The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-20
FAKE MADE AND EXPOSED.

or the making OF fakes there is no
end. II is rather new, however, for
the maker Of fake 10 publish com
plete exposure Of his fakery. This has
happened, however, in the matter of
"Cardelius. incidentally, it brought
TO grief few persons who felt 1t IN.
cumbent upon them 10 know all about
Cardclius, and who answered with great
appearance of erudition the question.
''Who was Cardclius7' One SAID he
was a great Latin scholar, and went on
to fortify his position by reciting his
traits. as a lover of garlic, friend
of Keinmepsch, and so on. An
other driftcd along in about the same
fashion, assuming to know of what he
wrote. But the author Of the fake
tense to knowledge, exposing the whole
sell in the ioilowIag explanation ad~
dressed TO the editor of the New York
Evening Post;
Cardelius is a child Of the imagination:
rather, he was born of the union Of Il
printers composing stick aud a font OF GO
point Cheltenham
In our library we have an old Washing.
ton hand press and couple OF fonts OF
large type. With these. manipulated by
a small boy. We print signs for ourselves,
rowers. and posters descriptive OF the
many meetings and exhibitions held in the
library. / have always been slightly
topographic. from the days when our viii
lage printers shop was just across the
street from home. down through tho times
when l was all things TO the Ashby Ava
lanche. a, splendid hand wrought west,
ern country weekly which ] am afraid
you never saw, and on TO twenty years OF
dealing with books in a library
Being fond of types and of the smell OF
printers ink ! naturally spend parts OF
my holidays and OF long New Jersey win
ter evenings in playing with our library
press. Several months ago | composed u
brief thought "A Line hymn, to the
printers art / so much admire. and set It
and printed II on our press. II was long
enough for thought; but IL did not com
pose well in 6o-pont type. did not care
10 say moro, but for purposes OF typo
graphic display / wished more to be said.
And so. with my stick In my hand stood
before the case and added words 10 words
Jf YOU know the ways Of types. you know
that they Will not yield fraction OF an
inch TO carry, within the limits OF the
measure your composing stick gives you,
the words you have chosen for the Thought
YOU wish to express For the lcngth OF
line ! had selected found AT last head
ing, This our noble art" which when set
III capitals HttSu IL cNaElIN- FROM lIiS
went on. adding a word here, dropping ono
thero. changing this phrase and that,
shifting capitals and small letters, escap-
ing hyphcns and other pitfalls. until had
produced from my original humble son
tence the Delphic utteranCe which "B.
quoted In his letter. AS ii cama slowly
into good topographic form. found II by
chance had taken on a slightly archaic
flavor. | nursed this little. When II
WAS nearly done, | said to myself. This
needs half line OF 30-point at tho bottom
for n balance. and needs also author
tit 10 have said this thing and well able
TO have said il I'm this way. Let him he
unknown: let him be carly; II ] say he
wrote In Latin shall have just the length
or line In 30-point that need, What is
good name for a Latin author OF early
printing ys?-and then came Car
delius. / never heard Of him before. |
cannot find him In the books. II IL was
wrong 10 invent him. the sin must bc laid
on the Devil. which has always been in
types.
Since 'B.'s" note appeared. the Inland
Printer for May has como to us with this
one and only sentence of the hitherto un-
known Cardclius skllfully written out by
hand and elaborately decorated for its
frontispiecc, This is natural and proper.
IL the craftsman saw a sentence from
Cardelus OF the sixteenth century quoted
somewhere. il was his right To quote II
again ! hope the Inland Printers editor