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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12490, 17 March 1909, Page 4

It is estimated by the Jewish Year Book that there are. 11, 059,987 Jews in the world. Europe claims more than any other section of the. world, seeing that out of the gross total over eight and three-quarter millions reside on the Continent. Mr- Roosevelt recently spent 17 hours/in the saddle and rode 98 miles over slushy Virginian roads for the patriotic purpose of confounding the~ critics, who denounced as a hardship his recent order that military and naval officers should periodically prove their physical fitness by riding 90 miles in three daj's. "What a President who is not in training can do," exclaimed Mr Roosevelt .when he dismounted, with a broad grin, from his steaming horse, "ought to be easy for men who are supposed always to keep, in fit bodily condition." The President ; started at 3.30 in the morning, accompanied by his, military aide-de-camp, Captain Archibald Butt, Admiral Rixey'* Surgeoh-Gener-' al of the Navy, and a naval surgeon, Mt Grrayson. Cavalrymen were awaiting the little cavalcade at ■ various points with relays of horses.

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