The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24

| tudG W llc Was pdLuOt1C III Luo eAJI0u0
and even a couple of pet monkeys tina
| frolicked about in the garden seemed t,
share the aspect of hard times that wa
apparent everywhere-foro one of then
had lost an eye and the other a hand
Just as / was IN the act of taking ny
leave the supper bell rang, and as l rode
out Of the courtyard l caught a glimpse
of the good archbishop, with his attend
| ant priests and number of his littl.
negro pupils, sitting down at one tablt
to meal so frugal that could not helI
thinking of that very grand parsonage
! the head cook or chef of the cardina
| primate of Hungary.
A few days later while calling upor
the cars envoy, NJ. Hitrovo, at the Rus
sian legation, was presented by his ex
cellency to most gorgeous apparition
whom the minister described as His
holiness Sophronius, patriarch of the
Copts." In his hand was a long ebony
staff or crosieF incrusted with jewels
| over his shoulders was a voluminous
crimson cloak, and the entire front OF
his robes from the throat down to the
hem at his feet was one brilliant mass
or plaque of precious stones, which gilt
tered in the sun as he stepped forth to
thrown crimson hood which concealed
lofty headdress Of some kind or anoth-
er, and from beneath its edge there
peered out a couple Of furtive cunning
eyes, which appeared alternately to
cringe and to domineer. The swarthy
face was almost entirely concealed by
a thick, long and shaggy gray beard,
literally caked with dirt. His hands
although covered with gems were equal
ly filthy, and ! did not kiss the archi-
episcopal paw at the end of the visit.
Another famous prelate whose sur
roundings are modest and simple in the
extreme is Cardinal Simeoni, who as
project of propaganda fide at Rome is,
next to the pontiff himself, the supreme
head of the Catholic church in the
United States. Cardinal Gibbons and
all the other members of the Catholic
episcopacy in this country are subject to
the absolute control and commands Of
this kindly little man who succeeded
Cardinal Antoneli as secretary of state
to Plus TX. While at Rome used fire.
quently to visit him in his quarters upon
the sixth or seventh floor of the propa-
ganda fide. They were low, bare look
ing rooms, with uncarpeted and unpar-
quetted floors, sparsely furnished with
shabby sofas and divans, and with tables
and chairs that had seen better days.
The cardinals apparel was in keeping
with his environment, and his cassock
bore far greater resemblance to that
of the archbishop of Khartoum than to
that of the primate of Hungary. Unlike
the latter, his household was limited to
a couple of monsignori whose faces are
probably familiar to every American
bishop who has visited Rome.
Nor is it among the Catholic prelates
alone that these contrasts of great wealth
and great poverty are to be found. A
similar state of affairs prevails in the
Church of England, where the salaries
attached to the sees of Can't erbury, Dur
ham, York and London appear colossal
when compared to those of Edinburgh,
Liverpool, Exeter and St. Adams. The
archbishop Of Canterbury, for instance,
receives from the government a yearly
stipend of $4,000 with the enjoyment Of
stately palace in London at Lambeth
and of magnificent country seat, called
Addington Park, near Croydon.
The bishop of London, who receives
the same salary as the president of the
United States, namely $4,000, has a
splendid town residence in st. James
square and palace standing in the
midst of a superb park out in the sub
urbs at Fulham. Bishopsthorpe palace
and $50, 900 a year go with the archbish-
opric of York, and Auckland castle, with
$40, 900 per annum, to the bishop of Dur
ham. The lord bishop Of Rochester, on
the other hand, finds it difficult to make
both ends meet on $140 900, as he is ex-
pected to maintain quite as much state
as the bishop of Durham; and the bish-
op of Liverpool, who has not even a pal
ace and an even smaller stipend, is in a
still worse predicament.
Small as this rate Of pay appears
alongside of the big incomes of the arch
bishops of Canterbury and York, and of
the bishops OF London and Durham,
they are still enormous when compared
with the stipends of the Catholic hier-
archy in France. There is not a single
cardinal or archbishop whose salary ex-
ceeds $500, while the average stipend
to the Episcopal sees amounts
from three to four thousand dollars.
AN EX-DIPLOMATIST.