The History of Coffee
The fragrant cup of coffee which ,
makes us civil every morning and
renews us so often during the
day links many nations in a long
and romantic history. Just when
it first appeared as a beverage no
one can say exactly. But that it
was an Arabian discovery seems
very likely in view of the fact
that coffee grew wild in that part
Of the world before the ninth cen
tury after Christ, and fanciful
Arabian nights tales have been
handed down about the first brew.
The most popular legend con
cerns Kaldi, an Arabian goatherd,
whose dull life on the hillside made
him a gloomy Joe indeed. But
he picked and ate some of the ber
ries his goats were fond of nib
bling, because he noticed that after
eating these berries, the goats be
came gay creatures. Kaldi himself
became a new maa Thereafter
coffee berries were indispensable
to his diet, and so carefree and
lively did he become that he often
joined his goats in a merry dance.
A monk, to whom Kaldi con
fided his experiences, prepared a
drink from the beans and served
it to the members of his order.
They found the beverage sustained
their energy and helped them to
pray and meditate longer, so they
adopted the drink and cultivated
the plant.
Gradually the popularity of the
beverage spread to Turkey, where,
in 1554, the first public coffee house
was established. It was introduced
to the Venetians in 1615, the French
in 1644, the English and Viennese
in 1650, and it was brought to North
America in 1668. But promptly the
power of the beverage to stimu
late clear thinking and plain talk
ing converted the popular coffee
houses into discussion clubs. And
political debate that exploded into
dissension, direct action and re
sistance made coffee houses the
targets of tyrants like Charles II
of England, who termed them
seminaries of sedition.
But, according to Disraeli, Lon
don and Paris coffee houses of the
seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turies held the mirror to "the
manners, the morals and the pol
itics of a people."
' Here in colonial United States,
too, the coffee house became the
meeting house of the town fathers,
and after a time changed from
purely social centers to focal points
of merchant trade and political
discussion. Daniel Webster called
Boston's Green Dragon Coffee
House "the headquarters of the
American Revolution."
The Dutch took the coffee plant
to South America back around
1718, with a result that every sixth
grader knows. Today's coffee plan
tations in Pan-America produce
three-fourths of the world's coffee.
And because we are the world's
greatest coffee drinkers, of course
we're the biggest customers for
the Pan-American yield. All pre
vious invoices were topped in 1945,
when the United States imported
20,279,690 bags of coffee, each con
taining 132 pounds!
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me secretary 01 state is a member. and was elected speaker of the
Married and the father of two I house of representatives during the
daughters Farrell is a member of 1 1941 session.
courteous manner. If nominated
and elected I shall continue those
efforts and will give sincere and
SEEKS NOMINATION
Robert S. Farrell Jr. will seek re-
nomination to the office of Secre
tary of State in the primary elec
tion on May 17. Now serving his
first term in that important posi
tion Farrell is a native of Oregon,
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a member of a distinguished pio
neer family and a lifelong republi
can. In commenting on his candidacy
for re-election Farrell said: "Dur
ing my term as secretary of state
I have endeavored to conduct the
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