The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1904 + Master of Tongues. Special Correspondence. BOLOGNA, Italy, Aug. 5.—Possibly the telegraphic dispatches already have " conveyed to America the tidings that & nmew genius has arisen In Italy in the person of Alfredo Trombetti, who, com- - PEOSESIOR. ALTREDO TRONBETTY nan in more uages than any other the world. ¥ 28 come to him as | suddeniy as it did to Byron, for al- though he t encyclopedia of | pe it he was unknown even in his own land until recently, when he wrote a beok entitled “Con- pections Between the Languages of the Oid World” and sent it to the Italian | Acade of Sciences to compete for | the s ial prize offered by t body of wise men. The next day all Europe was talking of thegauthor and lauding him to the skies. The work showed such extraordinary eruditicn that stu- dents were amazed at it and Italians were rather ashamed that such a per- son should have lived so long in their midst without being discovered earlier. . It is said that there is not a spoken language or dialect of which Trom- betti has not at least the rudiments— and he has never been out of Italy and is only 3% years old! Speak of Cardinal Mezzofanti! He was an idiot beside the new wonder; he spoke 80 languages, while Trombetti is said to know 400 of the mative dia- lects of North and South alone Even if this is an exaggera- tion he m be safely said to know vastly more about them than any other one man ever did know. Trombetti was born of poor parents, in Bologna, but he was sent to school and aliowed to follow his bent until the death of his father, which took place when he was about 14 years old. Then came days of great distress when there was often little or nothing to eat and the little brothers and sisters cried for bread. His mother, who seems to have been a woman of discernment and energy, allowed him to remain at school, however, encouraging himn with his studies, but ways and means be- came more and more narrcw, the chil- dren grew larger and hungrier and the | neighbors frankly called her a fool for having “a great boy idle at home.” 8o she permitted her own instincts to be overruled and apprenticed him to 2 barber. Fortunately nature in this case could not be suppressed and the boy spent every moment which he could snatch from his razors and brushes on his books. Up to this time he had never studied eny other tongue than his own and it was & mere accident which revealed to him his marvelous gift and caused him to make the acquisition of foreign languages his life work. He got hold of a German grammar, bought because it only cost a few cents and “looked queer.” With this he made himself master of the language as even few Germans are. It was the same thing with English and French; two more grammars fell in his way and a few months Jater he had acquired both these languages. With Latin it was different. He picked up a book which he was told was Latin and although he could make little of it, it was sufficiently like Ital- jan to rouse his curiosity and he gave “his mother no peace until she took him to the priest to beg him to teach the lad Latin. The good man was de- lighted, thinking that the little 'l‘roln betti wished to become a priest, b the connection did not last long, as un America | pupil soon outdistanced the master, =0 much so that the priest thought there was something uncanny in such cleverness and was rather relieved when his duties were over. Persian came next, followed by Arabic and Greek, and so on—dead and living lan- guages, Gialects, variations of all kinds became to him as daily food, until there are few more left for him to learn. Trombettl says that he has been par- ticularly fortunate in always getting hold of simple and easy books with which to begin the study of a new lan- guage. This was due to mere chance, as he always had to take what came his way, not being able to pick and choose. He has never possessed more than one dictionary—a present from one of his schoolmasters—and even that he never used. “I have,” he says, ‘written books in both German and French, but absolu‘ely without a dic- tionary.” His career as a barber ceased after a year or two, as some eminent men of | letters, induced the municipality of Bologna to allow him $120 yearly that he might devote himself exclusively to his stud- ies. With this income he felt so rich and was continually in trouble to find his extracrdinary was, after all, a mere man, and lost no time in falling in love. When he became professor of languages in a a year, he took the maiden choice to wife, and has now six children Government has decided to find him a good post where his talents shall have full scope. This gifted man has never known home to maintain and a wife and six was required and had to be accounted stratagems to find the money to buy books and could afford only the cheap- est editions. On one occasion he was called to a near town to superintend some examinations, for which he was allowed 80 cents for carriage hire. He walked, bought a book for which he had longed many weary months, home and went to bed, where he stayed two weeks, having caught cold during his long walk, and paid the doctor— $3! This was not all. The $3 were to have bought him new shoes and a hat, so he was obliged to wear his old ones six months longer. Whenever he came home particularly shame-faced and | with a propitiatory gift for his wife, she always knew what it meant. “Al- fredo,” she would say, pointing her fin- ger at him, ‘let me see it.” book, but his delight in his new treasure was s0 sincere, and even infantile, that she never scolded him, although meant fresh economies for her house where all was economy. Although so much attention is now | being paid him, Professor Trombetti lis in mo wise affected 1 it: he is | simple as ever and declares that he has ! no intention of changing his mode of | life. After gaining the prize of $2000 | from the Academy of Sciences he was received by fore that event he was with some friends, when the conversation turned on what he wouid wear the next day. | The prof r allowed them to discuss the matter for some time and then said “But I am going as I now am.” they ali cried. But T am | he insisted. my life; in a | ceat on why should I begin now? No, indeed! I have other uses for my money. I have seen a lovely boc etc. In fact, he went to the | palace in tweed jacket and trousers, | his only concession to convention be- | ing a black tie, which he wore—because } it was the only one he possessed. Professor Trombetti has announced | his intention of going to America next | vear to study the Indian dialects, as them than anybody else, he considers | that he d@n not yet know them pro- fuund‘v enough. “I shall write my book | in English,” he says, “and, of course, 1 want it to be perfect.” ISABELLA COCHRAN | Better Than Oil. When William Rockefeller had ap- pendicitis Dr. McBirney was called in to perform the necessary operation, says the New York Timea. After his recovery Mr. Rockefeller | received the doctor’s bill in due course, account in person. which followed appendicitis was natur- ally their main theme. “while I was sick, doctor, that every- body in the world had a vermiform ap- pendix.” | “With a few exceptions I believe that i to be the case,” answered the doctor. “And that, sooner or later,” pursued | the oil magnate, “every one would have | to be operated on, either to cure or pre- vent the disease.” “That is the generally recognized opinion among the medical fraternity,” was the answer. “Well,” said Mr. Rockefeller, rising, “if you will pardon my saying so, it seems to me that you have a better thing of it than has the Standard Oil Company.” Russian Icons. Since Russia found herself plunged into war there has been an unpre- cedented demand for icons among the soldiers, the faMhful regarding the possession of one as a protection against death and disaster. All the Fussian generals have been presented with these religious pictures, some of them, according to the Munsey, being meagnificently worked and very expen- sive. Every Russian regiment has its icon, which is carried aloft when the soldlers go into battle. Many wonder- ful stories are told of the power of | these talismans, and almost all devout members of the Greek church possess one in some form or other. . learning of his wonderful gift, | that he spent nearly all of it on books, | money to buy food and clothes. For all | learning Trombetti| public echool, at a few hundred dollars of his| to rejoice in his good fortune, as the| what it is not to be hard up. With a| children to clothe and feed, every cent| for, so that he had to resort to great| went | [ | Then from | | under his coat he would produce a new | | | | it | the King. The evening be- | “I have never had a frock ' though he knows so much more about | and drawing a check went to pay the | In the conversation | “You told me,” said Mr. Rockefeller, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ¥ .Third and Market Strefl.s.i 8. AUGUST 20, 1904 NATURALIZATION FRAUDS. SATLRD‘\Y HE startling discovery that in and around New I York City are aliens to the number of 100,000 who hold fraudulent naturalization papers should rouse our people to the exceeding need of complete revision of our immigration laws. Soon after these frauds were dis- closed the Atlantic liners put down the steerage fare from Europe to the small sum of $8 75. This means that the material out of which fraudulent citizens and illegal voters are made is to be largely increased. The evidence already in the possession of the officers shows that there are enough of these to probably hold the bal- ance of power in a close Presidential election. They are grouped in and around New York City, fo- cused upon the location where our political battles are most intense, and we run the risk p( having the posses- sion of the Presidency decided by non-English speaking aliens, who are not legally citizens. The prospect is far from pleasing, and the situation should admonish legislators of the need of better protection against possibilities of this enormous foreign immigration. No difficulty is found in getting legislation to exclude the | Chinese, for they have no vote. Indeed; it may be said | to be a merit in them that, no matter what frauds they ! may practice to get into the country, they cannot legally ot illegally become voters after they get here. | Serious as considerable violations of the Chinese ex- clusion law may be, they seem to lose importance in | the presence of wholesale violations of our naturaliza- | tion laws, by which immense numbers of a]i.ens. equal | to the Chinese in ignorance of our country and govern- ment, and inferior to them in good order, get the power | to control the government itself. Some one must take | the responsibility of making such a situation less possi- | ble. Time was that we wanted immigration. It was our ’proper national policy to encourage it. To that end we ‘mrccd expatriation treaties with the governments of Europe, and we put the period of probation for natural- ized citizens at five years. For a long time the majority of immigrants who came sought a new home here be- | cause of their knowledge of our institutions and their intelligent attachment to our form of government. | They were a wholesome addition to our population. | They rapidly assimilated and made good Americans, and | cur composite blood still shows the physical prepotency | they brought with them. Their motive in coming was ! not entirely material. It had a strong infusion of senti- | mental attachment to liberty, regulated by law. Their | thrift and industry readily took advantage of our broader | opportunities for the betterment of their fortunes, and | they contributed largely to the national wealth. But in | three-quarters of a century we drained Europe of that element. It was the moral and physical health of the Old World. and was a valued addition to the vigor of this republic. While it was coming, in response to our invi- | tation, we acquired certain sentimental ideas about immi- grants which grossly misfit the hordes that are pouring in now at the rate of nearly a million a year, and that have so little respect for our institutions that they imme- diately proceed to violate our laws and sophisticate our citizenship. our the The old style immigrants looked upon our laws and institutions with reverence and held them too sacred to be trifled with. A large percentage of those who come | now have no respect for our laws and institutions. and and of all law. The issue is serious. laws should be revised. The immigration We should dictate the number ‘nationality that may come in a year, and we and sternly purge that number of all individuals. ch of should undesirable This proposition offends € seriously first the American sentimen- talist who is still treating his country as “an asylum for the oppressed of all nations,” and has no conception of the exceedingly practical nature of the problem presented, in the complete change in the character of immigration. Next this reform touches the practical politician, the | man who will strive to get for his ticket the hundred thou- sand votes of the aliens who by fraud and crime have possessed themselves of illegal naturalization papers. He make himself felt all the way up the line to Con- He will make it appear that better laws on the | subject and the better safeguarding of American citizen- ship will offend our foreign born people already domesti- | cated The answer to this is that if they are of- ended by measures to protect the liberties and free in- stitutions which they come here to enjoy they ougbt | never to have been permitted to come, and the sooner | we keep others out like them the better for the country. No deserving alien born citizen will object to a proper reform. Such a man has at heart the interests of his adopted country. It has been kind to him. Here he has enjoyed larger opportunity and perfect liberty, and the only way to perpetuate both is by properly safeguarding the political institutions that make them possible. e w see and readily admit that those institutions cannot long survive the cffect of fraudulent citizenship and il- We are of opinion that the member of Con- gress who will give to this matter wise and judicious attention will secure enduring fame as a benefactor of his country. : wi gress. here. legal votes. | | | Reno has risen in her might and metropolitan dignity. She has been able to endur. with patient suffering the presence of highwaymen as long as the marauders | robbed but did not abus- their victims, but when the knight of the highway slugged the unwary into insensi- bility then Reno rose and demanded redress. Thjs looks | as if our winter colony of thieves and desperadoes is to be materially increased, but we have at least the satis- faction of being accustomed to the experience. THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. R. DOOLEY,” Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, Norman Duncan, Max Pemberton and Edward W. Townsend are the leading fiction contributofs to the Sunday Call Magazine to- morrow, comprising a group of names that cannot be excelled for the worth and position that they represent by the names upon the index page of any current maga- zine or periodical. In thus increasing the strength of its fiction sectién by the gradual addition of the work of the foremost figures in the literary world of to-day, the Sunday Call is giving to its readers the fruits of a long experience spent in ascertaining the class of work the newspaper reader of to-day desires in his Sunday paper. The old-time Sun- day Supplement, with its extravagance and sensation, is a thing of the past, and the Sunday Magazine as ex- emplified by The Call, with its higher tone and its cleaner and saner features, is the modern Sunday paper. One of the keenest and sharpest articles that has ap- peared from Mr. Dooley during this series will be his discourse to-morrow upon Bishop Potter and his model many of titem are at heart the enemies of all government | e e TR R T e e eSS (AR . MRS B U T £y saloon. There is plenty of food for reflection in the shrewd comment of the Sage of Archey Road. This article will be found upon the editorial page. In “Why American Women Are Popular in England,” Marie Corelli of American girls of beauty and wealth with English aristocracy that has ever been presented upon this sub- ject. Incidentally she says: “But, thanks to the im- portation of a few clean-minded, sweet-souled American | women, some of the most decayed places in this vener- able stem (English aristocracy) have been purged and purified.” Another strong feature is Norman Duncan’s story, “The Healer From Faraway Cove,” in which the superstitions and simple faith of the fisher folk he knows so well are set forth with all of this writer’s simplicity and power. Edward W. Townsend relates the amusing experiences of “Reuben From Beetville and His Love | Episode,” and there are short stories by Otto B. Senga, Beatrice Finley and Henry Colgate, in addition to smaller articles. In the women’s section Augusta Prescott gives the very latest New York styles for dinners and dances; Madge Moore writes on the “Dimpled Back,” one of the late fads; there is a page of advice for women on how to defend themselves when suddenly attacked, giving ! some simple but effective tricks for disabling an op- ponent, and, for the children, the usual puzzle page and a page of catchy music. Reports tell as that Joe Jefferson, the veteran and well- | Leloved American actor, is fast approaching the sleep that knows no awakening. And when the kindly eyes of the old man, who has so endeared himself to the world of theatergoers, have closed forever a figure with- out parallel in the affections of the American public will have gone. Whatever may be said of other great actors of the republic, Jefferson has been closer and more dearly heid than all of them. I:\nd command public attention by the noisy and iu- sistent presentation of their claims San Francisco is apparently giving inadequate consideration to a reform that has been quietly inaugurated, is pursuing its course admirably to the completion of splendid results, and must win sooner or later the heartiest commendation oi those elements of the community that labor in the pitiable cause of classes that by the operation of uniortunate conditions are least able to protect themselves. This reform, for which so much may be said and for which so much more may be done by the intelligent and vigorous co-operation of the best elements of the city, is that involved in the organization of the parental school by the Board of Education. The purpose of this school is to gather in the waifs and derelicts of childhood, to | THE PARENTAL SCHOOL. | N the contemplation or discussion of affairs that force draw them away from surroundings that make babyhood | | a tragedy of ominous and terrifying potentialities, to train and educate young minds to a realization that life | is not all labor or crime or disease of the mind no less than of the body. No better cause suggests itself to the considerafion | and energies of public spirited citizens. Something more than the regeneration of the naturally deficient is con- templated. Every child taken from an environment of mental, moral or physical ill-health a whose unconscious efforts are making for the destruction is missionary | dangerous menace to its progress, 1 its prosperity and, we must look to the material and utilitarian, its wealth. | Every child that is removed from the canner: factory, from the drudgery, disease and degrada child labor, is an agent that goes to work unknowingly e the ion of back to its poor home but successfully a revolution iu districts least amenable to reforms. Every child that is | dragged from the slums to the parental school, from the | moral filth and contamination of minds older in disease, | or | is a pioneer to prove the efficacy of the teacher’s greatest accomplishment—unconscious tuition. If the officers to whom has been delegated the vital duty of making effective the parental school could do no more, than what they accomplished a few da when their inquiry led them to a cannery owned and | operated by Chinese in this city, the purpose of this splendid innovation of the Board of Education would have been justified and its success would have been a matter of intimate, personal concern to the general n.nmmuul(\ These investigators made the ;larlhug and ~1Lkenm;,' discovery that many girls, not one them fourteen | years of age, were drudging in child labor as the | employes of Chinamen in a Chinese cannery. The disclosure is creditable neither to our humanity nor to our boasted civilization. Child life in any community should be mere precious then for such a use of its ca- pacities or for such a stifling handicap to its prospects. These children will b: removed from their employ- ment. The power of the Juvenile Court will be invoked if necessary to euroll them in the parental school, and disinfection of a moral sore spot will have begun in San Francisco. It is by such work as this that the parental school of San Francisco is recommending itself to the good will and support of citizens. Laws that are upon our statute books, but out of our minds either in recog- nition or enforcement, are being revived and made prac- tical in winning a necessary reform. Employers that have no right here or elsewhere to prostitute child life to small gain are being taught the lesson that neither discretion nor humanity has been powerful enough to impose. Children that face inevitably lives useless to themselves and dangerous to their neigh- bors are escaping a wretched destiny to be set on the right road to a healthful careeer. Such a reform is good to contemplate and better to demand, even if wider and more powerful agencies of government are necessary to inake the demand one that must not be refused. /s since | of San Francisco must accept responsibility for the re- markable condition of being forced to turn away from the public schools children seeking admission. When the municipality is too poor to teach its young or too negligent of its manifest obligation to the people within its limits, the time has come for a reform of methods, immediate and radical. Whether it be poverty, mis- management or both, a remedy should be forthcoming, and every child in San Francisco seeking instruction, or entitled to it, should be enrolled in the public schools. The Federal powers that be in Des Moines have is- sued the startling ultimatum that if any of the fair sex of that interesting town insist upon serving Uncle Sam as mail carriers they must assume the garb of men. ‘While we haven't the slightest doubt that the ladies of Des Moines will look charming in any costume they choose to select, it seems a hardship to force them to ites one of the best papers upon the relations | | He wa |and turned into Market when he be- | some | anon of the very conditions that exist in San Francisco as a |° |again the tinkle-tinkle-tankle. | Then strateg; | AND _5_ 4 S 2 - Q z o —— “Pickles’ " Little Bells. Among his Masonic friends he is | known “Pickles” because of the |fact that his name instantly recalls “the fifty-seven varieties of table rel- |ishes we read about in the streetcars. | “Pickles” is somewhat deaf and there- |by hangs this tale. | Not long ago the gentleman in ques- | tion found that the hot afternoon sun made the carrying of an overcoat a | burden, so he stepped into a well | known downtown clothing establish- ! ment and asked of Blank, a fellow { Mason and proprietor of the place, | the privilege of leaving that cumber- some garment there until the after- {noon fog made it again a necessity. Blank gladly took the garment in | charge and after “‘Pickles” had left ! the store he hied himself to a notion | store and bought a dozen of those lit- tle bells that ladies are wont to tie to the collars of apopletic pug dogs. These, he instructed the tailor, should | be sewed inside the lining around the bottom of “Pickles'” overcoat. It was done. About 5 o'clock the owner of the i as i, S il Now. Yo, PICKL FLE c qun’n’ overcoat came to claim his property. ked down Montgomery sireet came conscious of the fact that he was being followed by a poodle or other little lap dog. Ever and tinkle would smite ears and he Pickles’ wou i find that the ubiquitc bowwow was | too nimble for him and had disap- | pearead. Up Geary street he turned and| les” began to get good and mad—he never was a lover of dogs, and espe- cially of those mangy little lap dogs with bells on their collars. Again he tried to discover the purp that was following him and age ne fail. n did to him. He had approached that leads from above Kearuy. dodged littie alleyway to Market just eading for it he denly inio the recess of alley and whirled about. "3 you flea-bitten scrub of cur, shoy f.”" quoth Pickl as he grasped the head of his cane for a straight blow from the shoulder. “Tinkle-tinkle-tankie,” answered the belis from right behind him. “Pickles” whirled n and skirt of his overcoat struck the build- ing behind him there was a chime | cuch as no church steeple could send forth. Then a great “Picklds.” The Cradle Child. Forgotten, in a chamber lone, The hooded cradle, brown and old, Began to rock, began to moan, “Where are the babes I used to hold?” light broke “To men and women they are grown, And through the world their way must make.” The cradle rocked and made its moan, “My babes no single step could take!" “A helmsman one, on wide seas blown, His sinewy hands the wheel employs.” The cradle rocked and made its moan, “My babes could scarcely srasp their toys.” “And one. with words of winning tone, God's shepherd, goes the lost to seek.” cradle rocked and still made moan, babes I held no word could “And one, with children of her own, Her life is toil and love and prayer!™ The cradle rocked and still made moan, “My babes of babes could take no care! “Now, all that once were mine are flown But one, that still with me shall bide— (The cradie ceased to rock, to moan)— The sweetest one—the babe who died! —Smart Set, Held Lmroln s Hat. When Lincoln was inaugurated the first time there was one little incident, says the Chicago News, that impreued those who saw it. The President- elect came forward on the platform pre- pared at the east front of the Capitol, with his natural awkwardness in- creased by the momentous circum- stances of the occasion and by a gor- geous wardrobe in which it was evi- dent he feit exceedingly uncomfort- able. The stiff dress coat, walstcoat and pantaloons of black broadeloth were enough of themselves to disturb ! his mental and physical equanimity, but to these were added other incum- brances in the shape of a brand-new silk hat and a ponderous goldheaded cane. The cane he managed to put away thide their well heralded ajlurements under the grotesque , and shapeless habiliments of modern man. in a cormer, but the disposition of the +hat perplexed him greatly. It was too | good to throw away, too fine, as he 1d turn to | as the | in on| it | EY thought, to rest upon the rough boards, g0, for a minute at least, poor Lincoin stood there in the gaze of assembled \lhuusandL grasping the hat desper- {ately and seeking in vain for a safe place to deposit it. Douglas, who sat immediately in the rear, saw the em- barrassment of his rival and, rising, took the shining beaver from its sorely bothered owner and held it during the delivery of the inaugural address, | Probably had Stephen A. Douglas | been told, five years before, that he was destined to hold the hat of Abra- ham Lincoin while that individual was appearing for the first time as Presi- dent of the United States, the “Little Giant” would have laughed at the very idea. Devotion to Duty. Major W. E. Graybill, corps of en- gineers, United States army, ha brought to the attention of the light- house board at Washington a case of devotion to duty that is full of pathos, and the board is now considering the question of appointing Mrs. McCall, the heroine of the story, a lighthouse keep- er as a reward for her conduct. Mrs. McCall's husband, Daniel MeCall, was the keeper of the light on Cat Isl and, off the Mis: ppi coast, a remote spot and seldom visited. A few weeks ago Mrs. McCall found her husband’'s body on the boat wharf. She tried to carry it into the house, but was unable to do so. Night came on, and realizing that the light must be started she un- dertook to do so. It is a revolving light. After the match had been appiied and the flame shone out on the waters Mrs. McCall found that the machinery for | turning the big lamp would not work. Knowing the importance of making it revolve, she endeavored to keep it go- ing by the use of her own strength. This she did all night, and on the fo | lowing night also, with her husband’s | body lying on the wharf near by. On the third day her signal of distress was seen and assistance came. Unprofitable. Counterfeiting is growing unprofit- able in this country, according to the Treasury Department statistics. The United States has more paper money ir eirculation than any other country in the world, yet 2269 national banks reported to the bureau that they had een no coynterfeit money during the fiscal year. Other banks of the coun- try reported that they had handied $21.000 in counterfeit money during the year. The falling off in counter- feiting It d to be due to the activity of the secret service division. The | total number of arrests during the | year for counterfeiting was 19, which is 15 less than in the preceding year. The counterfeiter has evidently | cluded that there is no profit in mak- ing money. con- Answers to Queries. PRIMARY ELECTION—Subscriber | Forest Hill, Cal. The individual who | wants to vote at a preliminary elee- [ tion must comply with the qualifica- tions set forth in the proclamation. JCE CREAM—C. G. W, Newcast | Cal. Any cook book will give the formula for making ice cream. The placing of rock sait on the ice is o | add to the freezing quality. Cream can be frozen without rock salt. STAINS—Mrs. C., City. It is =aid that stains of an olly character in leather may be removed by the appli- cation to the spot of pipe clay dissolved in water to the consistency of cream, ‘This should be left on for at least four hours, and it will not injure the best colors. This department does not, from practical experience, know of the value of this. RATTLES—W. G., Anthony House, Cal. The rattlesnake sheds its skin more than orice a year, ‘but does not shed anv of its rattles. The number ‘of rattles increases’ with the age of the serpent, but does not indicate its age. The idea that each rattle represents a year is a mistaken one. Onmne joint or rattle is added every time the viper sheds its skin. THE SCHOOL BILL—Several Read- ers, City. The educational bill intro- duced In France is the primary caus> of the trouble between the French Government and the Vatican. If you will visit the periodical room of the | San Francisco Free Public Library vy | will find in the periodicals running back several years that which will | fully explain the situation. STAG'S HORNS—W. G.. Anthony House, Cal. In the deer family th® stag sheds horns frequently. The first year there is only a slight protuberance, the second year is marked by the brow antlers (single prong), third year by the bay antlers (two prongs), fourth year by the tray antlers (three prongs), fifth year by the crockets (five prongs) and sixth year beam antlers, which includ: crockets, tray, bay, brow, pearls and beam of the antlers. 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