Arizona republican., 1906-10-12
DARK LANTERN METHODS
 EMPLOYED ON MIR. M'RAE
If He Had Been Let Alone He Would Have Left Nothing to Be Taken by Other Photographers.

Other Photographers.
 Hector McRae. a mining man, has been in and about Phoenix for the last three months. He was drawn hither by the magnetism of Tom Sparks, with whom he had been associated in the KIondike country, where he learned to place the most Implicit confidence in him.
 MT. McRae is a Scotchman. The fact is mentioned in order that the reader may not enormously surmise that he is French. German or Scandi- navian. MT McRae is in his way an artist: that is, he has the soul. the longing of the artist. without the tech niGue.
 The summer having passed. Mir. Me Rae decided the other day to take to the hills. He desired to break the mOnotony of his quest for gold by flirting with nature Tha r-4s~ MT. Me Rae wanted to take some pictures Of nature. He would have preferred the brush or pencil but. as has been stated, he lacked the technique. He ] thought of the camera. box in which l there is plenty of technique concealed ! and ready for action He knew MT ! Sparks had a camera. though he had never seen it. He asked NIT. Sparks if ! he could take it with him. MT. Sparks ! cheerfully consented and told MT. Me , Rae that it was a good thing he had come to him about the camera. His ! was a Rembrandt camera. one of those ! which -reprOduccs the shadows and del icate tints of nature-quite different from those cheap kOdaks which give ! back only a blur of gray and white. l MT. Sparks, as a matter of fact. has ! a camera, and intended MT. McRae to have it. He told him he would find It in his rOoms it had a partly used roll of films, and he advised MT. McRae to ] take the camera to Berryhill's, have the ! roll taken out, leaving the used films . there to be developed and have a new roll inserted.
 Mir. McRae went after the snap ] shooter. He had seen cameras. but was without intimate familiarity with them. Entering MT. Sparks room, the first thing he saw was a dark lantern. : the only remaining implement of Mir. | Sparks former profession. To MT. ] McRae. the bUIlseye was a lens. He [ didn't try to open the machine, but ] went directly to BerryhilIs and re- r peated to a clerk the instructions he had had from MT. Sparks with relation
 to the films.
 The clerk did not belong to the ' kodak department and his Knowledge
 of cameras was about as rudimentary
 as that of 1Ir. McRae. He could not
 remember having ever seen one pre-
 cisely like this. but new things are coming on the market every day and
 this might easily be kodak of inn proved pattern. He had put films in |rrFF nF FT9rF the entrance to this one He referred the matter 10 the head of the kodak department, who suspected that a jGke was being constructed. He did not
 want to be the man to spoil it. He took the dark lantern into the dark room and finally got it-Open- He found 1 a place where he could stuff roll of films and. taking it back. returned it 1 to MT. McRae and received the sum of 90 cents. which he confidently expected
 he would some time be called upon to ! refund
 It happened that Connolly of the Hoffman was present either by acci- dent or design. He went back and re- ported that he had just seen MT Me Rae laying in stock of artists sup plies. There was a prayerful consid- eratiOn of the course to pUrsue: whether it would be compatible with
 advanced twentieth century civiliza-
 ton 10 let MT. McRae carry that dark
 lantern out into the hills. It was de-
 cided that il would be savage bar
 parity. But on the other hand, it was feared that when MT McRae was en- frightened he would be barbarOus.
 However. it was finally decided to
 enlighten him and MT Sparks was delegated to proceed with the job as
 Automatically as possible. He was assured that assistance would be rem dered him if the peril should be immi-
 nent.
 MT. McRae came in shortly with the
 dark lantern. Mir Sparks drew hin
 aside and broke the news. Mir. McRae received it with the calmness of .
 hopeless paralytic. When he recOv-
 cred. he strangely manifested no anger
 not even a trace of irritation He pro- ceeded in the businesslike manner of .
 thorough Scotchman to 'buy." TheT'
 was no reference by him or anybody else to the joke if it was a joke, bu
 MT. McRae kept buying as if he ha, been regularly employed for that pur pose. In the course of the afternoon
 people dropped in and casual aiIUsiOn! were made by them 10 kodaks. cam
 eras and other matters pertaining b
 the art of 'photogra phy- Mr- McRa' interpreted all these remarks to be or ders for cocktails. cigars. etc. an' bought