Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1918 — Paradise Worth Attaining. [ARTICLE]

Paradise Worth Attaining.

According to the Koran the soil, of paradise is composed of musk and saffron, sprinkled with pearls and hyacinths. The walls of the mansions are of gold and silver; the fruits are of a flavor and deyeacy unknown to mortals. Numerous rivers flow through the paradise. Some are of wine, others of milk, honey and water. The pebbles are rubles and emeralds; the banks of musk, camphor and saffron. The meanest inhabitant of the Mohammedan paradise will have 80,000 servants and 72 wives. Wine, though for- , bidden on earth, win there be freely allowed and will not inebriate. I