The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-07

There Is another class Of berry which
IN Hat. Some OF these are very much
like the Java and are often sold as SUCH
so that many man when he thinks he
Is having real Mocha and Java may actu-
ally be drinking 1-cent Rio or Santos. al
though he pays 81 cents a pound for his
so-called Mocha and Java mixture.
Painted Coffee.
This s,atemen, will probably be denied
by some OF our grocers. They will tell
you that they can tell Mocha and Java
by the smell or the color OF the grain.
Don't you believe them. The coffee as
II comes from the plantation. the simon
pure genuine article. Is often far different
from that which goes away on the ships
! have visited here In Rio enormous es-
Establishments who make business OF
painting coffee and dressing Il up for the
markets In South Africa for instance
the people want black coffee beans. 1t
seems that the coffee they have been buy
ing is OF that color. The bags that come
from the plantation are filled with olive
green beans. They are turned into a
great mill and rolled round and round
I'm contact with colored powder Just
what IL Is the Lord only knows but when
the beans come owt they are as black
az any coffee that can be grown in Africa
other grades are given a tirge of yellow
by the use OF other colors and others
l.
Some OF the ceioring stun Is unheaithfui
and the men use gloves when they handle
it. In one Portuguese house I saw them
eoioring aiea bags for the Cape OF Good
Hope, and In another they were coloring
coffee for the Argentine market. This IS
no fiction. | saw IL myself. although /
am told that the most of the coffee sent
10 the United States gees there la its
natural color
And what is the natural color Of coffee
That saw on the plantations and the
most cf that which comes here 90 Rio Is
Of rich olive green. II grows slightly
yellow II becomes older. ard the elder
the coffee ts she better eoree Il makes.
In the Coffee Factories of Rio.
These big coffee factories are interesting
places. Some ~ Them are full q! ma
chinery as = Minneapolis Hour mill You
walk under \ network Of moving belts
through air mixed With coffee dust and 50
through room after room filled with ma
chimes fer dressing the berries to- suit the
dtHerent tastes ~ the world Zach mar
kes seems - have its particular desires
The Germans, for instance d~man tina;
sha hGsks be On the beans when they ar.
rive IN Hamburg The Germans prefer e
do tire shesiing themselves. ard the cot
Zee IS sotd as washed coffee bringing a
mu<n higher price.
Dthsr countries want their raree p.,I.
Sslsd- II - sh.ned Up as you shine silver
being brushed BY the most delicate ma.
chimes wh.Th ia aot sutGFe TIE grains
The cclTes which gees So she United States
ia zNid much Z comes from the pisuta.
ten. Il Is passed through the setsaraiess
sna graded, bat - Ia / hsifeve there Il
M ssFnAnS IN oar country roF yssifshs.,
coffee so fer any ether taan taat 81 the
natural retev. A great DIAL - uur co-se
- h>aas ~ by sss s1eat roasting rarylra rfeS
II ts shipped G1Fss't3v 80 the roasting ryasfg.
in New YORK ard case ago. ard the aver.
ase twsn a8=s TOT See IL nnsl ~ ~ handed
oar % hgra rs ms grocer in fancy pa l..
ases NJ 50 much a piece.
In the Exnsrttax s~~ttoa.
EAsfe = 80 buster place ir the warIA
thar IN TIRE coffee espertteS Secsfan a..
R2s asne3r1 There are great wzre.
ssssses rear fhe wAs-vsx whscA are allied
wish coTee ara ssio which co~ev : being
Nfassk. by IRE thousands e bag Tia
streets Z sits section are uArygx ard
&&sfy Thsy are slBsa ~sth wagons ard
cars lcsas'esf agtA car~e
Np0 cAa hardly set through tao streets
he~s aFs S<0ras oF AAlf-nAkes mss.a s~nt.
gsms fres1s shsv cSys ta tss uAree 3ases wEsa
wt@as asAgS ca tnsgg heszss ard scayrs q.
n~sF8 ~0rsea 8ewfu 90 thor Snses sweep.
scs u9 sss c9@es aGs - the eaee}ssssfoas
streets ~hsTs It has srorr~3 IN order shsi
tnes nsy ~sSa sx ARD s~si Il again Eaea
&. these ssrevs e.e&nsrs A2s s1sVx. la