
A DEAD SPRUCE AT TIMBER LINE, 
the day and night, looks tame when pic- 
tured on a printed page. A lake that 
sparkles in the noonday light and glimmers 
in the rays of a full moon, or that reflects 
the myriads of stars in the milky way, or 
that pictures in its silent depths the mighty 
walls of granite, and glaciers, and snow 
slides, and rock slides; or a river that 
runs white over big boulders, and that 
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is guarded on either shore by giant 
firs, spruces or pines, loses much of its 
grandeur and much of its beauty when 
transferred to the sensitive film. Yet there 
are thousands of smaller objects, and even 
many large ones, that can be caught on a 
5x7 plate, and that may interest and in- 
struct millions of people when reproduced. 
I labored under great difficulties last 
