Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-24
ALL ABOUT COFFEE.
One OF the Features of the Pam Ameri-
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Long before coffee was generally known
throughout Europe Lord Bacon wrote,
They have in Turkey a drink. coffee,
which comforteth the heart and aideth di-
gestion.'
The elaborate coffee exhibit in the Manu-
features and Liberal Arts exhibition build
ing at Buffalo next year, in the section de-
voted to foods and their accessories, will
demonstrate how Lord Bacon's opinion has
descended to succeeding generations Coffee
at the exposition will receive the attention
that is due the most popular beverage the
gods ever bestowed upon man.
Foods and their accessories will receive
at Buffalo more elaborate attention than
has ever been given to a like exhibit. The
object is to familiarize the people of Pan
talD America with the food products of
the whole American continent. The exhib-
it Will be housed in a beautiful building
which is a third of mile in circumfer-
ence, and as elegant in appearance it
Is magnificent in its proportions.
Coffee, being one of the widely known
articles of this exhibit, has been selected
Tor description type of what may be
expected In a hundred other products, each
of which will receive al the hands of Mr.
q. Edward Fuller. the manager of this
department, the same painstaking care as
the subject of this article
Coffee grows more like a cherry than
anything else with which people in north
temperate latitudes familiar The tree
IL allowed to grow naturally, will attain a
helght OF twenty feet. though ii Is often
pIuned to keep the branches within reach
When standing on the ground For beauty
, 1T cannot be excelled, even in the tropics
, With its deep green, shining leaves and
pure white, fragrant, though transitory,
blossom, together with the ripening fruit
1t produces picture peculiarly effective
The fruit, first a tiny green ball. changes
10 pale red as 1t develops and finally, when
ripe. the color is a rich brown. 1t has a
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somewhat insipid. It's pit is the coffee be an
OF commerce Each fruit contains two
Deans which grow with the fiat sides to-
Sether In separate cells though should one
become abortive. the other grows round
and fills both cavities,
These rounded berries are separated and
sold as Pea Berry Mocha because of their
resemblance to the genuine These abortive
cells occur usually toward the ends Of the
branches and are encouraged by pruning.
Mocha is the oldest coffee known to COM
merce- Where or how 1t originated Is
shrouded in prehistoric mystery. Tradi-
ton says the seeds were imported from
Abyssinia and Ethiopia and planted in
Arabia about the beginning of the fifteenth
century. However. 1t adapted itself read
lily to the soil and climate, especially in
the southern part of Arabia, where 1t has
formed the principal article Of export ever
since.
Mokha a small town on the coast Of the
Red sea. gave Its name to this coffee, be-
cause 1t happened to be the port where
ments to the outer world were made.
Java coffee gets its name from the Island
OF Java, though the great bulk of Java
coffee comes from American planta
lions lying between the Both parallels of
latitude north and south. When conditions
are favorable, pan-American coffee Is fully
equal, II not superior, to the best foreign
grown. If any one doubts this statement
one of Mr.. Fuller's exhibitors will be pre-
pared to prove it with a delicious concoc-
stion prepared from purely American Lends
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name when the government Of Holland
compelled native Malay planters on the
island to pay their taxes in coffee Gov
ernment godownS (warehouSes) were built
in which coffee required to be ware
housed seven years before offering Vt for
sale. There are people who say that was
no Improvement, that the berry does not
improve with age, but the probability is
Nose people have never had an opportunity
20 sample genuine Java coffee seven years
old. Java is an exception in this respect,
as most cOnees do not improve after the
second year. There is not profit enough in
= the business to hold coffee such a length Of
time. though some do so IN a limited way.
Those who really love a fine coffee flavor,
and want the last vestige that Is contain
ed in the bean, may get from certain
dealers American coffee in which the nat
udral aroma has been carefully developed
that it will equal any Old government Java
the good DANES of Holland were permitted
to
Coffee is sold by the cup In New York
for one cent: 1t IL also sold for twenty
five cents, a greater range of price than
any other known commodity Prices of the
green berry in the open market vary nearly
as much. 1t Is the beverage of the poor.
the great mass Of workers, and the
wealthy.
The United States Is the largest coffee
market in the world. though Holland uses
more per capita Our imports during the
Nscal year ending June 30 1899. amounted
to SIS, 1897. 454 pounds which shows the i'm
portance of this market. Coffee growers to
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they visit the exposition and see the coffee
exhibit.