The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-07-21

found. The entire attic under Che
roof of the vast building was selected
for the work and fitted for its purpose
by carpenters under Mr. Dorfuilles
personal direction. Then the artists.
guided by the master mind, made
scenic model of the Inferno, occupying
two-thirds OF the space, leaving the re-
mainder for audience room to specta-
tors. This portion was separated from
the Internal Regions" by lattice work
of iron, on which were inscribed those
words: Punishment for touching
these bars will be instantaneous and
shocking" And the "shock" was ar
ranged to come from charged Ley
den battery, which should discharge
its electricity on any spectator who
should forget the warning
When completed the whole scene,
under the influence of colored lights
and intervals of partial or total dark
ness, was intensely horrible.
Outside across the front of the whole
building and above the highest
windows, was vast sign which read:
INTERNAL REGIoNs.'
| W.T.. bbllulilt no uOuDU saw inc
aptitude of fixing the Internal regions
in the place of the supcrnal above all
/ else: but there they were, and there
people crowded to see the antitype of
that after-death hell where each fearcdN
his neigh Dor might finally be doomed
to go.
On visiting these upper Internal re-
gions the stranger found himself in al
most total darkness and heard groans
unutterable. II is said to spoil the
zest OF the stage to be admitted bch;n nd
the scenes and shown their secrets;
but at this late day it will do no harm
to say that those groans came from
vast hidden Chinese gong. on which
the lugubriCus groanings were pro-
duced by the operators thumb in the
manner of tambourinc players.
In the foreground, just within the
bars was shown the Dark Plain, or
vestibule of hell with wandering out
casts whom neither heaven nor hell
would receive; and flowing round the
brink of the great inverted cone of he'll
was the river Acaeron-the Stream of
! Sorrow Charon ferrying the
sinners over,
The concentriX circles of the Internal
depth fell into faint prospective to-
ward the bottom. each dimly revealed
by fitful darkness and colored lights
In the tirstcircle were the poor heather
men, women and children, who had
died without baptism
In the second circle sat Minos. the
internal judge, presiding over his in
eXorable court.
In the third were the gluttons. the
sordid cpicures, and the great multi
tude of sinners by sensual excuses.
In the fourth was Plutus. disciplin-
ing the avaricous and the profigate, a
woeful company.
In the fifth circle was the Stygean
Marsh, through which hopelessly
| struggled the wrathful, the cruel. and
the violent, with agonies inexpressible;
and in the distance the City of Satan,
| the burning sepulchres filed with souls
of arch-heretics and them who deny
immortality.
And so to the lowest depths the hor-
rors increased. amid wrangling devils
and souls tortured in incxtinguishable
fires.
Over the main gateway was the in
scription in Italian and English: Las
ciatc ogni speranZa vol chi entrate:'
Leave all hope behind, W that enter"
Muttering thunders and dim light
nings IN the distance came
ut intervals. and amidst the
storm was heard the hoafse barking of
Infatuated Cerberus. Plutus the
Great Enemy. was near the iron par
tition, of gigantic size and horrid
mien: though he acted in q manner not
set down in the bills. on he poem.
lie grinned and frownel by turns,
snapped his huge jaws, and even
laughed derisiyely at the audience
Beside him and close to the spectators
was Ewes Tempter hugo anaconda
serpent in constant motion. writing
in hnduhting folds and lifting its head
in threatening manner I his skin
of an anaconda expanded by spiral
wire within, So connected with hidden
wires as to be moved like u living SER
pent, was the device of Powers, the
young sculptor.
Then were seen the Furie,,, threaten
ing, with Mcdusa head and osnaky
hair; the monster Minotaur, the
lIarpies, Virgil amid the shower of
fire. the monster Gorgon The fiery
beast with forked tail, with Dante and |
his guide upon the knotted back;
tyrants and assassins stepped in boil
ing blood!
In another region was seen Mata-
coda, chief of the fiends, and their
great marshal, Barbaricia; the Great
Horn and the Giants. and numerous
other Internal personages-creati of
the poets brain.
(To BE cONTINUED.)
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