The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-06
AN AMERICAN ABROAD.
DIR. Evans, of philadelphia, and His
BRILLIANT Career.

Lordon Truth.
DR.. Evans halls from Philadelphia. He
is Of Welsh extraction, and belongs to a
family haN Quaker, half Methodist, who
were well respected in the city founded by
Penn.
DR.. Evans became dentist, and took a
wife when he was very young man. He
then came to Europe to assist his country
man, Brewster, who had been asked to
look after the teeth ofthe Prince-President,
and had more business than he could well
attend to. Evans was IN extremely hand
some and well-made little man.
A tincture OF American Independence
ran through his quiet manner. In smiling,
he showed, as II unjntentionally-and IT
may have been sans intention-a white
and even set Of teeth. A small and nicely
|.shapely hand manipulated instruments OF
torture with firm righteousness. There
was genuine kindness in the manner, and
there was something in the face which ex-
pressed an ob)iging disposition. Soon after
the coup d. etat Brewster sold his business
to DR.. 4. 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 Ia Paix. It had got out that
Evans was in high favor at the Tuileries::
The Emperor, who hated fuss, and dreaded
being, like Horense and Josephine, his
mother and grandmother, permanently
tooihless, liked his dentists quiet and civil
way OF discharging his morning duties.
The doctor attended daily, when in Paris,
at s A. ~, at the Emperor's toilet, and then
proceeded to the dressing.room Of the En-
press.
Napoleon III. was, on the throne, I'M
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, and
Queen OF Holland, Prince Metternich, and
Nigra were on the alert to find out what
was brewing at St Petersburg. The iortu-
nate dentist accordingly was summoned to
attend, in many capitals, TO royal teeth.
Unwittingly he made revelations, the i'm
portance OF which he did not see. He was
given diamond.studded snuf-boxes, rings,
pins, and valuable furs.
Condescension was in many an instance
pushed go far as to send him the likents, Of
a royal or imperial patient, executed ex.
pressly for him. The Empress(then Queenl
Augusta did not 60 so far as this; but she
gave the Doctor two supreme Dresden
vases, with painted views on them OF her
Potsdam Schloss and Stolzenfols. The
Doctor has every kind Of decoration except
the insignia OF the English and Prussian
orders and the Golden Fleece.
Under the Empire, DR.. Evans remained
a citizen OF the United States. He is very
American in feeling. During the Civil
War he went in strongly for the North.
Thurlow Weed, 10 counteract the influence
OF Slidell and his charming daughter, took
care to secure the cooperation at the Tuil-
cries OF Evans. The dentist had Quaker.
Iy dislike to slavery. He knew where and
how to take the Emperor, whose irresolu-
tions he increased when the court set, in-
terested in the Jecker affair, wanted the
blockade OF the Southern ports to be broken.
Evans was the only familiar OF the impe-
rial couple who acted in brave and chiv-
alrous manner on the 4th OF September.
The empress was deserted by all the grand
members OF the household and the high
functionafies. Even her cousin, N, de
Lesseps, who had often profiered good
counsel, which was not needed, but who
owed tue buCCeSb Vi tuc SuSE Suuhl " ueI
did not remain at herside. In her desola-
ton she thought, when on quitting the
Tuileries the Italian Minister put her and
Nine. Lebreton into cab, of driving to
tho house OF Dr.. Evans. The idea was a
happy one. Her Majesty arrived in her
dressing gown. Mrs. Evans was at the sea-
side; the Doctor was out.
When he returned, he saw the fugitive
had not been recognized, and treated her
as II she had been driven by an aching
tooth to call upon him ut his private resi-
dence. The lock to his wife's private
clothespresses were forcedS to obtain a
change OF raiment for the Empress, who,
with her lady was taken by the Doctor in
his own carriage to the Norman coast. A
good friend in adversely to the imperial
couple, Evans had, when they were tri-
umphant, the courage to give them whole
bome but unpalatable advice. Knowing
thoroughly the organization Of the Prus-
sian army, he again and again warned the
Emperor and Empress that in going to war
with Germany they would court ruin. The
Empress probably remembered this ad.
vice when she was sitting in his house
awaiting his return home.