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Show HAD TO SACRIFICE WHISKERS. Authorit.es Mide No Exception of Highland Catholic Bishop. Amid the highlands of Scotland many Catholic priests of the mountains moun-tains and islands have permission to protect their throats from tho raw damp of tho winter by li'irds, often of quite patriarchal tlli. u .Ions. "I remember," says a wrltei good old Scottish padro who waa elected (much against his will) bishop of a highland see and went to Rome to iccelve episcopal consecration with his cheeks ndorned with whiskers much nioio voluminous than the clerical Inch' which custom or courtesy cour-tesy used to allow to all Catholic ecclesiastics. ec-clesiastics. The cardinal prefect of propaganda, who was to perform the consecration ceremony, was horrified nnd Insisted on the sacr Ice of the whiskers before the const ration took place. The bishop elect submitted under un-der protest nut he was no sooner back In his highland fastness than tho whiskers blossom id forth again." |