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RECREATION. 



invention, and is a special aid on Gen. 

 Buller's staff. 



Heretofore, reconnoitring parties have 

 returned from that hazardous duty with 

 only a roughly sketched map, showing the 

 general distribution, of the enemy's lines. 

 The main objection to photography is the 

 time occupied in developing plates. This 

 is said to have been overcome by Foulkes' 

 method, for in recent trials he had prints 

 ready in 7 minutes after focussing. It is 

 thought that photographs thus secured will 

 be of great value in verifying routes and 

 preventing columns from losing their way; 

 also in rendering them practically inde- 

 pendent of guides when advancing on un- 

 known ground. 



Foulkes carries the equipment on his 

 own and his orderly's bicycles, which are 

 painted khaki color. The camera is a sim- 

 ple looking affair, made for hand work, but 

 is fitted with the most expensive devices. 

 Foulkes also carries a Mauser, a revolver, 

 and a carbine. 



The few military experts who know the 

 object of Foulkes' mission are looking for- 

 ward with keen interest to the spectacle of 

 battle plans being formed on photographs 

 taken, developed and printed at the far- 

 thest outpost, probably within easy range 

 of the Boers. Lieut. Foulkes experimented 

 with this class of photography while serv- 

 ing in Sierra Leone, in the Huttax expe- 



dition, and secured results which prompted 

 the War Office to send him to South Africa. 

 — New York Herald. 



HOW TO MAKE A FLASH LAMP. 

 Take an old bicycle hand pump, cut it in 

 half and use the bottom for a powder bowl. 

 Make a hole in one side of the bowl at 

 about the center, and insert the screw end 

 of the plunger; cut this in two, leaving 

 about Y-2. inch outside of bowl. Put 

 a wire nail through the tube and then fill 

 bowl with melted lead to about %. 

 inch above the tube through which the nail 

 is inserted. Then take out the nail and 

 drill and countersink a hole in the lead to 

 meet the hole in end of tube. Attach about 

 2 feet of small rubber tubing to the 

 metal tube in the side of bowl. File 2 

 notches opposite each other in top of 

 bowl, about Y^ inch wide by Y /% inch 

 deep. Make a handle of wire, or of wood, 

 and you have one of the best flash lamps 

 obtainable, at a cost of about 15 cents. 

 Use only pure magnesium powder in the 

 lamp, and a lighted parlor match laid 

 across the top in the notches is all that is 

 required to make the flash. No bulb is 

 needed; simply blow the powder up into 

 the flame by placing one end of the tube 

 in the mouth. This contrivance will give 

 as satisfactory a flash as any expensive 

 lamp. 



TWO OR MORE EXPOSURES ON ONE PLATE. 



C. H. BAILEY. 



I send you 3 drawings showing how I eras and who do not wish to use a whole 

 take 2 or more pictures on one plate, which plate on each subject, 

 may interest amateurs who use large cam- For making 2 exposures on one plate 



Fig. 1, 



