The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-02-11

From the English illustrated Magazine.
All Cinnamon are by na,ure wicked. 1t
is well that they get to know in this life
exactly the sort of punishment that awaits
them in the next So they receive in
struction by plaster of paris representa-
ton At the temple at Yunnan-Sen
YOU can behold striking models of the
Buddhist hells In other cities are other
hells. took grim delight visiting them
whenever had the chance. One had the
same sort If elammy satisfaction as one
feels when depressed and out of sorts, you
20 OF to the Chamber of Horrors at Nine.
Taussaun : lo Get cheered up bit. 1t
all depends what you We been up to on this
earth whether your punishment under the
earth is 10 be sawn in two or to be squashed
in a clothespress
In each Of the hells sit one or two, or
NAV be three. elders. They are big, grue-
some. fab faced and slit.eyed; generally
oi tsrniShed gold and twice the sized of an
ordinary man They re all relatives you
can tell that by the same stern, callous,
east iron sort Of counteuanee they possess;
by the uniform shape of the chin, mouth
aud nose. but, above all, by the irradiat
ing diabolical elee that suftuses every stuc-
co face They sit on throne and look
iixedly at the work of the executioners
and the squirms of the executed. The
figures in the pit are little under llte-
size But there plenty Of realism and
piled-up horror The imps engaged in
fiaying, boring holes through chests, hang
iug men up by the toes and generally max
ing things lively have often but one gilt
tering eye stuck in the centre of coal
black head the lower part Of which is
literally half mouth. stretching from ear
to ear. Their laugh Is something TO re-
member in your dreams, so that You wake
up in a fit of cold perspiration yelling for
it TO be taken away.
There was a victim being cruciied, and
the imps were slowly shortening HIM at the
knees with ed-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 long Chinese sleeves IN
agony of despair. swinging their pigtaiis
in dismay. while tears trickled obliquely
out of their almond shaped eyes because
the monk ut the entrance to the temple
had told them that was the exact fate OF
their old father at that particular moment.
They .ruaned and sobbed; then they got
gong and relieved their sorrow by thwack
ing it they pushed cup Of rice and some
hard boiled eggs through the bars as sus-
tenaure 10 their relative in his trials; then
thcy paid cash down for a big cheek that
would be dispatched that night to the
neither regions. eoneiiate the elders and
cease the saving at the knees.
Before another he'll stood an old woman
rather complacently watching folks being
thrown backward into cauldron and
then probed with pitehlorks. She eyi-
dcutly had relatives in the real place for
she was carrying an armful Of propitlatory
tapers. paper, gold and large checks.
Then there was a place with long stove
ike red-hot kitchen range. Defunct,
and set tolerably lively, mortals were SIT
ting on the top tying themselves into
knots. while a number of brutes with
heads ike bulls gloated leeringly. The
elders in the adjoining place owned
perennial laugh, for the imps had men by
the heels and were dashing their heads on
stones. One man was being pressed on
row Of daggerS
Next door several wicked Cinnamon
had fallen on spiked mountains, and they
we're impaled aud writhing. There was
lake with men struggling among Shiny
double headed snakes; there We're several
creatures hung up in the air with a hook
through their yertebrae, and quite com
mon were the cases of evildoers swung by
the pigtails and being disembowled. Ger
lajnly they re pretty ingenious where the
naughty Chinese 20. If a Celestial has
reprabatc Of a sire he does not talk to hun
for his good. but takes him ar afternoon
Stroll in the Kingdom of Below, lets him
see Tor himself what likely to happen in
the uncomfortable by aud by, and then
hints he doesn' think he Il be able To at
ford the expense of buying the imps ott.
II that dossn make 4 Chinaman turn
from his wrongdoing and make him prom
ise 10 be better father hencetorth, moth
ing will