Smyrna times., 1883-01-03
The Richest Dentist in the World.
HOW THE AMERICAN DOCTOR EVANS
GAINED HIS WEALTH AND HoNoRs.

10 a family nail quaker, nan MeGnoulSC
who were well-respected folks in the
city founded by Penn.
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 attend to.
| Evans was an extremely handsome
and well-made little man. His feat
ures, though large, were SO neatly cut
as almost to give them pretty charac-
ter. An English tailor dressed him in
the best style. He always in the day
time looked the man of business, |
although it was easy to see that he was
used to rub shoulders with the fore
most personages Of the world.
A tincture of American independence
ran through his quiet manner. In
smiling, he showed, as if unintention-
ally-and it may have been sans inten-
tiOn-a white and even set of teeth.
A small and nicely-shaped hand
manipulated instruments of torture
with firm deXterousness. There was
genuine kindness in the manner, and
. there was something in the face which
expressed an Obliging disposition. Soon
after the coup d etdt, Brewster sold his
business to DIR. 7. Evans. 1t included Il
: virtual monopoly of court practice,
which, as the new Emperor was
y Omnipotent, soon brought a 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 grandmother, prema-
= turely toothless, liked his dentist S
- quiet and civil way of discharging his
morning duties.
The doctor attended daily, when in
IL Paris, at A. NJ, at the Emperor's
:. toilet, and then proceeded to the dress
y ing room of the Empress. Eugeni'
y spoke French with facility, but neve
I. like a well-educated Parisienne. Sh
knew that she was often mental.
criticised by members of her entOurdg
. for her inelegant locutions. 1t was
therefore, agreeable to her to chat il
English-a tongue of which she wa
IL icfp EvoOS who rf
. tailed to her the news of the town an
ld the current gossip about the cOur
with an amount of truthfulness ths
was refreshing to ears tired of fiatter.
He also treated her teeth as if the
were pearls of great price, and kel
them for seventeen years in excellel
100 condition.
Napoleon III, was, on the thrOn
unable to give up his CarbOnari habit
which were seen through. For
stance, when the Gar had bad too
and sent for Evans, Bismarck, XII
Leopold and Nigra were on the alert
find out what was brewing at
Petersburg. The fortunate dent
accordingly was summoned to after
in many capitals, to royal teeth. |
willingly he made revelations, the
portancc of which he did not see.
was given diamond-studded sn
boxes, rings, pins and valuable furs.
CondescensiUn was i'll many an
stance pushed 50 far as to send him
likeness of u royal or imperial patie
executed expressly for him. The /
press then Queen Augusta did not
so far as this but she gave the Doc
two superb Dresden vases, with pa
ed views of them of her POtsd
Schloss and StOlzenfels. The Doc
has every kind of decoration exc
the insignia of the English and p
sian orders and the Golden Fleece.
Under the empire, DR.. Evans
manned citizen of the United Sta
He is very American in feeling. j
ing the civil war he went in stror
for the North. ThurlOw Weed,
counteract the influence of Slidell
his charming daughters, took car
secure the cooperation at the TuilC
of Evans. The dentist had Quak
. dislike to slavery. He knew how
where to take the Emperor, W
irresolution he increased when
court set, interested in the Je
affair. wanted the blockade of
Southern ports to be broken.
Evans was the only familiar oi
imperial couple who acted in
Z and chivalrous manner on the A
September. The Empress was de
ed by all the grand members oi
e household and the high functions
sE Even her cousin, NJ. de Lesseps,
TT had often proffered good cou
n which was not needed, but who
I'll the success of the Suez Canal tC
Vi did not remain at her side. Ii
XII desolation she thought, when on
EM ting the Tuileries the Italian Mil
fI nut her and Nine. Lebreton into
81 of driving to the house OF DIR. Il
The idea was a happy one.
$50 Majesty arrived in her dressing
Mrs. Evans was at the seaside
Doctor was out.
When he returned, he saw
fugitive had not been recognized
treated her as If she had been .
- by an aching tooth to call upon h
cvr his private residence. The locks
GLL, wife's clothes presses were for'
obtain change of rainment fc
-. Empress, who, with her lady
uno,,.on +ol,an hxy the Doctor in his own ca