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** KIM" IN REAL LIFE.
Adventures of a Boy from
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power, but thò authorities were adamant.
SHEIKH" IN SHOP WINDOW.;
Carpet-Weaver Show How It in Done.
Ho was sont on board thò stosinor President Taft and arrive od in Yokohama July 24. On the John Conway, Japan's
Kway across John, was a great There is a corner of the East
favourite with ali has returned to the land of his]
of the in High Holborn (writes birth, saya a Tokyo thosage of passengers, He had become a London now papar representa
proficient in his English that tivo), und passing girl typista Or rather, he has boon returned with his Caucasian features and halt in amazemont when they soo to Japan by the American in-blue eyes he was unable to what appears to be a genuinu migration authorition who die convince the Japaneso immigra- Shokh in a shop window.
ho was a Japanese citizen.although dark and beturhannod, takon an interest in the boy. His name is Sultan Mohammed, Soveral Americans who had and owning (porhaps) four wives. telephoned the British Embassy and he is a carpet-makor, coming in Tokyo and asked them to en- from a family who have been cat- operate in obtaining John's ad pot-makers for at least 300 yours.
ission to Japan. The oficials werd Forry, but the formality of
covered nino months after histion ollicials in Yokohama that lle not really shokh,
WAB AN
ELA
To sits in the window of Mosure, Cardinal and Harford, the carpot firm slowly weaving of the London public.
Mirzaporo carpet in full view
weaver, Kallm Ullah, same over A compatriot and follow carpol-
with Sultan Mohammed for the the
arrived in America that tho death of his "American" parents during the Hoptombor carthquake
the tale which gained him ad mittance to the United States
ingenious fabrication, And John, whoalmost would give his right oyo to remain on the other side of the Pacific, is back marriage ceremony having been home in Kobe, haunted, with the father had died bafore the bay
overlooked and since John's thought that if he had told the truth about his parentage, instead of the affair and that was the
birth, they washed their hands) of following the advice of a foreigner and presenting a ficti-end of it.
In the menutimo John faced Wembley Exhibition. Ae tinus letter representing himself
an American by birth, he an abarrassing alternative. The Holborn firm now have a kale of might have been permitted to carrying out the instructions of them to bring one of these nativo captain of the President Taft, carpets in full swing, it ocurred to remain in his adopted country. this American immigration au weavors from their carpat baznar But John's story is a long unthorities, ordered John to gu as-in the Palace of Industry at and to understand it one must go here. John did his bost do Wembley to the shop to show back to the beginning. The boy's father, an Englishman wins worktoply with the captain's orders, the passing throng how it is done. od as chief of the stevedoringthe vigilance of the Japanose won three medals for carpot- but was thwarted at avory turn by Sultan Mohammed, who has department of Niekol and Co. in
water police and immigration weaving, is now engaged upon a Kobe, died in 1907, five months oflicors The time came for the rug which will take him 12 days before John was born: His mother, Mary Groen, was of intlond & man without a country designs, the gonoral idea of which steamior to sail and John was to completo. He makes his own Portuguese and Japanese par- entage. The young mother, not country, refused admission to the generations, and rough them doported from his acopled has come down in his family for long after the birth of her sou loft him in the caro of a Japanose land of his birth, and donied as out on paper before beginning | family in Kobe and moved to sistance from the diplomatic re the carpot. Formosa and later sent for the which his father
prosentatives of the country to
had boy. Hare John lived the life of
allegianco. a Formoran savago, until he was fl years old, running about with long hair and naked as the day of his birth.
WOULD BE A COWBOY,
He brought the loon on which ower, the carpets are made, and his own special wool with him from India.
FRIEND AT, KOBE, An American volunteered to
pay his passage to Shanghai and the pair are stocked by Messrs. Many of the carpete woven by the ship proceedod to Kobe, AtCardinal and Harford, as well as Of an adventurous temperaber that he had an American firm's great factory in Porsjo.
Kobo, Jalun happoned to remom-thousands of others made at tho ment the lad's life rivals the friend, Mr. S. F. Lindstrom of exploits of Kipling's" Kim." At the United Artists Corporation, said a member of the firm to a "Each of our Eastern carpets," the age of 8 years he decided to who had known him in Tokyopressinan, become a cowboy. After purchasThe Japanese water police com-pedigree, and could be traced "has its recorded ing 12 brilliant piece of red Bilk with
obtained municated with Mr. Lindstrom back, step by step, to the actual
who first visited the British Con- from his mother, and acquir sulate and after being refused any equally true of any trado collec
weaver. This, probably, is not tink A rope, he tied the red
silk kerchief about his neck and aid, wont before the Japanose in- tion in the world." sallied forth in quest of adven-to thirsatisfaction that John was |migration authorities and proved
money
tord. Since the "range" to which John had access did not boast any cattle, the umbryo cowboy cam promised on a water bufsaló on
entitled to residence in Japan.
On Lindstrom's promiso that ho would obtain ouployment for the
HUNGARY TO-DAY.
which to demonstrate his skill, oy, he was allowed to laul. A Football Preferred To Rovolution. But the beast on spying the redfow days after his arrival he was Hungary is changing and decoration around. John's neck given a job by the United Artists changing rapidly. Witness the charged with lowered head and Corporation whose main offices willingness with which this the young cowboy only escaped the September earthquake. The Europo" has
Have boon moved to Koba since called 'proudost tation of death by diving headfirst into a boy is now 16 years old and has League of Nations control of her just accepted nonrby ditelt
high school. In appearance he Controller completed his preparation for State finances and installed as u foreigner wliose
is fair haired, and blue-eyed with powers are well-nigh autocratic an attractive face and a per- Again, although the older Hun- sonality that wins him friends garian politician and particularly wherever he poek.
the Hongarina political emigro
The saine year a troupe of travelling Chinese magicians from Amoy chancel to pass through the town where Jolm tired. Pas cinated by their performance and lured by the prontise of a life of
John's story was reviewed in would bo quite cross if I were to perpetual entertainment, the boy the Japanese newspapers of too tell him so (writes Sir William readily consented to accompany Kwanssi District and Mr. Lind-Goods in the Contemporary Review. the troupe on their return to strom was deluged with letters the rising gonoration in Hungary Amoy and fearing that he could of congratulation and thanks for are to-day far more interested in not obtain his mother's consenthethe assistance rendered the lad football and the exchange value departed without bothering about in obtaining his admittance to of the korarm than they are in ir- that formality in mother com-Japan. One Wealthy Japanese redentism or revolution. My rov municated with Japanese authori-family sont one of their daughters ing and rather intimate observa- fice in Amoy and the boy was located and returned to his home with a letter offering to adopt convinces me that this in the to the United Artists Corporation tion of all classos in Hungary Fairbanks in John's favourite John into their family, actor and so faithfully has be
prosaic fact. One Sunday in Plays with steel noodle $1.50 each. Containing many up-to studied that actor's
But John's greatest ambition Balapost-you can sou the same. date hits. We recommend the following:-
that he is able to dive over tables of the United States. Ho feels months in the year I saw 27,000 is to become a hoe file resident thing almost any Sunday for nino and chairs and swing from one that but for his mistake in poople who had paid to watch an procarious landing to another in
misrepresenting the facts of his Association football watch, and True Fairbanks style. Shortly before leaving Soattle he harf parentage, that the immigration the surrounding trees were black agreed to stand on his head on authorities would have allowed with boys who had climbed to top of the Pantages theatre in States, and he hopes that some between two local leaths, and the him to romain in a United "free aoate." It was only a match Senttio, but the immigration a-day ho may make amends for the game was played and followed by thorities prevented the roalization
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NIGHT IN THE WOOD
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Meawhile his future is uncer-news and good sportsmanship that several months investigation that John's earth aku story was a
Lain. -Ex. mylla. This hoy was notified that ho was to be deported
NOTHING DOING.
The principal of the Parific
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
GEB-WHADOYA SPOSE FRECKLES AN',) THEM KIDS ARE DOIN' WITH ALL THEM "TATOES' AN' THINGS — AN' WHY
DYA S'POSE THEY WONT LET US KNOW WHERE THEY. TOOK 'EM?
HERE COMES
HIS DOG NOW-WE'LL FOLLOW HIM AN'
THEN WE'LL KNOWU
WHAT
THEY'RE
DOIN
Just When Things Were Going So Nice
SEE HOW EASY IT IST FIND VIHERE THEY ARE-ALL WE HAFTA DO
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