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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 3 November 1904, Page 3

President Roosevelt's son 3 aro evidently chips of.tho oM block. A certain fine lady wns calling at tho houso ol ono of Arcliio Roosevelt's schoolmates, On being told that the liul was the son of Ihn President, and attended a public school, llio visitor began ijuestioning liim aboiil lii'< studies and presently the lady ventured on morn delicto ground. "Do you like a public school?" askod sho. 11 Don't jon find tlmt many boys thore aro rough and common ?" Then young ltoosevelt showed his training, and unconsciously administered something of a robuko to tlio would-bo aristocrat. "My papa says," ho answered, "that thero aro tall boys and short bovs, .ind good boys and tad boys, nnd those aro tho only boys thero aro.'' Tho Czar is tho owner of over 100 estates, all of which supply him with private revenues, but ho is also the possessor of 100 palacos and castles, which liavo to bo maintained in imperial stylo nt a great expense to tho owner. Tho Ciar lias more servants than anvono olso in llio world, for a voritublc army of ovor 80,000 domestics—cooks, butlers, grooms, gardeners, and so forth—is employed on his 100 odJ estates, Ho pnssossos ovor forty rosidoncrs which ho has nover seen, a scoro of homes which he has viewed externally but never inhabited, even for ono night, and another scoro in each of which he hasslopt on only one occasion, Tho Czar's privato stablos contain over 5,000 horses belonging to him, and tho herds of cattlo foeding on his own lands ate estimated at 50,000 boad,