The Republican journal., 1901-04-11
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children,
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Horse RadlSh Has Arrived.

1t was Uncle Toby, we think, who
said that when he found that the book
beer was on tap in the bar rooms, he al
ways went out to the market and order
ed bottle of horse radish, knowing for
certain that both were put on sale
at the same time in the spring. 1t is
perhaps unfortunate that we good
people who live in Maine are not able
to order our horse radiSh with SO much
certainty of finding it. because none of
us drink book beer, for the good reason
that it is against the law to sell it.
Still we manage to come very near the
right time for procuring fresh horse
radiSh by other signs which are patent
and open to most everybody.
After nearly two score years of close
observation we have come to believe
that when the women folks begin to
talk about the need of cleaning house.
when the men order striped outing
shirts for summer wear, when the
roads grow muddy and bare ground
thrusts itself through the coverlet of
snow, when the woodpile stands III the
dooryard as perpetual remainder that
we ought to go to work, when men who
are not III the habit of visiting at our
house call around to ask how much we
are worth and to learn how many dogs
we are keeping as steady boarders, when
the doctor sends in his bill for treating
our case of the grip last winter, when
the furs are put away in camphor and
pepper and the winter ulster is hung
out on the line to get final airing be-
fore taking its long rest, when the drug
stores put bottles OF spring bitterS in
the show windows, when cattle low in
the tieup for chance to get out doors
and rub off their thick coating of hair,
when mud clings to rubbers when birds
fly north and eet-tempered women fly
in a passion if one comes in without
wiping his feet on the rug-when all of
the above things happen and twice as
many more are impending, it is time for
horse radish, and the man who doesn't
buy bottle to warm himself up is MAX
ing the mistake of his life.
We confess to a liking for horse radish,
but when we say this we mean the real
horse radish, and not the counterfeit
substances which are sold in some of
the stores, and which are compounded
from white turnip, sour apples and frost
bitten potatoes. We want the plain old
roots that have been kept in moist
sand all winter and then taken out and
grated finely and put up in good sharp
this way by 4 cleanly artist at the bust
ness, when it has sting on the tongue
and gives sensation of a passing torch
light procession as it goes down the
throat, that kind of horse radish is good
to eat and good to offer to ones friends.
1t is good with fresh meat and with ba-
con and eggs. 1t is good on the Satur-
day nights baked beans and it is good
if one does not take too much of it at
one swallow and is ca reful about draw
ing his breath until the last morsel is
down. 1t gives one the eXhilaration of
book beer without the attendant fuddle.
Those who have tried both say that
enough horse radish taken frequently
will wean one from the drink habit.
This statement needs verifcation how
ever, and it's truth will be hard to prove
or disprove so long as the supply of book
beer holds out.-Bangor Daily News.