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Show B DOCTOR DALBY. - B The death" of Dr. William "Thomas" Daltiy is B most pitiable. Not many knew that he was ill at all, B only a few understood that, being overworked, B he had gone to the seashore for rest and restora- B tion; only one or two knew that he was really B seriously ill until on Friday of last week the B fearful news was wired that he was in a dying B condition, that though on the way, it was doubtful B if he lived to reach home. To the young wife B the blow was overwhelming, to a multitude of B friends the news was most shocking. B Not many people know how sterling a man fl was Dr. Dalby. Many knew him as eminent in B his profession, eminent both as a physician and B surgeon, but they knew little of the depth of his fl nature or the graces of his character. All that fl was high or honorable in poor human nature, he fl possesed. He was a born gentleman under every B condition, true and gentle and brave. He knew S that he was dying when he went away, and we B believe that his ruling thought then was to pre- B vent the sorrow of those he loved in watching fl his sufferings as he passed down life's last de- B cline. B He took up the study and practice of his pro- fl fession as a trust. To the day he left here six B weeks ago he answered every call, no matter B hiow humble, and he responded often when he fl was more ill and suffering more than were those B who sought his services. B ' Ever since he was Health Commissioner of B tho city he has been besieged with calls from B indigent sick. To these he not only gave his B services free, but, day after day, week after week, fl year after year, he bought; and paid. for the med- B icines for the very poor. This service amounted B monthly to a sum greater than half the men B Who work on salaries in the city receive. It is a B joy to think fiiat all those accounts are now B audited and stand to his credit in the great Led- B ger above. Duty was the guide of his life and he shrank from no sacrifice when duty seemed to demand it. He lived a high, modest, earnest life, keeping his sympathies always warm, his talents tal-ents at 'the service of his fellow man. While he was eminent in his profession he was steadily growing in it; a constant student, always alert to do something better on any given day than he had performed on the previous day. He was as eminent a citizen as he was physician. Of gentle eastern lineage he was early tossed upon the frontier, where he was rounded and broadened broad-ened until his horizon took in his whole country coun-try and he was an American of Americans. His life was one of the most useful lives in the state and city, his death ts deplorable past estimation. The desolation of his late home is heart-breaking. His marriage was the veal incorporation of two lives and the picture of the stricken survivor sur-vivor bending above her two helpless babies is one of a sorrow that has not one relieving tint. One of the keenest pangs of the young mother's grief is the thought that those babies will never realize how noble and true and devoted, and how superb in character was their father. Searching In the darkness of her soul for a ray of comfort the only one that comes to her is tho knowledge of what he was, what he hoped to be to her and their children. May this be enough to support and sustain and give her the strength to be both mother and father to his children. |