Manti Messenger | 1897-01-23 | Page 7 | Beards in Heaven

in healen it mould take a whole page of the republic tn to catalogue all the queer superstitions ions about the beard and the burlou laws las hat have been enacted for its protection tec tion russia had an all old law b m velch hach one aho vho s ho pulled but a single hilr fro from another beard might be fined four time times as much as if he had cut off one of his hi elems eleni en eni fingers the turks have always believed that a beardless man would mould never be admitted to para di seand the russians although the do profess to despite ever everything thang turkish declare that no rin beardless son of adam can e ev cr enter heaven