Show S Sian n That Dickens Knew St Till Still ll iI Hangs n s in London tOUR IONI LONDON ON LI 1 I Special Correspondence O ONDON DON Oct 1 Dickens lovers L LONDON to thank that thal tireless au un authority on Roz Boz Percy I aid old for Cor pointing out that a curious old sign which wan sea un an unfailing object of Interest to Dickens an nil a It boy and to 10 which he hI often ottin referred In ht later years still hangs hunge In the thu road load of af i London This sign Isn which a R alone along long lone hardware nl ft film m at Is III a Il t example of the thu queer III eel trade em emit emblems which from the sixteenth sixteen ill century distinguished practically every shop of any Importance In the metropolis butof but butof of or which few Ir specimens now noli o exist It represents a golden dog dol apparently lick lIrk licking ing lag til out of ot an ovet overturned turned crock or 01 pot put end and Is le generally referred to as all Tho The sign HIn of ot the dot dog and 1 the pot Dickens t discovered It In as U Fitzgerald II three thos heartrending henrt heart rend rending In days In lu Warren t lit H factory when the poor pOOl lad hit Ilse caien curee b bj by all lilt tb Ih the odd add minus that met his cr eye And iid he lie the novelist It aa saying of that time My 1 usual stay 11 home that I Is le to lant t where I her herll h hI he had hat a u lodging fo sal an RII to he hp nearer neater hi hIs family In thIS the prison over oer Black friars friar r bridge bridal and down dawn that turning In inthe the tho toad rood which has hall Rowland Row Rots land Hills chApel on one side aide and the likeness of n R gulden dog licking 1 a aideen aide alII on en n pot over a u shop hop door dOM on qu Ih the other adds When hen heu the thu little IJ line 1111 sun it II trill first It U must have been about the or and the thedo dug dog do has hl licked on ever eel since to this year eal of grace glace e 1905 1906 1 I should Ma say there I Is no of thin this kind at nil all OUn elated with Roe Hoc that has hall stood In U It place so co lon long and so no undisturbed l I 1 wonder haw bow It can ran have e escaped 1114 for fol some II serious shop keeper might have hae thought It n II gro no grotesque I tesque hindrance to his hla business It however that Hint the Iron Ironmongers ron mongers ulio ho own oln the he sign tar for tram heln being heing Ill etc decidedly of It and perhaps future Am Ameri American rl can s may old Interest In this tilts of or former days which Is le so 1 closely with According lo to his hili friends 1 opus n II as n 1 n writer I If Is still stilli till tillIe u Ie i runic Inn but v sill appear appeal before be hI fore fare many day dIlY The story tor of the Inception ami of time the book villa u t In the current I Is n II sees ery Int one n and JN IK tH fat fai us III the men S t net tet I II of lr the y III are ir 1 Ilet 1111 goes KOPH that thai Mi r it lii burn e has Ilia flet I ct or been blen bv hv an any writer Many ye Irs more than IhAn 10 Wi Swin burn hurn determined to 10 write t m an 1 tl the I book upon the tho dram Long Lona before he set pen tl to paper Jon nn thin Ihla subject t his hili knowledge of It van true gnats thin than that of ot any iian of ot hi Ills his time It la is doubtful In lu Inci lusted I ci sted i whether Interesting th and Import as the subject I Is It T is II worth the thi tl time and pains which Mr but bume ne whose lio o Is no so great assin us as un sin olI original writer has hat devoted to it The book haM haH seen been close upon comple completion tion for years yar JI crud and Mr dr nr was ens r only 1111 waiting In the hope that thal Mi Mr liui nul lea leu the London publisher hel would com corm complete his hiM services to students by bring lug litH out nut n II collection of ot How Rowley Howles leys works work I after fret year 1111 went want on and Mr Ill Bullen lm 11 loss not yet pt seen 1111 if n hid hie way stay lA to doing tho this literary service I i It tl was wu for the tho two quarto plays of ot Rowleys which Mr borne burno hail had not read to be studied Inthe In III Inthe the museum slut Hut during this thin time lime Mi Mt had come corn to share Carlyle dislike of ot reading leAding In its the museum and hi his friend friends uM neither him to td go 0 and anti r i nd id Motleys Rowleys uncollected quartos not nor yet vet persuade him to leave these i playa untouched un 1111 touched end and to give the world his hili study of Hosley Rowley as III far tor as us he know him himAt himAt himAt At lust last l he lie was WM used h by u a friend to logo go Co to 10 the British The result seas us that the they went and he hI who hid halt never i b barn ii 11 seen In the tho inu lot for a to quarter ur of a II century 1111 ails seen n Ih there lp bending oer oter lays end and ld inn The Thu 11 In lit t feature with 1111 Ihl shit story Is hi that u Il writer alloM l 1 t mass massof K Kot of ot work to which he lie had given Ivell a II un ble portion of or his hll life lite t tt to 8 and lo lust t In III magazines rill fur forthe I the Hike sake of about ten pages III lei This show how two things an nn unseeing strength I Of or the us conscience and lInd an All log Ing to faith that time lane would allow allots him hint Intake Intake In to take nearly ID 10 yell years over a 11 book It IK IN almost HS as as all the till fact that i is ud his hll I Faust In Iu hit his hi eightieth Kola Is III a II drug on ou the market hh his books booke do not at lit all nn no nos 1011 I Ills liln I statement would I hue hove been surprising If made laude b by un 1111 i III hr r I but It came cume II an as lather lath Ith Ithel I er el 1 a shock from from frum th the head of one line of I the biggest blell libraries In forte lurl Atul he went on Rouret popularity inot I b not what I it tt wn war 1 Anatole Frunze 1111 mil Pierre Loll Loti no tee 11 always In d demand mund e th the lint huh It Is to stow row tl ti two I nIl women whet who t cc the publio It lain Harry and Manche Thee Thet I era the authors respectively of The Thi of ot Jerusalem ant ind 11 lh House c of ot Mill Kin both bOlh of or which I er I sally remarkable Corks vork Flaubert I the bookseller went on Oil if Is I an ice I much perhaps more moio read thou than PI es rr pr ot it foi Cr for foreign eign authors Into French II U 0 eIa 1118 ll is III easily cushy lh the Int populate The Pub Pails Matin I iii II trying to locale I a aman man n from tram whom It n 0 t truly rul Y I proposition the other othel d day Is I with tho the object of or dissuading him hum from committing It If lIuI Ih tb I 11 newspaper should add him to Its III staff I for evidently h hI ha has hul the true journal Istle Instinct b hf hl hero a as a would a an I all pear pear or fakir as OK Is le half halt toil In 11 I Iwu Lie Ilia III communication to thu this Malin h was wait I H r ned A B H A with n a pu tom I address the writer expressed ell his thou lion of or committing suicide and of lf I fertl before he slid did II so to write 1111 a 11 I of articles describing the thi state of mind of a II man who Intends ti ro take tuk his hll own III II life The last lat article h hi he sn says s h hi sill II III I call calI I 1 Shall DIp Die and wh 11 n nH It H Is le he ha will kill himself Th rh first article will wilt describe his hili state plate or of I mind whet when he home one 1 men eten 11 I ln InK and found that ids his wife had huc left him Idol and taken their child Another I will describe hi his hili search learch and another will generalize on Her liar Love LaVI I and Hate lIate The fifth nUh will sill describe tl Its the choice t tand of wa ways a o of ot f committing t o suicide and th the sixth the tho preparations Ho UP neka the Matin to invest the time sum they would woud pay for fOI the thc articles and let It Iti II i ito tr until hiM IK IH t I eto this I old U tr yuU will to thill jl 1 he concludes I shall have lIon done at r rh h least one rood rand 1 thing In ticking taking my life t l 1 HAYDEN 1 |