Show fri Jack ja London tIle the Novelist Whose Life Is L Like ke a Novel I r r cwb W j rr Aki i 4 rs lit I JAI I C 1 r I B V 1 JJ It i b I i I I 1 l G 1 I 1 C I r Y 1 L I i t J f Ii JACK LONDON Is only JACK J years old but has seen enough of life to fill out the ordinary span of threescore and ten He has been beon tall sail sailor tallor or tramp fisherman miner socialist and sociologist author and journalist He has worked In California and nd tramped all over tho United States State and Canada has caught seal In tho seas off olf Siberia has dug for gold golt In the Klon Klondike Klondike Klondike dike has been the lion of the hour as n novelist and Is now witnessing the Rus Russo Rn RUI Japanese so war as a II correspondent the ago age of twenty one the tho future AT author went over the tho pats pass with tho the first of the adventurers adventurers tuners enticed to the tho Klondike by the tho gold excitement Like most of the young men who were drawn thither by their Imagination he failed to strike gold but he ho did strike a vein In his own awn nature that In years to come was to pan out much richer returns than even a fabulous pocket of yellow ore for fer he ho stored up stuff duff for future futuro stories storie and ho discovered ho he could write EARS before becoming a YEARS er Jack Jck London had been a long longshoreman longshoreman longshoreman and bay faring adventurer adventurer adventurer Then at the age ago of seventeen he shipped as 81 able seaman loam an going as 81 far faras faras faras as Japan and pretty much all over the tho world I loved life In the open he ho hould said uld and was Will always ablo able to get a ajob aJob aJob job shoveling coal or doing manual labor of some lome sort He Ho still carries the tho marks of his seafaring life In the big thumb knuckles and the roll rollIng rollIng rollIng Ing gait of the sailor on one ono of his voyages this WHILE jack of all trades tradel was a seal hunter on en the Russian side of the tho Bering sea He was an athletic youth and could knock seats seals on the nose for their pelts pelto along long with the best He has hll also been a fisherman part of the he time In the salmon ulmon fisheries of the Pa Pacific Pacific where he ho acted for a time as a II fish patrolman Among the tho other ad adventurous adventurous adventurous venturous roles which ho he played was WIS one that th was hazardous as well as ex exciting e exciting citing that of oyster pirate man who has charmed the tho THIS world by his portrayal of etc ele elemental mental montal life was a tramp literally a vagabond and he ho glories in tho the fact He roved pretty much all over Amer America AmerIca AmerIca ica and was even an east odor ender In Lon London London London don Learning no trade he says but drifting along from job to job I looked on the tho world and called it good every bit of It This optimism he lie adds in a materialistic vein was because I was WAI healthy and strong bothered with net nei neither ther aches nor weakness Jn 11 R LONDON began hogan writing at the MR HI 11 age of twentythree Since Sinco then he has become familiar to all the reading world His HII most famous short story la is The God Cod of His Fathers though his own favorite Is I The Tire League of the Old Men His best known book bookis is that thai masterpiece of animal stories stones The Call of the tho Wild He is contrib contributing contributing the years notable serial to ono one of the loading leading magazines for 1904 Ho He is I Ialo also alo said to bo ho the author of the famous Kempton Waco Loiters Letters r HE last chapter of this exciting ca carter career career THE T reer la Is the most mot sensational of all t Being sent lent to Japan recently as aa a f war correspondent Mr London was VIII found taking photographs of Japanese I n forts and was arrested for treason At Atthe I Ithe t the this Instance of United States Minister Griscom he lie was WOl given an Immediate i i trial before the tho military commission and on proving that ho had credentials from a New York paper he was re released released leased from tho the fortress at s where whore he ho had been Imprisoned |