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Show I Remarkable Career of Maxim Gorki I Thousands of people In America ars awaiting with Intense interest the fate of Maxim dorkl. In Europe there are millions of people w ho are waiting and watching for a few words which will tell whethev he is merely held a prisoner pris-oner or whether he has been put to death as the prime mover of the great uprising in Russia. He is at the age of 34 the most Interesting Inter-esting figure in this terrible slaughter. The story of bis own simple life is far more interesting than the horrible tales and depressing plays he has written. His real name Is Alexy Maxlmovitch PleBchkor. His father was a working upholsterer in Nijnl-Novgorod, and his mother was the daughter of a bargee. When he was 6 years old his father died and his mother soon married again. She abandoned her infant to the care of his paternal grandfather, who apprenticed him at a tender age to a cruel cobbler. By the force of his genius he escaped and took up with an old whitewashes who abused him. Wandering away Old World. Each party In Russia took him up as Its champion. Count Tolsol said he wan "the second honest man In Russia." The Minister of the Interior heard Mm in 1900, when he was but 31 years of age, and he was banished to the Caucasus. It was with difficulty that the police of Moscow prevented a demonstration as he departed. Nothing appealed to his people beyond be-yond their own misery.. Law and order and conventional life they could not stand. Gorki, as their interpreter, coui- not stand the conditions which are Imposed upon society. Many of his critics have not as yet understood how he could write of such characters. His philosophy has been characterized as Impossible and unquestionably the Russian Rus-sian Government has always regarded him. since It regarded him at all, as a dangerous man. When the present outbreak out-break took place he was In the front rank of the "bosslaks" and there he stood until he was captured. He made So far as Is known no effort to escape. And since his capture nothing has been heard from him. Possibly nothing will ever be heard from him again, and yet his followers believe that, even as fearful fear-ful as has been this outbreak, the Government Gov-ernment would not dare put Gorki to death. from the whitewashes he saw a river. The vagabond Instincts in the child asserted tnemselves and he became a Cook's boy upon a river steamer. Tiring Tir-ing soon of the wster life, he wandered ' back to land and became a gardener's helper. A low coffee house attracted him next, and he engaged as a waiter. Then he was a vender of hot potatoes in the streets of an interior town. The first railway he saw fascinated him and he hired out as a laborer. This he deserted de-serted for the army and the army he soon left behind for the liberty of a krass hawker. (Krass is a cheap food made from rye bread.) A Mr. La nine, an avocat, took him up when he was but 18 years of age and introduced him to many eminent Journalists. Jour-nalists. But.he was still suffering from the "disease of the wandering foot," and he broke away from the avocat. Through the valleys of the Volga and the Don he wandered, as free as a bird. He visited the Crimea and the Caucasus. Cau-casus. Then a Mr. Korolenko discovered discov-ered him. It was in 1892. His new benefactor bene-factor told him he should write. He knew it himself, but he couldn't. At the age of 15 he could hardly read, and how now at X0 was he to write literature? litera-ture? He did, however, write his first tale, "Makar Tchoudra." It was a short, but a great success. Inside of a aosen years he had produced one long, tiresome tire-some novel. "Forma Qordever," and several small sketches. They were loathsome and depressing. "In the Autumn." Au-tumn." "Malva." "Toaka' and "Ths Orlovs" were aU desperately horrible. "I have come from below," he wrote, "from the very depths of life, where there is naught but slum and slush. I am the voice of that llfe-the harsh cry of those who follow In Its mire." Maxim Gorki wrota things which attracted at-tracted the Princes and peasants of the m m m. f -a m. . ' i uri tnVTh T. " crr---t ' . |