Who should return to Paris, last fortnight, after a visit to the new Papal State, but beloved Louis Ernest Cardinal Dubois. When correspondents hastened to call upon the amiable and popular Archbishop of Paris, they found him in the best possible humor. He had just carried to Pope Pius XI, he said, a check for a half-million francs ($19,500). At first the Holy Father would not take it, but Cardinal Dubois gently proffered the sum a second time, and finally Pope Pius turned the check over to the Papal treasury, with instructions...
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