Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-02-07
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! What the secret was Of this lnisuE-
derstanding no one hSs fathome"
! There was no quarrel, no scandal. nc
| i'll will Dickens continued to SEND
his absent wife handsome checks for
her support as lorg as he lived. But
it was her sisters--the memory *
the departed one. the practical help
fulness Of the living one--who entered
into the novelist's life far more IMAM
! the woman he had married. Why he
had married her. under these c!rcu:n-
stances, the biographcrs have not 1c-
yealed because they have not discov"
cred.
1t may be that the story Of Don,
and Agnes in David Copperfield" vii:
give the reader who knows the books
photographed value some hint:
otherwise we are almost as much IN
ignorance about the heart life u
Dickens as we are about the Dark
Lady" Of Shakespeares Sonnets.
Made Several Fortunes.
His writings and his readings mads
Dickens very wealthy man. or should
have made him SO. The fortunes
earned by the pen Of Scott, and swa!-
lowed up by financial misfortune.
were duplicated by Dickens, and with
little better result. He received also
an enormous income from his public
appearances, ct some Of which the
people paid five pounds to get into tho
hall. On the occasion Of his second
American visit, in 1867, spectators
stood all night before the ticket office
to get choice seats when II opened In
the morning. In New York at five
A. NJ. there were two lines Of 500 peo-
pie each waiting for the opening o.
the box-office. and as much as ten
dollars was paid to exchange places
with some one further up the line.
America went Dickens-mad He made
$225.O00 in two years from his read
ings.
With all his genius for coming his
brain into gold. he was continually
in hot water financially. and there was
hardly ever time when Charles
Dickens was not working away Il:
fever heat to accumulate some fuHl
or pay of some obligation. 1t wore
him out, and he died prematurely IL
the age Of So. His end was pathetic
He came home to dinner from a little
chalet which was. his workshop. Hs
looked Ill, and Miss Hogarth asked
him to lie down and rest. Yes, on
the ground" he said, and slipped TO
the floor. Those were his last words.
He died the next day. the ninth Of
June. 1870.
The London Of Today.
London is different city today from
the London of Dickens. The Is or
more inns Of Pickwick are nearly ali
gone, like the coffee houses Of John
son. Fagin's Thieves Kitchen and
Warren's Backing Factory have fallen
before the march Of municipal prog
ress. The Old Curiosity Shop. indeed.
remains, but that has been proved to
be fake to capture the nimble sh!ll-
ing Of the American tourist. One
Dickens building" to undergo demoli-
ton recently was the old Insolvent
Debtors Court in Portugal street, back
Of the Law Courts. It was in this
building that many of Dickens char
acters stood in he DOCK" and some
old witness boxes from this court were
sold at auction. They brought good
prices owing to their association with
the great author.
1t 10 new London that II today
the capital Of the world. But the real
London that will 90 down to future
ages ~ the London Of all time is the
London Of Charles Dickens-reeking Of
smells and full Of uns!=htly
structures. but peopled by the warm ..
and most jovial company
Of all the world. by Pickwick and dear
Tom Pinch. and Dick Swiveller and
Tommy Traddles. by Sam Weller ana
the Peggottys, and many more who
constitute the true aristocracy of nc.
ton.
The cult Of Dickens Fellowship Is
quite q growing affair in England, also
n this country, and Dickens works
are being largely read at social and
POLITICAL gatherings. Dickens had much
70 do when alive with the exposing Of
The wrongs Of the poor laws, and In
modern times his works are being read
n order to throw q light on the early
abuses of this system. workhoase
'mcials are usually referred to in the
English newspapers - ''Gradgrinds,"
md other oficials ~ "Bumbles," and
Oickens types and characters are
'ften employed by artists to point tho
moral Of political cartoons. =.
The Dickens Fellowship have re-
lived interest In ali the scenes In
london connected with the author.
The removal Of any house which he
described - always heralded by the
Fellowship - . piece Of "desecra-
1on, and they manage to keep the
'oblse Interest stimulated In Dickena'
,0lloa l.. .