Huntsville gazette., 1883-02-17
The Richest Dentist.

Ut. Evans nails from Pnlladelphla.
He is of Welsh extraction, and belongs
to family half Quaker, half Methodist,
who We're well respected folks in the
city founded by Penn. se
DR.. Evans became a dentist, and took
wife when he was a very young man.
He then came to Europe to assist his
countryman, Brewster, who had been
asked to look after the teeth of
the Prince-President, and had more
business than he could well at
tend to. Evans was an extremely hand
some and well-made little man. His
features, though large, were so neatly
character. An English tailor dressed
him in the best style. He always in the
daytime looked the man of business, al
though it was easy to see that he was
used to rub shoulders with the foremost
personages of the world.
A tincture of American independence
ran through his quiet manner. In smil-
ing, he showed, as if unintentionally-
and it may have been sans intention
white and even set of teeth. A small
and nicely-shaped hand manipulated in
struments of torture with firm dexter
business. There was genuine kindness
in the manner, and there was some
thing in the face which expressed an
obliging disposition. Soon after the
coup d 'etat Brewster sold his business
to DR.. t. Evans. 1t included virtual
monopoly of court practice, which, as
the new Emperor was omnipotent, soon
! brought throng of patients to the
office at the Rue de la Paix. 1t had got
out that Evans was IN high favor at the
Tuileries. The Emperor, who hated
fuss, and dreaded being, like Hortense
and Josephine. his mother and grand
mother, prematurely toothless, liked
his dentists quiet and civil way of dis
charging his morning duties.
The doctor attended daily, when in
| Paris, at s a. M, at the Emperor's
toilet, and then proceeded to the dress
ing of the Empress. Eugene spoke
French with facility, but never like a
we'll educated Parisienne. She knew
that she was often mentally criticised by
members of her encourage for her incl
egant locution. 1t was, therefore, agree
able to see her chat in English-a
| tongue of which she was quite mistress
with Evans, who retailed to her the
news of the town and the current gossip
about the court with an amount of
| truthfulness that was refreshing to ears
tired of fattery. He also treated her
teeth as if they were pearls OF great
PRICE, and kept them for seventeen
years ia excellent condition.
Napoleon Ill. was on the throne, un-
able to give up his Carbonari habits,
which were seen through. For Instance,
when the Car had bad tooth and sent
for Evans, Bismarck, King Leopold,
the Queen of Holland, Prince Meter
mich and Nigra were on the alert to find
out what was brewing at st. Petersburg.
The fortunate dentist accordingly was
summoned to attend, in mary capitals,
to royal teeth. Unwittingly he made
revelations, the importance of which he
did not see. He was given diamond
studded snuff boxes, rings, pins, and
valuable furs.
Condescension was in many an in.
stance pushed SO far as to send him the
likeness of royal or imperial patient,
executed expressly for him. The
Empress (then Queen Augusta did not
90 so far as this; but she gave the
Doctor, two superb Dresden vases, with
painted views on them of her Potsdam
Schloss and Stolzenfels. The Doctor
has every kind of decoration except the
insignia Of the English and Prussian or
ders and the Golden Fleece. .... ....
Under the Empire, DIR. Evans re-
NAMED citizen of the United States.
He is very American in feeling. During
the civil war he went in strongly for the
North. Thurlow Weed, to counteract
the influence of Slidell and his charm
ing daughter, took care to secure the CO.
operation at the Tuileries of Evans. The
dentist had Quakerly dislike to
! slavery. He knew where and how to
take the Emperor, whose irresolution he
| increased when the court set, interested
in the Jecker affair, wanted the block
ade of the Southern ports to be broken.
Evans was the only familiar OF the
! imperial couple who acted in brave
and chivalrous manner on The 4th OF
September. The Empress was deserted
by all the grand members of the house
hold and The high functionaries. Even
her cousin. M. de Lesseps, who had Of
ten proffered good counsel, which was
not needed, but who owed the success
Of the Suez Canal to her, did not remain
at her side. In her desolation she
thought, when on quitting the Tuileries
the Italian Minister put her and Nine.
Lebreton into cab, of driving to the
house of DIR. Evans. The idea was
happy one. Her Majesty arrived in her
Dire ssing-gown. Mrs. Evans was at the
seaside; the Doctor was out.
When he returned he saw the fugitive
had not been recognized, and treated
her as if she had been driven by an
aching tooth to call upon him at his
private residence. The locks to his
wife's clothes-presses were forced to OBJ
tain a change of raiment for the EN-
press, who, with her lady, was taken
by the Doctor in his own carrlnge to
the Norman coast A good friend in
adversitv to the imperial couple, Evans
had, when they were triumphant, the
courage to give them wholesome but
unpalatable advice Knowing thor
oughly the organization of the Prussian
army, he again ard again warned the
Emperor and Empress that in going to
war with Germany they would court
ruin. The Empress probably remem-