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Show THE NOVELIST AND THE CARDINAL, "The death of Mr. George Meredith is an event charged with grief for all who knew him a class in which must be included in-cluded a vast multitude of readers who never beheld hi3 face or heard his indulgent in-dulgent voice," remarks the London Tablet "To his literary genius the general gen-eral press does justice for the first time over his coffin: and for the Catholic reader of his works there is only too little lit-tle to recall that has, so to say, the Catholic label. One such item, dear indeed in-deed to all men, but especially dear to us, is found in the sonnet addressed by Mr. Meredith to Cardinal Manning in the November of 1886. . The poet, long wakeful for the skylark voice the ascending as-cending and the heavenward voice in man hears it at last from a Roman Cardinal; and the situation is enlivened by the further paradox of an address of homage, not merely from a non-Catholic to a Catholic, but to the people's Cardinal Car-dinal from the greatest literary aristocrat aristo-crat that ever lived. The Cardinal, no great reader of Mr. Meredith's, was by no means indifferent-to the unexpected tribute; and, expressing to Mr. Stead a wish to see its writer, he received a visit at Archbishop's house, Westminister from the hermit of Box Hill. Several years later, Mr. Meredith recounted to a Catholic friend his impressions of the Cardinal somewhat as follows: "Manning's "Man-ning's simplicity gave him great strength. The absence of worldlfness in all that appertained to him was,' strangely strange-ly enough, his great weapon against the world. I never was able to feel at home with comfortable Anglican ecclesiastics not even with Stanley, for, though there was no dogma, there was a Dean but I talked with Manning for two hours, and came away refreshed and edified." Are you interested In California Arizona Ari-zona and Old Mexico? If so, it would be wise to write for full ' information about the shortest line and the best service from your point to those sections, sec-tions, via the SALT LAKE ROUTE Utah's most popular road. HOME FOR AGED NUNS. With the signing of the contracts recently, re-cently, the first step in the erection of a $300,000 Catholic institution to be operated oper-ated in Denver by the Sisters of Mercy was taken. The institution will hp ra tional in scope for it is the plan to make it a home for the retired Sisters of Mercy throughout the United States. Didn't See the Joke. A. certain curate was of a painfully ! nervous temperament, and In con.e- 1 ouence way constantly making awkward awk-ward remarks-intended as compliment? to the bishop and others Having distinguished himself in an unusual degree during a gathering of clergy to an afternoon tea in the bish- M,8 fnnlace' k6 Was taken to task for . his failings by a senior curate who was one of his companions on the wav ' home. 1 "f i5 hc.rc'" said Bce,J the senior decidedly, you are a donkey. Whv i can t you keep quiet instead of making ' your asinine remarks? I am speaking to you now as a brother." Loud laughter Interrupted him at this point, and for the moment he did not I see the Joke. Rehoboth Sunday Her- |