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Show Maxim Gorky wrote some stories about fifteen years ago about the tramps and beggars of Russia with whom he had shared their free and easy lives, and whom lu: pictured as good fellows and most delightful companions. Since the Russo-Japanese war and the famines in Russia, these picturesque beggars have increased in numbers and in jovial good fellowship until today they arc not only a nuisance, nui-sance, but a positive menace to the law-abiding citizens cit-izens of the empire. Some wag has dubbed the vagabonds "Gorky's Ideals,,? and the name has spread' throughout tho country. Gorky's name has thus been perpetuated in a way he little anticipated when he wrote the books that made him famous. |