Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28

back in Russia after eight years
exile, perhaps to die of consumption
before another summer, his physi-
clans say.
Officially, the Russian writer is still
at Capri where he has lived since
Punishment, while bodily he Is at
Mastamjaki, Finland, whence he may
later proceed to Moscow. His return
is generally a secret IN Russia, the
government desiring to take every
precaution against irritating demon
STATIONS by his admirers.
Last year Gorky was included in
the comprehensive amnesty conceded
by Emperor Nicholas and could then
| have returned to his native land
without opposition, but he asserted
then that he had no intention of TAX
ing advantage of the privilege. His
failing health and longing to see his
country, however, led his to change
his mind and he has just completed
the trip to Mastamjaki by easy stages
Gorky's friends declare that he con-
tracted his disease during conf1ne-
ment in the prison fortress of st.
Peter and st. Paul, but it is believed
his constitution must have been weak
ened by the many years which he
energy in writing and the increasing
labor of deep study to overcome his
lack Of culture.
There has lately appeared an odd
chronology submitted by Gorky to an
editor who had asked for an autobi-
ography Gorky replied as follows:
1s62-Born at acknowledgement.
1S7S-Shoemaker's boy.
1S79-Apprentice to a designer.
fSS0-Cabin boy on steamer.
1sS3-Worker in a mandatory of
biscuits.
1SS4-Porter.
1SS5-Baker's boy.
1Ss6-Dummy in village theatre.
18S7-Fruit seller.
1SS8-Attempted suicide.
1Ss9--Railway employee.
1S90-Clerk to an advocate.
1s91-Operative in salt-mill; later
vagabond
1Ss2-Wrote his first novel-Makar
Cindra.
1903-Celebrity and riches.
The sporting page along American
lines has lately become a feature of
italian newspapers. Most of the
journals are giving up a whole page
or more every day to sport. While
devoid of baseball or football gossip
the pages deal extensively with avia-
ton, automobiling, bicycle racing and
rowing and swimming.
A subject of current discussion is a
proposed trip to the new Italian col
ony in Africa, members of the Italian
touring club planning to join with
members of the Agricultural Society
and the Venetian Association of the
Studies of the Antique in an excur-
sion whose aims will combine pleas
ure, science and art. The party will
visit Tripoli from April 20 to May 10
and then tour the colony.
In connection with the approaching
six hundredth anniversary of the
death of Dante, the Italians are re-
newing their intimacy with his
writings. Dante, in Italy, is almost
national god, and so far is his adora-
tion carried that when Sir Henry
Irving gave his drama which had
Dante as its hero, the Italians rose as
one man to protest against the de-
struction of their idol.
In the historic house and tower
which the Count Anguillara built in
the twelfth century as mansion and
fortress, and which was frequented
by Dante Senator Pasquale Villari,
who is famous as a student of the
SiEdt poct . iiic anu WI no. itto DS6u
a series of lectures on the Father of
the Italian Language"
The Northeastern Iron and Steel
COOPERATIVE Association, embracing
all the Woodworking factories in
Berlin, has bought a 2lO-acre farm
near the city and will equip it for
taking care Of the victims of factory
accidents. A hospital for badly in
jured men is to be provided and for
less seriously injured workmen and
convalescents special quarters will be
built. Particular benefit is expected
from light gardening in cases of trau-
matte neurosis, common sequel OF
injuries in this line of work All pa
TENTS will be cared for free of cost,
and convalescents capable of working
at gardening, fruit culture and other
light work will receive wages.
The association plans eventually to
establish farm colony where those
victims of accidents who require a
long period for convalescence can set
tie with their families. 1t is planned
to build small houses, a quarter to
half acre, according to the size of the
house and the number of persons &C.
cupying it, and to charge for all this
less rent than the family would have
to pay In the city for It's restricted
apartments. Opportunity will be CIV
en- to raise poultry, rabbits and goats,
and trained gardeners will be at the