Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-11-22
COUNT TOLSTO|'S
 USEFUL LIFE Duma Adjourns Out of Re spect to Grand Old Man
 of Literature.
AFTER A WRANGLE
Passing of Famous Man Marked By Many Tragic Details-Ar-
 ranging Funeral.

St. Petersburg, Nov. 21.-The Duma adjourned todIay's session out of re- spect for Count Leo Tolstoi. The decision to adjourn was reached only after wrangle, the members of the extreme right contending that to hon.
 or the memory of Count Tolstoi would be to challenge the Greek Catholic church. It also was asserted that Duma was state institution to which the count was especially op-
 posed
 In proposing the adjournment the 1, president eulogized Tolstoi, whom he described as the pride of Russia and the glory of mankind. He added:
 May the mericiful God open to him the kingdom of heaven.'
 Many societies and organizations are preparing to send deputatons to the funeral
 Sketch of Count TOEstoi.
 Count Leo Tolstoi was born on Au- gust 2Sth, 1928, tat place near Tula, about 150 miles south of Moscow. His mother died when he was three years old and his father six years after wards. His early schooling was un- der the influence of the general feel ing among wealthy Russians, that re- ligion was a superstition and one quite unnecessary for the best devel- opment of really cultured people.
 Tolstoi attended the University of Kazan, but did not pass the final eX- aminations. In 1851 he went to visit with an elder brother in Caucasus. The rugged wilderness of the coun- try influenced him profoundly. He entered the army and sought an as- signment to an artillery post near his brother.
 In 1854 the Crimean war~influenced the young man to apply for active ,iservice. But in the interval he wrote
 many short stories which attracted
 the attention of the literary Set in Mos
 COW, and in St. Petersburg. In the Crimean campaign, as the commander
 ot a mountain battery, Tolstoi dis
 tinguished himself by brave and eff
 fective service. He had a first hal.\ experience with war which was most
 valuable to him in his later work ; Leaving the army at the close of the war, Count Tolstoi found a most flat
 tering reception in St. Petersburg,
 He was sought as a nobleman, as a returning hero and as l'tterateu.
 He soon became utterly disgustod : with his surroundings at St. Peters,
 burg and with his own life there He described himself afterwa d as hay
 ing been a. murderer. adulterer, rob
 be and liar in his period, although his crimes were not of sort usually : described by these terms. He retir- } ed to Jasnaya Poliana, near his birth
 place, and remainder of his life. Count Tolstoi was married in Sep
 temher 1862, to the daughter of a Moscow university professor She
 had obtained diploma from the uni
 versity when she was 17 years old
 In her society he found the utmost
 comfort and happiness, They had sixteen children. but the cares ot motherhood did not prevent tLe sCountess from serving as his aman-
 uensis all through his labors as an author.
 ] One of Tolstoi's first acts on retir-
 ing to his country estate was to free
 his serfs, in advance of the degree
 of the Car He is said to have been the first nobleman to free his serfs He devoted himself to plans for the . education and betterment of the peas. l antry. After while he became wrought up over what seemed to him the purposelesseness of life. He con- !. templated suicide but gave it up. He went into all varieties of philosophic investigation.
 Among some of his own peasants To,stoi reached the conclusion that a l literal following of the gospels brought about the living of truly useful and happy life. He settled down to life of manual labor and extreme simplicity of diet and con. . dnct. This was about 1880. In the last twenty years the principal writ .ings of Tolstoi have been My Con- fession, "A Criticism of Dogmatic : Theology, never translated. ''The Four Gospels Harmonized and Trans
 'ated' 'Waa, Believe" sometimes called My Peiigion.'s The Gospel in brief.' "What Must We DO Then!' Or Life" s.so called Life. "Tha Kreutzer Sonata" treating of the sAi
 question; s'The Kingdom of God is