Evening journal., 1897-12-14
WAYFARER' S NOTE BOOK
Things, Pleasant and Unpleas-
ant, Caught on the Way.
sKITs ON PERSONS AND THINGS

IF YOU READ THEM BEFORE SUP
PER THEY WILL AID YOUR d.
GESTION, BUT THERE is MOTH
ING PUT IN THEM TO LIJLL YOU
TO SLEEP.
The layman has no adequate concep-
tion of the amount of charity done by
the one hundred and five physicians
practicing in this city. Few of them
will leave q human being to suffer be
cause he is unable to pay for profess
sional services. Once in a great while
you hear Of a physician who has such
a high regard for the almighty dollar
that he refuses a charity case, but IL
the fact becomes public property he
knows full well that he will be held up
to public condemnation. Few persons
stop to think that a physicians knowl-
edge, skill, and service constitute his
livelihood. Many who would never ask
a plumber to do work, coal dealer to
supply fuel, or a grocer to furnish pro-
visions for nothing will not hesitate to
call upon a physician to give them
the benefit of his professional skill and
time for the mere sake of charity. Not
that alone, but those who are able to
pay too often take it for granted that,
in the matter of liquidating the house
hold Indebtedness, the family physi-
clan should be the last creditor to be
taken into consideration.
One of the largest practitioners in
the city is DR.. Joseph Pyle. He is a
man of peculiar temperament with a
gruh, rOughand-ready exterior, but,
like his father, State Senator John
Pyle, as warm as you could wish after
you break Through the crust. He not
only has an extensive practice, but he
probably does as much charity work
as any two physicians in the commu-
nifty. Not long ago he was sitting in
the sheriff's office The Wayfarer saw
him there and the conversation drifted
along medical lines. Finally the mat
ter of charity work was alluded to. The
doctor slapped his knee and said:
There's any amount Of it done. Why.
sir l can demonstrate to you by my
books, covering all the years of my
professional career that the people of
Wilmington owe me 1925, 900 for SER
vices performed, and for which | have
never been remunerated!"
And he looked as though he meant it.
AT THE FRONT OF THE OAR.
The weight of responsibility resting
upon the motorman of a trolley car
traversing a busy and crowded thor
oughfare is not generally considered
or appreciated. He must have a clear
head, sound judgment, a quick eye and
firm hand, else he will get both him
self and the company which employs
him into trouble. Nearly everyone has
ridden in a car when it would suddenly
slacken its speed or come to a dead
stop, causing every passenger in the
car to lurch and give audible or inaudi.
bic expression to his feeling. Passen.
gers do not stop to think that that JERK
or step which slightly inconvenience
them meant life to some person OF
thing on the track ahead. But tht
motorman is where he can see and ap
preciate what the passengers cannot
Just stop and think of the many pedes
trians and teams which are on. OF
cross, the course of a car in what con
stitutes a working day of the motor
man. Consider the many times hi
Judgment must tell him, with light
ning-like rapidity whether to go faster
slow up or come to a dead stop to pre-
vent collision and perhaps death be
meath the wheels. The small numbe
of trolley accidents in Wilmington ar
the most convincing evidence of tn
keen discernment of the management
OF the road in securing the right mel
TO operate the motive power of tn
common carriers of the company.
But these jolts, and jerks, and stop
are not always the result of judgmen
and QaTfffnn 9TH N.
fruits Of fear. This statement has ref
erence to the green" man who has Sc
cured position on the road and VIII
is learning to operate the car. Invari
ably, for the first few trips. he has a
experienced man at his side brealin
him in. but this fact does not alto
gether reassure him. Between the Mid
die Depot and the P, w. & B. static
no imagines that he cannot help run
ming down score of people and ma
dozen teams. Hence the unpleasar
experience Of his passengers But in
week or two he does not take such
sanguinary view of his miNion. an
then things go easier. Sometimes, how
ever, it requires two or three month
Tor the feeling of dire apprehension /
leave his mind.
FORGOT WHAT SHE OWED THEN
Your story about Henry c. Turnt
and Harry Sharpley out at the Lynal
farm reminds me of a good one
which Sharpley played the ieadin
part, said a man to the Wayfarer tn
morning. "At the time of which
speak Sharpley was a member of II
General Assembly. Among the bill
there was one divorcing a woman fro
her husband. She had appeared befo
the committee and told most pitif
tale, and had the sympathy of all wi
head her recitation A favorable I
port was ordered, and the bill pass,
one house and was sent to the otht
In day or two it passed there, and
soon as it had become a law d
woman went off and married anoth
man. She did not even wait for t
three days of grace to expire. Ne
day Sharpley got up and moved tn
the marriage be declared null and vo
because the woman had failed to invi
the Divorce Committee fO attend I