The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-26
LETTER FROM FATHER BEGLEY.

| ARLINGTON, Kan. March 25.-With your
/ wonted kindness, please allow me after SC
! long a silence, to address a few lines
/ through the column Of your very worthy
! paper, first to yourself and brother and the
/ kind, accommodating and efficient mem
bers of your valued and appreciated firm,
and especially to my friend Mr. Sternberg,
To him / am deeply grateful for the many
generous cOurtesies extended me during
the time had the honor of editing the
/ "News," sheet originated by that very
worthy gentleman, Rev. NJ j. Casey, for
the sole purpose of fostering and feeding
the poor orphan, with a secondary effort
made in the interest of immigration TO the
then famous southwest.
With the unfortunate mishaps that
befel me, the News suspended, and |
laid in the Sisters Hospital for three
months sometimes | thought at the very
constant and circulating pain, and at
times. ruthlessly twitched into direful
contOrtiOns at the hands of a surgical
bOtCh
1t is not so, as was so foully
printed in an evening paper on the eve Of
my departure from the hospital that my
limbs were not originally set right DR..
City, a man whose reputation is far be
yond the evil intentions Of quacks or
medical butchers, set my limbs Alright and
natural, having negatived the intention of
those who decided to amputate it. He
more than that, even, instructed the doc
tor who thought himself competent to
take charge of the case. that he should be
careful and III putting on the several casts
TO have the limb kept straight, as 1t was
liable to turn in or out during the knit
ting process. But no, he knew his
business presumably so thorough, and
he allowed my limb to dish out
to an alarming and disgusting degree after
placing on it three plaster OF paris casts.
| dearly love the consideration humanity
has for man, but it would take a stronger
stomach than l possess to digest what
some of these quackS don't know about
surgery. Think of it, too, that after hav-
ing the case for three months, fully assur-
ing me from time to time that he under
stood ii. and at the expiration of that
time say he did not guarantee anything in
my case. But enough for ] tire, especially
as | am the sufferer For fifteen months |
have not walked, owing to the enfeebled
and crooked condition of my limbs but some
weeks since | came here resolved TO either
walk or die and placed myself under the
care of an old time personal and consider
ate friend. DIR. Preston. He, with some
twenty others who have seen my limbs.
pronounced the treatment | received "a
shamefully sCandalOus and criminal in the
extreme. Under the immediate superyis-
ion Of my friend the doctor, man who
does not doctor for what there is in it, /
am happy to be able 10 say that | can now,
after this short time. tOddle around on
CTutcheS and ne assures me of better i'm
prOvement still. None can imagine. save
those who have passed through the ordeal,
how gratefGlit feels TO be able to tread on
terra firma once more.
To the kind and attentive sisters Of st. /
Francis Hospital | owe 4 gratefulness
that can not be paid here. an attentive and
consideration of sick and
stricken mankind that Eeralds their name
and fame abroad in the land was most
extended me while sick and /
under their charge there
To the generous hearted people of Wich- .
ita feel deeply grateful for many fond .
tokens OF gratitude. the remembrance Of
which serves 5ut TO cement the ties OF T.
friendship once 80 happily existing, and .
even now fraught with the haPpiest recoi- .
lcctIons
Y secular priests lot appears /
the more unenviable the mo-
ment he j stricken down. either
by disease or accident for more than ever
be Is left 20 battle for 2 livelihood a. best
be can A. priest / term this .
o
which bind, Inc 10 zeaiOusly labor for the .
cause of reh gion and advancement q .
church while enjoy the bliSsful privileges
Of good health ana an immunity from sc
cideuts, should contra guarantee me pro
lection when fallen by the way side. in
,lkneSS or inhrmitv Docs not the gov
eminent under whose banner | dearly love
TO be clasSed Ioyai subject grant me
protection when another power should
wrongly impri,on or deprive me II my
rights g. citizen u the uited
States Does not "a Masonic lodge
1r any other confTaCeTlItv OF bret hren pro
vide for their sick and helueath 10 the
deceased relatives q remuneration cor t1elr
benefit and support
I speak not IN 4 reveH-rful spirit. for
manhood should be made up Of more
,terneT stuff than that. but we ara all I'll
titled 70 a constellation from the stand
point of justice, LEI il strike where II VIII
would fall far short c. tle manhood
,laim 10 posses. mt 70 mention she
he poor drunkGri who had heipIeSsly
allen by the Wavside IL mol assisting hi1a
% his home. or placing him IN the AaCds
Il hl> friends.
Now ! VIII close. dear EAGLE. wishing
-ou well. and trusting toat the noble blTg!
Inder whose symbolic gush-age your TFsTser
laS conceived - uauT and proud ISSUES
nar have adorned your crown with rhe
nauy advantageous b0onS. may Sill PRES
~ and continue 10 stTIae - -alous n
be wrongs that oPpre-s the people
JoHx BEeIEY.
Catholic Priest