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order once in each week for three sue
cessiye weeks prior to said day of
hearing in the Mankato Free Press, a
weekly newspaper printed and published
at Mankato. in said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato, the
4th day of November. A. ID. 1910
BY the Court.
(Seai) WIN. +. HUGHES
Judge of Probate.
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widow, Sarah Barr Christian, is to get
40 per cent of the estate and so per
cent of the residue left after $4,000
in requests is subtracted. Miss Flea
nor Lee Upton, o granddaughter of the
decedent, is willed $4,000 and % per
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probate Court SealD
ThoS. Hughes, Attorney. 49,


Oct 20, Nov. 4-tt.1s-25, Dec 2.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. County OF
Blue Earth. District Court. Sixth Jul
dicial District
Louise r. Moe. Plaintiff, VS.. Julius r..
Moe, Defendant.
SUMMONS.
The State of Minnesota to the Above
Named Defendant:
You. said defendant are hereby sum
moned and required TO answer the COM
plant of the plaintiff in the above en-
titled action which is hereto attached.
and herewith served upon you, and to
serve. copy of your answer to said
complaint upon the subscribers at their
office i'm the Free Press building in the
CITY of Mankato. said county and state
within thirty days after the service of
this summons upon you. exclusive of
the day OF such service. and il you
fail to answer the said complaint with
in the time aforesaid. the plaintiff will
upon such failure, apply to the court
for the relief therein demanded
Dated August l6 1910.
a. r. PF!iU Jr.,
c. j. -LAURISCH
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Mankato. Minnesota.
To The Defendant Above Named:
Please take notice that the original
Summons and Complaint in said action
are on file with the Clerk of said Dis
trict court at Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minnesota.
Dated October is, 1910.
y. X. Pau, Jr.. & c. j. Laurisch
Attorneys for Plaintiff,
AIankato. Minnesota.
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Oct. %. Nov Al
ORDER FOR HEARING PROOF OF

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County OF
Blue Earth.--ss. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate OF Jens
c. JorgcnsOn, deceased 81
Whereas. an instrument In, writing
purporting To be the last will and tesla
Inent of Jens. C. Jorgenson. odeceascd.
late of said county. has been delivered
to this court.
And whereas, John Nelson has filed
Herewith his petition, representing
among other things that said Jens- &.
JorgensOn died in said county. on the
"'st day of October 1910, testatc. and
that said petitioner Is the executor
named in said last will and testament.
and praying that the said instrument
may be admitted to probate and that
letters testamentary be issued thereon
to him. said John Ncls6n.t - tft
Ii is ordered. that the proofs Of,4Said
instrument and the said petition be
heard before this court.a'at the pr6bat @
office in the city of Mankato. In said
county. on Saturday. the 18th day of
November. A. D.. 1910. at 10 o'clock in
ed may appear for or contest the pro-
bate of said instrument.
And j, is further ordered, that no
tice of the time and place of said hear
ing be given to all persons interested.
by publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks prior
to said day of hearing, in The MankatO
Free Press. q weekly newspaper printed
and published ut Mankato in said
county
Dated at Mankato the o5th day OF
October. \. ID. 1910.
BY the Court
WA. r. HUGHES,
Judge OF Probate.
probate Court SeaD
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st. Paul Dispatch: Requests amount
ing to nearly $4,000 are made by the
will of the late Llewellyn Christian OF
Minneapolis, which was flied for pro-
bate yesterday The estate is esti-
mated TO be worth 100000. The
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of Commerce
CAPITAL 500 90, 90

OFFICERS.
c. l.. OLESON, President.
A. l.. WHEELER. vi.e President.
j. G. TEGNER, Cashier
c. 0. HOERR, Assistant Cashier.
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probate Court Seal)
w. X. GeddeS, Attorney.
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MLIAr1 u
HIS --latest PORTRAIT

the Berlin art exhibition displayed large
marine canvas from his brush. He is
further talented as both pianist and
hnguist. His French is said to be perfect.
and his English very rapid and free from
the usual German harshness
In exuberance of spirit the kaiser and
the ex-President are much alike as
in their tastes for recreation and their
strenuouSness. Thus when the kaiser
some time ago wired his congratulations
to the winning Cambridge crew, he was
press outward applause for good sports
manship.
And upon the matter of the size OF
families these two distinguished person
ages will agree, the kaiser being the
father of seven and Mr.. Roosevelt Of
six children. Both are family men. will
Lam and his bride lived very simply be-
fore they became sovereigns, dining to-
gether at l. taking tea at D. and a sim
pie supper about &. 1t was always the.
princess boast that she ate breakfast
with her lord and immediately after the
first meal of the day she went to the
nursery and looked after the little princes
and princesses.
may be judged from this composite
word sketch based upon the various de-
scriptiOns given by his recent biographers.
He is not nearly SO tall as his pictures
would indicate. standing only five feet
seven. His head is of medium size
and regular shape, the forehead being
high, broad and rounded; nose, thin.
straight. pointed and now connected to
the ears by two creaSes; eyes. clear.
blush gray. with expression OF
dreaminess; eyebrows, light chestnut In
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ships, horsefesh and hunting. Both OF
them know the technical points Of war
ship from keel to mast tip and both or
them believe that the best thing for the
inside of a man is the outside of a morse.
Both of these geniuses have loved TO
play the role of lay-preacher almost as
we'll as that of soldier, navy builder or
rough rider William frequently preaches
an actual sermon with biblical text and
on board his yacht he acts as chaplain,
on Sundays Offering prayer after preach
ing the sermon
But where Roosevelt and the kaiser
resemble each other most in tempera-
ment is in their multiplicity of inter
ests. lust as the American President
cola bOrated in attempts at the revision OF
spelling. the writing Of books. the say
ing of forests the exposure or pseudo
naturalists the settlement of strikes. the
Improvement Of country life and the regu-
lation of family life. the German en-
peror makes drawings for the statues
made by the government. rearranees
operas as well as the musical programs
for church services. selects church or
gans. rearranges the plots and scenic
of battleships by inserting drawings of
his own 1t is also one of his hobbies
to visit Laboratories where important
scientific experiments are being made.
and thus he followed the development of
tri-color photography, of DIR. Kocl's tu-
berculin, OF diphtheria experiments, OF
the X-ray and liquid air. His talent
for painting is said to be inherited from
his mother When he was twenty-seven
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his maternal grandmother. Queen Vic
tOria, who had just seen him for the
first time:
He came walking in at Mrs. Hobb' s
(his nurse's) hand, in little white dress
with black bows, and was SO good. He
white. soft skin. very fine shoulders and
limbs and very dear face. like V1cky
and Fritz. and also Louise of Baden
He has Fritzs eyes and VickyS mouth,
and very fair, curly hair. We felt so
happy to see him at last"
''Vicky'' was the little princes mother
and Queen Victoria's daughter. Fritz"
was his father and predecessor on the
German throne, and Louise Of Baden was
his aunt
Williams military education commenc-
ed at the age of six under the tuition of a
sergeant. who in few months gave way
to captain of artillery. Although he
had been on the hands of gOVerneSSes
from infancy, he was put under general
tutor at seven. But he ate dinner every
day with his parents. was taken along
with them on their walks.
They gave him a Spartan training. put
had him up at + in the morning to COM
mence rigid routine. and put him to
play upon an equality with other boys of
his age. He had regular instruction in
military tactics craftsmanship, riding.
swimming, rowing and sailing. He had
his own boat, which he named the Cuckoo.
and i'm which he and his brother Prince
Henry-he who was here few years ago
used to sail
boy Roosevelt was at work in the gym
nasium fitted up for him on the back
porch of his 10th street home in New
York or at his fathers country place,
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Enterprise.

nROF. HUGH w. RANSOM of Harvard
I has been working as laborer IN the
Cambridge subway in order to compile
certain statistics at first hand.
ITO do our work WE'LL said Prof Ran
som to a reporter. I'VE must use enter
prise We must ignore the minor con-
ventions. But We mustn't go as far as
But listen.
"a Boston doctor sat in a front seat
in a fremont street theater the other
night In the breathless silence, as the
third act neared its climax, there was a
commotion near the door, and then a
grave voice said: -...- r.
lis DIR. Blank in the audience?'
'Dr. Blank rose calmly He passed
down the aisle with the serious, self
contained air Of one on whom the life of
a fellow creature depends . A young man
awaited him at the door.
'Well?' said the doctor. Well, sir,
what is i:?'
Doctor said the young man. as he
drew a large wallet from his breast
pocket, I'm Cash & Payup's new col
lectOr. Would 1t he convenient for you
to settle that small account this even
irg?'"
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iiio"lhs picture show going on down 9TH
street way. There is no window at which
one deposits the necessary ) or 10 cents,
Tor no fee is charged to "get in" But to
get out? Mercy me. how we do have to
mold on to our pocketbooks only to have
the contents dwfndle. dwindle before our
very eyes! And when we leave the
chances are the street car conductor gets
our last poor nickel. There is undoubt
eddy lure about the big Center market
with It's wealth of Epicurean delights
and It's vast army of buyers that we
would not Withstand if We could
On first going ir the uninitiated stand
speechless-such a bewildering number
or aisles with their borders OF stands.
one grand and glorious riot of color,
with lettuce green and tomato red pre-
one broad avenue. wherever the eye
chances to light, it sees great quarters
of beef and lamb. fianked by hams.
bacon, pans of Clipped beef, outlets
doctrine of vegetarianism has ever
dared to even thrust it's nose into the
Capital city. One catches glmpses of
tubs Of golden butter. hundreds and
hundreds Of eggs. cold storage Or no
cold storage. chickens, big, little and
medium, sacrificed to satisfy the ap-
schoolgirl pickles. And then. jumping
from the commonplace to the poetic.
fowers-fowers in every color of the
rainbow, and fresh and fragrant as q
is a fascinating sight; but it is to be
doubted whether many of the people.
rushing here, there and everywhere, ap-
preciate the magnitude of it all There
ps and as. lest they lose their way
in this popular labyrinth.
Il have Travelled through all and lived
in many of the largest cities in the
n<Nr, WV raV,an Irxad n m q
woman the other day. but it remained
for me to come to Center market to
get lost. Entering on the It'll street
side, 1 wandered all around through
came out the 9Th street door l was
SO completely turned around that
would probably have landed in the
Potomac had not a kindly bluecoat put
lie on the. right trail.
At the market one finds the touch of
nature that makes the whole world
kin" Nine. Society, with her automo-
bile waiting outside and her man carry
ing her basket, rubs elbows with Nine.
Near-Society or with the little woman
whose troubled eyes and careworn face
tell story OF much nerVe-WrackIng
bookkeeping to make both ends meet.
And this little womans stopped shout
derS are bent lower under the weight
of the basket that proves that at her
home there are many little mouths to
be filled.
BefO Il SldHu where lhiee WINE
coated white-aprOned men sold choice
cuts of beef and veal and. again. some
cuts that were not SO choice. woman
stood. her eyes lingering longingly on
a thick porterhouse-a porterhouse
that would look nightly appetizing on
a hot platter bordered with mush-
rooms or savory onions.
What Will you have. miss? politely
inquired one of the men. as he put a
sfiner edge dangerous-lookinS
knife.
The woman forced herself to turn
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color: chin. strong. though rounded
mouth. generous. with thlck nhderIp
and teeth, naturally poor. but Wen cared
for 1t is said that few or the kaiser
portraits convey his expression, which y
far softer than the camera or the bruSh
would lead one to suppose.
The imperial glance, familiar to us on
this side of the water. is said by one 5i-
ographer to be merely assumed Tor the
photogra pher.
He talks rapidly with a strong. well
modulated voice and cuts his words very
clearly and precisely His German mas
little of the gutteral sound.
He can give Mr.. Roosevelt run at
the latters favorite game OF tennis. He
is still fond, also, OF ROWING ana ridmS-
He refers to his sporting tendencies 10y
calling himself the risky Branden-
burger
The daily program of the emperor and
empress is said to be as follows: They
rise at am, the emperor immediately
DOMINIC a generals fatigue uniform ana
the empress a street costume. tBoth of
them have a contempt for negligel. The
empress at once goes to work. and IN
little private salon OF her own prepares
with her own hands the imperial break
fast. generally of tea eggs and cod
meat The only servants who are around
during this repast are footmen. who wait
i'm the corridor to respond when runs for
At the emperor goes to his study. Will"
the empress attends to her household
duties. her charities or her church work.
until .. when the two soVereigns go for
drive. At 10 tie kaiser listens 10 the
report of the marshal of the court, who
keeps the social program. Then come
members of the cabinet and the chancel-
lor, whose audiences are finished at ].
AT 1:3o the royal family sit down i'm the
hall of columns TO midday dinner.
sometimes shared with a court function
airy or two. At this meal they drink red
or white wine during the courses and
sparkling moselle with their dessert. They
next drink their coffee in the empress
apartments and then il is time for the
afternoon drive. At = the kaiser resumes
affairs of state. Tile evening is passed
either at the theater or at a social func
ton, when, if the gathering is informal,
the kaiser likes to play his favorite card
game ''snat.
For the entertainment Of such distin-
guished guests Theodore Roosevelt. and
for ordinary expenses besides, Prussia
allows the kaiser S3.S46. LII year. and
in addition he derives a revenue from q
vast amount of private property, includ-
ing several forests, fifty-two castles and
eighty-three farms. Thus, you will see,
the kaiserin does not herself cook the
imperial breakfast because OF any mo-
dyeS of economy.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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The Truth.

MRS. GERTRUDE ATHERTON does
AVA not approve of the modern maya
zine. At luncheon in New York she
said:
THE advertisements in the average
magazines are more interesting than the
fiction. The magazines advertisements OF
themselves are very interesting, tool
often read them in the papers.
But a certain magazine once took to
advertising foolishly by means of per-
sonal letters. A critic got this letter:
Dear Brown-Have you seen article
in this months Trash Magazine? Heavens,
can it be truck.
But the critic, not to be fooled. sent
tn the editor of the Trash--in an UNI
stamped envelope, SO that double postage
would be charged-this answer:
Dear X.-I have seen one previous
number of the Trash Magazine. and with
heart and soul L hope never to see an
other. This is quite true.-Brown-
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The Cold Young Lawyer.

X hrs. SOL SMITH, the veteran actress
1VN whose eightieth birthway was cele-
brated by a dinner of the Professional
Women's League in New York. said of
the modern spirit at this dinner:
THE modern spirit is more mercenary
than the spirit of the sos. 1 know a
very beautiful girl-in my day shed have
been married off at eghteen-but though
she is now twenty-five. her matrimonial
prospects are dark and gloomy.
AT a tea 1 pointed the beautiful crea-
ture out to young lawyer and said
There's nothing sweeter and lOvelier
than that girl in America. Why don't
you try for her hand?'
What has she got in it?' the young
lawyer coldly answered"
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TALKING odor of understanding nay, nu'
furnished him with untiring amusement;
Finally. however. the knob was remove Gu.
Now poor Dunk is no longer able 70
omen the door But he still places MS
trunk carefully at the upper corner anu
tries the suction plan. Up to the preseno
time he has met with failure put laase
spot on which the paint has been Mo, ,
off bears witness to his attempts spoI
which bears the promise OF becoming d.
hole. provided DUNK sticks to his )oo
and new door is not installed
One Of the keepers. in discussing '"o
problem of feeding at the Zoo. said:
lone would suppose that an animal
take the buffalo. for fnstance-Woulu
grow tired of crushed oats day AFTER DAY
and would like a change. Ii we try that'
though, the probability is that he Will re-
fuse to: eat whatever 1T may be. Ihat
lessons the work somewhat. as that rule
holds good in practically all cases, ana
AL, we have TO do is to stick to one 1000.
OF course. we do change sometimes Out
then only for day.
When asked if it was a difficult matter
to determine the kind Of food eaten oS d
new arrival at the Zoo the answer was
in the negative.
"That is matter that is easily deter
mined by the mouth and teeth. AS a ger,
erai rule it is easily enough discovered
and it is very seldom that we have TO re-
vert to books to find out what KIND Oh
food is wanted
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than that with any other ruler. The en-
perOr named one of his yachts for Miss
Alice Roosevelt, selected her to christen
another craft, and sent her a diamond
bra elet as a souvenir of the event. He
also sent his only brother. Prince Henry.
as a guest to the American President, and
the names of Roosevelt and HOlenZOllern
became so closely linked in popular fancy
as even to start abroad the fantastic
rumor that the kaiser wished to marry
one of his sons to our Presidents daugh-
ter.
Taken out of the fierce light that beats
upon them, stripped of all their official
trappings and considered only from the
human side, Roosevelt and the kaiser do
strike some interesting parallels.
They are of the same age-hfty-one-and
Roosevelt in October. 1853. and the kaiser
in the following January.
Each began life under a physical han
dicap. When a boy / was pig-chested
and asthmatic.'' Roosevelt says of him
self From the cradle asthma threate.I-
ed his growth and his life. At the same
time the little Prince William was suf-
fering from a crippled left arm. due to
a surgical injury at birth. Each lads
like other boys. and each succeeded. To-
arm and hand for all ordinary purposes.
such as driving. and even for playing
the piano. But he Is said to be stlll
unable to lift it above the shoulder.
The earliest pen picture of William is
this one, written half century ago, by
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HER LATEST PORTRAIT

the 9th of the, month. Roose-
vel. in October. 1SS0-his twenty-second
birthday-and William the following Feb
uary, just month after his twenty
first marriage. that to Miss Alice Lee.
mother of the present Mrs. Alice RoOse-
welt Longworth. When-just after his
unsuccessful campaign for mayor Of New
York, in 1SS6-Roosevelt married the
second time and toured Europe on the
wedding journey which in part. he lately
retraced. William was two steps from
the throne, for his grandfather. now
and his father was merely the crown
prince. Events were now to fall thick
and fast, however. William 1 died March
., 1888. and the new emperor fol-
lowed him to the grave scarce hum
dred days later. William the second
the throne June 15. 1888. when he was
twenty-nine years old. At tits time
Roosevelt was having published his
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail:
More than thirteen years were TO ran
before he was to preside over the desti-
MES of great nation.
Either of these young men would rather
have had a hand at soldering than any
other kind of diversion William. who at
eleven had wept because unable to go
into the Franco Prussian war, kept up
his military training from the start ana
while new ranks were being conferred
upon him. Roosevelt. as best he might.
was playing at the same game Al
twenty-six he was d lieutenant and at
twenty-eight a captain In the NatiohaI
Guard. And later when the Spanish war
seemed imminent he vainiy sought q: a
commission as lieutenant colonel or 'he
Rough Riders.
Three other hobbies that the kaiser
and Roosevelt have in common are war
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Gomez 1hinQ
Well-knOWn People.
He Had Been Easy.

FRANCIS WILSON. at the Players
7 Club in New York. lamented the
heavy losses that a brother actor mad
sustained on Wall street
100 bad" said Mr.. Wilson, Poor
Betterton! Why. the Wall street men
are. all laughing at him.
"A couple OF Wall street men were
golfing the other day on Long Island
They decided to name the hoies on the
course.
land what shall we call the first hole:
the older man asked
"Call it Jack Betterton,' the other
answered, chucklng.
".Why call it that"
".Oh, because was the reply, It's SO
easy to do!,"
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The New Art.

A FASHIONABLE painter. noted for
"A his prolific output, was discussing. at
a studio tea in New York, recent scan
dial in the picture trade.
Look her, old man. said G. Innis
Kerr, the etcher, do you paint all your
own pictures?'
81 do" the other answered, holly land
with my own hands. too.
And what do you pay your hands,
Mr.. Kerr inquired I'm thinking of
starting an art factory myself.
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HEARD p<SEEN$ MARKETS

ASHINGTON revels
in some five or six
markets and the
most exclusive res
fdential sections OF
the city boast their
M arket stores.
Every m a 1 h {
morning from the
time the sun hrst
peeps forth unth
we'll toward noon
there is a vast