nearer nearer inch by inch the boy crept up and passed yes passed winning by a head from the chinese i came to myself in a group of they were yelling tossing their hats and dancing around like so was i when i came to i was waving my hat and murmuring by the boy wins the boy wins i tried to check myself i assured myself that i was witnessing one of the horrors of and that it was shameful for me under such circumstances to be so light hearted and light headed but it was no use the next event was a donkey race and it was just starting so was the fun the last donkey in was to win the race and what complicated the affair was that no rider rode his own donkey they rode one another s the result of which was that each man strove to make the donkey he rode beat his own donkey ridden by some one else naturally only men possessing very slow or extremely had entered them for the race one donkey the of the of the had been trained to in its legs and lie down whenever its rider touched its sides with his heels some strove to turn around and come back others developed a for the side of the track where they stuck their heads the railing and stopped while all of them around the track one donkey got into an argument with its rider when all the rest of the had crossed the wire that particular donkey was still arguing he won the race though his rider lost it and came in on foot and all the while nearly a thousand were laughing at the fun anybody in my place would have joined with them in having a good time all the foregoing is by way of to the statement that the horrors of as they have been painted in the past do not exist the settlement has been written up repeatedly by and usually by who have never laid eyes on it of course is and it is a terrible thing but so much that is lurid has been written about that neither the nor those who devote their lives to them have received a fair deal here is a case in point a newspaper writer who of course had never been near the settlement vividly described crouching in a grass hut and being nightly by starving on their knees wailing for food this hair raising account was copied by the press all over the united states and was the cause of many indignant and protesting well i lived and slept for five days in mr s grass hut which was a comfortable wooden cottage by the way and there isn t a grass house in the whole settlement and i heard the of the wailing for food � only the wailing was peculiarly harmonious and and it was accompanied by the music of instruments and also the wailing was of various sorts the brass band and two singing societies and lastly a of excellent voices so much for a lie that should never have been printed the wailing was the which the glee clubs always give mr when he returns from a trip to is not so as is imagined i went for a week s visit to the settlement and i took my wife along � all of which would not have happened had we had any apprehension of the disease nor did we wear long gloves and keep apart from the on the contrary we mingled freely with them and before we left knew scores of them by sight and name the precautions of simple cleanliness seem to be all that are necessary on returning to their own houses after having been among and handling the non such as the and the merely wash their faces and hands with mildly soap and change their coats that a is however should be insisted upon and the of from what little is known of the disease should be rigidly maintained on the other hand the awful horror with which the has been regarded in the past and the frightful treatment he has received have been unnecessary and cruel in order to some of the popular of i want to tell something of the relations between the and non as i ob the of the served them at on the morning after our arrival and i attended a shoot of the rifle club and caught our first glimpse of the of affliction and that the club was just beginning a prize shoot for a cup put up by mr who is also a member of the club as also are dr and dr the resident who by the way in the settle pa u on morning of fourth of july ment with their wives all about us in the shooting were the and non were using the same guns and all were rubbing shoulders in the confined space the majority of the were sitting beside me on a bench was a directly in front of me in the stand was an american a of the civil war who had fought on the side he was sixty five years of age but that did not prevent him from running up a good score clad were also shooting as were chinese and � the utter are native in the settlement who are non and on the afternoon that and i climbed the two thousand foot and looked our last upon the the of settlement the the doctors and the mixture of and of and non were all engaged in an exciting game not so was the and his greatly misunderstood and feared disease treated during the middle ages in europe at that time the was considered and dead he was placed in a funeral procession and led to the church where the burial service was read over 