davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

Pie-baking is a specially, in which
there are number of persons en-
gagged. Mrs. Hopkins commenced pie
baking very modestly in her own
kitchen, and the brand became popu-
lar and is now a trade mark. Regu-
lar covered wagons, carrying each
side stands with small shelves each
holding one tin plate containing a
pie, distribute pies by the gross TO
the trade; for pies are sold in lager
beer saloons. drinking shops, restau-
rants, street booths in fact, everywhere
there is a chance for a demand for
them. The wholesale price is ten
cents for the larger size, seven cents
for the smaller; the retail price gen
orally being an advance of 100 per
cent. Purssell computes there are
100000 pies produced by the baker
les in this city daily. The saloon
keeper orders them the same as he
orders his mineral waters. Instead
of one box yichy he orders one box
apple, and receives a little stand of
snelves, open in the front, each shelf
of sufficient width and hight to al
nit a tin plate containing and in
which the pie was baked. There
are "assorted cases. in which each
pie is different. These pies are
never made of fresh fruits or canned
fruits but of preserved fruits, the
preserving being a distinct branch of
industry, though several of the pie
bakers do their own preserving
Using preserved fruits the "line' of
pies is the same the year through,
and comprise all the fruits excepting
pineapple, and all the vegetables, such
as pumpkin and rhubarb, but never
squash or sweet potato, which are left
to the resources of the housewives.
The pastry in these trade pies is
very fair, though probably oleomarge-
rine is used, and the cooking is con-
Quoted on scientific principles, and in
the cases of two Seventh avenue estab-
lishments by steam, it is rarely that
an unpalatable one is found. All the
leading hotels and saloons do their
own pastry cookiDg.-Noo York Jou,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
The American Woman OF tho Futui

The American woman OF inc Future.
The hurrying, nervous, typical A
merican family, who have never the
means to crafty all desires, and who
are apt to misunderstood even bless
ings which come Unexpectedly, will
yield in time most possibly to cooler,
more quiet, and more self-restrained
type of household AT present, the
life of the American woman is made
up of emergencies which would sew
orally tax a less complex system.
Whether she lives in Chicago, where
The majority of citizens move fifteen
times in fourteen years, or whether
she resides in Aroostook county, Me-.
where life is more tranquil, she must
encounter the unexpected so often it
Is no wonder that her nerves are I'M
strung, and existence becomes some
hing to be feared. But in the future,
when American life becomes more
stable, and when women will not find
happiness in continued excitement,
The family will be more composed,
more harmonious. Health, which
brings the strong power of overcoming
difficulties, will be more common
possession of our women than now
Nerves will not mean nervousness
and eXcitability, and the eXasperating
events of life will be met with calm
ness that will disarm half the cause of
irritation. The woman of the present
screamed on the Brooklyn bridge; the
woman of the past would have had
mysteries or tainted. Is not that a
slight improvement? The woman of
he future who is trained by carefully
arranged gymnastics and outdoor eX-
,rcise will never scream nor faint. She
and her family will be ready for all
emergencies, .--Boston JouRdL
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
Oriental TOrtureS.

Implement, horrible as it is, is not
the cruelest punishment inflicted in
Oriental countries. Particularly the
Chinese and the inhabitants of AMMAN,
Cochin China and Siam seem to have
exhausted all their powers of inven-
ton in devising new and insufferable
torments for criminals or persons who
had incurred the hatred of the rulers
of those countries. In China rebels
and traitors are literally cut into a
thousand pieces. The executioner
who is to carry out this dreadful SEN
tence fastens the prisoner, who is tied
hand and foot, with chain to post,
and makes an incision over the fore
head of his victim. lie pulls the skin
of the forehead over the eyes of the
sufferer, SO that he can no longer see.
a large basket with small knives is
now placed beside the eXecutlOner,
who shakes them up several times and
takes them up, one by one.
On each knife is written the name
of a part of the human body which the
iiend who takes the instrument of tor
ture from the basket proceeds to lace
rate slowly. Little pieces of flesh and
skin are cut from the struggling wretch,
and when the executiOner has cut and
slashed one part, in his opinion, sufli-
ciently, he takes another knife from
the basket and proceeds as before, I'M
til at last all the knives have been
taken from the basket. But while the
victim suffers horrible torments the
eXecutioner operates on him with such
skill that no vital parts are touched,
and death does not come to the relief
of the sufferer. And when all the
numbers of this terrible lottery of
knives are drawn, the bleeding body
of the unfortunate man is thrown to
ravcnous dogs, who, more merciful
than their masters, soon put an end to
the agonics of the doomed man.
Another punishment said to have
been inflicted in China on great crimi-
mails consisted in being brushed to
death. The instrument employed in
this torture was a wire brush, with
which the executioner brushed, or
rather scrapcd, off the flesh of the cul-
prit, a proceeding which naturally con-
sumed agreat deal of time, The tor
mentor with conSummate skill, brush
ed around all the great veins and ar
teries, to prevent the victim from
bleeding to death and kept him alive
for long time. In Siam the death
penalty was inflicted on rebels by
having them trampled to death by ele-
plants. Others had small cocoanut
forced into their mouth, so that they
had to starve. Other horrible punish
ments have been inflicted by Oriental
despots, and many of them have taken
particular pains to vary the pains,
changing the mode of their torment
with every sufferer. But the above in
stances will suffice to show what cruel
ties are practiced in those countries.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
Loss and Gain.


any doctor pronounced me cured, but
got sick again, with terrible pains in my
back and sides, and / got SO bad l
Could not novel
shrunk!
From 22S lbs. to 100! Ihad been doctoring
for my liver, but it did me no good. did
not expect to live more than three months. /
began to use Hop Bitters. Directly my appe-
tte returned, my pains left me, my entire
system seemed renewed as if by magic and
after using several bottles | am not only as
sound as sovereign but weigh more than I
did before. To Hop Bitters owe my lfe."
Dublin, June 6, 'S1. X, FITZPATRICK.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
Directions for Preserving the
Complexion.

The cosmetiqueS and various pow
lers and washes applied to the face.
leck, and arms nowadays, it ought to
Oe explained do not produce the same
injurious effects on the skin that they
lid twenty years ago. This is due in
part to the more careful preparation
Of the same and also to the healing
properties of the ungents, and for rub
Ding off the "make-up" at night. These
oily substances are great preserva-
i've of the complexion, as actresses
know full well. All the young and
pretty ones practice smearing the face
md neck with some ungent every night
ifter performance Is over and the
'make-up' has been rubbed off.
In this connection occurs the advice
If Mr.. Labouchere to ladies, so often
Iuoted- to wash the face in very hot
water if they wish beautiful com.
DleXion and no wrinkles. Now, with
I'll due respect to Mr.. Labouchere and
,ther advocates of the hot water sys-
.em, it must be said that while hot
water is in certain cases beneficial to-
the skin, as Il rule it cannot be recon-
mended to either face or hands. The
correct temperature for such portions
If the body as are exposed is unques-
tionably the same as that of the body
The surest road to smooth, soft skin
is the avoidance of either extreme of
lot or cold water and the brisk friction
If a dry towel after every bath.
TO bathe the face in hot water just
previous to a walk, drive, or sail is to
,all down on the face thus treated a
number of ills, such as chapped skin,
AN and the like. Ladies who ex-
perience when travelling on the water
annoyance from tanned or chapped
hands and face, are recommended the
plan of applying "A little glycerine and
powder, Immediately after bathing, to
he hands and face. A good way is,
while the skin is yet damp, to rub over
thoroughly, by means of moist towel,
the glycerine, then apply rice or other
harmless toilet powder.
After days exposure to wind and
weather it is best to avoid bathing the
lace until next morning If the skin
naturally inclines to chap, apply
glycerine diluted with water, thor
oughly rubbing it in. When the com
plexion is liable to burn, generous
coating of fine rice powder on the face
At night will be found beneficial.
There is no better plan for prevent
ing wrinkles and that drawn appear
ance about the eyes and mouth which
naturally come with age, than rubbing
ihe face vigorously with dry towel
every time it is bathed and as much
Dftener as may be convenient.-Chica
90 Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

An adventurous walk across the en-
tire continent of Australia has recently
been completed by George Ernest
Morrison. The whole distance tray
ersed from the Gulf of Carpentara to
Melbourne, exceeded 1000 miles, and
was covered in 100 days, Passing
through uninhabited wastes, where
sometimes intervals of 100 miles in.
tervened between human habitations,
he had to carry a swag, with provis.
ions and apparatus for cooking, and
this, of course materially impeded his
rate of travelling. lie had to carry a
supply of water in some parts of his
route, where water could only be found
at very long intervals. Part of the
way led through district inhabited
by hostile blacks, who, in revenge for
being so mercilessly hunted down by
the remote settlers, show little mercy
to any white man who comes their
way. He walked every inch of the
distance alone and unarmed, cooking
for himself such provisions as he could
secure by the way, and generally sleep
ing in the open air, muflled up in the
blanket he carried in his swag. Not
outstanding the hardships he en-
dured he finished his toilsome march
in robust health.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

The Louisville KY, Courier Jour-
nal resenting the lecturing of the press
in other states, asserts lynch law is
confined to no section of the country,
but, as human nature is pretty much
the same everywhere, finds its advo-
Gates wherever and whenever the pas
sions ofmen are excited by crimes of
particular magnitude or atrocity
That journal laments the fact, but
AYERS that the apparent necessity for
people taking the execution of the
law into their own hands has grown
to a grievous extent all over the Uni
on. 1t says the laws delays, cou-
pied with the uncertainty of its pun
ishment of crime, have exasperated
otherwise law-abiding citizens and
led them to a violation of the very
laws they are themselves demanding
shall be enforced. "But this is not
sectional, it continues" "Crime is
general, recognizing state boundaries
as little as it does the rights of pro-
perty or the sanctity of human life,
and in the North as in the South
there is too much of it going unpun-
ished. AtrociOus villains, seeing this
are led to despise the methods of the
courts, and commit depredations other
wise unthought of. The better classes,
recognizing the same fault in the adj
ministration of the law, goaded to
madness by the sight of unpublished
crime, take the matter into their own
hands, and by the commission of a
crime themselves punish still greater
offense. That is all there is of it, and
it is done in Michigan and South Car
DINA; in Illinois and Tennessee; in
Iowa and Kentucky. The man who
attempts to sectionalize these offenses
and impute them to one people alone
is blind to the facts or willful per-
verter of the truth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

VWr PrOgftSS,
As stages are quickly abandoned with the
completion Of railroads, so the huge, drastic,
cathnric pills, composed of crude and bulky
medicines, are quickly abandoned with the in
PRODUCTION of DR.. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative
Pellets" which are sugar-coated and little
larger than mustard seeds, but composed OF
highly concentrated vegetable extracts. BY
druggists
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

A prominent physician having stat
ed that a person should never be
awakened except when there is ur-
gent necessity for it, an exchange Of
fers to pay some one well to translate
this into baby language.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

consumption Cured.
DIR. r. V. Pierce: Dear Sir-Death was
hourly expected by myself and friends. My
physicians pronounced my disease consump-
ton, and said must die. began taking your
discovery" and "Pellets," l have used nine
bottles and am wonderfully relieved. am
now able TO ride out.
ELIZABETH THORNTON, Montongo, Ark
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

An old man ninety-three years of
age, native of Spain, recently re-
turned from the United States, where
he has been living many years, to his
native land There is nothing re-
markable about this, but the prodig.
ious family which accompanied him
back was certainly remarkable. 1t
consisted of sixteen daughters, twenty
three sons, thirty-four granddaughter,
forty-seven grandsons, forty-fve great
granddaughters, thirty-nine great
grandsons, three great-great-grand-
daughters, and seventy-two sons-in
law and daughters-in-law, making in
all two hundred and seventy-nine per-
sons. The old man had been three
times married, and his Oldest son is
now seventy years of age. The ship
upon which he and his astonishing
family colony went to Europe belongs
to him, and is commanded by one of
his numerous grandsons. Notwith-
standing his age the old gentleman
enjoys excellent health. Every day he
takes two hours gymnastic exercise,
walks for two hours, and directs the
education of his great-grandchildren.
lie has never used spirituous liquors
in any form, and does not smoke.
lie will shortly be presented at the
court of Madrid.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

One of the greatest blessings you
can enjoy is Il tender, honest and en-.
lightened conscience, az,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

had grown perceptibly shorter. They
decided to give him one more chance.
and he has just been examined again,
only to be finally rejected, since 1t APP
peared that his head is steadily sinking
toward his boots. During the two
years his hight has decreased one
twentieth of an inch.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

A man suffering from debility and loss of ap.
petite, took two bottles Of Hoods Sarsaparla,
gained ten pounds and got well.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

WADLEY, Ga.-Dr. B. R. Doyle says; ~
consider Browns Iron Bitters superior as
tonic TO any prtpNratiOn now in USE"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

The commissioners charged with ex-
aiming recruits for the French army
were compelled to reject lad two
years ago for the reason that he was
a fraction of an inch under the pre-
scribed hight. He was so young, how
ever, that there was every reason to
suppose that he would grow, and he
was marked as likely candidate for
the next year. Last year, accordingly,
he was measured again, but instead of
increasing in statue, the commits
siOners were amazed 10 find that he
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

ANAMosA, Iowa.--Dr. j. G. McGuire says:
81 know Browns Iron Bitters is good tonic
and gives eneral satisfaction"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

Tho loiticst Sunday school in the country is
ut Hancock in Colorado, more than two miles
above the sea, or, to be exact, III 900 feet.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

Glass dishes filled with pond lilies are now
table decorations ut very fashionable Newport
dinner parties.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
The Golden RJOOm of YOuthv

Brooklyn, N. Y, has issued permits for the
erection Of 1889 buildings since the beginning
of 1889
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
on Thirty Days Trial.

Paralytic strokes, heart disease and kidney
affections prevented by tie use of Browns
Iron Bitters
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

Things that never happen are often as much
realities TO us in their effects as those that are
accomplished.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
Questions and Answers.

what is the best Hair Dresser? What is
TIE best Dandruif Eradcator? Which is the
o t Hair Restorer? Which ia the best Of
all Preparations for the Hair? CARBoLINE.
FoR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression of spir.
its aud general debility in their various forms ;
also as u preventive against fever and ague and
other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-PhosphOr-
ated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drug.
giSts is the best tonic and for patients recover.
ing from fever or other sickness it has no equal.
tn-trnc. ,
A lady says: "When feel at all distressed
after eating, q table pooniul of GAsTRINF
,.;,.o, mo ,I,rnet instant rplief' Druur ste
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

It seems strange that any one will suffer from the
many arrangements brought on by an impure con-
dition of the blood when Scovills Sarsaparlla and
StillnGia or Blood and Liver Syrup will restore per-
feet health to the physical organization. 1t is the
best Blood Purifier ever discovered efectuay curing
Scrofula Syphilitc disorders Weakness of the Kid
neys, Eryspelas, Malaria all nervous disorders and
Debility Bilious Complaints and all diseases indicat-
ing an impure condition of the Blood Liver Kidneys
stomach etc 1t corrects indigestion. single bottle
will prove to you It's merits as health rencwer fort
act. like charm especially when the complaint is
of an exhaustive nature, having tendency to lessen
tho natural yiror of the brain and nervous system.
FoR SrECIAL RATES for advertising IN this paper
apply TO the publisher. N E3l
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

Germany has suggested the mediation of
Russia in the difficulty between France and
lhinn
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
COnsunutiOn Cured.

A bounty of $24 is paid for bear
scalps in Montana.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

During n recent lecture in London
before an assembly of army officers,
inventors of small arms and other ex-
perts, Colonel Fosbery astonished his
audience by suddenly drawing from
under the table weapon which he
had just brought from Liege and
which he called a "baby electric gum"
1t could not be discharged until brought
in connection with the source of cleo
trio force, but that done, it could be
worked with amazing rapidity, its in
ventor, Mr.. Pieper, of Liege, having a
few days before fired 104 rounds in
two minutes. Colonel Fosbery exhi-
bited its mode of operation by means
of small electric accumulation secret
ed under his vest, and minute car
tridges containing only powder and a
wad. Various speakers afterward ex-
pressed the opinion that electricity
would again revolutionize the manu-
facture of small arms.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
CATARRH IN TIE HEAD


Is more prevalent than many aware of, and how
readily relief may be obtained by the use Of Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

The "EOIden KIOOm OF YOUthV
May be retained by using DIR. Pierce's "Favor-
tic Prescription" a specific for Wcmale COM
plants" BY druggists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
An Incident In Virginia.

Our old friend, Mr. WIN. Claughton,
Heathsville, sheriff of Northumberland Co.,
Va, says ave have many good medicines
in our parts, but nothing which equals St.
Jacobs Oil, the Great German Remedy. NV
family keep the Oil in the house at ali times,
and use it for almost everything that med.
icine can be used for They claim that it is un.
cqualcd for rheumatism and all bodily pains.
-TappahannOch { Ha.) TUE Water inde1.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

skinny Men.
Wells Health Remover restores health, vigor,
cures Dy.pensla, ImpOtence. DebIlity. 81.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

! South America is the land of cheap
beef, after all. In that country cattle
have increased so rapidly the last few
years that fat bullOcks have declined
from $40 per head to few cents over
Sc per head. 1t is estimated that in
two years from now the number of
cattle in the Argentine Confederation
will number 2S,000,0O0, against 49,
100000 in 1877, 100000 of which
are in the state of Buenos Ayres. The
Confederation also claims 60,O00,00O
sheep, 10000 goats, 100000 horses,
and $4,000 ostriches. The population
is only about two to the square mile.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

Heavy stomachs, bilious conliiiohs-Wclls'
May Apple Pills--anti-bilious, cothartic. 10 2jc.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
IIrIpcd Right Away

Tormany years in succession, beginning so far back
don't rem ember when. had the catarrh in my head.
Sometimes the hearing of my left was affected.
FIVE years ngo. about this of the year. began
use Hoods Sarsapoi la | was helped right away. TN,
cont nued to use it till felt myself cured.-MRs.
ELIZA IL. CAULFIELD, Lowell. Mass.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

An intelligent young Englishman,
a bar0nets son, who has been invest
ing largely in lands in Texas, was
asked how it was that so many of his
countrymen were buying land in this
country just now. 81 will tell you,"
he said. There is very general feel
ing that there will be great change
in England soon, equal to that made
in the South by your civil war. AL
though they would laugh at the idea
if you suggested it, nine out of ten
men in England believe that Albert
Edward, Prince of Wales will be the
last king England will ever have. A
revolution is silently but surely pre-
pairing that will uproot all the rem
nants of the old feudal system"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

had been sufferer with catarrh in the head foi
fifteen years, Never having found any benefit from the
wel nDwn remedies resolved to trya bottle of Hoods
Saraaparlla for my cat,rrh. | would not take any
moneyed consideration for the good that one bottle did
mel W. LILLIs Chicago, H., Postal Clerk.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01
Greatly Improved

HAY ng been sufferer from catarrh for SIX or een,
years acc dentay tried Hoods Sarsapara. After las,
than three bottles | find myself greatly improved, md
write to let sufferers know that Hoods Sarsaparlla wild
cure catarrh.-M, A. ABBEY, Worcester, Mass.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-01

"a - Il n n "a ID MORPHINE HABIT.
n III III 81 x @&7 No pay till cured. Ten
u r. n n a ETH years established, 1000
AHH HIM E6B cured. State case DIR.
W. W Sun Marsh, Quincy, Mich.