| Show Author A of C Quo V adis as Letter Leihr W Titer and Tax Dodger Our Forc t 1 Literary Letter SpecIal W Oct noS as asI V I the Poles are of oC time tho author of Quo Ih the 1111 Is nOL no weli beloved 1 In hl native l nl lie has the and his hili coIn th ll of C beinG tot fol like tin nn op The towing Incident SI II tY IY lila hilS friends It at the tUne time It u has a very 11 pretty daugh tom tOI h by hit nul wife It ii Girl with lIh a 11 bright Her life lito Is rattler mend one wInter he deter determined mined tt tl enliven Its lis monotony by ely elv lug InI un an evening party on tier wr is 19 the day to tho after aCler she lall christened These days kept as birth birthdays da days in hI when whelm girls get tet pros COts of flowers etc ete from trona theIr anti relatives At t 1 that lie he not HOt gWa nil part at nil nfl ns mis the strikes e hail had begun mUlti ev ral people who lint to re rec threatening ruin time the So c I 1 ts limit the tho daughter amid I veru r sent out for tor a and car early Tho Q who whet yero lucky luell enough to be invited looked for Cor arll ard O 0 tile party with expectation for Cor the they hut but little of oC the Slen SIen kiewice Interior and who Is III not Inter Intel e ettl in the anti and o of a 11 man flat I alas A cluty or H tire betor the event Miss MINI rolo to her friends invitation with mall many as apologies or father had re received a letter saying the his windows en liS as well vell as those ot of carriages which hl his guests to his hll dor dorThe The letter was supposed l be sIgn etl Cd by a prominent society amid itt b staid IUd to have hac ended with an ad admonition admonition monition to the tho author of oC Quo to set let it II to the people than Ihan to give dances whom hun bun of men sere ero on strike arid and had hadnot not IS As touch much as al II a crust of bread brend to give their starving families Thu Tho tone tono of the thing was Cry ery much ute atei emS though the situation as grave the strikers had Lou tull pay for Cor tIme tho time Ihl they loCked out An amid l the DillY people who imo suffered nt at thIs stage lIngo of tIme tho revolutIon were VerI their employers nu lout t the tho d lifted effect was produced l and those who had hadnot not b been en Invited laughed lou loudest lt of all The Tho poor daughter laugh tel was wall vor very disappointed pointed antI she shu an and 1 her brother at hinted that they suspected 1 a disappointed Ic acquaintance had played them this trick But Dut knowing time tho great aversion to 10 spending mon momi money ey upon ulon frivolities many people llo were enough to that Slen had written the letter to tG him colt lf an and shown It to bus hili daughter In order to pa rave 1 the tho of If hl havIng people 11 Iii lila hili house It III 1st a significant i fact CRIt thAt the latter explanation or of the tho affaIr Roon gained credence In th the Pol helm Ish capital During timo 1110 general strike which took place In the tho unctuous of 1 1900 05 the work ork lug Inn classes lit suffered as many factories were closed tot tor good the owners of those which were still ellen refused to pay for the whole of the tho line silent In strikes Th Tb or of to time the bakers risen tw by leaps and hounds omit hundreds of families vero starving Belief sero dud waR asked to I lend nd his attune nalle nB fly of oC am the tho guardians as that he ouM riot not have to tobo ho bo or attend ulcer meet lags Nearly early everybody who coull possibly do so sent leopla went without little dally luxuries tIm hi order to tobe he be able ablo to help their poorer brethren who had no mom money to give contributed In kind I Ivery er for flutes around barl barley y and potatoes till time tho square luy by the tho general was crowd crowded d with their long narrow carts And Amid stilt It was not enough The Tho cold weather had begun nn anti 1 the people lied not the Wherewith al 01 to buy coal Indeed most or of theta had pawned their boOts and amid It was necessary sary to fluid some quIrk quick 11 Ot of raising railing mone before the liar har frost Crost set lIet In iii to Institute Q a Ioor which would la last t through time tho worst part palt ot of the winter Henry In mm II delivered before n a large audi audien en pleaded d the tho cause ot of the working workingman uteri man amid after dWelling upon the Iho tin du duties ties or of rich citizens suggested that Q cv In Warsaw who rented n a flat nal pa mu uniform tax of oC ona rou itlo blo for each window which looked out upon tupelo lie street This II ee ell fair Calr enough ns as only the tho rent flats looking on en to the street the poor POOI or 11 ones have to 10 be 0 content with a 11 10 low or of the tho courtyard People with n a dozen or more coming coining under category aghast as they had already givon on en freely freob to the poor flut as the great mn maui WM wars to fI eat t the example the tho others said they would willingly follow tollow It nut tie WOrst ot of It Will that the tho great mn ma to he hl d preached l The after atter making ilium moving speech tie ho left Warsaw and tho those e who rim had begun bogun time tho work ot of levy Ing the tar tay which was ns called by bl his name learned that he tm had gone Eone abroad for an Neither did he heen solid en the 1110 committee the tax for tor hIs win clown dows with sufficient sense ot of humor laughed anti and paid their Dut the others either a much couch larger pro proportIon said th they would wait until made n a They Thoy are stIll waIting |
