The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
Interesting FACTS
CONCERNING COFFEE
An Exhibit at the Pan American Ex-
position Will Show All About This
Popular Beverage.

| AN EXHIBIT at the Pan-American Ex-
position Will Show All About This
Popular Beverage.
Long before coffee was generally
known throughout Europe Lord Bacon
wrote. "They have in Turkey a drink,
| coifee, which co:nfo-tn.h Tic heart and
aideth digestion" The elaborate cof-
fee exhibit in the Manufactures and
Liberal Arts exhibition building at
Buffalo, in the section devoted to foods
and their accessories, will demonstrate
| now Lord BacOn's opinion has de-
scended to succeeding generations Cof-
| fee at the exposition will receive the
attention that it due the most populn,.
| beverage the gods ever bestowed upon
man.
| Foods and their accessories will re-
| ceiVe at Buffalo more elaborate atten-
| ton than has ever been given to o
| like exhibit. The object is to familiar
ize the people Of Pan America with
the food products of the whole Aneri-
can continent. The exhibit will be
housed in q beautiful building, which
is q third of a mile in circumference,
ana as elegant in appearance as 1t is
magnificent in its proportions
Coffee. being one of the widely known
articles OF this exhibit, has been Sc
lected for description as type of what
! may be expected in Il hundred other
| products, each of which will receive
ut the hands of G. Edward Fuller, the
| manager of this department. the same
, painstaking care as the subject OF this
| article.
GROWS LIKE y CHERRY.
Coffee grows more like a cherry than
anything else with which people in
north temperate latitude are familiar.
The tree, if allowed to grow naturally,
will attain a height of twenty feet,
though it is often pruned to keep the
branches within reach when standing
on the ground. For beauty it cannot
be eXcelled, even in the tropics. With
its deep green. shining leaves and
pure white, fragrant. though transitory
blossom. together with the ripenins
fruit. it produces a picture peculiarly
effective.
The fruit, first Il tiny green ball.
changes to pale red as it develops, and
finally, when ripe, the color is a rich
brown. 1t has pleasant flavor
though rather sweet and somewhat in
us DllS IS lllt COilet DeuH OF
commerce. Each fruit contains two
beans. which grow with the flat sides
together in separate cells, though
should one become abortive, the other
grows round and fills both cavities
These rounded berries are separate
and solo as Pea Berry Mocha because |
of their resemblance to the genuine. 1
These abortice cells occur usually to-
dc, nf "a l,rn,, I,
encouraged by pruning.
Mocha is the oldest coffee known TO !
commerce. Where or how it originate |
ed is shrouded in prehistoric mystery.
Tradition says the seeds were imported |
from Abysslnia and Ethiopia and |
planted in Arabia about the-beginning |
of the fifteenth century However, it
adapted itself readily 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. because ii happened to be the |
port where the camel caravans unload |
ed and the shipments to the outer |
world were made.
Java coffee gets its name from the |
Island of Java. though the great bulk |
OF Java coffee now comes from Ameri- !
can plantations lying between the SOth |
parallels of latitude north and south. |
When conditions are favorable, pan
American coffee Is fully equal, If not |
superior, to the best foreign grown. II |
any one doubts this statement one of |
Mr. Fuller's exhibitors Will be pre-
pared to prove 1t with a delicious con-
coction prepared from purely Ameri-
can blends.
JAVA.
Old government Java originally got
Its name when the government of Hol-
land compelled native Malay planters
on the island to pay their taxes in
coffee. Government godowns (wore-
houses) We're built, in which coffee was
required to be warehoused seven years
before Offering ii for sale There are
people who say that was no improve
ment, that the berry does not improve
with age. but the probability is those
people never had an opportunity to
sample genuine Java coffee seven
years old. Java is an exception in
;his respect, as most colfees do not
improve after the second year. There
Is not profit enough in the business
to hold coffee such length OF time,
though some do so in a limited way.
Those who really love q fine coffee
iIavor and want the last yestise that
is contained i'm tho bean, may get from
certain dealers American coffee In
which the natural aroma has been SO
carefully developed that ii will equal
any old government lava the good
danes of Holland We're permitted TO
serve.