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Show HAD TO SACRIFICE WHISKERS. Authorities M.ide No Exception of Highland Catholic Bishop. Amltl the highlands of Scotland many Catholic priests of tlio mountains moun-tains and Islands have permission to protect (licit throats from tho raw damp of tlio winter by bids. often of (jiille patriarchal itlri i .ions. "I rouieinbiT," says a write .'ood old Scottish padre who . ..o elected (much ngalnst his will) hlihop of a highland see and went to Home to reoolvp episcopal consecration with his cheeks adorned with whlskors much more voluminous than tho clerical Inch' which custom or cour tesy used to allow to all Catholic ecclesiastics. ec-clesiastics. Tho cardinal prefect of propaganda, who was to perform the consecration ceremony, was horrified and InslHted on the sucrl'lce of tho whiskers before tlio consi ration took place. Tho bishop-elect .submitted under un-der protest. Hut he was no sooner hack In his highland fastness than tho whiskers blossom d forth nsaln." |