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ON THE RACE TRACK.
At Fair Grounds.

New Orleans, December with seven
races on the programme at the Fair
Grounds today, only one favorite won.
The Crescent City stake was won by
Glamor, which led most of the distance,
and opened a wide lead in the stretch.
Colloquy, the favorite, finished second,
and well in front of the rest of the field
Hhe weather was clear and track fast.
Summary:
First race. five and one-half furlongs,
selling ITO CMcDanieD, s
to l, won; Alencon, 10 Cd. Austin), to
2, second Airship, 1O9 (NicoD, to /,
third. Time, LOT AS.
Second race, six furlongs-Charlie East
man, los (Mountain), to 1, won; Meadow
Breeze, los &C. Norris, to 2, second;
Fantastic, 90 q. Hennessy), to l, third.
Time, lila
Third race, one mile-Dr. Spruill los
(NicoD, to o. won; Hannibal Bey, 105
QIogg), to 8, second; The Englishman.
10a (Mountain), IL to l, third. Time.
141 80.
Fourth race, five and one-half furlongs.
Crescent City stake-Glamor, 112 Gar
ner), to l. won; Colloquy, 112 Foy), II
to 10, second; @Royal Breeze 11s O. Hen
Messy, to @ third. Time, 1:o7 1-5.
Occupied with Sir Toddington in bet
ting,
Fifth race mile and a half, selling
Little Scout 107 Smith, Is to 5, won;
Safety Light, 1903 Garner, II to 5, sec
ond Footlight's Favorite 9S CA Nor
gam, 80 to /, third Time. 2:35 40,
Sixth race, mile and twenty yards, SELL
ing-Odd Ella, 80 Ca Morgan), to l,
won; Henry Watterson. 105 &C. Norris,
to s. second; Matador. los &c. MARTINI,
20 to |, third Time, 1:43.
Seventh race five and .oDa-haIf fur-
longs, selling-Wood Claim, 104 CA. Mar
TIM, 10 to 5, won; Verdant, 1O5 CT. Hen
Messy, to l, second; Simplicity, ITO
1NicoD, ) to /, third. Time, los LIS.
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Secret and Public consistories.

Rome, December 1.-For the first time
during the present potificate the Pope
will hold both secret and public consis-
tories the same day, December g. He
will confer the red hat on Monsignor
Joseph Samassa, archbishop of St. Rise-
MA Hungary, deliver an allocution and
announce the appointment of eighty-four
residential and titular bishops. including
three Americans and four Canadians.
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Counterfeit Money,

New Orleans, December Phillips S.
Oster. who pleaded guilty to having coun-
terfeit money in his possession, was to-
day sentenced by United States Judge
Parlange to six years in the federal
prison at Atlanta, and to pay a fine of
$500 Oster, who sought to have two men.
who were said to be implicated with him,
convicted, made an eloquent plea in his
own behalf
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Saloon Men Up In Air.

Atlanta saloon keepers We're in much Of
q stir today over an alleged election
which was being held somewhere in the
county. Today is the day for the cleo
ton of Justice court baliffs all over the
state, Justices of the peace within the
city limits appoint their own baliii1s, so
there was no election inside the city.
But in the country districts it was stated
that an election was in progress, and
as the state law requires that all saloons
within two miles of any voting precinct
shall be closed on election day the saloon
men were very much worried as 70 what
course TO pursue in the premises. Tex
ners were sent out to see II they could
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Livestock Exhibit.

Chicago, December 1.-The seventh
annual international livestock exhibit
ton opened today at the Union Stock
yards and will continue for eight days.
There are more than 5000 entries, in
Guiding some Shire horses owned by
King Edward of England. Other en-
tries from abroad have been made by
Sir Thomas Upton, Lord Cavan and
Lord Rothschild.
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Officials Win Not Attend.

Havana, December LIN anticipation
that Governor Magoon Will require the
designations of senators and congress-
men at conference, which is to take
place at the palace tomorrow, the lead
ers of the moderate party met today
and decided not to attend the confer
ence and to refuse to resign, should the
governor require the Cuban senators
and IDENTITIES to do so
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New Orleans. December Fired Beel
of Wisconsin tonight won the wrestling
championship of the United States from
Frank Gotch in a three fall bout. Beel
took the last two falls, after Goteh had
won the first.
Goteh secured the first fall in 81 min
utes. Beel got the second fall in 30
minutes and the third in 80 seconds The
match was .catch-as- catch-can, nothing
barred except the strange hold. Beel,
so pounds lighter than his opponet, was
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GoldfieId Promoter Disappears.

Los Angeles, December DIR. ].
Grant Lyman, guest of the Hotel
Green, Pasadena, and promoter of
Goldfeld, New, who was indicted in
the latter place on charge of embez-
element in connection with the sale of
alleged fraudulent mining stocks, dis
appeared today. Officers are searching
the city for him.
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M. j. q K. c. WUl Stop TraIn..

Mobile, December General Man.
ager Whittlesey of the Mobile, Jackson
and Kansas City railroad received orders
today from President Bird NJ Robinson
to stop all trains wherever they may
be and all work of every character for
five minutes, beginning at p. m. Sun
day, Washington time. as a tribute to
the memory of Samuel Spencer.
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locate any of the voting precincts, but at
a late hour the election was still re
ported missing. Nevertheless the major
ity of the saloonkeepers decided to be on
the safe side, and they closed their doors.
Only one or two barrooms in the immed-
late center of the city were open 9ur-
distance from polling places, and it Is
needless to say they did rushing ousi-
ness.
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Major Finley Transferred.

San Antonio, December 1.-Maj.
Walter l.. Finley. since January 1. 1904,
military secretary of the Department
of Texas. is to be transferred shortly
to the Ninth cavalry, at Fort Riley. 1t
was stated by Lieut.. Charles Crane,
who has been relieved as military sec
rotary of the Northern division and
assigned to duty as military secretary
of the Department of Texas. Colonel
Crane is we'll known in Texas.
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Chief of Police Arrested.

San Francisco, December lon a
charge of perjury found against him by
the grand jury last night, Chief of Police
jeremiah Dnas was placed under arrest
today. He was Immediately released on
$500 cash ball furnished by an indemnity
company.
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the commissioners decision was final. An
tonic Vilereal, also wanted on the charge
of conspiring against his government, and
who probably will be deported as an unde-
sirable immigrant on the ground that he
had served sentence for murder, is yet
in the hands of the immigration officials.
The department of commerce and labor
1t is said will review the case before he Is
deported.
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Two Thoughts.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
II want business suit now" said Slo-
pay. 81 was thinking Of something in the
way OF small plaid
"And T." replied the tailor, cant help
thinking OF something in the way OF a
small check"
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Miners Strike.

Detroit, December IA Free Press spe-
cial from Calumet. Mich, says four hum
dred miners and trammers struck today
at the Osceola mine for a 10 per cent in
crease in wages.
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out the world for nne horses froH the
time of the Modes and the Persians.
but historic proof is all against the an
tiquity of the Arabs as breeders OF the
famous horses which now bear their
name.
Where, then, did these fine horses
come from. and when were they intro
duced into Arabia? These interesting
questions are now engaging the at
tention of scientists and antiquarians
in the two hemispheres and will. no
doubt, be satisfactorily answered soon
er or later, though the origin of the
breed may be lost in the mists of
prehistoric times.
Professor Ridgeway in his recent
work on the Origin and Influence Of
the Thoroughbred Horse has advanced
the original opinion that the ancestors
OF the Arab horse had their home in
Africa. in the ancient country OF Libya,
lying west OF Egypt. where they ran
wild. He has collected a mass OF
evidence in support of his theory,
which however. is not very convincing
and which is directly at variance with
the more tangible proof cited by John
III. Wallace in his Horse of America"
Both authors are agreed that in the
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carriages covered with haring crests
or the servants disporting themselves
in gaudy liveries. The carriage of one
who is absolutely correct in New York
is conspicuous for the simplicity of it's
lines and color scheme To obtain
this result, TO be. correct. however.
necessitates the expenditure. of an I'm
mense amount of money and the exer-
else Of an experienced Judgment in as
sembling just the proper details. 1t
takes considerable experience in such
matters to recognize the correctness
10 the last detail of such turnout.
Naturally. the proportion OF people
who are absolutely correct is small. In
the great majority OF cases the car
riages one sees about the streets of
New York and elsewhere are full Of
Inconsistencies. One sees short-taile1
horse drawing carriage which calls
for. a loug-tsiled horse, or the reverse.
Another will imagine himself or herself
well equipped with a coachman much
too stout, considering the design OF
the carriage or the horses. Then again
the footman may be completely out OF
harmony with the other lines of the
equipage. There arc also certain hard
and fast rules governing the selection
OF the colors used in liveries. which
TO disobey stamps one as careless, per-
haps well meaning, but certainly by
ANY one can buy horse and har-
ness and a carriage" said +. NJ.
Ware, the well-known horseman. "but
few can put them together intelli-
gently. In many of the carriages, often
the very expensive ones, there is no
testimony OF taste. Many OF the COM
blnations are ridiculous. In London.
for instance, one sees many OF the
carriages OF the old families quite as
badly out OF drawing as in New York,
but their age is something OF n pallia-
ton. We admire their solid respecta-
bility as we admire the ruins of ancient
Egypt, but they are not correct. With
all it's faults the average in New York
in point OF equipment is very high
Selecting Liveries
There are four colors admissible, for
instance. for liveries. and only four.
These are black, green. blue and ma
room. Occasionally one sees light
gray, but the propriety Of this color
is doubtful. The color is, to be sure,
common in Paris, but should be shun-
ned in New York The cut of the
liveries is another essential point.
There is all the difference between
the cut of a cheap livery and correct
livery. Many people will fail to recog-
nize the difference, but the contrast
is the same between a ready made
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cent period horse historians were
agreed that Arabia was the original
habitat OF this superior breed which
has refined the horse stock OF the
world.
The long accepted belief was based
chiefly, II not wholly, on the traditions
and Legends OF the Arabs themselves,
who assumed to trace the pedigrees
OF their fine horses straight back with
out faint OF foreign blood to FIVE fa-
nous mares owned by Sheik Salaman,
who was fourth in descent from Ish
mael. son of Abraham, and who Nyod
about $500 years ago.
These Ave famous mares were re-
ported TO have been the property OF
Mohammed. but a few years ago.
Major Roger D. Upton. an English trav-
eler in Arabia, taught the world their
true history. 1t Is an old story that
in order TO select mares worthy of be-
coming the dams of the best horses
the prophet shut up a herd in plain
sight of water and kept them there
until they were almost famished with
thirst. Then they were all released
at once, and when rushing headlong
TO the water the war trumpet was
sounded as a test of obedience and
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concerning the origin and history of
the Arab horse. Scientists and scholars
who have written about the horse of
antiquity reject all these legends with
out according to then, the dignity OF
mention.
That Arabia is the original habitat
Of the so-called Arabian horse has been
shown to be wholly improbable. That
Arabia had no horses at all until the
beginning OF the Christian era is now
maintained by the weight of authority,
ancient and modern.
Herodotus, "the father of history"
who visited Northern Arabia about $50
b. c., said significantly. in enumerating
the nations. which supplied horsemen
and chariots to the posts OF xerxes,
that the Arabians contributed no
horses. but only camel corps. Strabo. a
famous Greek geographer. who trav-
eled in Arabia at the very beginning of
the Christian era, gave positive testf-
mony that there were no horses there
then, and Ritter. a famous modern
geographer, as well as Michaelis, an
equally noted archaeologist, confirms
that view. William Ridgeway, profess
sor OF archaeology in Cambridge Unit
,versity and author Of the most ex-
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suit and. the clothes OF a, frst-class
tailor.
The selection of eoachman and:
footman who win be correct is an
other problem more difficult than might
be imagined There is no regular In
tellfgence ofice or point OF distribu-
ton as with most servants. When a.
coachman or footman is out of en-.
ployment he usually. goes to any one
of half dozen places in New York
to put his name, on the lists. as they
are called. These lists of employed
are kept at some of the fashionable
stables or carriage stores The en-
ployers OF this particular class of SER
wants are in the habit OF visiting these
places. and. when servants are wanted
they can readily obtain a list OF sew
eral names to'choose from.
In choosing one OF these servants
there are. of: course, many things to
be borne in mind. 1t is not enough
that the coachman should know horses
and be skillful as a driver and even
understand perfectly the care OF horses.
Much depends uTpn his face and figure.
his weight and general appearance. IN
a word, he. must be smart. There is
again an Important distinction between
the .coachman and footman which is
often lost sight of. The two servants
belong to, or should belong to. two
is. after all. the servant of the horses.
He must be skillful in the care and
handling Of horses. but his usefulness
stops there. The footrnan. On the other
hand. occupies much more responsible
position, although on different lines.
He has nothing TO do with the horses.
His is rather the position of private
secretary, or under secretary.
good footman is expected to do
much more than open and close the
door of the carriage or ring the fropt
door BELLS His position Is in a sense
a confidential one. He must make HIM
self familiar with his mistress visiting
lists and know where the next call
is to be made without asking. lie IL
expected 10 know the places where his
mistress does her shopping and In
every way possible anticipate her de-
sires. When his mistress has come out
of one shop he should be able to an
ticipate from some hint. however slight,
what will be the next stopping place.
The Servant Problem
Many mistakes are made in selecting
servants whose figures are out OF draw
ing with the carriage ON which they
ride and the horses they are to drive.
One will sometimes see on the streets
a miniature brougham driven by very
stout family coachman, whose great
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bulk is out of all proportion. A con-
trast such. as this makes the turnout,
no matter how expensive it may be.
ridiculous to the eye of the experienced.
The footman again should be small,
On the other hand, a footman Iarger
than the coachman. and thus dominat-
ing the front OF the carriage. is anothsn
fatal mistake. A similar error is to
choose a carriage out OF drawing with
the figure OF the person who is to ride
in 1t. A very stout man squeezing his
way in or out OF very small brougham
is. of course, ridiculous to any eye.
II the turnout IL to be correct it ~
also of the UTMOST Importance that tbs
horse should match the carriage. and
that the harness in turn should match
both. This matter OF harness has
proved 10 be stumbling block for
many.whose judgment is otherwise corr
rect. To the experienced eye there 10
all the difference in the world betwsa
a $50 set OF harness and a $3.50 SET
Many people imagine that as long as
the harness is neat and we'll blsckened
and shiny their horses look well. The
lines of the harness-of the best har-
ness. that is-have been carefully
symmetry. The carriage, horse and
harness therefore become one haruo-
NOUS whole. The harness must not be
too light. or, on the other hand, too
heavy. Both mistakes are common. It
is important that all such inconsistent
cies be avoided IL one expects 70 pro-
duce a harmonious effect.
There are many people anxious TO
have well-appointed carriages who fail
because they are not familiar with the
accepted standards. There are still 9TH
ers who study such details very care
fully, but go of half-cocked. jumping
at some conclusion and introducing
some detail into their carriages or
horses or liveries which is not justified
by good usage. In either case the re-
suit is unfortunate. Although certain
details change each year and there are
no fixed standards in such matters. ths
correct thing is none the less definite.
The locked tail horse is accepted to-
day as the correct form Theirs are
certain carriages, however. which wersA
designed to be driven behind lonzsD
tailed horses. The idea originally was
that the long tail should act as screen
to shield the driver from the dirt Il
Is a common sight. however. to find
these carriages driven behind locked
tail horses. The combination Is some
thing OF shock TO the public eye It
will be seen that IL is a very conDli-
Gated problem to assemble any turnout
so that the eye OF the experienced in
such matters Will not be offended
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haustive work yet written IN the Eng
lish language on the history OF the
horse. says. that beyond all doubt the
Arabs did not possess horses until after
the Christian era This is the con-
clusion. also. OF John III. Wallace, an
American authority. whose collection of
classic and other ancient texts is most
compFate.
Whatever may be the truth about
Arabia itself, there can be no doubt
that the countries surrounding it all
had horses in large numbers long be-
fore the Christian era. They were
demesticated and in use in Babylonia
and the valley of the Euphrates 1000
b. c.. according to W. HI. Ward, an
American archeologist. They were
known in Egypt at least 1900 B. c.. and
in Cappadocia and Armenia more than
a thousand years earlier.
If Arabia possessed any horses prior
to the Christian era it seems probable
they were not of the superior breed
since known as Arabians, for no rec
ord has been found in ancient history
of any ruler or merchant OF another
country having sent there for horses
Cappadocia. Armenia, Media, Parthla
and Scythia were renowned through
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discipline. Only ave out OF the herd
obeyed the signal and turned, in spite
OF their suffering, to line up in battle
array. These alone were chosen to per-
petuate the breed, and they became
known as "the prophets mares"
Another characteristic example OF
authentic" Arabian horse history is
the story told by Spencer borden in a
recently published book entitled 'The
Arab Horse 1t is related that a cer-
tain shcik, mounted on his favorite
marc, was flying from the enemy when,
on stopping for rest at MONDAY, she
gave birth TO Ally. Being hard
pressed the sheik was compelled to
mount his mare again and seek safety
in flight, abandoning the new born f1lly
TO her fate. Finally reaching his own
people, great was the surprise of all
when, shortly after his arrival on his
favorite mare, the little filly came into
camp also, having followed her mother
without sustenance, across miles of
desert when only few hours old. 1t
is superfiuous to add that she grew
to be the most famous of all the ami
mails In the history Of the breed.
On such stories rests all that can be
learned from the Bedouins themselves
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r. HERE are thousand details to
be considered before a carriage
with nveried coachman and foot
man can be considered correct
To the layman in such matters the
difficulties in the way OF obtaining
much coveted distinction are simply
bewildering. The. selection OF .serv-
ants. OF the proper liveries and OF an
appropriate carriage, the right sort Of
harness, and accidentally OF the horses
themselves. Is an art in itself. And
nowhere else in the. world it is safe
10 say, have such details been studied
with such care as in America. Paris
is . possible. exception, but there is
10. other rival. This is one. of the
things which makes the horse show
unique among such exhibitions.
So much attention has been paid TO
o2pointments.s so much money expend-
ed in equipments quite apart from the
horses that any failure in form. in liv-
cry, harness or carriage is the great
exception This class of equipments
counts forty points in the judging at
the horse show. II is very rare indeed
Tor an exhibitor to lose q single one
OF these forty points. As a rule, there
fore, the forty points are simply elm
mated from the equation and the
rivalry is simplihed TO comparison OF
the merits OF the horses themselves.
There IS comparatively little change
in the lines OF the various liveries
from year 20 year. The variation as
p matter or ract. is much less noticea-
bic than in ordinary clothes. Many
old families, indeed, pride themselves
on The fact that the livery OF their
servants has not changed in genera
tions. For some time past, for in
stance. the only change in the lines
Of absolutely correct liveries has been
IN the bell OF the coat below the waist
The skirts are shaped out trifie more
than formerly and there lie a very
slight difference in the length OF the
coat itself. Both these details are.
however, so slight that they are
apparent only to the most experienced
eye.
Simplicity the Keynote
The keynote TO all such equipments
IN America is simplicity. In Europe, for