The Portland daily press., 1898-01-26
ROYALTYS DENTIST.
Iabouoh.re's Memories of DIR. Evans.
(London Truth.)

(London Truth.)
l have been expecting to hear that DR..
Thomas Evans left his fortune to his i'm
perIal and royal patients. He worshipped
them all, and yet he was their candid
friend in speaking to them. There was
good deal of Stockmar, who was also
doctor, In Evans. But the latter had
American business shrewdness, and the
American passion and ability for money
making. When, in the. days of yore, I
first knew him. I did not believe a tenth
of what he said about his high interna-
tional influence 1t seemed to me the
suggestions of vanity, for he was sub
empty boast. The august, princely,
grand ducal and other highnesses re-
oeived and spoke to him exactly as he
said. He gave them benevolent advice,
which they were glad to have. Decora-
tions, all the years knew him, kept
raining down on him. His Importance
as secret diplomats ceased with the fall
of the empire. But his situation as
dentist and man OF enormous fortune
remained mistaken. He also remained
favorite of the different potentates to
whom he,used to take messages from Ma
poleon III. The Empress Augusta was
faithful to him to the end. Her daughter,
the Grand Duchess of Baden, wrote heart
broken letters to Mrs. Evans. They were
about the had health of her children
She had no healthy child, and envied the
poor women whom she saw surrounded
by chubby, rosy faced urchlns.
DR.. Evans was more than friend of
the late Emperor Frederick and his wife,
they placed in Sir Moren Mackenzie,
about whose treatment he had strong
views. Evans's opinion greatly infiu-
enced the opinion of the old emperor and
empress, of Bismarck, and of the Berlin
physicians, about the throat doctor from
London. Evans was originally Quaker
The theatrical and society tastes of Sir
Morell Mackenzie were repugnant to him.
His feeling about them made. him scruti-
nize keenly the man and his treatment.
But tho crown. princess had a strong bias
and followed 1t. Dr. Evans was given
impressions of all the photos taken of
Frederick during his Illness The later
ones, which were signed by him, were in
expTessibly sad. The signature was bold,
lIC01 CllotopUCLiouAc3 ni10 WAApoOAA oioiAe-
ingIy in gold ink across the lower part of
the image. Above it were few friendly
words. In the photos taken at San Reno
martyrdom was stamped on the face. The
crown prince then could not speak. He
generally wrote on a slate. DR.. Evans
asked him to write on black cards or
tablets the size of slate, when he had oc-
casion to communicate with him.
"Whyp" asked the prince. II want to
have them as a precious relic for my
wife, The request was complied with.
Very seldom indeed did the handwriting
betray weakness but it became sharp and
tenuated. 1t showed an habitual wish
to give noble air to what he wrote
There was something insthe general char
toria' signature, but it WAS more emo
tional than hers. DR.. Evans, while
speaking quite candidly of his shuman
weakness, called him a lump of goodness.
The late doctor had the prudence of the
courtier. He only talked about the kings.
and queens to old and tried friends. This
curious character was on a small pattern.
He had no big defects; nor had he any
shining virtues. But he had many IS.
timable qualities, good for every day use.
He was a safe man, take him what way
you might, was a hard working man,
though SO opulent, and was always un-
affected. The Quaker education stood
him in good stead in keeping his head
level and his manners civil and obl1gtDg
He almost quarreled with the emperor
for declaring war in 1870. In 1867 or 1868
/ heard him make disparaging remarks
of the princess Metternich in her hearing,
and in that of the empress. Count Won
Goltz then suffering from q cancer in the
mouth, was also within ear shot. He
sided up to DR.. Evans and quietly took
his hand, squeezed 1t and passed on. l
asked the. DR.. what the Princess had done
to cause his displeasure. He said that
she and the Archduke Albert and Comte
Serrurier were trying to draw France into
a war with Prussia. And what II they
succeedP'' / asked ''They will ruin
France, and have too great interests in
Paris not to put spoke in their wheel. "
say, was lady S man and son sof mar
shall of the first empire. He and
the Princess Metternich had got up q
sSocjety de secours aux blesses,"
and had drawn the empress into it. The
object was to familiarize the French with
the idea of war. Such being Evans's sem
timents, it was highly honorable to have
stood by the empress as he did on the 4th
of September and the following days.
She took refuge at his house In dressing
gown. He lent her clothes Of his wife's,
and took her himself to Trouvflie, going
part of the way in his carriage. At
Tisieux there was serious danger, as
she was recognized; but DR.. Evans was
able to get her through quietly. The gov
ernment did not ask better than to let
her go, but the populace was everywhere
hostile. Nobody had reckonedi unless the
empress and Evans, on defeat. 1t
brought, therefore, an infuriating sensa-
ton. Eugene was known to be with the