The National tribune., 1899-01-26
CHINESE EiELLS.
Eiahsrats Ok5ect Les~ou to Brighten
heathen Evil poers.

Elaborate Ok9eCt LeSSWu to Brighten
hcatisn Evil psers.
A writer in the English illustrated
Magazine has been ''deing' the hollis
which the Budahiat priests construct In
the tsmples in China to impress the
ncop1e with the consequences OF their
evil doiaes. AS all Ckinamen are by
nature wicked" blanaly remarks the
writer, tits we'll that they get to know
in this life exactly the sort of punishment
that awaits them in thebnext. So they
receive instruction by plaster-of-paris
representation.
at the temple att Ytnnan Sen, you
can behold striking models Of tie Budd
hist bells. In other cities are other bells.
took grim delight Waiting them when
W hat you've been ZIP to on this earth
whether your runishHent under the earth
| is tO be sawn in two Or to I've sQuashed il,
a clothes -rress. In each of the hells sit
one or two, or maybe three. elders. They
are big, gruesome, fab-faced, and slit
/ twice the size Of an .erdinary man
They're all relatives: youael that hy the
same stern, callGuj, ces. -yoa ssrt .;
countenance they Jstssesk; by the uni
| form share OF tie chin, n1s'uth, ard nose
but, above all, by the irraf.ia;ing diabnli
cal Elee that sufiuSeS eysry stucce face
They sit on throne and lock flxedly al
the work of the executiane,s and the
sauirns OF tire executed The figures in
the pit are little under life size.
There's plenty OF realism and piled up
horror. The inps engaged in naying, Dor
ing holes through chests, hareing me:.
iup by the toes, and generally making
things i4eiy, have often orc glit.erins
eve stuck in the center Of ceal-tls ~
head, the lever Part Of which is literally
half nlCuth, stretching from ear to ear
Their laugh is something to remember il
| 1ra hot T..
fit Of cold Precipitation, yelling for il to lie
taken away.
There was a victim teing crucifed
and the inlps were slowly shortening h i'm
at the knees with a red stained saw
Standing in front of the wooden bars
| that prevent the live public coming in
direct contact with this particular hell
were two young men, Tapping their Icing
| Chirese sleeves in agony of DESPAIR
swinging their pig tails in dismay, VIII lie
tears trickled obliquely. cut OF their
almond shaped eyes because the monk al
the entrance to the temple had told them
that was the exact fate OF their old father
at that particular moment. They groaned
and soibed; then they got a gong and re-
Iieved their sorrow by thwacking il; the y
pushed cup OF rice and some harG-
boiled eggs through the bars as susten-
they PAL cash down for a big check that
would lie dispatched that night To the
neither regions, cOnciiiate the elders, and
cease the saving at the knees.
! Before another hell stood an old
woman, rather complacently watchinr
folks being thrown backwards into caul-
dron, and then proEed with pitchforks
She evidently had relatives in the rea
place, for she was carrying an armful 9.
ipropitiatory tapers, papcr, gold, and large
checks. Then there was place with &
long stove like red hot kitchen range
Defunct, and yet tolerably lively, r,orta IS
were sitting on the top tying themselves
into knots, while number Of brutes 18th
heads like bulls g!oated eerinely.
The elders in the adjoining place
owned a perennial laugh; for the iprpS
had men by the heels, and were dashi ne
! their heads on stones. One man was
icing pressed on row of dagcers. Next
ioUr several wicked Chinese had fallen
on spiked mountains, and there they
were impaled and writhirg. There was a
lake with men struggling among Shiny
double headed snakes; there were sew
hook through their vcrtebre; and quite
common were the cases OF evil-ioers
swung by the pig tail and being dis
emboweiied.
! Certainly, they're pretty ingenious
where the naughty Chinese go. liza Ce-
lestial has a reprobate Ola sire he does
not talk to him for his good, but takes
him an afternoon stl1ll in the Kingdem
of Below, let's him see for h iriseIf what's
likely to happen in thefupcomforlable by
and-by, and then hints he doesn't think
he'll be able to affordthe expense of buy
ing the imps off. II that doesn't make a
Chinaman turn from his wrong doing, and
make him promise to fbe, "a better father
henceforth, nothing will"c