Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-31
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 .iii,s4s :15nalP 5nPApERs. . fInoY ! sss'fsl Hto the south.west from slls bigh bluffs lying essk of fhsl town q lo- miss raaS s opsIi5sd sin ss is W s s ss Tn Tssg are SO distinct and so sharp pointed that il it were Egypt instead of Colorado one would not doubt their being chiseled pyramids of stone; and when told that they are mountains more than a hundred miles away. one hes a vague sense of disap- pointment. They look at once more de- fined aud more evanescent than is the wont of mountains; on hazy day they are marked only by slightly deepened color: little more haze, and they are gone. melting sometimes out of sight even ander your eyes, like mirage on the hor- izon. From the delicacy and softness of tint of these peaks, combined with their sharp cut pyramidal outline, they have an inexpressible beauty as seen from the bluffs of which speak; they enhance and crown tha 1uhols view, so much tiaat when people come home from the drive on the bluffs, the first question heard Is always, "Were the Spanish Peaks in sight?"
 Who called them, or why he called them the Spanish Peaks. I cannot learn; perhaps in old Castile there are peaks of the same soft tint and sharp outline; but the Indians named them better, Wa-ha- toy-a, which being turned into English is the Twin Sisters, or, as some say, the Twin Breasts.
 Gradually, as month after month one sazes on these beautiful far.oH peaks, they take deep hold on the imagination. They seem to be the citadel gates of some fairer realm, into which we more and more yearn to look; and when the day comes on which we set out for the Jour. ney to their base, it is as if we were bound for some one of the Fl Dorados of our youth.
 Starting from Colorado Springs to seek them, one must go by rail forty.fve miles sousl@afil t0t Rnelslo,, and ghefc6 Gftz miles, still by rail, farther south to CnchL aras. It should be on an early June day. Then the mountain tops will be white with snow, the cotton-wo along the Ecreeks and the young grass on the foot ffflls Will be of a tender green. the dome of the sky will be vivid blue, and the ra- diant air will shimmer, spite of it's cool. ness. ia'tiA f''ss
 Set down at Cucharas at sunset. one feels tempted to run after the little nar- row-guage train as 1t puffs away into the wilderness and cry, "Hold! hold! It was mistake. I will not remain" The whole town itself seems mistake, an ac cident: handful of log cabins and wood, en shanties in two struggling lines. as If ck <1 nn$r @o1r hod forced to halt for rest; plains to north. east. south of them, bare. barren, shel. terless plains, with only the cactus and low bunch. grass to show that the sandy soil holds in it an element of life. II must be indeed resolute soul which could content itself with the outlook al Cucharas.
 It was twilight before we succeeded n finding the springless wagon and the un mated horses which were to take us siz miles west to the town of Welsenburg, si1 miles nearer to the great Twin Sisters' The plains looked yaster with each deep ening shadow; the grim. gaunt oactul stalks looked more and more fierce and unfriendly; of a deep purple. almost black, in the southwest, rose Wa. .ha-tOy.ai no longer soft of tint and 1'ssssss s.1t =
 
 'sHow like old skeletons these cactus plants lookl'' | exclaimed. ssPhey are un canry with their heshless legs and armi aHeard of the Penitentes, I suppose?' replied our driver with seeming irrele vance.
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 "Weil, these cactuses are what they whip themselves with. I've seen 'em witt the blood streaming down their backs It was fearful tale to hear in the twi light, as we jolted along over the road we and our driver apparently the only liv. hand ran the little Cucharas creek, dus ky line of trees marking it's course; be- yond the creek rose here and there low bluffs and plateaus with Mexican housel upon them,-houses built of mud, small Sd uare, flat rooted, not more than six ol seven feet high. Surely the native Mexl can must be first cousin to the mud-spar row! He has improved on his cousini style of architecture in only one particu l lar, and to that he has been driven in sell defense. He sometimes joins his houses | together in hollow square, and puts al \ When Indians attack mud-sparrows nests dare say the mud-sparrows will do the same thing and leave of having from doors. Orour lert the dusky,r winding lines of trees, and the dark, silent hill crowned with the mud plazas; on ou right the great, gray wilderness; in iron rather than telling the tale of the Peni tentes. = what an hour it was! s It seems that there still exists anont the Roman Catholic Mexicans of Southerl l Colorado an order like the old order . the Flagellants. Every spring. in Easte week. several of the young men belongin! to this order -infict on themselves dread full tortures in public The congregation to which they belong gather about them follow them from hcnseg to house an spot to spot. and knee1 down aroun, them, singing and praying and continual y exciting their frenzy te higher pitch Sometimes they have also drums and flies adding melancholy and discordant mu sic -s to the narrowing spectacle. Tn I priests ostensibly disapproye of these pro ceedings, and never appear in public Wit the Penitentes. But the lmpressio among outsiders is very strong that the | uO 6GCkSbtyN~C CQuut0tA0tlOO them, thinking that the excitement tend
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