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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-16

dared make mis- appearance in public
without guardian.
II half these Witnesses tsIl the truth,
and half is c large allowance. Ten dol
lar bills didn't count for as much as
the proverbial white chip. and century
shinplasters were in COMMON use
around Helena as cigar fighters.
A state with a reputation for such
wealth ought to have at east ten mil
lions Of population unless there is some
drawback that IS kept a secret. Pos
sihly the necessity OF Irving aD to
tae state reputation makes II too eN-
pensive as a place Of residence for any
body but millionaire. Moreover. no
common liar could hope to count for
anything ID Montana after the 4;hibi-
ton of varied and artistic pfevarica-
ton that the states experts have been
giving in Washington Even Utah's
most noted follower Of Ananias made
a feeble display when he Joined the Ply
rotechnic combination that has been
holding s9rth tn the Clark case. Mon
taua VIII have to lessen some Of the
requirements for citizenship before she
can nope 30 have the inrush of immi-
grafton that she would 9th rWise seem
To Doe entitled to.
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One Rich Mans Fad.
New Orleans Times-Democrat]

(NeW Orleans Times-DemOCrat)
4 see that the Pail Mall Magazine
announces the discontinuanCe Of its
American edition with the January
number, just issued said a New Or
scans book store man. For several
reasons this is an interesting piece Of
news. As most people know, the maya
zine is owned by William Waldorf As
tor. who started it about seven years
ago, when he first began a seTiCu7 cam
paign to eStablish himself in London
society. It was claimed from the out
set that the publication was not being
run for money, and Mr. AstOr said a
few years aSO thai t.cost him as much
as to mairtain a yacnt-meaning sup
pose, an annual deficit Of about $4,000.
Lord Frederic Hamilton is the nom
iral editor, at $4,000 a year, and the
contributors are frequently members
Of the peerage. The magazine has al
ways been conducted with a royal dis
regard Of expense, and one of its Gu
ricuo rules has been never to solicit
an advertisement. The January num-
Der, the last of the American edition,
contains IA pages Of reading matter
and six and a half pages Of ads Here
are the last issues Of three American
magazines, the proportion Of text and
business pages in them running as fol-
. A'E.7- ANSaNiAt- iASlklEis w. aus 'Vf
reading matter. 109: ads IS: reading
matter. 12S; ads. 81 That is certainly
a pretty startling contrast, and shows
that in these days of ferOciOus COM
petition it doesn't pay 10 sit still and
wait Tor business to come ones way.
] don't think. however, that Mr.. Aston
Is suSpending the American edition on
account Of its lack of advertising pat
TOnage. The probabilities are that he
hwishes to make the publication thor
Aoughly English in tone and feeling, and
this is merely a step to that end. He
was especially embittered last summer
by the ridicule which greeted the ap-
peara1ce of the so-called 'AStorgia
pedigree III which he traced his lin
cage TO an eleventh century Spanish
f grandee, and I predicted at the time
I that the American edition was doomed
/ The Pail Nah is the only magazine in
I the world that is run by a rich man
as a personal fad
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-16
PHOTOGRAPHY FOR AMATEURS.
INTRODUCTORY STUDY.
ny GEORGE ". GILSON.

BY GEORGE ". gibson.
Il is hardly necessary at this date TO
begin a series of articles Of practical in
strucu0n to the amateur photographer
with the detailed history OF the birth
and wonderful growth Of this science.
We shall therefore. give but a brief
history of photography before proceed
ing 10 the more instructive chapters.
The actual discovery Of the darkening
or colOring effect of the suns rays on
different substances was discovered 100
years ago, but the discovery of pho
Biography. as we think Of it and know
il today, is said TO have been made by
DagUeTTe in August OF 1899. He then
gave uS-OF rather the French govern
ment. which afterward gave it TO the
world-the process By which a direct
picture could be taken by photography
This process was called the daguer-
Teotyping process and is the old daguer-
reotype with which the most of US are
familiar. While the daguerre0type was
a portrait or picture by photography.
and very beautiful Of its kind, still the
process differed greatly from that now
in use. The result was a positive in
place of a negative. the picture being
made direct on a copper plate. Each
picture was an original If a person
required six pictures six sittings We're
necessary, and the time of exposure diff
fered from thirty to forty minutes.
With our rapid dry plates of the pres
ent day, coated with their sensitive
salts, the exposure is but fraction of
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THE CHICAGO CONFERENCE.

One Of the hoDefI features Of the
antitrust conference which has just
closed its sessions was the unaninity Of
opinion as TO thu chief evils Of The trust
system. The telephone, telegraph and
railroad trusts were singled out for
special consideration. but it was TIE
bad features Of these combinations that
were criticised. not their advantages to
the people al large Economists in at
tendance agreed that the concentration
of capital in railroads is as inevitable
as death and taxes; they agreed also as
to the vast power for evil Of railroad
com binations that discriminate az TO
rates in favor of few monopolies or
against certain localities.
It is against such determinations that
the antitrust conference has pro-
nounced and the remedy suggested is
government ownership or publication
Of accounts under government super
vision. There was also a pronounced
trend toward government ownership Of
all public utilities and one Of the dele
gates called attention to the fact that
such a sentiment had found its strong
est expression in the Republican north
west, while the Democratic south is in
different to a great degree ON the ques-
tiCn.
The conference apparently got into
partisan matters when il pronounced
against the pending bill OF the money
trust in congress. The declaration was
accepted as against the Republican
party ard provoked a bitter outegy from
Republican delegates because of that
fact The gathering, however, was
called to consider trusts, and if the
money trust is to be exempt from con-
siderauon because II is befriended by a
great party. the value Of such confer
ences would be limited. Two things
have made trusts possible, the tariff
and the concentration Of power in the
hands Of a few men to such an extent
that they can compel special favors
from railroads. from other corporations
and from legislative bodies. The bane
of a tariff for trusts only viii be rem
edied in good time; it remains to De seen
whether the capitalists trust is To con-
troll the money situation SO thoroughly
that the individual in business must
give way TO the poorly paid, dissatis-
fed, spiritless employee Of the syndi-
cate.
If the enthusiasm and unanimity of
this weeks conference are any index Of
public sentiment. the special privileges
of trusts have about reached their
limit, and next November viii hear a
new declaration of independence based
On the once accepted belief that all
men should be equal before the law;
that none should have any special priv
ileges denied to others; that all should
bear the burden of government in pro-
portion to their earnings under that
government
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SHORT STORIES.
PLAYING Poker
lNashinston Evening sta


washington Evening starr
There is man in Washington. who
is a SHINING light in one of the prOmi-
nent churches, who nearly lost his rep
utatiOn the other night, all because of
a child's innocent prattle. He called
upon a friend Who is handsomely
fixed" as TO this worlds goods, and
who has a tiny, gOlden-haired daughter
Of whom he is very fond. The friends
adjourned to the smoking room for a
chat, and shortly afterward the daUgh-
ter went to hunt them. She came down
to her mother in the reception room a
little later and found her entertaining
callers.
In & lull in the conversation the child
volunteered the information that papa
and Mr.. Blank We're having lots of
fun"
What are they doing. dear?" asked
one Of the callers, idly.
Playing poker" was the astounding
answer
Poker" exclaimed the astonished
mother; why, Jennie your father new
er played a game of poker in his life
Wei mamma, they are in the room
with t1e big green table. and papa
pokes a little ball at MIR. Blank and he
pokes it back again. Isn't that pokey2'
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a moment. To Daguerre alone IS not
due ali the credit for the discovery of
photography, for another Frenchman OF
the name of Joseph Eicephore Niepce,
experimenting at the same time as
DagUerre, discovered many interesting
details that added to Daguerre's dis
cOvery very materially in the perfect
ing Of the process. Again. there are
many who staunchly claim that Fox
Talbot was the true originator OF pho
Biography, and consider that to him
should be accorded the title of the
father Of photography mantle so
long worn by DagueTre. AprOpOs Of
this is the article lately published in an
English journal. which speaks of Tai
bots claims as follows:
"Cn Feb. II, 1900, exactly 100 years
Will have elapsed since the birth Of
William Henry Fox Talbot To many
photographers his name is possibly TN
familiar: by many more his cOntribu-
tons are, without doubt, vaguely ap-
pretended. No permanent recognition
of them exists. and even the literature
Of the craft Of which he was the viz
tual founder often misrepresent5 and
undertakes his labor. The centenary of
his birth comes, Their e, as a fitting
occasion on which to ect the atten-
ton of the Photographic world to the
part which Fox Talbot played in the
evolution of photography and his re-
lations TO his contemporaries in these
pregnant years of the third and fourth
decades of this century
The inventors of the art-science were
treading pretty closely on one anOther's
heels but those who have studied the
early history of. photography Will &C
duiesce in the opinion that even SO far
as priority OF publication is concerned
Fox Talbot is entitled to the premier
place among the fathers of photog
raphy But this is not his most indis-
puta Bile claim TaIbots process con-
tanned the possibilities of indefinite
modification. The multiplication of
positive proofs from a negative origi-
mated with him, and has proved the
only practical principle in photography
ever since.
3 For his share, too, in the development
Of the sister art OF phOto-engTaving
Fox Talbot likewise deserves a full
measure Of credit. He was one of the
earliest pioneers in that afterward
fruitful field Of discovery-the produce
) ton Of printing surfaces by photo
graphic means. He was che Of the first
experimenters with bichrOmated gela-
tin and perfected. and, alas, patented a
process for the reproduction of an in
taglio plate to which he gave the name
"photoElyphic engraving
This Hrief outline VIII serve to call TO
mind the position Of Fox Talbot in pho
tographic history. a position hitherto
/ scarcely. reco gnized. In France a statue
of Joseph NicephoTe Niepce stands in
the town of Chalons-sur-SaOne and the
/ restoration of the church OF his native
/ Bry-sur- Marine has been carried out as
one memorial to Daguerre. The only
I proposal to perpetuate in any way the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-16
s4zE sAAr LAKE iiERALD: friday FEBRUARY le 1900

bucket with a gesture Of disgust. spat
on the ground and then yelled BACK ce-
fiartiy. Oh dry Up. old Sawbuok.
Sawhuck was aroused 10 instant acltvli-
cross lots went the duo, the boy, ike
hunted hare. siTieked for mercy Hlu
doubled haH dozen Zines TO the Inliidts
The ueighb0rs became Interested TOT ~
was genuine sporting eFen5 oesl,i'e, l trlS
heavy handicap OF Sawbuck long
spri1ters- Finally the sacrilesl0GS ldd
" as hauled 10 Che woodshed ana stIestL ~
of unclaSsified idiOms and pehitSittdl
prayers issued through the knotholeS
while above the pendemOEium arose the
measured stroke Of the paddle -,
'SaWbUck'' S0fensen is known from Ddh
even unto Beersheba. but his boy ooes
not cali him by that name any more
Ed jenkins. the harness man. mas Ie-
Gently returned from q missich 70 LIS
lard. V here he has been engaged IN the
stupendOuS task Of cc1VeTtinS the Sllui =
population of AlbiOns 1alr Isle; ~ =
not recorded whether Ed brought BACK
any converts with him. but ne most Ger
fafrlv brought hack a certain plug hat Of
a bTiiilaDcy calculated 70 suPS, ~ -
optha.uia among all beholdets- me IL
encountered the recent salt storm. NitQ
Ed tCok it to a well known MAN Street
halter to be ironed. ~,
IS hIt6 stauCiug baTeheaCeu awaiting ne
return of the silk hat. jenkins WaS ~
preached by an individual VINO poI1 a
STRIKING resemblance to judge ost n
Hil5s. The gentleman in question: ~ H.
taking Jenkins for one of the cleFi-E tooh
q whIte sl0uch hat from his heaI ail 9
handing il 10 Jenkins. said: Have you
got another hat lust Ike that.
jenkins eye Travelled from the iHiiltI ,
bonnet to the questiOI6r and then IN icy
tones he is alleged to have said; N2; S5-.IIi
I haven't, and whats more, III hdu 1 Il
De damned If / would wear IL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-16
INNOCENT CONSUL MACRUm-

rTyl,+s man NTacrum. who resigned MS
al, be,suss he could not retain his self
rE=nect and follow instructions I''I"
home at the same time, seems to- De "
ra-,arl.abIe citizen. He says he was
Inundated bv having his mail opened
and read bv Che British censor ana
otherwise treated as though his consul
ate were subject to orders from queen
Victoria. Moreover. be says he was d.
raqrad to ignore the real facts of the
situation. and that he felt called upon
To come home and tel The administia-
fion some of the things it ought 10
know.
Poor Nacrum. He had an idea that
This administration would want Jo take
the mart of people fighting for nde-
Daudence. that the United States OF
America-or its executive officials
would be anxious 90 know the facts
about the South African muddle. He
had only reached the outer edges of
African civilization ON his way home
when he learned that he had mistaken
his cue entirely.
Instead of guarding American inter-
's's' ii7 u'l,' nc 80 e+stss fs
30 ''' '-',' - fns,,1+s to the
gu',e i'''.-.''''.1 --~,,.sr,,-,ert
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.Iis.a,..rsd rbaf rb. secretary 0r state
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.......,,.5,,,.r United sf,taz affairs i'm Pre-
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THE BOER LEADER.


a great deal has been said and
written about President Paul Kruger
Of the Boer republic, but recent mill
tary maneuvero and British reverses
in the vicinity Of the Transv3aI have
caused the eyes Of tbs civilized world
to turn 70 the military genius in charge
Of the Boev forces, against which Eng
land finds it necessary to send four red
coats to every peasant.
When the diplomacy of President
Kruger failed 90 bring about peace with
rcnor. the work of General Petrus ia
cobUs JOUbert began. That he has done
his part in the struggle Of the little
republic IS attested by the list of Brit
ism deaths. and defeats since October.
As his who name appears. one woul1
imagine il mad been taken from some
college diploma. but he is not a college
man. While ignorant Of polo. poker
and polite -3ciety, rough Of speech and
negligent &C appearance, General Jou-
bert is fighter, a strategist and an
original tactj ian whose cspa5 liti = aud
Accomplishments were net new to the
English when the present war began.
lie was born in the Cape Colony in
the latter part of 1891. being six years
younger than Dom" Paul Kruger.
There is some French HuguenOt blood
in his veins. from which he gets his
bulldog tenacity- When a boy Of Z years
Of age. JoUbert was taken with his par
ents to the Orange Free State At an
early age he learned how 10 handle a
gun and 10 shoot with remarkable ac-
curacy. He was young man when he
went 10 the TransvaaL He soon made
his power felt among the sturdy Beers
of those days. II was always said that
Joubert could lead a body of men more
successfully against hostile natives
than any other man in the Transvaal
In 1850 Joubert. Kruger and Pres6r
ious, son Of the founder of the repub.
lies. formed a triumvirate to force Eng.
land 10 abandon her claim of a suzer.
ainty, assumed while the Beers were
/ engaged with the Kafirs. and not il
a position to protest. The command
Of the Boer forces was gisen over Il
Joubert. and history tells with wat re
suit. As a military leader ne count.
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the following battles on his LIST. won
long before his brillisAt achievements
Ct the present conflict He sle-ee5ea
in defeating the British at Laing's
Mex: defeating the Natal troops. uis-.ef
General Cooley at Najuba Hill in 1851;
completely suppreaing the Swazies IN
1880, a feat which the British were I'M
able TO accomplish, though they tried
it for years. and finally turned over
Swazieland to the Beers in 1898 as
being a bad egg; but it did not take
old Joubert long to trim the Swazies.
and they are now among the best De
haved of the native subjects of ola
Kruger; and whipping Jameson when
ne tried to raid johannesburg.
He has men behind him of the same
tough hbre-cunning. .coura geous and
Cromwe1ian in devotion to their cause.
England has q chance to overpower
them with superior numbers in the ena.
bet it will doubtless take 1--WE English
men for every Buer.
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AN INDEPENDENT SHELTER.

The Herald would like to- see an in
dependent smelter established in Utah.
just 90 contribute TO the safety of the
state and furnish the miners e chance
to live without mortgagHg everything
they own
According to Information from some
NJ the smaller consumers. the smelter
trust is like most Of the other philan-
thropic combinations OF capital foster
ed by the tariff and the financial situa-
tion-it is not IN business for its own
or anybody else's health. If there is
any margin of profit ia the ore. the
trust is pleased to know Just what
That margin IS 50 it may appropriate
The whole of it, It's purpose il not TO
make charges So eXorbitant that the
mines Viii quit working entirely; that
would stop the supply and be awkward
for everybody IF the mine owner or
leaser can make enough out of his pro-
duct TO keep soul and body together
the trust has no earthly objection 10
allowing them TO exist its oaly objec-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-16
The Plate.

There are a number Of different
makes of dry plates on the market. any
of which. with proper handling. viii
weld good results, and the best course
for a beginner is to select one brand
and stick to it until the working of il
is thoroughly understood
Most plates are made IN three grades
Of speed, usually termed slow. medium
and fast or instantaneous. The begin
ner should choose the slow or medium
speed plate for his first work. which
is nearly always an outdoor picture. as
the medium plstes ADMIT of consider
able more latitude in exposure than the
fast plate. and are. besides. easier {.
develop or to control in DEVELOPMENT.
The great percentage Of failures at
The commencement Of the amateu
photographers career is due to over
exposure. With the fast plate. over
exposure Of few secon6s only is fate
(without the experience Of a veteran C.
control iD. while with the slow plate
Is not nearly 81 serious a matter. tn
beginner viii find. that he viii vast
plates enough in his early efforts SIS
the med UNI plate, without eruarlne
number by the uge of fast ones.
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the front board ITO which the lens is
fastened) IL much handler than by
moving the back
The front board spoken Of above
should be what is termed a sliding
front and the camera should also have
a swing back and the back should be
reversible. These terms will be fully
explained as they come up in future
chapters
One plate holder (hOlding two plates
comes with each camera. and it win be
best to get two extra holders so that
four or six plates may be ready for use
at once. A pneumatic release shutter
capable of fast or slow exposures and
of time exposures should be a perma-
nent part of me lens. The tripod should
be sufficiently strong to be perfectly
rigid when in position and holding the
camera. Some are made so as to fold
into very small compass. Do not get
one in which strength is sacrificed too
much to the matter Of folding into
small space. In selecting the first cam
era it is a COED MAN 10 consult some
friend Of experience.
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memory of Henry Fox Talbot has sur
iously enough taken the same form as
that last mentioned. Soon after his
death in 1877 preliminary steps were ia
ken to restore, or rather remodel, the
chanceI of Lacock church, Wiltshire.
with which Fox Talbot was intimately
connected as lay rector, and where
many Of his ancestors lie buried The
scheme lansed for some years, but lat
terly a local eOHr ittee has taken the
matter in hand a portion of the
requisite sum has t'ten raised. While
the suitability of the suggested memo
rial may prove productive Of discus
sion, it should be recOllected that the
idea IS one which would have been ac-
ceptable TO Fox Talbot himself, and
photographers would be honoring their
craft if they provided the funds for this
or any other suitable memorial. in the
centenary year Of the man who may
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MCNTANA'S ADVERTISEMENT.

Montana has had q large and eratBi-
Gus advertisement from Marcus DAILY
md the other gentlemen who have been
.a1tgztiug Air. Clarks right TO a scar
d me Jnited states senate. Accordine
Cd the tales told 10y the witnesses now
% Washington Montana seems to- have
been SO fun of thousand dollar bills
and Wads Of ErcenbacSg. that nobody
could dodge JAem unless he had a good
cyclone cellar and s-aid in it an the time
the legislature was i'm session. From the
dea-eatcher up 60 the supreme court.
every official ina the state was ia dam
ger OF being corrupted SD long as De
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ton IS to extravagant dividends-for
mine owners.
Here's to the men VINO talk Of an
Independent plant; may they live long
and prosper, may they build as they
talk and set nest Of the business at a
fair rate
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As a compliment to MeIbourr Mellow
ell VINO is a Sarine-, the local mel
Of his order have engaged a bi1.E a.S
in center Of parquette and dres- ..E--
Monday night and the section 81
gagged will be reserved in advance Of .
sale. Cleopatra viii also ae H..''
Tuesday night and WeiHesdaE E...
and 1 give this notice SO that there H.-..
be no dissatisfaction concern-r9 '
for Monday. GEO D.
gra-as5--
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After this storm the new city water
works bond syndicate will have to re-
wise its war cry somewhat. They
might propose a 100000 snowshed sys-
TEN to protect the city from threatened
avalanches. The drouth howl is played
out lust now