Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-19

keep % tunip that had fnllcn fuom hisnrt. |
and how another old servant nnniol Jack. |
son hung himself In the farm office behind |
Grin from sheer desperation ht the mig |
gardlincss aud brutality of Mlscr Isaac |
Evans II you ever come 20 Grit and |
Walter Evans, Esq, Is still it, tcuRnt-un.
less this picture u himself may change his !
naturc-yo will be- turned away. Hs have
been myself aud hundreds of other. with
the brutal nud -oullcss snccr that Grin is
no place for sentiment; people must keen
away; they bother the occupantsnnd lc.5an
the value Of the rcniala
Al, II WIS another sort Of soui whu,p
eyes once looked from those pleasant wu
dows upon all who passed OF came. who's,
heart bled for the poverty and suffering
around hes. whose tender spirit sought
out all who were 10 ignorance and dolor,
who ministcrcd 10 the sick, relieved the
needy and taught poor miners children.
until all the grc,t and injustice that have
blightcd the spot tor the past forty years
cannot circt the brightness TINT the ong
gentle presence left upon it. aud Ia thp
memories q gray old men aud women
near, Tor her sake alone, ii IN all but cot.
given, and Grill is still Grill with sa1 and
tender charm. II will not be- long until
these few human crabs who bear uuoihut's
dcathlc,s name viii hHyc pus,ud away and
have lcit for "a d1y, us time ~ rcckunOd,
a little shadow hero. Then MI may come,
with u rcyeunt blessing for Gcou,c ElioCs
girlho1l home
10 the literary pilgrim there are many
charming surprises in the noighborhood u
Grill during q quest " Identification ~
places and persons with the Individuality
" the novelist. lt isn little more than
lfty years since George Eliot lcft Grill Tor.
! ever. quite forty ycnrs since she babe fare.
well 20 the lovely home u "BIrl Grove
3 Foleshill, Coventry
Yet thcrc rye scorrs N folk remaining.
/ high mud lowly, who knew her intimately
/ ~ maid and woman. some who wcfc her
/ playmate, still survive 4 few ~ thuss
whom she gathered into the cottage II old
/ Dame Moore. just opposite the gates q
/ Grin, and taught the way of hope uru still
| here 10 bless her with quiSering voice pld
tear dimmcd eyes.
/ one Of the most genial Of English gen.
/ tlcmcn aud helpers Of those who come l.
| MIR Moutagu Wilks, solicitor OF Coventry.
Through his hearty, kindly aid much
searching for these folk hy "a stranger IN u
strange land ih iigltcncd aud made ~ glad.
some pleasure. Through him learned Of
many about Coventry who had loving rem.
inisccncrs oi one whom nll who knew hal
loved. Her dearest friend Of early woman.
hood was Mn. Charlie, Bray. who now
lives with a sister, Mira llguoll, on the
| Rhdiorl road IN tac suburbs u Coventry.
Probably no other person now living
could throw 80 much real Hight on the
noyclist's early life ~ could Mr.. Bray.
Another old friend II Mn. Cash. nr,.
ncighbor Of MIR. bray. While MIR Joseph
Cash, Coventry Mnnuiuctufgr ~ rib
hons, orns and ruiijcs IN "Lirl Grove"
the house in which George Eliot wrote
"Scrnos Of Clerical Life" by FAR them
Interesting aud unrommuuicntiyo OF ia,
noyclist's contemporaries here ~ an an
Client professor Of music, ninety three year
Old, named Simms. who resides on tht
Hadfod road. lie WIS for upward ol
nny-thrce years orgnnist u Coventry,
famous st. Michnols church, and II Wa.
be who taught George Ellut the mastery
Of the organ ard pianotoric.
NV own discoveries Of those who have
lived about Grill when the members 81
George Eliot's family wrru ali together
here include John Mar-ton. an old wheel
wright, whose smlthy SIN stands near III,
stcnding. "Bllln Jacques, seventy .scycf
years OF age. u schuolmAtc of lna' Evan
and playmate of the novelist, the old mri
Crnbstocll. whose generosity with singl,
turnip lost him his place at Grill; l,ichap
Emmons, living NJ Stocklng,ord, now {
very old man and rcputed by the peasant
rs 10 have "hatiuls u soycrigns," VII,
was Ia turn Held lnborer, house servant
and fuotmun Nc Grin, footmnn at Dir
Lodge" aud finally house servant back OF
GHn for Isaac Evans until bis death ID
$50, aud William Moore, now seventy
three ycsrl Of axe, who lives ut CollycUft
a little miners hamlet between Bydworti
and GRID,
Tho latter IL the son of the ycritabl
Dame Moore who kept che DANES schoo
opposite Grils gates. II was In his moth
. cr's cottage that George E,iot, then
maiden oi nftcgn, gathvrd together th
, / children NJ the miuor, aud cOttlcrs abon
GriT and taught them for several years 10
IN hour or tNo each Sunday morning, an,
thon took her ragged charges 70 Culver
Cotton church. IN the afternoon they al
) came together again when she laugh
them from the Scriptures ana some himpl
, melo,lrs Of the time.
God bless &c. sirm said old william
: Moore, the tears ,rieEling down hi
wrinklcd face, II can see 'rr hnngcl face
I .ho wor q plain sort a. haugcl, slr-thi
minute aforc my eyes, Mary Ann tcachc
= class fur nigh onto i've year She Wor
great scholgrd sir an a CONAN truc.'
10 mo that old cottage whurr this kind
! work was done H. almost the swuptp.
, place about Grin. II the present ocru
pants will let you who come yet ~ lar q
= the door og the old mansion the two hug,
tiny PANIED windows Ht Ia lult Will brlu
= another picture clear aud true ON while
. tho mind loves dearly 10 dwell, "An OF
fashioned child, already living la wogl
y Of her own imagination, lmprssiblc 20 he
7 finger tips" b. the center NJ the simpl
homcsldu evening scene, Thcrc are ~
, energetic mother, knitting ever, the brothe
u busy ut his books or kecp@hscs, an "rldt
? girl prlm aud tidy with her work bcior
= her" and u grave, stern, but kindly tnth'
: who 1. turning the pages Of some plctui
y book, with prcsoirnt anxiety aud boun'
: luss love In his gray eyes, ~ he looks no.
+! upon the book and now upon the rebellion
y hair that tumbles over that wise youn
7, daughter head.
u And you will turn away from Griif wit
. hlcssiug Tor the father who made th
o girl his iuseparablu companion until h,
o years Of womnnhood had come, and almU
with blcfalnr on Gril Itself, despite Il
" hateful atmosphere Of to-day, for what can
y out Of this oldcu lrcsidc circle, crcliug an
!. widening until IL had zoned with the ful
y Of ono wDiHsn's genius all our good ol
:, globe. EDGAR IL WAALA@A'
. santo Domingo Mahogany.
n II IL true that Santo Domingo mi
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