Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-22

IA nuestro pan, "Give US this day our daily
bread"
Though Professionalism is tolerated in
Colombia and even protected in a measure
in common with all other forms of re-
ligion by the Liberal Government. it is re-
garded with horror by the people at large,
who consider socls given over to such
heretical doctrines as lost beyond redemp-
ton.
A former missionary in Colombia re-
lates how poor woman came to him one
day, weeping ana evidently driven TO des-
peration by the pangs OF hunger, bringing
her baby in her arms, which she offered
to sell to him
FOR THE SERVICE OF THE DEVIL"
She fully believing that the mission of the
Presbyterians was to gather in souls to his
Satanic majesty.
The maternal instinct is by no means
wanting in the lowest classes of South
American women, and many beautiful ex-
amples are seen OF the mother-love that
will suffer all things for the sake of the
helpless little ones; but among the more
degraded the poor creatures have so many
children and are so habitually hungry and
hopeless that it is no wonder human in
stincts nearly die out of them. In some
cases infants are utterly neglected and left
to shift for themselves as soon as able to
walk, to live or die, ''assi dos quere' las
God wills, as their parents would piously
remark, If questioned on the subject.
An American gentleman tells me that
he was riding one day in the suburbs,
when his horse accidentally ran over and
killed child that was lying asleep in the
road, It's dirty and naked brown body COM
pietely hidden in the sand. OF course he
was stricken with horror and remorse, and,
hunting up the mother, gave her all the
money he happened to have about him,
| amounting to about $40, as a balm to as
suage her grief.
a few days later, riding along the same
road, he saw ahead OF him another child
squatted in the sand in precisely the spot
| where the other was killed Dismounting
| to investigate he discovered that the little
thing could not get out of the way, being
securely tied in a fiat basket. He did not
run over any more babies you may be
sure, but again sought the mother, who
proved to be the same one to whom he had
lately given $40, and who appeared to be
! III waiting anu prOcesueu 10 pieSS her--
backwards-in good. Yankee terms, fol
her carelessness, whereupon the creature
merely shrugged her shoulders and indi
Gated in the most innocent and business
! like manner imaginable, that it was more
money she wanted, not the baby; and that
there were number of other olive
branches whom she would like to dispose Of
on similar terms.
Throughout all Spanish-America the
death of child seems to be a matter D
rejoicing rather than Of sorrow-the idea
being that the little one not having ar
rived at years of discretion, must be with
out sin, and therefore in no danger of the
torments of purgatory; whereas, had II
been permitted to live longer q,,ien sab
(who knows what might have been its
eternal future? The small corpse is Spoken
of by all as otra angeIita (another little
angel. 1t is decorated gaiIy with birds
wings, flowers and bits of gaudy paper
kept in the house as long as possible, otter
great deal too long; and its interment i.
celebrated by lively music, followed by {
feast for all concerned, and sometime.
dancing. FANNY B. WARD.