The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-28
A CHINESE HE'LL.
viva Models in BUDDHIST Temple
TO Impress the Living.

TO impress the Living.
from the English Illustrated Magazine
All Chinamen are by nature wicked II
IS well that they get to know in tbis rfo
exactly the sort of punishment that awaits
them in the next. So they receive instruc-
uoh by plaster of paris representation. At
'ne Temple at Yunnan-Sen you can behold
striking models of the Buddhist beus In
other cities are other heus tool, q Grin,
delight visiting them whenever / had the
chahce. one had the same sort of clam
my satisfaction as one feels when de-
pressed and out of sorts, YOU 20 off to tbs
Nhainber Of Horrors at Nine. Taussaud,s
70 get cheered up bit. 1t all denends
What you've been up 10 on This oortt,
"he'her your punishment under the eartb
Is 70 De saWn in two or TO be squasbed in
clothespress. III
IN each of the bells sit one or two. or
may ne three, elders. They are bio orav,-
some hab-faced and sllt-eyed; eereralI,.
o. tafhlsned gold and twice the size of an
VI urinary man. They re all relatives. Won
"a" yen mat by the same stern. eallous
Oh sort OF countenance they possess;
ny the uniform shape of the chin mouth
ana nose; but, above aH. by the irradiat-
ms oidDollcai glee that suffuses every
stucco lace. They sit on a throne and look
HAtuly at the work of The execurioners
alu the squlrms of the executed The fig
ures IN the PHI are a little under ljfe-sizs
but there's plenty of realism and ni,ad-
up horror. The imps engaged i'm 7avinn
ooi ius hoies through chests hanging men
~ "S the toes and generally making
Things lively have often but one g1itterine.
eye stuck in the center of a coal-bIacI5
mead the lower part of which is literally
nail mouth stretching from ear to ear
ALelr laugn IS something TO remember in
your dreams, 80 that you wake IN in a
III OF cold perspiration yelling for il to be
taken away
mere was a victim being crucifed and
me lmps We're slowly shortening him at
the knees with a red-stained saw. Stand
ing IN mont of the wooden bars thar IRE
vent the live public coming in diract con
tact with this particular hell were two
young men, happing their long Chinese
sleeves IN agony OF despair swinging their
pgtalls IN dismay, while tears tricxled
opllquey out of their almond-shaped owes
because the monk at the entrance 20 tbe
temple had told them that was the exact
Iale OF their old father at that particular
moment. They groaned and sobbed; then
they got gong and relieved their sor-
row by thwacking il: they pushed a cun
OF rice and some hard-boiled eggs through
the bars as sustenance to their relative
IN ms trials; then they paid cash down for
a blg check that would be dispatched that
night 20 the neither regions, conciIiate the
elders and cease the saving at The knees
Before another hell stood an old woman
rather complacently watching folks being
thrown backward into a cauldron ana
then probed with pitchforks. She evident
Nv had relatives n he
was carrying an armful of propitiatorv
tapers, paper, gold and large checks. Then
there was place with a long stove like a
red-hot kitchen range Defunct. and VET
tolerably lively, mortals were sitting ON
the top tying themselves into knots. while
number of brutes with heads like bulls
sioated leeringiy. The elders in the ad-
joining place owned a perennial laugh;
for the imps had men by the heels and
We're dashing their heads on stones. one
man was being pressed on row of dag
gers.
Next door several wicked Cinnamon had
fallen on spiked mountains and there they
were impaled and writing. There was a
lake with men struggling among SHINY.
doube-headed snakes; there were several
creatures hung up in the air with a hook
through their vertebrate. and quite com
mon were the cases of evildoers swung bv
the pigtails and being disembowelled. Ger
tainly they're pretty ingenious where the
naughty Chinese go. II a Celestial has a
reprobate of a sire he does not talk 60
him for his good but takes him an after
noon stroll in the Kingdom of Below let's
him see for himself what's likely to hap
pen i'm the uncomfortable by and by and
then hints he doesn't think he'll be able to
afford the expense of buying the imps off.
If that doesn't make a Chinaman turn
from his wrongdoing and make him
promise to be better father henceforth,
nothing will.