The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-25
THE ORIGIN OF COFFEE
As TOLD BY COOLIDGE
VICE PRESIDENT RELATES LEG
ENDS FOR EDlFIcATIoN
OF SENATORS.


ent coffee that is served there, says
the National Republican.
Il WISH" remarked Senator Wads-
WORTH. of New York, that some en-
terprisng citizen would start a move
ment for the erection of a nice big
monument to the memory of the man
who invented coffee I'd cheerfully
donate my share"
80 would l." said Senator Pepper,
of Pennsylvania.
You can count me in on that, too"
added Senator elect Frank Greene, Of
Vermont but tell me who it was that
is responsible for the ues of coffee. /
frankly confess that I've never heard
the gentleman's name mentioned in
my section of the country"
All present except the vice president
promptly admitted a lack of knowl-
edge on the subject. Turning to
Coolidge Senator Fernald, of Maine,
said; "All right. Mr. Vice President,
come, across with the information; we
are all earsl"
Story by Coolidge.
THE discovery of coffee" smiled
Coolidge, lis surrounded by many leg
ends. Away back in the year 1885, so
one story runs Hadji Omar, an Ara
bian dervish, when almost dying of
hunger in the wilderness, stumbled
across some curious looking berries
growing on small shrub. He pulled
some of them and removing the outer
she'll he began to eat them, but quit
when he found they had a bitter taste.
"As a last resource to satisfy his
hunger, he made a fire and roasted
some of the berries and tried to soften
them in water. Finding this too slow,
he. eagerly drank the water, and to his
great surprise found it both nourish-
ing and refreshing
Returning to Mocha in the district
of Yemen on the Red sea, he told the
wise men on his discovery and after
brewing and serving some of the
wonderful beverage he was elaborate
ly dined and wined So popular did
his discovery make him that he was
soon made a saint.
The Original Mocha.
There is another legend to the ef
feet that 500 years ago a ship from
the Indies cast anchor off the shore
near Mocha and sent a boat ashore.
On the beach the crew met a hermit
named Shiek Schoedeli who offered
them a dark cOlored liquid to drink. II
was the first time they had ever tast-
ed coffee, and thinking that they had
found in it a cure for the plague, they
took some of it with them when they
returned to the Indies Later other
voyagers came to get some of the
berries that warded off disease. and
thus the use of coffee spread to the
East Indies, and then. gradually, over
the whole world.
Another Version.
There is an old story that coffee /
was introduced into the West Indies |
by Chirac, a French physician, about |
1923 It is said that this man gave a
single coffee plan to an army captain |
named De Clieux, who was on his way
TO Martinique. During the voyage a
fierce storm arose. and the ship was
delayed so long that the water supply
began to get so low that it was dealt
out in small rations
de Clieux, who seemed to have
formed peculiar fondness for the lit
tie coffee plant. shared his allowance
of water with it, In this way the
plant was kept alive, and when the
ship reached port De Clieux planted it
and at the end of year gathered two
pounds of coffee from it, which he
kindly distributed among the natives
to plant.
From Martinique coffee was taken
to other islands, and soon it was
grown extensively in the Indies
And Still Another
still another story has it that
about the middle of the fifteenth CEN
fury a poor Arab who was travelling
in Abyssinia. paused to cook his mid
day meal and finding no fuel at hand
he cut down a small tree with which
to start his fire AS he heaped the
twigs on the blaze he found that they .
were covered with berries, from which
as the fire burned, there arose fra
grant odor Gathering some of them
in his hand, he was examining htem
when they slipped from his hand and .
fell into vessel which contained wa
ter. The color of the water at once y
and touching it to his lips
the Arab found that it was refreshing.
Taking some of the berries with him
he set out for Eden, where he an
bounced his discovery. u
From Africa to Arabia. >
1.-THE stories of the origin of coffee
ire so conflicting that it is difficult to
determine just when it was first used; b
,ut in all probability. It originally was Il
aiken to Arabia from Africa about ei
47O A. D. Shortly after it was intro 81
iuced, the Mohammedans used it to al
leep them awake during their long in
eligfous services. Later, it was con- in
idered an intoxicating liquor and 81
fence belonging to a class of bever- fc