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Show A Ql EEEt RLLllilOl N NECT. The Cliicfigo3Vi7M()c contains the following: ' Scattered all through portions of Southern Colorado and New Mexico, and extending even into Arizona and Utah, are members of a queer religious religi-ous sect known as the Penitentes. Those fellows act upon the theory that all moral siDS, no matter how hideous, can be atoned by physical au tiering; and accordingly at certain seasons ot the year, generally in the ! Fall, they castig'ite themselves into a condition of godliness, and they commence the battle of life anew. In Colorado and New Mexico the order numbers 10,000 souls, who are all under the control of, and yield implicit im-plicit obedience to, the high priest, Romeo Miguel, who resides at Taos. Tradition avers that Miguel is a direct decendent o( Montezuma, and suoh is the faith reposed in him, and so strong is the conviction ot his divine-origin that any of hia 10,000 ignorant ig-norant subjects would gladly immolate immo-late himself upon the altar, if told Miguel desired it. He lives in great state at Taos, is Btirrounded by u numerous nu-merous retinue of servants and humble hum-ble peons, and religiously exacts one-, third of whatever is produced by his subjects, no matter whether it be srain, wood, cold or silver. A nesr lect or l-efusal to comply with this-ordinanco this-ordinanco subjects the olJender to excommunication ex-communication at least, and, in aggravated ag-gravated cases, to death. |