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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
GridirOn Fighters

Alabama has one player who should receive appointment on the All-South- ern team,' said Lonnie Noojin last night. He is Ike Rogers, the big 1SS- pound tackle. Rogers is one of the greatest fighters that I have ever seen on the gridiron. He is aggressive and fast. He would make an excellent back field man. except for his inability to hold the ball.
 Rogers is playing his second year as varsity member. He has splendid spirit and has proved himself to be the equal of any tackle in the south. He was pitted against Goldsby, the star tackle of Florida, and put 1t over him. Cody, Rogers and Goldsby are the three best in the south. in my opinion.
 Alabama, composed largely of fresh- men, has few All-Southern prospects, although Maynor and others will be mentioned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
Death Due to
 CarEaim Causes


 6HHE latest summary of mortality
 H statistics issued by the census bureau for 1915 shows that in the area where reports are registered and compilations can be made, nearly one third of the deaths were due to three causes, heart disease, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Deaths from these maladies numbered 1862 to each 100,- 900 of population, an increase as com- pared with 1900, when it was only 123.1 to the 100000.
 The New York Sun in analysing these statistics says; "It is cheering to learn that the progress made in the prevention of tuberculosis has brought good results. The recognition of the contagious character of the disease, the consequent isolation and the em- ployment of the open-air treatment have all had part in the decline of the death rate. This has been 25 per cent in the last 10 years.
 While the anti-tuberculosis organ ization in Alabama is making an inn pression and is receiving more active support than a year ago, it is still not what it should be. An especial eff fort is being made now to quicken the interest of the public in this all-im- portant movement.
 Very decided progress has been made in Jefferson county, and it is hoped that the other counties where the work has been taken up will soon be reaching out for high records. With adequate revenue the Anti-Tubercu- losis league of Alabama would ac- complish wonders. As it's principal source of income is from the sale of Red Cross seals, it behooves every good citizen to aid the cause by buying some of these little tokens, which sell for cent apiece. The holiday season is the time of the year when the league
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
AN OLD, OLD STORY
on the New York Globe.

From the New York Globe.
 A professional thief, recently arrested in Elizabeth, N. J., tells of his life as a thief Starting at the age of 8, this man has studied the art of robbing his fel- low man until he has become a master of the craft.
 This artist-and in his singular way he takes pride in his virtuosity-made for himself a code. He practiced burglary lovingly and added to the conventional and accepted technique one of his own.
 Of the code these were rules:
 Never break a pane of glass to enter house.
 Never jimmy a window.
 Never carry a revolver
 Never rob a poor man.
 The robber, despite his precautions, is in prison today, as he has been before. He has served time in Wethersfeid, Clin- ton and Sing Sing. He will inevitably serve time again. He will be locked up, and then he will be turned loose again to renew his epredations-mayhap to feed his vanity by bragging once more to some verdant reporter of romantic views.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
JACK LONDON'S OWN STORY

then have continued those studies. but in more conventional and theoretical way.
 I dabbled at high school, took a brief fling at the State university, but failed to complete my freshman year (not failed from a scholarly standpoinD. and hur- ried away with the first rush into the Klondike. Have mined and camped through the Sierras and other places etc Never having been unwise enough to learn a trade, I have worked at all sorts of hard labor.
 When in the Klondike my father died, and I returned to take charge or the family. Have never been rash enough to put out a sheet anchor in the form of a wife. But when returned from the Klon- dike I resolved to make the fight of my life by making my living with my pen. This was precarious. for my assets were nil, and my liabilities legion. was also a beginner, knew nothing of markets, methods of editors, needs, or how to fur- nish those needs. My literary life IS thus about 14 months old. during which tune have striven to find myself. from the writing of triolets to blank verse. and from feature articles for yellow 5ournAas to really ambitious short stories. Conse- quently have turned out vast deal or hack work And little ambitious work. Nor have yet been so financially sit- uated that l could try anything long.
 The Son of the Wolff as you VIII dis- cover. is a collection of short stories. These were written to supply pressing need for cash, and were published prlnci- pallv in the Overland Monthly of San Francisco: also in Atlantic Monthly. Then thev were collected (nine of them) and submitted successfully to Messrs. Tough ton, Mifflin & Co.,
 These gentlemen will supply you with electrotypes of myself. I doubt not. though YOU may have to ask for them. The Overland Monthly. April Qf the arr ticle is not delayed) will probably furnish you with further data should you need if. Said article is to be written by Mrs. Ninette Flames, who knows me person. ally. but I do not know what she intends saying in 1t.
 Thanking you for past and present kind nesses. I beg to remain, very sincerely yours. JACh LONDoN.
 MT. Osborne's complete article in tho December issue of the National Magazine includes other unpublished letters from Jack London, written in his struggling days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
Another Drastic
Ordinance Proposed

NOHQH4A0IBU&S 0VlOOSSS0
 t7TdHERE is a certain element in
 \ Birmingham to whom the pol icy of Tive and let live" makes no appeal. The latest ordinance proposed for the regulation of motion picture houses and theatres is so drastic that if it became a law and were rigldly enforced, about the only amusement Birmingham people would be per mitted to have would be the "instruc- tive" kind, term too often associated with the nlisdirected efforts of re- formers.
 The managers of motion picture theatres in Birmingham have been harassed and threatened enough. They are decent business men and if they were otherwise they would not will fully attempt to corrupt the public's morals, because in the long run they would lose money by it. It is the steady patronage of the best class of people on whom they must depend for their profits.
 The attitude that 99 people out of 100 don't know what is good for them is behind practically all oppressive legislation that abridges personal lib cry. The motion picture men and the theatrical people, who have fared better in Birmingham than photoplay managers, are entitled to a square deal. The police should be able un- der the present laws to stop any per formance that is immoral and inde- cent, but the power of deciding what is good and what is bad should not be delegated to any one man, especially if he has already given many evil dences of being narrow-minded and intolerant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
HuMAN1zING A NEWSPAPER

From the Kansas City Star
 A column of Personal Notes has crept into the New York Evening Post. Only old timers, familiar with the stern and unbending standards of the newspaper of William Cullen Bryant, Godkin and Vil- lard, can quite appreciate the revolution ary character of this innovation.
 The Evening Post has always stead fastly maintained that society news had no place in a paper whose appeal was to the thoughtful citizen. The information that Mrs. Jones poured tea for party of eight or that Miss Muriel Jones cut the pie or Master Reginald Jones cracked the nuts could not possibly, the Even mg Post has firmly held, interest any reader who was not present on the occa- sion-and the Evening Post has felt sure read the Evening Post would ever be found at such a party.
 Probably the Evening Post has yielded nothing of that high ground. Probably 1t still believes that only persons of low order of intelligence care to read about Mrs. Jones' tea or who was there or what they wore. And never, never, never will the Evening Post run society column that is to say, not under that name.
 Of course, if any shameless reader of the Evening Post wants to take it out in che barn where the family can't detect the low proceeding and read about Mrs. Jones' tea he can find it in the Per- sonal Notes column. But Personal Notes," the Evening Post would have it understood, that is, personal notes about teas, dances, receptions, engagements and marriages, with the names of guests who attend these functions, do not con stitute society news, of which the Even ing Post prints none and which nobody reads except persons who have never been educated to reading the Evening Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30

WW Special. bless than three
 miles southwest of the Ring Strasse, which surrounds the inner city of Vienna, is the impressive pile of ma sorry known as Schonbrunn, where some of the most dramatic episodes in the his- tory of Austria have been staked and where only few days ago the sorrow stricken Emperor Francis Josephs death brought to close phenomenal reign of 6S years. A National Geographic society bulletin of the war geography series gives the following description of the royal summer residence and some of the epi- sodes which have had a regal setting there:
 with its more than 400 rooms, Schonbrunn is a splendid example of imperial residence modelled on the stand of the striking peculiarities of this home of Austria's royal family, however, is that instead of crowning an eminence it is built on low ground, while the magnif1- cent park of nearly 800 acres occupies the high ground, rising gradually from the palace doors until it terminates on hill adorned with beautiful colonnade called the Gloriette.
 Three important events of the Napo- leonic era were staged in the imperial apartments of Schonbrunn. The first was the treaty of 1895, signed here by Napo leon and Haugwitz, the latter acting for the king of Prussia. By this document Napoleon inflicted a humiliating diplo- matic defeat to the Prussian statesman who agreed to surrender Gloves, Ans bach, and Neuchatel to France in ex- change for Hanover, whereas he had come to see the Emperor for the express purpose of delivering an ultimatum de- manding return to Hanover. In the same year December 2D, Napoleon is sued the proclamation of Schonbrunn, in which the Bourbon dynasty in Naples was declared at an end.
 -Four years after Haugwitz's humilia- tion a second treaty of Schonbrunn was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE

By William Cullen Bryant. Beneath the waning moon I walk at night And muse on human life-for all
 around Are dim uncertain shapes that cheat tfe
 sight, And pitfalls Turk in shade along the
 ground, And broken gleams of brightness, here
 and there, Glance through, and leave unwarmed the
 death like air. The trampled earth returns a sound of
 fear A hollow sound, as if I walked on
 bombs; And lights that tell of cheerful hours ap-
 pear Far off, and die like hope among the A mournful wind across the landscape
 flies, And the wide atmosphere Is full of
 sighs. And I, with faltering footseps, journey
 on, Watching the stars that roll the hours
 away, Till the faint light that guides me now is
 gone, And like another life, the glorious day Shall open OCT me from the empyreal
 height With warmth. and certainty, and bound-
 less light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
Allies Still Have

Much to Accomplish
 NNTILL IRWIN, the war corre-
 w spondent, who has returned to this country from Europe, does not believe the European war will be decided in the Balkans. Not until France and Belgium have been cleared of Germans, says MT. Irwin, is there any possibility of peace being de- clared.
 Obviously, with the Germans oc- cupying all of Belgium and imposing the most rigorous forms of "kultur" on it's hapless people, while some of the richest lands of France are still under their control, the task of the allies is far from being accomplished. Germany has given signs in recent peace talks of being willing to with draw her troops and leave the map of Europe much the same as it was before the war started.
 A peace of this kind would neces- sarily be dictated by Germany and would be favorable to her. The allies set out with the express determina- tion to administer such a decisive de- feat that the ambitious dreams of Prussia would be permanently shat tered. They have already decided that it will be impossible to crush Germany and the proud boast that they would "beat her to her knees" seems about as far from fulfillment now as 1t was in the beginning.
 MT. Irwin thinks the war will be fought during the winter as Vigor- ously as the weather will permit With heavy rains falling and the trenches in some places waist deep in mud, military operations on large scale are extremely difficult. Whenever there is a fine day along the 28 miles of the Somme front the big guns will resume their internal concert. Infantry will probably have | little to do until next spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30

GOO. Trollope received more than SSoo'O0O for the work of two decades.
 During certain years in his prime Charles Dickens enjoyed an Income Of $5o,O0O year. Thackeray was never so popular, at least while alive, but he got s25,000 for one book.
 Tom Moore received $15,OOO for his Life of Byron" and almost that much from one poem. 'Lalla Rookh."
 Publishers often paid Tennyson 5 a line for poems. One publishing house paid Byron s150,Oo0.
 Victor Hugo netted sSo,Ooo from Les Miserables," and Eugene Sue for his weird masterpiece, "The Wandering Jew" received from Paris newspaper s2O,OoO.
 And as I said in the beginning, dollar in those days was moro nearly the size of a cartwheel in buying power than it is in the autumn of 1916
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
Thanksgiving and
 a Regulation Dinmer

7T1HE high cost of living is the ab- H sorbing theme throughout the country, and has been for months past In the metropolitan newspapers it now takes precedence over war bulletins or football. The rich as well as the people in moderate circum- stances have joined in the clamor against the unheard of price of eggs and Irish potatoes, to say nothing of beef or other esteemed articles of food value. In New York, Philadel- phia and Chicago there is a howl about the toll on milk, butter, flour and food in general, and boycott has been proposed and is partially opera tive.
 But so long as consumers consider certain articles of food necessaries of life instead of luxuries they will be at the mercy of middlemen or deal CTS in populous centers, and some times even at the mercy of producers. As a result of the housewives boy colt in New York and Chicago prices of market commodities are beginning to weaken and may eventually tumble. The so-called food trust, at any rate, has, it is hoped, seen it's best days.
 There are some staples like pota- toes and bread that have been af- fected by crop shortage. The demand is greater than the supply. But still there is no reason why prices should soar as they have.
 Without formal boycott the up- ward price movement could be min imized if people who have been used to living Thigh" would bring them selves to the rcint of adopting new regimen in accordance with hygienic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
ORIGIN OF THE CURFEw

From the London Globe.
 A note by Ruskin Butterfield reminds us that, although Shakespeare speaks of "the curfew bell' and Milton of "the far off curfew sound" Chaucer more correctly refers to 'corfew tyme.' as currew was originally an appliance for covering the fire. There are examples still in exist ence, for instance, in the Hastings mu- scum, they look like large tea coses in metal They served, as moderns use fire guards, to prevent sparks setting the house on fire and the housewife heaped the embers together at night and placed the curfew over them to lessen the com. bustion. and in the morning save the trouble of lighting the fire again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
sAPIENT REMARK

T believe our new office boy is going to mako good"
 why do you think so7'
 When he noticed the way the head bookkeeper and the two assistant book. keepers and the filing clerk buzzed around our pretty stenographer he sald There ain't nothin' demoralizes business like a skirt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30

science-a regimen that would mean less food without any deterioration of strength or loss of bodily comfort. The world has been eating too much.
 Coming to the main question of today, the regulation Thanksgiving dinner. The central motive" of the table is the turkey, and fortunately this toothsome and all but indispen- sable bird is within reach of the aver age household. The price is higher than last year but it is by no means exorbitant, all things considered. Cranberries are higher than they used to be, but still the price is not prohibitive.
 The Birmingham market is well stocked with turkeys fresh from the farm. And another fact welcome to the housewife is that oysters of the finest quality are plentiful and mod crate in price. As to vegetables, ex cept only Irish potatoes, the local market was never better supplied than now.
 In short, a regulation Thanksgiv- ing dinner can be served at home, at restaurant or at boarding house in this city without overtaxing the eX- chequer. And in this time of noisy agitation that is something indeed to be thankful for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30

0TlO Mir. M. L. Osborne, an associate
 editor on Joe Chapples National < Magazine of Boston, the following chara cteristic and interesting letter was written by Jack London, nearly 20 years ago:
 962 East 18th Street,
 Oakland, Calif., March A, 1900. MT. M. l.. Osborne:
 My Friend-In reply to yours of March 19, in which you kindly offer to give review of my book and ask for data. Find herewith couple of clippings which may be of use to you; also, I shall sup plement them where may imagine 1t to be essential.
 Please do not be led away by the error in one of them relating to my birthplace. was born in San Francisco and am Californian by birth as well as residence. T was A years old last January. I lived on Californian ranches until my tenth year, when my family removed to Oak land, a city, I believe, now boasting So.- GOO inhabitants. By fits and starts l ac- quired a grammar school education, but rough life always called to me, my whole ancestry was nomadic Qts destiny being apparently to multiply and spread over the earth), so at 15 l., too. struck out into the world. did not run away. My peo- ple knew the strain in the blood, so I went with consent. I first went faring amongst the scum marine population of San Francisco bay, where I got down close to the naked facts of life. It was a most adventurous experience and one Qike all the rest which I have never regretted. I there learned the rudiments of seamanship. handling small craft in the sternest of weather, till. the month I was IT, was fitted to ship before the mast as an able seaman. Went to Ja- pan, seal hunting on the Russian side of Bering sea, etc. It was the longest voyage I ever took (seven months); life was too short to admit of more. But l have taken many short ones and have served in divers forecastles, stoke holes. etc., and am at home anywhere. When I turned IS, having taken an in- terest in economies and sociology, I went tramping (to the manner born) through out the United States and Canada. Since
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
AUTHORS WE'LL PAID

Girard, in the Philadelphia Public
 Ledger.
 It is commonly reckoned that dollar one century ago was worth three dollars today. On that basis the star writers of old probably earned much more than the star writers of today. much as we pat ourselves upon the back for breaking records.
 Macaulay got $tOO,OO0 for two volumes of his History of England. Scott was paid sSo,OO0 for his Life of Napoleon
 His novels netted Bulwer Lytton sioo.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
CONSIDER THE COST

Now visions of the turkey bird The gourmets soul enrapture. The poor man, by vain yearnings
 stirred,
 Doth wish that he might capture One of the costly fowls somewhere To grace his meager dinner; Fen though he stole it, scarce would
 wear
 The aspect of 0 sinner. At 30 cents a pound and more, 'Tis truly out of question, Although enjoyed the country OCT And easy of digestion. Thanksgiving, known as turkey day." Does not date back to Homer And many folk this year will say 'Tis surely a misnomer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
Holiday Hooking

"'The House of Glass which ap pears at the Jefferson, is produced by Conan and Harris-Tom Harris and George Cohan," remarked K. P. Con- nell of Birmingham.
 This brief statement should be suf-. hcient for those who are thoroughly posted on matters theatrical; but for the benefit of the uninitiated, it maq be well to add that this firm has, perhaps, presented more genuinely successful plays than any other now known to the public. In fact, George Conan is with out peer in his line. A production by Conan and Harris for holiday book ing is indeed most appropriate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
SCIENTIFIC FACT

Docs love make the world go round, Prof. Diggs?"
 Certainly not, young woman The earth acquired it's rotary motion mil. lions of years ago while in nebuloua state and from causes quite beyond the sphere of human influence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS


 It is the fellow who hasn't any who knows how to bring up children in the way they should go.
 The honeymoon is the space between being love sick and sick of love.
 Womans place is in the home Espe- cially when her husband has some other woman out.
 When man gets the idea that he mar ried the wrong woman you can bet that his wife thinks that way, too.
 The reason why thin girl hates to go walking with man where she will have to climb any fences is because corn fed girl doesn't mind it a bit.
 Before a man marries he never stops to consider that his family is going to need a whole lot of his money that he would like to spend on himself.
 What is the use of being polite to other men? They imagine that you are that way because you are going to ask for a favor, and they give you the cold shoulder.
 You can call man liar and get away with it. But you had better not question the reliability of his thermometer.
 Any old time you see the way the men turn and rubber after well built girl who is wearing a knee-length skirt, you have to admit that 1t pays to advertise. The poor we have always with us But it isn't because the rich do not give them lots of good advice
 It may take man three weeks to de- eide on the kind of goods to be made up into his new suit. But after he does decide he wants the suit in three days.
 The average man knows that if he had 5000 he would be glad to give s100 of 1t to charity. But he isn't willing to give $1 out of the $10 he does possess.
 If you want a certain thing done and you can't bribe man to do it. just dare him to do it and you'll get it done
 The bad man in the movies continues to wear slouch hat and a flannel shirt. But the hardest guys we ever knew used to wear sweaters and derby hats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30

makes it's most urgent appeal and if the public only understood how ap- palling is the menace from the "white plague" Alabama's response, as Christmas approaches, would be at once eager and liberal. Nearly every body can buy few seals and every mite turned into the leagues treasury helps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-30
MATTER OF NECESSITY

When Dr. Pillers drove horse he would let the poor beast stand for hours in the cold without blanket" "Yes?"
 ''But I notice that he never forgeta to cover the engine of his automobile" "oh. we'll Dr. Pillers probably thought the horse would go all the faster for having stood awhile in the cold, but he knows his automobile won't"
 PAUL COOK.