New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-22
A CHINESE HE'LL.
VIVID MODELS IN BUDDHIST TEMPLE TO No
PRESS THE LIVING.
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PRESS THE LIVING.
From The English illustrated Magazine.
All Cinnamon are by nature wicked. II is well
that they get to know in this life exactly the
sort OF punishment that awaits them In the
next. So they receive instruction by plasteF-Of-
paris representation At the temple at Yunnan-
Sen you can behold striking models OF the
Buddhist bells in other cities are other hes.
took grim delight visiting them whenever
had the chance. one had the same sort OF
clammy satisfaction one feels when, de-
pressed and out of sorts. you go off to the
Chamber OF Horrors al Nine. Taussaud's to get
cheered up a Bit It all depends what you've
been up TO on this earth whether your punish
nent under the earth is to be sawn in two OF TO
be squashed in a cothespress.
In each Of the hells Sit one or two. or maybe
three. elders They are big, grewsome. fab
faced and st-eyed; generally Of furnished gold
and twice the size Of an ordinary man They're
all relatives; you can tell that by the same stern.
callOus cast-irOn sort Of countenance they pos
sess; By the uniform shape OF the chin, mouth
and nose but, above all. by the irradatins
diabolical glee that sufuses every stuccO face.
They sit on a throne and look fiXedly at the
work of the executioners and the squirms Of the
executed The figures in the pit are little
under life-siZe. But there's plenty 81 realism and
piled-up horror The imps engaged in haying.
boring holes through chests. hanging men up
by the toes and generally making things lively
have often but one glittcTing eye stuck in the
centre Of a coal-back head. the lower part OF
which is literally half mouth stretching from
'al - tsAI Abtil IduEu Is something 10 ftHtHl-
Der In your dreams. that you wake up in d
ft Of cold perspiration yelling for it to be taken
away.
There was a victim being crucifed and the
imps were slowly shortening him 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 long
Chinese sleeves In agony Of despair, swinging
their pigtails in dismay while tears tricked
obliquely out Of their acknowledged eyes be
cause the monk at the entrance 10 the temple
had told them that was the exact fate Of their
Old father at that particular moment They
groaneq ana S0bbedi then they got gong and
relieved their sorrow by thwacking il: they
pushed "a sup OF rice and some hard boiled eggs
through the bars as sustenance to their relative
in his trials. then they paid cash down for q
big check that would be dispatched that night to
the neither regions, cOncate 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 a cauldron and then
probed with ptchforks She evidently had rel
atiycs In the real place, for she was carrying
armful of propitatOry tapers paper, gold and
large checks. Then there was a place with q
long stove like red-hot kitchen range. De-
funct and Yet tOlerably lively. mOrtals were sit
ting on the top tying themselves into knots
while a number OF brutes with heads like bulls
glOated lecrlngly The elders In the adjoining
place owned a perennial laugh for the imps
had men by the heels and were dashinS their
heads stones one man was being pressed
on q row Of daCgers.
Next door several wicked Cinnamon had
fallen spiked mountains, and there they were
impaled and Wrthing There a lake with
men struggling among Shiny, double headed
snakes. there We're several creatures hung UP
in the air with a hook through their vertebrse,
and quite common were the cases OF evildOers
swung By the pgtails and being disembowelled
Certainly they're pretty ingenious where the
nauqb+v Chinese go II Celestial has a repro
bate of Il sire he does not talk to him for ms
good but takes him afternoon stroll in the
Kingdom OF Below, let's him see for himself
what's likely 70 happen in the uncomfortabis
-. ard bv and then hints he doesn't think he'll
be- able to afford the expense OF buying the imps
on II that doesn't make Chnaman turn from
his wrongdoing and make him promise 70 De
better father henCeforth. nothing VIII