Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-02

domed towns. The boy now dreamed the wild dream of entering as student at the University of Kazan. but when he made the attempt was but laughed at. Bitterly disappointed. forced to work, he settled down to toll in a stifiing bakery. But the misery exr perienced there, coupled with an in- nate restlessness. drove him forth again; he peeled apples. worked as q gardener, . railway watchman and porter, and for time was clerk in the office of an attorney. Restless. un. happy, he finally took to the road be- came a tramp. He wandered far Andi wide, here and there in southern Rus sia. into Little Russia and Bess., anbie, through the Crimea and the KNban district of the Caucasus. At Tifls, where he worked for . sea. son as navvy. he published his nrst story. Christian Brinton. writing in the Worlds Work, says: ''1t is im- possible not to feel that the bitter privations of this forlorn and shabby Odyssey, the ceaseless heartache and bodily anguish, were precisely those factors which contributed to GorkyU development The young man who hlnndered into the ofice of the TifiiA "fSsvsxv" h eof.sz smock and n:1- stained boots knew little of literature. but great deal of life. During alI those years of hopeless, banned effort when he tramped over the sun scorched or snow-driven expanse o1 Russia he had been studying human nature at first hand. ,t was not mero ly observation but experience. for he himself knew the blackest misery and despair. On one occasion he even tried suicide, but was unwillingly nursed back to life on crude hos pital cot in Kazan. The bits of color and of character which caught his eye or burned themselves into his brain formed the raw material of each story. each sketch that now flowed @ freely from his pen. In its outward traits Gorky's work is reflex. . record of the life he lived. Within 1t is c passionate protest against the condi- tions. social and economic, of his nat tive land"
 Shortly after the public began to read Gorky's tales. he became . popu- lar idol. Each of the three leading political parties. the NatIonalists. Marxists and Conservatives. claimed him and made use of his works the one party against the other. Every body read his stories and articles, his picture was seen everywhere.
 In appearance Gorky is tall and raw boned. with a face of markef strength. A reddish mustache droops over his large. firm mouth, his eyes are . keen gray. his low brown arc set in continual frovn. Perhaps the fancy Is not an idle one that he looks his part-"The Bitter one." one that had drunk deep of the gall in life's cup. Of himself and his co-vorkers in the revolutionary movement hs has this to say: We are not anar- chists-the people interested h this movement of which am small part We are seeking reforms that muss and will come. The Russian govern ment of today is nothing less than anarchy and it's members anarchists. There is no law, no order; 1t is anar- ehy pure and simple under the gulso of organized government ia vhfrh those who are not absolutely debane1 are kept in entire ignorance of tho true condition of a1zirs in our d<sr tressed country"
 Tn 1901 Gorky vas arrested for pr ticipating in the student troubles. bue on account of broken heaffh was f1r/ leased and permitted to % to q Crfnea to recuperateL Ia 1901 government rsscfnded his eiec<ioq the ImpriaI academy His recent
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