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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

In 1892 appeared the story "Makau
Chudra;" and then followed in rapid
succession ''Emelyan Pilyai," "Chel-
kash," "Konovalau,' 'The Orlov Cou-
pie, 2 THE Steppe," 'Malva," Com
rades," and "Twenty-six and One. -
Story now succeeded story, each stark
and brutal in it's setting, yet each an
apotheosis OF pity and of poverty"
With "Foma Gordyeef' Gorky came to
international fame. Roma Gordyeef"
was followed by THE Trio" and his
suppressed work 1.-The Peasants In
the field of drama, too, Maxim Gorky
has triumphed, produced THE Bour-
geois," THE Night Refuge" "At the
Bottom"
Benjamin De Casseres writing in the
Critic declares Gorky is more than
Tolstoy, more than Turgeneff, the soul
of the Russian people," and adds: THE
philosophy OF non-reSistance to him is
the philosophy of towards. In his
stories he has chanted the glories of
strength-because he has seen the
evils of weakness. Red Sunday in st.
Petersburg made of Gorky a world-fig-
ure. In times that try mems souls, the
safe and sane fly to cover; and
thank heaven-Gorky is neither safe
nor sane. He typifies the spirit of re-
volt-has become the Byron of Russia >.
Gorky's childhood and early man
hood were spent in bitterest poverty.
He was born at Mini Novgorod in
1868, son of poor upholsterer Early
left an orphan and at the tender mer-
cies Of a bigoted old grandfather,
misery was his constant attendant.
Five months of schooling was all that
was allowed, and at the age of nine
the boy was apprenticed to a cobbler.
His duties evidently were not wholly
confined to the shop, for we are told
that one day he was set to making the
cabbage soup for the family. and that,
not very deft, the youthful cook got
part of the contents of the kettle on
himself, was very badly scalded. In
anger the cobbler sent him forth, this
poor little Russian Oliver Twist put
out to struggle as he might.
His next employment was with a
Mechanical craftsman, and later he
worked with a painter of ikpns
(sacred pictures); then one day he
ran away. Next we hear of him as
cooks boy on a Volga steamer. The
cook, friendly fellow, gave his help
er books to read and encouraged him
to form the reading habit, started
Gorky to pore over any and every bit
of writing he could lay his hands OH.
..Treatises on Freemasonry. Lives of
the Saints, Gogol. Dumas, ETC., were
thus indiscriIhinately devoured while
plying the river between busy gold
domed towns. The boy now dreamed
tie Wild dream of entering as student
at the University of Kazan, but when
he made the attempt was but laugFssd
at. Bitterly disappointed, forced to
work, he settled down to toll in a
sitting bakery. But the misery ex-
perienced there, coupled with an In
nate restlessness, drove him forth
again; he peeled apples, worked as a
gardener, railway Waterman and
porter, and for time was clerk in the
ofrce of an attorney. Restless, un-
happy, he finally took to the road, be-
came tramp. He wandered far and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

Recently there has come to this
country Russian author whose life
has been as picturesque as any char
acter by his vivid pen portrayed.
Gorky, 1.-The Bitter One" has himself
dwelt in the cellar of life" the mes
sage he brings from the Underworld
and the underworld ia Russia is very
deep down indeed-cries from the
heart Of things, from the soul.
Maxim Gorky, whose real name is
Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkoff, jour
neys to this country in the interests of
the Russian revolutionary movement
He arrives in i'll health, result % last
years imprisonment, suffered because
of political offenses.
When the Russian government ar
rested Gorky this last time, laid hands
OF violence on the man whose genius
was becoming recognized in many
lands, a united protest was RAISED in
Europe. In this country Gorky as yet
is not well known, but those fam liar
with his work are most enthusiastic in
their homage.
On the supposition that generally
American readers are unacquainted
with this most modern member of the
bodygsof great Russian novelists, let us
present a list of his published works.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

formed the raw material OF each
story, each sketch that now flowed so
freely from his pen. In it's outward
traits Gorky's work is reflex, a record
of the life he lived. Within it is a
passionate protest against the condi
tions, social and economic, of his ma
tive land"
Shortly after the public began to
read Gorky's tales, he became a 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 face of marked
strength. A reddish mustache droops
over his large, firm mouth, his eyes
are a keen gray, his low brows are
set in continual frown. 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-workers
in the revolutionary movement he
has this to say: I'VE are not anar.
chists-the people interested in this
movement of which / am small part.
We are seeking reforms that must
and will come. The Russian govern.
ment of to-day is nothing less than
anarchy and its members anarchists.
There is no law, no order; it is anar.
chy pure and simple under the guise
of organized government, in which
those who are not absolutely debased
are kept in entire ignorance of the
true condition of affairs in cur dis
tressed country"
In 1901 Gorky was arrested for par
ticipating in the student troubles, but
on account of broken health was re-
leased and permitted to go tc the
Crimea to recuperate. in 1902 the
government rescinded his elect:oa to.
the Imprial academy. His recent trial
and imprisonment are we'll Known, he
is to-day a world-figure.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

wide, here and there in southern Rus
STA, into Little Russia and Bess-
arabia, through the Cr1mea and the
Kuban district of the Caucasus. AT
Tidis, where he worked for sea-
son as a NAVY, he published his first.
story. Christian Brinton, writing in
the Worlds Work, says: 1T is inn
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 GOrky's
development. The young man who
Numbered into the Office of the Tiflis
"Kavsky" in soiled smock and mud
stained boots knew little of literature,
but great deal of life. During all
those years of hopeless, baffled effort,
when he tramped over the SUM-
scorched or snow-driYen expanse OF
Russia he had been studying human
nature at first hand. It was not mere
ly observation but experience, for he
himself knew the blacklist misery and
despair On one occasion he even
tried suicide, but was unwillingly
nursed back to life on a crude hos
pital cot in Kazan. The bits of color
and of character which caught his eye
or burned themselves into his brain
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
In Rabvlon,s Schools.

Eminent Babylonian explorers say
that the multiplication table which the
Babylonian child had to commit to
memory extended to 80 times 80 and
that he was easily conversant with two
languages besides his own. The school
rooms have been discovered and to-day
it is possible to examine the school
books, the tablets with the arithmetic
lessons still legible upon them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
The Favorite Route East.

Passengers from Chicago to Ft. Wayne,
Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, New York City,
Boston and all points east, win find it to
their interest by selecting for their jour
ney the NICKEL PLATE ROAD from
Chicago. Three through trains are run daily
with Modern Day Coaches and Luxurious
Pullman Sleeping Cars to New York City,
also through Sleeping Car Service to Bos-
ton and intermediate points. Rates always
the lowest and no excess fares are charged
on any train for any part of the trip. The
NICKEL PLATE ROAD Dining Service is
right up-to-date Individual Club Meals
are served at prices ranging from 35 cents
to $l00; also meals la carte All trains
leave Chicago from the La Sale st. Sta
ton. For full inform ton address j. Y.
Callahan, General Agent, ll3 Adams St.,
Chicago, ILL.,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

the country, and the job was done.
Boxing was deader than any doorknob
and it looks as if it might stay so some
time yet.
Don't let anyone hand you that old
brutality gag. 1t was crooledness and
buneo that did it. There's nothing
brutal in good boxing match.
The men with red blood want to see
it, and like to see it, and it gives them
healthy desire to go and do some
muscle building on their own account.
and maybe I'm going to shock a few
thin skinned folks right here, but I'll
stand for that; women like to see
trials of strength, too, and they would
patronize it if it wasn't considered too
coarse for their delicate minds.
As far as l know the average woman
of normal tendencies has a high re-
gard for strength in the male animal:
whether it's mental strength, bodily
strength or moral strength, and from
all down history's pages. women have
witnessed such exhibitions as have
been held in public. Am / wrong.
A man might go back to the grand
old game of fox hunting, and everyone
would agree that it was a great game
"a little tough on the TX, but SOS the
abattoir tough on the hog; and then
you put the fox hunting business on
how long it would last. Just see how
hard it is TO this day to keep amateur
sport clean. Every now and then
there's howl that something's wrong
about it, but it is kept pretty clean.
You let the professional lads get to
there's in it, and see where that sport
lands; down in the gutter, where
they've put pugilism to-day, and
through no fault of the game nor the
men doing it. It's the crooks every
time.
It's just as dishonest to play crooked
games with sport as it is 70 pick pock-
cts, and the pickpockets got to wor..
in a good many states, and finally
worked themselves out of a good easy
thing. guess it's the old story of the
golden goose, for 1 see whole lot of
them at work nowadays where they
ought to have been years ago. If
some of these good reformers would
just look at the cold, clear facts in the
case and try to understand the aver
age human temperament, there would
be less talk about the brutality of prize
fighting.
Some of these people howl that it's
only done for the money that's in it.
Well, maybe so, but I want to ask
those folks just how many baseball
games, how many football games, how
many horse races there would be il
was free for all, and I'd also like to
find out just how many of the reform
ers would go on reforming if there
wasn't something in it for them. It's
a fair question, and it anyone has a
fair answer, Id like to hear it. I'm
willing to listen to reason, and | claim
to know something about the fighting
business, and all brands of it. / ought
to, I've got trimmed enough from the
crooked kind. I'd also like to know
from some of those high and mighty
gentlemen who managed to put a
crimp into the boxing business. if it's
any worse to smash a mans nose or
black his eye than it is to put an ever
lasting dent in his soul, or make his
moral nature twist up into several diff.
ferent kinds of knots.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
cosTLIEsT TN THE World.

The costliest building is the Milan
cathedral.
The costliest dog was St Bernard,
PIinlimmon, who sold for $21,25
The costliest modern painting is
Meissonier's 1874" which sold for
$4,000.
The costlest cigars are the Vuelta
Abajos. which sometimes retail at
four dollars apiece.
The costliest government is the
French The government salaries ag-
gregate $3.750000.
The costliest diamond is the Inn
perial, for which the nizam OF Hy.
derabad paid $2,150.000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
The Great Ambition

This ambition not to be satisfied with
little things is characteristic of men
of great tlber, and it had great deal
to do in shaping Beecher's career lt
he had had an ordinary ambition. he
never would have been the power in
the world that he was-he never would
have become one of the first preach
ers in the world. A steady stream
cannot rise higher than its founsain
head.-Success Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
Effective Remedy.

1t is said that a candidate for parlia-
ment at the recent English elections,
while justifying fogging in the army.
remarked: There is no necessary dis
grace in being f1ogged. l was once
logged myself, and it was for telling the
truth. too" ct seems to have cured We, "
said voice from the back of the hall.
This story was also first told about Prof.
Mahaffy, of Dublin. Father Healy. Of
Bray, making the retort.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

was soon corrected, and inside a week
all the pain was gone. l was also re-
lieved of all headaches, dizzy spells,
soreness and feelings of languor. 1
strongly recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. N. Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
They Are.

All kinds of winds and weather
And dark and shiny days
Are jumbled up together
And bare and bfossomed ways
Are stretched out for our knowing
But skies are always blue
For him who sings a-going
And boilers: "Whoop-de-doo!
Houston Post
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
Dissemination.

"Your daughters have had every advan-
tage," said the old friend
Eyes" answered Mr. Cumrox, "and I'm
going to keep at il until they get so cul-
tured and refined that they can keep from
laughing at my mistakes. Washington
Star
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

been for Doan's Kid
ney Pills 1 would not
be alive today. Seven
years ago l was SO bad
with pain in the back,
and so weak that ! had
to keep to my room,
and was in bed some
times six weeks at a
spell. Beginning'with
Doan's Kidney Pills.
4ba 1yi1paxy xxyaa1ypaSS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
He Knows 1T All.

DO you believe that one mind can alb
sorb the sum total Of human intelhgence~
We'll. l dunno, I've got boy who
is senior in college, you know" -Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
The Air He Felt.

Knicker-Do you ever feel music in
your feet?
Bocker-Yes; but it's mainly Green
lads Icy 1untains.-N. Y. Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

Garfield Tea, the herb laxative, is mild,
effective, health givinga faultless prep
aration. 1t cures constipation
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

Garfield Tea is Natures remedy for liver
and kidney diseases.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

Powerfully comon consent an admir-
abletraining for mental and moral perfec-
tion-in others-C Century.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

Life would be stale, fat, and unproft-
able without it's illusions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
This Man Lived
iO4 Years.

Dir. Yernest, the celebrated Swedish
physician and scientist, proved by his
long life that he had re-discovered the
secret remedy by which the ancients
prolonged their lives. This doctor
was killed by an accidental fall from
his horse at the age of 104 years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
SEVEN YEARS OF SUFFERING
Ended at Last Through Using Doan's
Kidney Pills.

Mrs Selma Jones, of 200 Main St.,
AnsoniaA Conn, saws: tIl it had not
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03
Men and Luck.

Strange that lucky man seldom be
lieves in luck.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

This brilliant man walks up and down
Upon the streets of Spotless Town.
The glitter of his shining star
Arrests attention from afar.
It lights the beat and goes to show
That naught can beat SAPoLIO.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-15
SATURDAY EvENN G, DECEMBER Is, 1906.

doctor of philosophy, popular poet
and splendid speaker. He has been
largely instrumental in sending many
of the daring explorers of that coun-
try to the frozen north to add to the
worlds knowledge of the as yet I'M
trodden pole. The Nobel prize, which
a few days ago was awarded to Pres
ident Roosevelt, was one of the things
to which he has given much consider
alton in his latter years.
But it must not be supposed that he
was a weak prince or an effeminate
ruler, for he is neither. Strong and
vigorous physically, he stood prince
in form among men. Trained in
early life for the sea, he still possesses
in marked degree the intrepid dar-
ing, though calm judgment, which is
characteristic of those whose sur
roundings develop in them bravery
in the face of death. Democratic to
the highest degree he has received the
most humble subject with the same
cordially with which he would well
come a prince. With a mind trained
to the highest development. yet broad
and liberal, he has given the nation
over which he has ruled a reign marked
by the Hottest craftsmanship. Sweden
has written some of her best history
as nation respected among the ma
tons, since he became its ruler in
1872. The people who have left that
land below the frozen pole to seek
their fortunes elsewhere will find that
their neighbors, though of an alien
nation, will bear testimony to the
worth of King Oscar.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-15

Those who are quoting Blaine and
Mckinley and Dingley as devotees of
the ridiculous idea of tearing down
tariff law through the agency of reci-
procity, merely prove their ignorance
of the political doctrines of these men.
Not one of them ever advocated such
a thing They believed that reciproci-
ty was merely the means of adjusting
tariff schedules to changed conditions
without the danger of revising the law.
They taught that when this could be
done without injury to the American
people-without destroying the great
bulwark of protection-that it was in
line with the protective idea of the re-
publican party. 1t was intended to
make the tariff law elastic rather than
fixed. These disciples of protection
would have made themselves ridicu-
lous to have advocated tariff on
wheat to protect the wheat growers
of the country and then have de-
stroyed that very law by allowing Can
adam wheat to enter the country in
competition with our own product,
through the means of reciprocity
treaty. They were too intelligent to
make themselves so ridiculous.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-15
THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, n. D.

formerly grew-will fill the vacant
quarters and halves and sections of
North Dakota. He will not come with
the land fever-more powerful than
the gold fever-but he will come and
examine the country and select the
farm he wants, and then his family
will be brought to the state and he
will become a citizen, not for temp
orary purposes. but to make his home
and rear his family in our midst. He
will assist in the development of our
internal improvements and the estab-
lishment of those things which make
for the good of the greatest common
wealth in the great family of states.
This is the class which North Dakota
wants and needs and every one of
them who comes will add to the value
of our real estate because of the high
class demand which they will make
for it. To them the state will extend
hearty welcome.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-15
KING OSCAR,

The serious illness of King Oscar
of Sweden will be a matter of pro-
found regret to every one of the thous-
ands in this country who can claim
the country washed by the icy waves
Of the frozen Baltic as the fatherland
His death, should his present illness
prove fatal, will cause the civilized
world to bow in sorrow. He is not a
great king in the sense in which this
term is too often used. He has not
drenched the fair country over which
he was elected to rule and whose king
he has been for more than third of
q century, in the blood of it's best cit
liens and has not impoverished the
people to blazon his own glory. In
this sense he has not been a great
ruler. But in the conquests of the in
tellectual world he is today without a
peer.
He is in all probability the most &C
complished monarch of the present
age. There are few modern languages
with which he was not familiar, and
in the realms of science, literature, art
and history he stands far above his
elbow rulers. He is great traveller,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-15
STATE GRAB BAG
Thorne has a new band.

Thorne has a new band.
The people of Williston are elated
over the prospects of a candy factory.
Individual deposits in North Dakota
national banks amount to $19,335, 1872
u.
The Bismarck commercial club
wants a government building for that
city.
Edgeley is organizing to make
fight for the county seat of Lamoure
county.
Kenmare could not have teachers
examination because of the lack of
hotel facilities.
Stutsman county has a new town
called Fried. 1t ought to get along
without steam heat.
Mrs. E. Hubel has been chosen trav-
cling chief operator of the Northwest
ern Telephone company.
Williston wants Baptist college
and a new city Jail. The citizens may
compromise on a skating rink.
Dan Maloney, who was convicted
several years ago of killing a blind
pigger in Devils Lake is asking for as
sistance in securing pardon He says
that he would furnish clues that would
lead up to the real murderer he claim
ing to be innocent of the affair.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-15

out by the addressce. some great JOY
will be experienced by the same at
Jerusalem; and refusal to do as
directed has brought calamity upon
several people. Without reference to
the prayer. for l believe in prayer
l wish to state that of all impositions
upon intelligent people this caps the
climax. To say the least. Bishop LAW
renee, or whoever wrote the letter
and sent 1t out through the mails lacks
good common sense and should be
severely rebuked by the church Of
which he is a member To send such
undulterated nonsense through the
mails Is a reflection upon the general
public, and an implied opinion that in
telligent people can be hoodooed by
almost any kind of trick. l would adj
wise all who receive these letters to
treat them with the respect due them
and consign them to the waste basket"