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9 THE HEfSlSTEIt AM) LKADKR: SUNDAY-' MOWXINCi. DIX EMM- it Iflt'l. TAKE LIVE GRASS SNAKE FROM WOMAN'S STOMACH KING GEORGE'S VISIT TO THE FRONT FRAUGHT WITH MANY REAL DANGERS or her life partner has a sufficiently serious physical or mental defect, even though he or she does not be- come aware thereof until the eve of tlie cereinonv." MAY DODGE ALTAR AT LAST MOMENT Long nrer, entered a pica of guilty in district 'court here today to the charge of embezzlement of $2 2,000 of state funds and was sentenced to serve from two and one-half to ten years in the state penitentiary. o. V.

Allen, former state treasurer under whom Coleman served, Is serving a sentence in the penitentiary for the same crime. lJ I ln RATTI Ei aided by other convoy ships, began a IN LlVtLI DAI ILL Journey Taken Contrary to tire(l by lUe Reptile Was Six Inches and Nearly Pure White. German cratt, believed here to nave Advice of Prime Minister Asquith. been the famous U-9, which sank the Ilrltish cruisers Aboukir Cressy and KejevcJ 0f promise if Fi "Owing to the heavy seas, however, Officers Use Pistols and Foesj Reply With Bricks, Without Serious Casualties. ancee Cannot Become a Mother, Rules Judge.

The case was an action brought by I Miss liertha Schechtcl. daughter of Bernard Schechtcl, a wealthy clothing manufacturer. against David Arthur i Ci eeii house, of West lloboken. X. J.

A few minutes after the justice de-jliwTcd his charge the jury brought in a verdict In favor of the defendant, In defending his failure to wed, Mr. Greenhouse produced two which he said were written to i 1 1 in by Miss Schechtel. in which the writer told of having been advised by a physician to "remain single," and told by a fortune teller that the possibilities were against her becoming a mot her. A paragraph in the same letter MAD1SO.N. Dec.

26. One ot the most unusual cases in the history of local medicine was revealed at a local hospital when physicians sub-mittting a woman from Waukakee, Dane county, to an X-ray examination, discovered that her stomach Dancing Tarty. About seventy five guests participated in a delightful dancing party given last evening by Miss Tillie Haskell at the 1. (). I).

F. temple The courtesy honored Miss Mary His Vessel Narrowly Escapes Sinking by Submarine in Channel. LOOKS TO RACE'S FUTURE contained a live snake six inches MAN MADE PRISONER jane ians oi hi. josepn. who arrived last Tuesday for visit in the city.

Sixteen dances were enjoyed wno frappe being served throughout the Tlie inside history of King Uuorge's Another Escapes After Trying to! visit to France a short time ago, Jury Denies Verdict to Woman Who Had Been Advised to "Remain Single." 'My Dear-i evening. Several out of town guests winch was addressed to long. The woman nan noi suunra any pain up to the time of the discovery, but was greatly distressed when toid of the results of the examination. The snake was removed without operating. It proved to he a reptile, commonly known as the grass snake, nearly pure white.

The hospital authorities refuse to make any state-men! regarding the rase. Force Entrance to East Side Home. participated, among whom were I. H. Kalis of St.

Joseph. Miss Kizer of North I'latte, and Mr. Nate Chapman of Iowa City, and Miss I unu iida jura arrivt'u ny limit so I to escape the watchful eye of the of-j ficial censor, shows that lhat little Jaunt was more of an adventure than was generally supposed, Prime Minister Asquith and the and the harassing tai'tics of the de-: stroyers, the aim of the Germans was bad, and the submarine disappeared without accomplishing its mission." What Atkins Thought The king arrived at. the front at a moment hen the British troops were beginning to think themselves neglected or, if not neglected, half forgotten at home, according to Mr. Smallcy.

"The ever intelligent Mr. Thomas Atkins knows well that he is looked after, led, supported in the field by the continual arrival of new from home to make up lus losses, as few armies abroad or at home have ever been, itiit. he knows also something of the slackness of English public opinion at this moment, of slow-recruiting, of other troops kept in England for fear of invasion, urgently as they are needed In Flanders; and in the utter weariness of continuous service in the trenches he has been grumbling rather more than Abramson of Chicago. king's official advisers, who are al est Arthur" and signed contained this adjuration: "Me sure and come tonight. 1 will have a nice, juicy kiss ready for you, dearie." In the other letter the writer confided in her correspondent that she was a "very simple kid," but indicated that she was striving to Improve her fund of knowledge.

In his address to the jury, Julius Miller, counsel for (Ireenhouse, declared that, "ninety-nine out of every 100 men who marry do so with the expectation of having offspring and NEW VOKK. Dec. 2li. Thai a man is "entitled even at the very steps of the altar, to be relieved of promise to marry if he learns that his prospective bride is incapable or unwilling to bear children," was the opinion expressed today by Justice Henton. charging jury in a breach of promise suit in the supreme court.

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Des Health Culture Club I'lf-tofficc Bnv 101. Des Moines, Iowa. had ami me woman who wen, nut one that concerns the entire human race," said Justice Benton. "Civilization itself demands not only that children he born, but that they be born to a "As grumbling is to him a form of amusement and is never allowed to interfere with his fighting efficiency, Two police officers using revolver, with lead bullets staged a small buttle with two would-be bouse breakers using brickbats for weapons near the Northwestern tracks late last night. About 11:30 o'clock Captain McDowell received a telephone call from the Des Moines City railway power house near East Fourth street.

After considerable study be was able to gather from an excited half Slovak half English gibberish that two mon were trying to break into the home of Alex Sorokc. 837 East Fourth street. Immediately he ordered Policemen Howard and Denny to the scene. They found Soroka near his home armed with a hatchet waiting for two men to leave his kitchen. Just as the police arrived the two prowlers ran out and started down the Northwestern tracks.

Officer Howard opened TO PRISON FOR THEFT ways careful of the sovereign's personal safety, argued against it, when he first broached the proposition. The channel was infested by German submarines, wnlcil Miowed no scruples in sinking unarmed as well as armed vessels. They had lately sent three ships of the merchant marine two English and one French to the bottom, in two instances allowing the crews ten minutes to tnki to the boats. Contrary to tho popular idea iu America, however, King George has a strong will on which time makes no impression. He knows the temper of his troops and his people.

He is a sailor, but soldiers and sailors Hre In one thing very much alike. They are both instruments of war. So he took counsel with certain friends in uniform who stand to him in what may be called a personal relation. He decided that the rule of private conduct was a matter for him to determine. He made up his mind it was no very serious symptom, hut His State Official Follows Mil 1 1 ii it needed a tonic.

The king has been I m'01P('' heritage, mentally and physj. iiiiiii or a woman is jiisii- Chief to Penitentiary. BOISE, Dec. Fred M. Coleman, former deputy state treas- fied in withdrawing from a marriage contract, if he or she finds that his the tonic.

That unyielding British line is today more invincible than before. To the army, us to the navy, the king and the flag are one. "Alike in England and in France the effect has been greater than we in America can readily understand. 1 1r a 01R GREAT STOCK THE NATIONAL ARMY AT TACKING In France it Is hailed as a seal and consecration to the alliance of war. In England it turns the eyes and thoughts of men with a new pride to 15 their king.

Among the British troops that, as commander-in-chief of his his searchlight on them and ordered them to halt. They kept running. I army he was entitled to visit his Thereupon Howard fired a couple of it puts new heart into the men. II is a kingly recognition of such British skill and valor as in the long his- PROFITS NOW OBLITERATED! army, so instead of again asking advice, he, told the prime minister he was going and went. Secrecy of the Journey I tory of their wars has seldom, per i haps never, been seen before.

'Of all The precautions which the govern- these happy influences let tin honor ment took to guard against accidents be the king's. It was his inspiration, his will that overbore the hesitations are narrated by George W. Smalley, a correspondent in London: "I happened to hear Sunday night that he had gone that afternoon at 3 o'clock. The news was kept back, properly enough, all through Monday. Late Monday evening, in time bullets into Jhe air and then aimed his gun at the fleeing men.

One of them stopped and half turned around. The policemen stopped and aimed their guns at the stranger, expecting him to draw a revolver. A moment later a brick whizzed past Howard's head, tearing off his hat and knocking it eight or ten feet away. One of Pair Kwiipes. Both policemen then pounced upon the man and put him Under arrest.

After securing him they turned their attentions to the other, but he had dodged between several freight cars and had disappeared. The man arrested gave his name as Andrew Gapko, and said he lived at 5. i and scruples of his advisers. To him belongs this laurel." Prince a Fine Soldier The London Times military enrre-! spondent. giving an account of the life led by the prince of Wales rt the front, says: "He has won golden opinions.

Per-' sonally ot slight physique and almost fragile looking, the prince was hut little known to the army until he joined it, and now that he is becoming known it is a revelation. He Is among the keenest and hardest soldiers in the army. He walks more: than six miles before breakfast every morning, drives his own car and spends every moment of the working day in acquainting himself with the situation of the troops and the service of the army. "Although nominally attached to' Sir John French's staff, he Is not chained He has been attached in turn io army corp- divisional and brigade headquarters and is underi going an education which no books can ever give him. Only last week I occupied a house rocking and baking day and night, with the bombardment, and he has visited the for Tuesday morning's papers, the press bureau gave it out; incompletely and inaccurately.

By that time the king had been thirty-six hours on French soil. Never was a secret better kept, if you consider the number of people who liad to be told the prime minister, probably others of the cabinet, and certainly the minister of war, the admiralty, sundry officials of the royal household, the police, railway and steamship managers, the French govern, ment, General Joffre, the British headquarters Rtaff in France, the Prince of Wales, who was to meet his father, and many more. "The king went from Victoria station to Newhaven, thence by steamship to Dieppe. At every point preparations had to be made of a kind made only when the king travels. Scores of people who were Twenty-ninth and North streets.

The officers say he is the man who threw the Irish confetti. He is in the city lockup with a charge of assault with intent to do bodily injury pending against him. Soroka said last night he knows the man who escaped. "He is a Slovak man." Soroka told the police. "He works here.

I know-not the other man." From his broken English the police learned the following story of the case from Soroka. He had just gone to bed when he heard someone knocking at the kitchen door. who was there. "Me," was the answer. THE LAST FINAL SHOT AT 1914 TOMORROW ABSOLUTE not told must have guessed.

The south coast, must have witnessed the assembly of the naval force which was to guard his passage; though trenches, including those of the In- he did not, as the papers say, embark dian army. It will be difficult to on a ship-of-war keep him out of the firing line of his "I suppose the censor, who has FI AL SALE grenadiers. "A more zealous and indefatigable young officer does not serve with the king's troops. He has a quiet, confident dignity which is most attractive and his characler and intelligence arouse the enthusiasm of all who meet him. It was not exactly the expression of a courtier, but it was the expression or a truth, when an old soldier looked wistfully a'ter him and mut.ered, half to himself: 'That's a good "Who is me?" he asked.

"Open the door and see," was the reply. Called for Police. Instead of doing as he was told Soroka ran out the front door after telling his wife to lock it after him, and also to lock the door from the kitchen to the rest of the house. After dodging several homes in the neighborhood Soroka reached the power plant and called the police. "Why do you think the men wanted to get into the house?" he was asked.

"Were they burglars?" "That Is what I wanted to know when they knocked," he replied. "And that is what they wouldn't tell me, they said, unless I opened the door." The police hold a broken policeman's cap and a half brick partly covered with plaster as evidence. lucid moments, may have allowed you to know what has since happened, and 1 pass over all that. The meeting within the sound of the guns of the king, the president. "of the French republic, the prince of Wales, the French commander-in-chief, the British commander-in-chief, the French prime minister, the British minlser of war for Lord Kitchener was of the company and other notable persons, meant much.

It seems a pity that Mr. Asquith was not present." Barely Escapes Torpedo An uncensored dispatch, which has rrWyilnTB1 Good Bye to 1914, only 4 days more and your chances are lost forever if you don't participate in this great clean-up! GOOD NEWS FM MONDAY Bill Sunday in Philadelphia just arrived by mail, relates that the i king's vessel was in imminent peril I $75 COATS NOW Choice of the House STORK VISITS PALACE Fourth Daughter Horn to Queen Helena of Italy. ROME, Dec. 26, 6:25 p. in.

Queen Helena of Italy gave birth to a daughter this afternoon. Both mother and child are doing well. Queen Helena, who is a daughter of King Nicholas of Montenegro, married King'Victor Emmanuel Oct. 24, 1S96. The roya couple now have five children, four daughters and one son.

Readers of The Regi.sier and Leader will be able to follow the meetings of Evangelist W. A. Sunday in Philadelphia through the reports fur which this paper has made nr-rangements. They will be found comprehensive and will give those who followed the great meetings in Des Moines a full insight into the progress of the campaign in the east. The meetings open I here Jan.

and the same rule will be followed as here. Monday being a holiday each week. The Register and Leader will secure by wire all the information as to the meetings ifi Philadelphia twelve hours in advance of the her of destruction by the German submarine, whirh already has three English battle cruisers to Its credit: "Although the facts have not become public, it is known in certain official circles that King George narrowly escaped disaster from a German torpedo on his journey across the English Channel to the front recently. "The trip was made at night so as to minimize the risk of attacks from German submarines, but In spite of all precautions an attack was made. "It was a comparatively clear moonlight night, and the French coast was already in sight when a torpedoboat destroyer accompanying the king's vessel signaled that a hostile submarine was near.

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