| Show A NEW RELIGIOUS SECT the existence of a new religious sect has been discovered in russia called the zen or the sect has been known to be in existence in russia for ninny years but has hitherto escaped the vigilance of the police the zen have most barbarous practices the doctrine from which the name is derived is the mortification of the flesh which they interpret as self seif mutilation the members marry young after the birth of the first child the parents are rendered incapable of further offs offspring te 1 na the object of this appears to be in order to keep the family wealth undivided the treasury was vas discovered in the house hoase of a rich merchant in mors bensh his name is maxim his house is so large as to occupy almost a whole quarter of the city and served the purpose of a kind bind of nunnery nine nuns nuna were arrested there at the time and among them a sister 0 of f the leader of the sect pictures of Selta now and other prophets of the sect were foun found d in one of the rooms the treasury was not discovered without great trouble the large cellars were searched in vain at f last after passing through six vaults on entering the seventh suspicion N sag was t excited by a large stove which ch stood fa one corner and which appeared never to have been fitted up for use on examining it an iron doorways door was discovered behind it leading to a secret apartment which contained immense wealth ae be sides bides an eno enormous inious box bullof gold impe rials there were also found about fifteen millions of silver roubles coubles rou bles and above ten millions in bank notes tills this was the chief depository of the sect and had bad been collecting for the past century the sect is supposed not only to be a religious but a political association 9 and it is said that this immense wealth was intended by the kopaev 8 to found a new russian empire |
