The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-07

bring a whole.hcartcd reverence TO q
spot mado luminous by the presence OF
u mighty soul.
One daughter, maiden lady Of severe
and awful aspect, was 1saac's house.
keeper for many years Mt GriE. She
now resides at Bedworth, and tho lowly
OF tho place dread her austerc visagc
and her cruel platitudes, they freely con-
iessed to me, when her purse, hand and
gentle words might relieve great suffer.
Ing. a brother, the Rev. Frederic
Evans, Is tho preseni Rector OF Bed
worth. lie performs his canonical
offices with mechanical accuracy and
metallic soddenness; enjoys his fat ''liv-
ing" rs though tho Almighty had ar
ranged the parishes aud population Of
England with especial reference TO tho
vicNrious relations OF the Evans family
to His affairs; and has no heart or eyes
Tor the poverty and suffering about him.
For Bedworth is Il pit village, with q
few Insignificant and struggling manu-
factories. Wages are ut rs low a point
us at any place in England. There Is
not half ehoughfor half tho year for half
the folk to do. These clutch at any lilo
sustaining labor with positive ierocity;
and | could take 1tlie Reys Frederic
Evans into not only q dozen ,Sbnt an
hundred pitiiul homes Fin J BetlWorth
where attention, sympathy; consolation
and even now and then n few copper
pence, would make tho name and the
religion OF n Bedworth rector stand for
much that Is seenlly In any minister OF
Christ. g5s,as5 ssINtyS n
Another sister, Is tho wife OF n clergy.
man named Griffith. The other brother
Is Walter Evans Esq., tho present ten.
ant Of GriF and agent for Col. Newli.
gate, the present ownersof Arbhry
estate. In all England I have not
found any man who has seemed SO
capable OF justly incurring the resent.
ment OF English pilgrims to an English
shrine; and during FIVE years largely
passed In wandering up and down the
face Of this historic land, l lave never
before come upon any, human being
who so thoroughly illustrated tho fact
that in nearly every family OF, good
repute there somewhere runs, Ithe,cur:
IRISH strain OF blood. a. fs,y ~
All this family who remain are rich
through miserliness. Tho hard, stern
nature was not in Robert Evans. 1t
began with Isaac, the'novelises 6rother,
who dropped deadiin!h his chair after all
his niggardly gaining. The peasant folk
relate how he watched in tho hedges
lest his laborers mighttoss potato to
hungry cottier or. tramp in the high.
way; how q. poorEold ,servitot named
CrabstocE was chased away from GriH
because. he let Il miner 8 lad keep q tur-
nip that had fallen from his cart; and
how another old servant named Jackson
hung himself in tho farm office: behind
Grill from sheer desperation at tho mig
gardliness and brutality OF miscr Isaac
Evans. II you ever come TO 'GriT and
Walter Evans, ESQ.,, is still its tenent-
unless this picture OF himself may
change his nature-yon will DO turned
away, as have been myself and hun.
dreds OF others. with the brutal and
soulless sneer that Grit is no place for
sentiment; people must keep away;
they bother the occupants and lessen
the value Of tho rentals.
All, it was another sort OF sould whose
eyes once looked IRON these pleasant
windows upon all who passed or came;
whose heart bled for tho poverty and
suffering around her; whose tender
spirit sought out all who were in ignor-
nnce and .dolor; who ministered. 10 the
sick, relieved the needy and taught poo:
miner s children;. until all the greed and
injustice that have blishted the spot for
the past forty years cannot ettace the
brightness that one gentle presence left
upon it; and in the memories OF gray
old men and women near, for her sake
alone, It is all but forgiven, and Griff is
still Griff with Bad and tender charm.
1t will not be long until, these few hun
CRY human crabs who bear another's
deathless name will have passed away
and have left for day, as time is recE-
oned, little shadow here. Then all
may come, with Il reyerent blessing for
George Eliot's, girlhood homes