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the new guardianship law came
    into operation).

No. 8 proves that the buying and selling of children takes place in
America up to the present day. It is but one instance of this sort out
of scores of others given by the missionary:

    "She was sold when she was but four weeks and five days old. Her
    parents being very poor and having several other children, she was
    disposed of to a man who was a friend of the father. The wife,
    however, was an inmate of an immoral house. Part of the time the
    child was kept there and part of the time in a family house where
    we often saw her in our rounds of visiting prior to the earthquake
    and fire. We did not know but that she belonged to the family in
    whose care we saw her.

    "After the fire the man returned to China, leaving the woman and
    child. The woman took to abusing the child, and word was brought
    to us of the condition of things. We appeared on the scene one
    morning about 10 o'clock with an officer. Leaving him outside, we
    entered, and found the woman and child eating breakfast. Three
    other women and two men soon came in. After talking for a while I
    saw the woman was anxious to get the child away from the table, so
    I informed her we had come to take her, and proceeded to do so,
    catching the child up and