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PAGE SIX the drink cfdemocmq THE MYSTERY OF COFFEE The London Telegraph says: , An Industrious American has just brought together in a mighty vodume all that men know about coffee .... That great nation has long been justly proud of its eminence in coffee making and drink ing, and some of its patriots have contended, like Mark Twain, that outside America no potable coffee Is to be found. This we hold to be an excess of national pride .... Why is it that some countries consume so much more coffee than others? America drinks, we believe, some dozen pounds per head per annum. Yet across the border in Canada a people of the same racial origin and of as high a standard of living, only want one pound each. In Europe the Dutch, the world's greatest coffee drinkers, take some fifteen pounds apiece, and the Scandinavian countries are not far behind. But Germany in her days of pros perity only wanted half as much, France less than half, and our own country an insignificant fraction. These variations in taste are a dark problem. Some critics have held that the unpopularity of coffee in Eng land is due to domestic ignorance. “The secret of making good coffee,” Thackeray wrote, "is known to very few housekeepers. It is to have plenty of coffee.” But excessive economy is not the characteristic fault of our cooks. Who ever knew one spare the tea? That rival's popularity is, of course, the cause of the neglect of coffee. But to say so is not to explain the mystery. What hidden force in Nature is it which makes tea supreme in Britain and the Dominions and coffee in the United States? THE Sixteenth Century there . * c me to Pope Clement VII a dele : gatica of monks, seeking an audience. TTUs was granted, and the monks hrc u; ht to the at tention of the Pope ano and wicked /MfM j custom..! as they term el : it, which J* **>|j /../ Y|jj was developing in the city of Venice. - ,i£\ ,,(3 Tie Venetians. J said tpe monks, »j strati;# black hev erag called coffee, F an iutidel tlriulT IwapjleL^, from Arabia, uh- bjgNj douhtedly an in- ife?*] Mid vent ion of Satan 1B | given to the Mos- vjhN^jTv^jcM!! lerns in place of wine, • which was p o pe Blesses forbidden- to them Coffee—l6th by iheir religion. Cen “ ry The Pope ordered that this drink' should be prepared and brought to him, in order that he might decide justly. He sipped it contemplatively. Satan's Drink Delicious “Why, this Satan’s drink is so de licious,” he said, “that it would be a pity to let, the Infidels have exclusive ; use of it. , We shall fool Satan by j baptizing it, and making it a truly j Christian beverage.” Which was accordingly done, justi- i tying, in the eyes of the Venetians, the I BASKETBALL AT CAROLINA Piaciee Began This Week. Though the Ft: tliall Season Is But Half (<im pl( ed. <’t ipel IB 1.1, X. Nov. ft.—With two form r captains of the team' returned for this reason and with other veterans from last year's quintet baek, the prospects for basketball at Carolina appear unus ually bright this season. Not only are there veterans to try for the team but some likely looking men from the lower class will be available. Cartwright Car michael and Monk McDonald are the for mer upturns who will be on hand this seas- j. Carmichael plays center while McDonald is a guard. Sammy McDon ald. Monk's lirtle brother and forward last reason, also is back this year. Though the football season is but half competed, practice for basketball began this week under the leadership of Winton Looks Like 1914- f fI a* i p‘> it V - j§ t wMUkHmw ,BBi 1 nl^lvS^ > P 1 lirßMr WBr i***Bff^*^' ■ y "wWJr. ; a v * v fl IBWi M lIdflHL ■■.j*pm3r | |H \ HI • (gfiF •- ■ «JRJ9I| hoI Th l occ «^ on w “ th * “"*•“»»* of’, raemoriatdedlcaua to tte W| Vv • ! . v"s'. - • .' ' 1 " • “ W j Pope’s name, Clement, and ruining an | otherwise perfectly good reform wave. I Thus early in its history was coffee identified with liberality of thought, an association which has continued I to the present. Coffee, stimulating the mind and enlivening the imagina- ! tion. is peculiarly the drink of de mocracy. The coffee houses of the j world have been the birthplaces of j revolutions. Coffee and Revolution The Reformation in England was ‘ brewed in coffee by crop-haired Round- j heads, while the Cavaliers rollicked T^rk.fh"'Grounds j in the taverns. Yol- * for Divorce taife, Robespierre, Danton and other '^'TvKVffe]' leaders of thought “-frpXV and action in the French Revolu- , tion planned the overthtrow of des potisnt over the ~(fg Mji tr America became WIL a coffee drinking *1 nation wheft the j /yj rfk] tea went into Bos-Ik®'}'*•» «jf j ton harbor. Tea. in the minds of the feonOp 0* i ' Colonists, was in- j separable from un- S/ j authorized taxation l // , and oppression. , Coffee, the cup which cheers, but does 1 not inebriate, stimulated the bold ad- 1 I Green, of Wilmington, captain of the team. Green is forward oil the team Vand has. played with the varsity for three years. Before coming to tbe University jhe made a name for himself in high ' school, basketball circles when lie player! , with the Wilmington High School team. 1 I Among candidates for guard posit inn * i with this season’s aggregation will be ' | Billy Devin, a member of this year’s ' j football team and Yelverton. Carl Mah | ler of Wilmington, steady guard of last '[season, is not back and. bis place,.will • j bave to be tilled. ' Among the likely iook ’ | ing candidates out for the position are ■ ! Jack Millstead of Charlotte. Jimmy* I*oole ‘jot Greensboro, and Johnny Purser of ■ . Charlotte. \ anstory and Lineberger, now I j playing football, also are to be [candidates for tlq* quint. Tommy Gra i ham, for four years a dependable sub-' 1 stitute, graduated last year and is not ! j available this season. I venture of Lexington and Concord. That is why this nation, nourished on tea in its infancy, made coffee the beverage of its maturity. Coffee ve. Beer In 1777 Frederick the Great of Prus sia issued a proclamation to his sub jects which read: j "Everybody is using coffee. If pos -1 sible this must be prevented. My I people must drink beer. His Majes j ty was brought up on beer, and so | were his ancestors and his officers. : Many battles have been fought and j won by soldiers nourished on beer. I and the King does not believe that I coffee-drinking soldiers can be depend ! ed upon to endure hardship and beat ! his enemies in case of another war." That the judgment of the excellent Frederick was not great jn this In stance was onstrated in the j last war, when the dlf 1 j f coffee-drinking sol- If,;, ill) j Aral I diers of this coup- J1 | I try made what was | considered a fair showing against } [ the beer-nourished U? "-j I battalions of the Fatherland. \if\ “Bootlegging” To restrict the use of coffee in Germany, Frodcr- _ ick made it a gov j eminent monopoly. land only those Frederick's Coffee i ! . , Snifters at Work ! holding gove r n- I j mem licenses wer. permitted to roast | | coffee—tntbiiely. Illicit coffee roasting j j and bootlegging of the beverage were j problems turned over to a corps of j I “coffee-smellers,” who went hither and I j yon with their noses in the air, trying [ j to detect infringement of tin law. The j I government "coffee-smellers" were the I j outt of ridicule and anathema among! the crowds In the eoffet- speakeasies, j An old Arabic manuscript, written j in Mecca in tne year 1511. says: “Come and enjoy the company of cos- j fee in the places of its habitation: for j the Divine Goodness envelopes these j who partake of its feast. "Grief is not found within its habi tations. Trouble yields humbly to its power. “It is the stream in which we wash away our sorrows. It is the fire which consumes our griefs. “Diinlc of it confidently and give not | ear to the speech of the foolish.” The Earliest Records So was coffee hymned in the place of its nativity. Coffee first came out of Arabia anil Abyssinia, according to the best information available. The first reference to it in literature was j Coming up from the freshman team is [Jack Cobb of Durham, captain of last [year's freshman quint. He played an! excellent game last year and is consid-1 ered very good varsity minority. Other | candidates are expected to include Dod-I defer of the I!>L’l freshman team: Fish-1 er, who was ineligible last season: and Benton. Solomon and Ambler. Though Bob Fetzer, director of athlet-1 ics, will have supervision over tile conch-1 ing of the team, the actual coaching will' be done by Norman Shephard of Wilming ton, former varsity star. Bretney Smith! of Asheville is manager of the team.- Bract ice began tile first jrai-f of this I week and will continue for three nights ja week until after tile ('ai-olina-Virginia game wljeW it will become an everyday I thing. The full schedule lias not yet (been arranged. j Hope and strive if you would thrive. THE CQNCORD DAILY TRIBUNE made by Avicenna, a Mohammedan physician, who died in 1037. “It forti fies the members,” he wrote, “it cleanses the skin and dries up the humidities that are under it and gives an excellent smell to all the body.” The “kaveh kanes” of Mecca were the first' coffee houses. Kair Bey, the Governor, discovered that those who met in the coffee houses discussed pol itics and religion, sometimes critical ly. So he ordered the kaveh kanes closed. The Sultan, at Cairo, disap proved of the Governor’s “indiscreet zeal” and had him executed. But in Constantinople, where plots against the oppressive government were hatched over the coffee, the public houses were closed, and reopening j meant that the proprietor was sewed j i:i a sack and thrown into the Bos porus. Prohibiting Coffee Fails Coffee prohibition did not last long. | So much hositility j eminent decided to iti._Tl 'tSS&L \ place men in the - ■'’J6F^3 : Vb c'lp.'oe houses to I lead the discus- _ / \ :ion rather than ' ~ maintain the ban. so erudite proses- - sors of cpnserv ative viewpoint f'' ' > j expounded their : *> JJ doctrines directing V\» B tail? into safe channels. fTv\ Z' “They are com- . * ■' , _ , „ „ Captain de Clicu monly large halls.’’ cares for His it was written of Coffee Plant the coffee -houses of Asia Minor in ISOO. “having their' floors spread with mats and illuminated at night by a multitude of lamps. Being the only theatres for the exercise of profane eloquence, poor scholars attend here to amuse the people. Some aspire to the pratse of invention and com- Dance Levers' f Magazine. A new Macfadden publication. Dance Lovers' Magazine, makes its initial bow to the public this month on the news stands. It is profusely illustrated with pliotograps and is ehoek-n-binrk with in teresting articles among width may be mentioned “Dancing as a Developer of Body and Mind." by Bernarr Macfadden. “The Romantic Adventures of n Danc ing Venus." "Gilda Gray Startles Broad way With Voljiptnous Voodoo Dance,*' "Married Life Is a Dance.” by Mr. and Mrs. Itudoipli Valentino. “How I Keep Fit for Love. Life and Igmgliter," “My Dancing Children and “How I am Train ng Tliem, by Bernarr Macfadden. The latest fox trot music is published in full so one can play it at home. If we could see the values of health ill a pile of gold before our eyes, its worth would Ihen be. understood. pose tales and fables. They walk up and down as they recite or, assum ing oratorical consequence, ha rangue upon subjects chosen by themselves.” it was in these places that the "Thousand and One Nights” stories were first told and gained their great popularity. Oriental Importance Twenty dishes a day was not an unusual amount of coffee for one Oriental to drink. The promise to provide the wife with coffee at all times was one of the young Turk’s marriage vows, and refusal or neg lect to do this was recognized as proper cause for a divorce. The Steward of the Coffee was the most important functionary of the Oriental household, the serving of the bever age bbing attended with much cere mony. When the Orient gave coffee to Europe through the Venetian trad ers there began that era of which Disraeli wrote, “The history of cof fee houses was that of the manners, morals and politics of a people.” Coffee House' Popularity With few newspapers or forutns for discussion the coffee bouse be came a “penny university." where events were broadcast and theories gained currency. Even medicine seized upon the beverage as a cure all. “Do hut this Rare Arabian cordial use and thou mayst all the What\{he World Is (Doing CAS SEEN BY ‘POPULAR cSAECHANKS cMAGAZTNE r Ofl Spreader for Rough Seas to Help Ships in St arms /To calm rough waters around ships caught in storms, a southern man has in vented a spreader that sprays oil over a large area around the vessel. Pumped from a tank on deck, the fluid passes far out from the boat to uubrellalikc de rices of canvas that are set floating in the sea. It can be used for large or small craft, or from lifeboats while making their way through heavy waves in the event of disaster. The illustration shows the oil spreader feeing used from ships and shore to sub due breakers and protect passengers, vea lels and breakwaters. A close-up of the spreader is shown in the inset. * * * Poles of Elastic Concrete Bend ' Without Breaking Hollow, concrete poles, designed to any electric transmission lines, are being Side by a process that, allows them to end under heavy strains without break Sardinia's M Wht*.s Coat.” An artlttrlHl body of water which will prodtu-e StUNNI.cOU kilowatt hours of elenrkiil energy for Industries and will irrigate over 74J1U0 acres of land km Iweo created on the Tirso river la Sardinia. ) Doctors Slops Refuse,” sang the poet. In the Publick Advertiser, London, in 1657 appeared the first coffee ad vertisement: “In Bartholomew Lane, on the back side of the Old Exchange, the drink called Coffee (which is a very whol som and Physical drink, having many excellent vertuos, closes the Orifice of the Stomack, fortifies the heat within, helpeth Digestion, quickneth the Spirits, maketh the heart light som, is good against Eyesores, Coughs or Colds, Rhumes, Consump tions, Head-ach, Dropsie, Scurvy, Kings Evil and many others) is to be sold both in the morning and at three The Coffee House ° f th ® clock „ ln of Long Ago the afternoon.” ... English coffee houses are fa iTTQ-H |OA, mous since the A TJ jliwfji days of Francis S/MifKX Bacon, who in etll thc V rain an< ’ heart and helpeth I digest io n.” In \! 1 them gathered *l - tlie wits and lft literary lights of \ I a generation fifty Aft years later— tly iVKmL ii” st eele, Addison •J/A rn vSiX and Macauley, and in the eight hs*®'''! eenth century injjr The top of a 64-foot pole will swing 7 feet from its normal position sad back again without injury. Laid in a horizon tal mold, the steel skeleton of the pole is covered with concrete, and revolved 1,000 tfines a minute. The force drives the concrete against the sides, where it forms a shell over the framework. The finished product is kept in the mold for two days and then buried in damp sand for four weeks to season. * * * Thirteen Thousand Laws Are . Enacted in Year Although there is said to be no exact record of the number of laws on the stat ute (looks of the nation, experts have cal culated that in one year, 13,000 of 40,000 bills presented in the legislatures of 35 states, were passed at a cost of about S9OO each. Congress handles from 10,000 to 20,000 bills each session, and, it is es timated, passed 930 before its last ad journment. Estimators figure that there are between-50,000 and 100,000 state and federal lam. . * * * Simple Garage-Door Catch The garage-door catch shown in the drawing is used on garage doors to pre vent the doors from swinging back against the car while driving it into or out of the garage. The arrangement is unusually simple in that only one piece of iron rod, bent to the shape shown, and pivoted to a wooden bracket, forms the | fpOR GARAGE'< END VIEW U complete catch. The wooden bracket is <rr rd to the side of the garage and a bolt on the end of the bracket is used s a pivot for tb- cn< ?h. O.tyi. a, r». In Genesis occurs 11 a.* sentence! “Then men begun to mil uima the name of the Lord.” That was hup- P<Wed to be about 0875 15. C. Pope Gregory, In 582, instituted the .manner •* ***** with the face to U>* east. Nyy. 10, 102? the Turk’* head, a noted coffee houae, witnessed the flashing repartee and conversation of Goldsmith and Rey nolds. All itterary men, then and now, seem to find coffee an especial friend of their muse. Art In Coffee Houees Joyous relaxations and jestful com panionship are depicted in the old woodcuts which have come down to us portraying the gatherings in the coffee houses. They make one yearn for similar boon companions and a place iwhpreln to exchange gossip and ideas. Bach wrote a Coffee Cantata. The oldest painting of a coffee house. In 1660, is credited to a pupil of Franz Hals. And in Vienna, a statue pour ing coffee was raised to the memory of Kolscbitzky, who opened the first coffee housg there. Literature, music, painting and sculpturing, the tour fa mous arts turning to the subject of truly, signal evidences of Its popularity. Captain Jpjre Smith Is credited with bringing the first coffee to America, but honor for starting the great coffee . § growing industry of South America and the West Indies is due Cap tain Gabriel de brought a slip from a coffee- ‘ tree owned by Martinque. His vessel was be calmed for weeks, tiny plant alive by sharing with It his slender ra tion of drinking water. This sprig cew. •i. 192 S Hons covering , millions of acres, which today supply the United States. The Coffee of Today America today knows how to use its coffee, but great trlbulhtlons has the little aromatic berry known as to the treatment given it from the days when the green bean was stew ed and sweetened or the pulverized berry made into bails with Ut and used as a war ration, hy the African tribes. So boiling coffee appears to be literally a relic of barbarism—but a worth-while relic, for all of that. But always it has been .welcomed as “the htgttanlhß. bwsw that,, give* , courage nfff*@bmfort does not steakre 5 one's brains away but sharpens them —whether it was ground in an inlain , jeweled coffee grinder of brass and tea wood, or made in a two. cup gold pot with its chafing dish of spirits of wine in a leather case for the Dauphin of France.” Well Indeed may it tie termed “the drink of democracy.” Combination Rotary Harrow and^Drag The combination rotary harrow and drag shown in the drawing and used for pulverising clods can be made in a short time from material available on every farm. It consists of five 6-ft. lengths of 3 by 10-in. lumber, nailed hr bolted to two 2 by 4-in. endpieccs, and a 6-ft. wooden roller, attached to the front so that it will revolve when the drag is pulled over the ground. Rows of teeth, made from heavy spikes, are then driven in so that they project about 4 in., and the heads cut off aid the teeth sharpened. Two ft-in. bolts, driven into each end of the roller, serve as journals, and turn in bearing holes in the 2 by 4-in. endpieces. The drag may be weighted down with stones, or if desired an old mower seat may be attached to it for the convenience of the farmer. • ■ t - * » * Cat-Tails Yield Floor, Silk, Starch, and Also Sngar From the eat-tails found in almost every swamp, scientists have succeeded in making both food and cloth. Roots of the weed produce st?"J, and sugar, the pollen has been used as a flour to make bread, the brown epikee make an excellent substitute for silk, and the fluffy down ia valuable for stuffing pillows. Tbn plant Was first discovered by the Iroquois Indians and, during the Great War, it wag exteniuvaly used U roughout central Bn- ' ro-Ji Where Catfish * bound. The everglades region of Florida la the largest catfish-producing center In the united States. Every season be tween ttXKMXX) and 8,000,000 pounds •tthe fish are shipped from this sec tion.
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