CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1900-09-06

WA8S Will 2uo p4Elcui&r uo5IOI u
war with China In the fact that OF
Ill the races on the face of the earth
the Chinese are the most cruel. the
most devoted to fearful torture OF those
In their power and the most adept in
devistng ever new forms OF martyr
dom for the objects OF their hatred.
In their almost simple cruelty they
are worse than the animals. II they
merely delighted in the torturing. one
might say 1t was pe-version. But
they do not merely delight in It They
torture living creatures. from rats to
men. as q simple matter OF course, and
the native victims accept 1t equally a.
= matter of course There is some
thing supremely terrible In the mat
ter-of-fact stolid way IN which they
subject . prisoner to dsmoniac pain
with ~ much readiness ~ . magistrate
In New York would sentence a man to
spend 10 days ''on the island"
To begin with. there is the whipping
and scourgfng with bamboo rods This
Is % common = method OF preparing
. victim for trial. that 1t is hardly con-
sidered punishment, much less torture.
Yet the bamboo Is laid on hard enough
to bring blood at each stroke, and.
especially when 1t is applied to the
soles Of the fest. the victim often faints
from pain and loss of blood CO. ed.
ODs hardly can enter Chit sourt
Of .tustics" without witnos-.s a fog
ging.
The mildest punishment that il
known 70 the simple and kindly ofscial
Chinsss soul is the cage or CanEus.
Its principle Is that Of all Chinese pun
ishmsp' III torture. A Chinaman
vr 40 artistic pleasure in any
thi killed quicker or that
rsae---- - elimination of pain quick
". His victim must suffer a little
more. and . little more. and then q
little more. eack hour. In that way
be makes his delight last long and
can keep = whole string OF wretches to
charm him by their slow dying for
months- II he killed them at once
his fun would BE- over too soon.
The Cangue. then. is formed to keep
the agony OF the penitent up for
months. TIL madness or death end his
suflsrinA II II = delightfully."- simple
thing-so sinpls that there is nothing
at all terrifying about II At first sight
Il merely y = large frame OF wood.
with . collar in the middle. II weighs
about 30 pounds. and Is 10 made that
il can BE- locked around the mans
neck. When II b 10 locked II rests
directly on the muscles Of the neck
and on the bones Of the shoulder. and
II Il 20 constructed that Il cannot Be
shifted even q tenth Of nm inch. nor
can tha weight be relieved with the
banda In addition. the collar has .
sharp rim underneath. At nrst the
victim does not suffer much. except
from Inconvenience. He 10 turned
loose a. coon Al the cangue Is locked
ON him. and for an hour or two he
vaddles around in fair comfort But.
gradually. ~ the sharp edge Of the col
lar cuts deeply into the ne&h OF his
neck. and all his muscles are drawn
more and more tense. pain begins to
conquer him. and In a week the tor
turers have the felicity of seeing mad
dened wretch stumble and fall around
blindly. weeping and yelling with ang-
uish.
The bamboo furnishes fayorite i'm
pisments for Chinese legal torturers
Sharpened siivers Of bamboo are used
for countless purposes In countless
ways. Indeed. II the reader will i'm
agine just what he would hate most