Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-02-03

ing the day they are Kept IN the one
room of the house, where this woman
has been dying for week from this
infectious disease. These people have
had no doctor, have done no disinfec-
ting, taken no care to prevent the
spreading of the plague and the city
has in no way exercised itself about
the matter.
How They nOurn.
AS soon as the death occurred last
night,at eight o'clock, several women
burst into ehrill screams and followed
them by shrek after shrek until they
fell exhausted upon the floor. Others
took their places and kept up the
shrieks until the burial which occurred
this morning at nine. This was the Co.
lombian way of showing grief and is
followed by long periods Of mourning.
During the two or three years OF
mourning, the whole family even to the
tiniest child is dressed in deepest black,
ken out of school, the woman are not
allowed to cross the threshold to the
street. and in q word the whole fam
lily becomes i'll. We know families here
who have been in mourning for ten or
twelve years, the women buried alive,
and the children brought up in ignor-
ance. WhenTour little son died, it was
said that we were Indifferent because
we did not scream, but did go to the
cemetery and bury him ourselves, in"
stead of lying in fits of exhaustion on
the floor with Our hair torn, our
clothes soiled and half falling off
while others buried our child. And yet
there was another side to the matter.
MANY who are not at all friends of
ours, nor of our cause, have said to me
we 90 out among the sick. What q
gion is yours, thatscan be of 80 much
ISOLATION to you. wish i had it,"
does God use all means to preach
word. And after all what matters
the tearing of human hearts If His
purpose is accomplished!
The Williams Family
In our family of late, we have had
continuous illness. Mr.. Williams was
attacked, on his return journey from
Barranuuilla, with the deadly tropical
fever, which in the last few months has
carried off several of our friends within
the last "a hours after the first attack.
But through goodness of God his life
was spared and he finally returned to
us. / was alone trying to keep up
both his work and mine, while he was
i'll down on the Magdalena river. You
may imagine what was our anxiety.
Friends on all sides were very kind and
thoughtful. Newell has been i'll almost
constantly from fevers, assesses, etc.
due to malnutrition, and heat prostra-
ton. The heat and over work in
this atmosphere of death is telling on
all of U.s.
To the Coast
Mr.. Williams vacation should begin
this March, and from New York they
have several times written concerning
it. But he has responded that he can
not go fori an absence of eight months
from the field until we are sent rein
;orcements. However we..are to make
The journey to the coast in this month.
dr. Williams was appointed delegate
rom Colombia by the Board in New Y ork
o the World CongresssofiM Missions to be
held in Panama in February. And we
have decided that it is not best for me
to try to keep on alone this time, but
for us all to go to the coast, hoping
that the change may be beneficial for
US ALL Barranquilla, the port, has the
record of being one of the hottest