearing order. II his coffee be of the
required quality, the government takes
it at fixed price.
The principal adulterants used in
coffee are chiccory, peas and rye. The
Aforementioned is the root of shrub
with blue flowers which grows wild.
and Is grown extensively in Europe.
ChIcoory is itself often adulterated with
exhausted tar and with bark. Many of
the poorer classes buy chiccory or coffee
extract to mix with their coffee as,
mixed with a small quantity OF coffee,
1t enhances its rankness and strength.
The most abominsble adulterant used in
coffee Is the baked liver of animals.
Large quantities of dandelion coffee
were sold few years ago, although
they contained bat little dandelior root,
the bulk of the compound being black
jack molasses and chiccory. A novel
coffee for lnvalids is now made of roast
ed winter wheat, The highest-prlced
ground coffee is q compound from
France sold in small earthen jars at IS
cents each.
Coffee is shipped to this country i'll
sacks or mats containing half picul
each. A picul is 1881 pounds. Java
coffees are shipped in grass mats con-
tanning from 60 to so pounds each.
Mocha coffee reaches this country from
Alden in unique packages of 40 to so
pounds each. They are lined with
cocoa mating. Two of these packages,
called quarters, or four, termed eights,
are enclosed in coarse, strong covering
of material similar to palm leaves and
pampas grass aud tied with manila rope.
Mocha is sold mainly for combination
with Java, Ceylon coffee, which is
highly priced in Europe, reaches this
country IN casks. Maracaibo coffee,
which mixed with Java and Mocha
makes delicate compound, is packed
IN sacks made of string and forming
fne net, through whose meshes the
coffee can be seen. One of the leading
restaurants of this city has worked up
tiattering trade in coffee compounded
as above, Thus the Orient, the East
IndIas and South America are ransscked
TO furnish the customer q drink Just
suited TO his taste. Java coffee is per-
haps the most universally used rs an
excellent unmiXed brand. Some of the
Java sold here Is really Sumatra coffee.
The latter, however, Is equally as good
as Java. There are various grades of
Java ccffse, such as Somorapg. Mslang
and Preanger. Besides the above
varieties, there are Costa RIca, Porto
Rico, Jamaica, Manila and Malsbar
coffees.