The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-26

mission organized its sUpbero work. en-
countered another kind OF woman, WHO
wrote letters OF complaint to the news
papers and was annOytngly garruious and
officious. But these Sisters never COM
planned: never in any extremity OF de-
privation. or violence. or mismansgeuent
overstepped the tacturn discretion and
steadfast routine ot mercy they had set
tor themselves. But Of whatever sect.
those OF them VITO professed religion
OF love had their relapsss az times. when
the feminine fibre gave way in secre;
and they poured their hearts out in IN
avaiiirg tears az the pityofitaM Only
the finest organization Is entitled 70 enter
the lists OF these living martyrs, and l.
is only the finest organization that must
bear through II al the crown OF thorns
IN her heart.
I said to one Of these women afterwards
al the Mound City Hospital. How DO
you stand it?' and she answered. "Oh,
we go away and pray and weep where
nobody can see US but God" Thus they
were lnvisibly panopded-
And here 1 read over what have writ
ten and see now colorless II is. Some
thing always prevents one from pulling
open the healed wounds OF war. The hos
pitaI has It's dire secrets. It's nausea, IL
revelations OF physical Alright, that
leaves a monstroUs impression for which
we have o words. Il Is as IT, IN the ~ gni-
hcent sophistory OF war. We were forbid
den by our verp natures to disclose the
outrages and were unable IN the din 70
make the moral heroism az all objective.
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We carried Il in out medical stores.
I meant 20 have tod how IN ny sec
ond hospital experience. when the angel
OF mercy was reaching down into a torn
ard scarcely recognizable mass Of bu-
manftv FOR the spark Of consciousness
that remained. q shell burst through the
roof and obuterated both the nurse and
the patient, and how for moment. those
OF Us VINO escaped and crawled out % TIE
added wreck had one common thought.
which was that those inhuman energies
that man sets IN motion, smite az times
with differentiation irony all tie puny
efforts mat man brings up Afterwards 90
remedy and correct.
But what IS che use7 when man re-
sorts 10 brute force 10 demonstrate his
hfEher virtues. or 20 convince eis fellow
man. ne summons agencies whose vast
vir1lence ne can boast %. bur whose
effects upon TIE individual ne dare not
write about
once the hospital was So on Ere Every
thing favoring lts burning before We could
drag the nutilated but living bodies out
7. was Cd and dry. ard testooae3 VII
punches OF inaaE1abls nay high up among
its raf,ers. TIE surgeons istTuments
were scattered. Mercy iself seemed 70
receive sudden interd.c- ara resolve
Itself into frenzy o: sudden fear. And
always al - bes; % times th3s provisiS on
OF mercy we're rot a. Elective ~ che
prompt and numbering provisions % what
was meant 20 BE Justice. I recall that
ts.ers vas always something missing r.
the sudden emergency u1tl those com
ulirzloned wagons came % enc rescue
A By az b. they g-e~ % - a patt
OF ne system They were Eou1au's cor
tr.oution 20 ne var ard woman gen
orally came E3th tssm- How rnucn hero
!su ard patience aid fort.tg8s see leat
% Ire struggle. coming Ike a osutson
% Offset c1ys.cal failure win moral
stranx-n. has bar61y been tod n the or
Gals records Thy se5zld IS be7 War
fo- the most part. deals with what nas
been called. WITH tue med. asvai brutal
!tv. 'lron AID 5loot- ! z II