Show fH HI H O I I I I Hi HI lla f JI t rH 1 I H I H H t 1 tr HI H II I I r 1 I c H II I III I I r I I t f f I f II I I I I I I I II I f I TU ESI BY BYTHE I t THE T CHINESE I j H l l 1 H H HI Hit hat will wall add particular horror to tod d wIth Chinn s It already hu has huI I to the story of at the tate tale I II and their guards gurda le Is tb the r f C all and trUN and andr r m n the tate tare ot of the earth today tunas are aill Use most cruel the voted to fearful tortures ot of ill their power and the most mOlt w III ever eer new ot sierra for tor the objects ot of their t u J almost Ihn le cruelty they a err than the animal says NI the C I r k Ii Pre reu It they merely d dd de 4 rd d In U torturing one might say MY It w rJ lit DUI the they do not d m In It Thy They torture Hll rata rau to 0 man mall all ee mutter ut of course and the us na v urns accept It equally as I a aQunt coupe There I Is p u II J terrible In the matter r off way In which they subject c U r to demoniac pain with as t 1 r a as a 1 In lit he T l r rk would sentence a malt mall to 10 tn t n daya on the Island with there I le the whippinG J r E urging with bamboo rode roo II This Thle It h r F Ii a method ot of preparing a v tun 1111 for trial that It L II hardly at much Ie lees tor ld th the bamboo I Is on hard gh t to hung blood at each stroke a e 8 when hen It t b 18 applied to tot toE t t E s H ot of the feet teet the often f s q from frum pain and lou Iou of blood corn com cornI I oj i nn ln can hardly enter n a Chi Chio hi o art t tit of Justice without wll i Dg o g l u flogging i l punishment that le Is In w 10 th the simple and kindly o I fuLe ul Is b the coge or 11 Is III that ot of nil all Chinese pun pUll 1 torture A Chinaman d d take tak n 11 pleasure In any t eg 1 that killed QUickly or that r d ts Its culmination ot of pain Quick v IDS 11 m must suffer sutter a little littler r I earh CH h hour In that way 11 he her r r 8 lull II last lut long and can I x P t N roar of 01 10 him him by Iv their slow dying for tor m nus It If he killed them at once hi his t f s II old lIM bl bas over oel too loo soon lOOn r angUI then II b formed to keep t L ot f the penitent up for tor r h hs 1111 or death ends nd his hili hilie p e ings Ing It is II a delightfully i ti xo simple that t were rt I le nothing n I 1 t ing about It at first It t r Iy I w II a large lare frame ot of wOOd with 1 slur liar In the middle le It weighs about fl f lunds and Is II no 10 made that It r he l locked around a mans neck Wi n It le II so 0 tucked It rents mt directly c rn II la ot of the neck and on the t r f Ih the shoulders anti and It Is III so ao con II e b d that It cannot be even 1 n t eh 1 h of un an inch nor Mr can the weight b 1 t reel with the hands In addi V t tu lit collar rullar has hal a sharp rim under r J h I At the does doell not I h except from l I a turned loose as soon as I the ean an anACA H ACA AA ea a a l 1111 I 11 11 IH H H I HH I H H II I I H H III I I H 1 I I HON EDWIN M CONGER AND HIS AS ASSOCIATES AND ATTACHES C J S tr tro z Jf o k j J I I tt 0 l t tk i 0 4 i I II 1 I t i ti I 1 J car lr l li t I t i tr t j t li r J i 1 e eI I t t 1 Fri y IM a 6 y C t a Y A gue Is locked on him and for tor an hour or two h he waddles around In fair cum com tort fort Nut Dut gradually u as the sharp hurp edge ot of the collar cuts deeply Into the flesh ot of his hla neck and all hi his are drawn more and more tense pain begins to 10 conquer him and In a week the tortu tortures have the felicity ot of seeing Ii a maddened d wretch stumble and tan fall around blindly weeping end yelling I with anguish remember In addition that the le II so made that the theman man In It cannot teed himself or drink want depend on othera which give his Jailors the chance to add the tor tUrf ture of hunger huner and thirst to his hla oUr other sufferings and the extent ot of this easy 1 punishment may be estimated The bamboo furnishes favorite ments ment for Chinese legal tortures Sharp rued silvers ot of bamboo are alt used for countless purposes In countless ways Indeed It if the tho reader will just what he would hate mot most to have done don to him with a bamboo sliver he will wall hit V T somethinG that the Chinese are sure lure to do The most simple pie and merciful deeds are to 10 sUck stick tiny slivers all over their victims and to leave leae them there to tel fee feeter ter Worse still la b th the cheerful pros tics ot of driving pieces piece ut of bamboo under the linger finger ur or toe nails ot of accused persona This Thill I L done gently and slowly with a mallet and the ham barn meting Is kept up until the victim con on tele or the d decide that It to Is enough which a good thing thine to gamble on or Impalement le 18 a popular amusement A sharpened bamboo stake lake II 1 used for tor this pleasing diversion The sufferer I is pInioned and laid on till the ground Th Then n the executioner either drives drivel the stake through him BI an an would be Im Impaled aled on a pin phi carefully avoIding an any Immediate mortal injury or the slake Blake is II forced along till the whole length ot of the body providIng a death somewhat some what more swift but even more mort hideous to In form torm ot of yellow wretch y M es do not carry It tr far enough to 10 kill the victim at once but top stop just so that he will live In Incredible agony for days and ea days and sometimes even een weeks during which time Ume he is II placed on pub Ito I Is a common form torm ot of pun but usually It le II anI only a mere accompanying detail of other torture Thus Thul II a man may be crud lied sad and len left lenIn leftIn In the sun lun to dip die from thirst Or lee h may be naIled to a cross with th his bill head tray ep and covered with sweat syrup to at attra tra In Insects t that will bite him to death days daYI ot of suffering Ot of sit an punishments that involve lavol ortt however the one that delights the Chinese Chine heart the most moat is 18 II b such u h a bell bril brillit trat lit result of ingenious 1 thought that me executioners rarely null nail a man who la Ja to suffer this turin torm ot of punishment to the cross TIll They fear the from that might interfere with hl his enjoyment ot IN nISI JJ 1 II hi If I than lII him tb helical skill Th Therefore the man who II 1 to suffer Ling hee generally Is bounto bound boun d to th the cross crOl Then there arrives the ex An executioner skillful at a t the II fa Viewed with high rea reain In the empire much a as a bull fighter Ie i Viewed In Spain To bun bune bungle gle e In and to dice so mUth muc b from the th victim early In the game ame tha t he faints or worst wort still dies dlee before he h ha feu suffered aU all the slicing that has ha been bee n decreed would blacken the executioners executioner execution er ers name forever and might even make hIm the next subject for Ling Chee The I b received with a little murmur ot of approbation for tor his word record III Inu well kept In mind u I the record of an athlete In America or En Eng land In lie He bow II to the high dignitaries II and then tak takes one of at hi swords from the Ibe who has haa followed him They are wonderful swords that lire are used by the executioners they are hundreds hundred of t years yra sad live records record es long and bloody I t it a little Sf h With tilt t well I IrH I H I H r shudder to touch them The ex er r does dOlI not Dot shudder hudder Ire He knO a hul 1111 depends upon ullOn Ii his delicacy of r b be swings the great eal tr lib hi bea heap till It whistles Mil da tl Red fled t that t It It I for tor buI business h be up ap preaches the victim slowly that all this time the poor h hu has been staring at the Uti assemblage at the Ibe executioner at the array arra of at swords Word Ho II b to be kept In suspense lupen still longer for tor when the executioner him b he does dOH not lIlt begin at once MCl I to silo lIce I him Pint h he feints at him amt then wi withdraws TbS he be maUl makes belleve again In the word sword shoots in wickedly and one eme ot of the victims eye ye brows bron I Is sliced off so 10 neatly that Ihal It scarcely draws draWl blood Now begins won and devilish It Itma ma may be that the condemned man b feu been th the subject ot of great rat Imperial mer mercy C cy I In that ease cue h b may have bap been bl blessed beyond compare compre ny by h nu sentence commuted so 10 that he be is to be killed In only twenty slices whre whereas hardened offenders might have been to dl die only after atter ruts U or even more It the II b Very Irr lucky the sword will be at al him so 10 that the eye r can an scarcely fol follow tollow It At each stroke some IOme part or of the poor bound will fall rau to blue be ground Now It mr may be a shoulder now no a piece ot of th the breast now nod an n arm suddenly the tut cut Is II made It is II straight at the heart and the weapon cats calM It out and ends nd the suffering ot of the wretched retched man Nut Dut the spectacle I le Sot Dot ended The executioner now hat has to dismember the cor corpse le and this he does doea with passes of the word sword each carefully studied and lOne done according to r regularly arly laid out rules till there is II absolutely nothing I left tt on the cross erol and only a pile ot of ter terrible terrible fragments lies lIeI at its Ita base When SI Is to IN be a lon long open atlon and the victim I Is to tD die on only I after atter i 10 long It torture the slicing I Is IO sometimes done so 10 slowly that halt the day dar elapses before betor th tine condemned man dies The executioner knows know just wt to cut without killing and Ind he rOM goes to Work u carefully u would a surgeon OD Muscles Musel And tendons and flesh are re stripped from the body with the razor blade ot of the sword until ani only a dreadful framework remains rt that still lUll has awful life In It And at al this terrible spectacle the Chi Chin peas n gas gue stolidly without an lion don either ot of pleasure or lathing An Another ther Ingenious torture that II much seed III b to suspend the man Inn with his hi head down In a pit lt At the bottom are snakes toads and all kinds ot of loathsome which writhe within s a few ot of the vie tims face tace lIre he I is left until the torture ot of the position feu lent gee thirst and reptile bites kill him himI I |