Eureka Reporter | 1903-07-24 | Page 7 | Sultan Missed the Whiskers

sultan the whiskers when the sultan of jolo first mel met gov taft he refused to believe thai thal the man before him was really th the govere govern r of the philippines under th the new dispensation making inquiry through an interpreter gov taft as pertained certa ined that his personal appearance did not come up to what the sultan ex pecked what s the mattert matter asked gov taft it s the beard replied th the interpreter it seems that every high american official the sultan had pra seen bad had a flowing beard and he thought the beard was necessarily a part of every high american official A equipment