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Show ONE ON THE CARDINAL. Cardinal Manning idaled this incident as having hav-ing ha)jened to himself: One night 1 was retvrning to my residence in cstmiiis?er when 1 met a poor man carrving a basket and s:i:oking .t ,ipe. I thought over tin's; lie wlio smokes gets thirsty; h.j who is thirsty desires de-sires to drink: he who drinks too much gets drunk-be drunk-be who gels drunk endangers his soul.' This man is in danger of morlal sin. Lei us save him. I aneetionately addressed him: "Are you a Catholics' 'T am, thanks be to Cod.f "Where are you from ''From Cork, your riverence.v Are you a member of the Total Abstinence Society So-ciety P -, j "No, your rivererence." "Now," said 1. "ihat is very wrong. Look at' me; 1 am a member." "Faith, may be your riverence has need of it." 1 shook hands with him and left. 1 . |