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Show Hardly had the conquest of the Soudan Sou-dan been effected before the Roman j Catholic missionaries, which were sus- I pended during the period of the Mah- 1 di's insurrection, hastened to return. '; They now promise to display the utmost ut-most activity in the prosecution of the Catholic propaganda in the Soudan. ; Catholic schools for children of both rexes are to be opened as soon as pos- j sible. I No matter how small his 'wages, j every clerk in a store should so man-age man-age his living expenditures as to put ' into a savings bank a certain amount : of his income every month. Aside I from contracting the babit of thrift, : the money will help hira over a hard -spot some time. It will also materially : ! increase his self-respeet and give him a ! comfortable feeling of personal inde- j j pendence. The Denver Savings Bank ' i is located at Sixteenth and Arapahoe. ! Hoffman'3 Catholic Directory for 1900 ! will be complete in a few days. It will 1 show the Catholic population of the I country to be over 10,000,000. An effort i was made this year to obtain statistics ' j regarding the Church in our new pos- ; sessions, the Philippines. Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Archbishop Chapel le and Bishop Blenk advised against it, as it wacs impossible to obtain accurate ! statistics. Each year on the issuance of the Catholic Directory a dispute breaks out as to the accuracy of the statistics j of the Catholic population. Inasmuch as ; thete figures are all obtained from the ! Bishops of the diocese, the blame for ' errors must lie on them. The greatest ' pains are taken to secure accuracy. I |