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reaches, is picturesque in the extreme, and 

 deserves several days' attention, but we were 

 already over our time, and on the sixteenth 

 day out paddled into Tupper Lake village, 

 shipped our canoe back to Old Forge, staged 

 it over to Tupper Lake Junction — and our 

 summer's wanderings were at an end. 



This is but one of hundreds of routes that 

 can be laid out in the Adirondack region. 

 Having followed the water-trail once, you 

 will do it again, — and right here within a 

 day's journey of home you can find a differ- 

 ent trail every year you go out, and go out 

 every year of your life. 



The expense is merely nominal. Equip- 

 ment, maintenance, and railroad fares from 

 any point in New York State need not cost 

 to exceed $30 per man for a two weeks' trip, 

 and we did it for less. And the free life oi 

 the open, the sweet influence of the woods 

 and waters, the utter absence of worldly 

 cares and responsibilities, is a grand good 

 tonic for any man, be he old or young. 



A PRAIRIE ROUNDUP. 



Editor Recreation : 



I wonder if any of your readers have ever 

 followed hounds over the prairie and through 

 the buttes on a wolf chase. Some, I am 

 sure, have; and to those who have not I 

 would say there is no finer sport. Hunting 

 parties do not always meet with the success 

 of Dick Sturgeon's party, which, after a two 

 days' chase in the buttes west of town, se- 

 cured five prairie wolves and two jack rab- 

 bits. 



We had six greyhounds out and no guns. 

 If your eastern readers could know the ex- 

 citement of a rattling gallop over the plain 

 after a fast flying wolf or rabbit they would 

 appreciate our keen enjoyment. Shooting 

 seems almost tame by comparison. Give me 

 horse and hound for fun. 



I am pleased with Recreation under its 

 new editor, and feel sure his pages for boys 

 will be very much appreciated by the young- 

 sters. 



W. H. Carnahan, Leeds, N. D. 



AN AUTO HINT. 



The camera is coming to be as much a 

 part of the automobile outfit as the lamps 

 or the identification number, and our maga- 

 zines are becoming full of photographs of 

 automobile incidents and bits of landscape 

 taken en route. With so much space on the 

 machine, little thought need be taken as to 

 smallness of the outfit, as in the old bicycle 

 days, when every pound of weight made an 

 additional burden. But the precautions tak- 

 en in those days apply equally well with the 

 automobile. Rough roads and thank-you- 

 maums will jolt a big car as much as they 

 do a bicycle and the camera owner should* 

 consequently be careful to protect his camera 



as far as possible against undue shaking. 

 That is, the plate-camera owner should. The 

 film camera will look after itself pretty well, 

 without suffering ill-effects from a little 

 jolting. But with the plate-camera, it is 

 different. Plates do not fit tightly into the 

 holders, and if thrown about will cast off 

 little splinters of glass that will lodge on 

 the surface of the plate and appear as annoy- 

 ing spots on the prints. A thick pad of 

 some soft resilient material should be placed 

 at the bottom of the camera case and an- 

 other one at the top. This will be some pro- 

 tection against jolts, but, if possible, the 

 plate-camera should always be held on the 

 lap and certainly not placed on the floor of 

 the car. 



PROGRESS, EVER PROGRESS. 



Judging from the advertisements one sees 

 in the various magazines, photography is be- 

 ing still further simplified this year and the 

 old-time pleasures we used to have in 

 watching the gradual evolution of the nega- 

 tive picture from the blank film is slowly 

 but surely being taken away from us. No 

 longer is it even necessary to put your roll 

 of film in a metal box and to turn a crank 

 a given number of minutes. That, too, is 

 passe now. You just reel up your film in 

 a red celluloid apron and stick it into a cup 

 of developer to develop by itself. That's 

 all. No dark-room, no mess, no labor. And 

 when your negatives are marked and dried, 

 you place them in a printing-frame with a 

 piece of black-looking sensitized paper, and 

 after a few minutes' exposure to the sun, you 

 develop your print in water and lo ! and 

 behold ! the vivid colors of nature, in rich 

 blues and greens and browns and yellows 

 glow out upon you in startling vividness. 

 Verily, we do progress since the days of old 

 Daguerre, and the man or woman who dab- 

 bles not in photography little know how 

 much genuine pleasure they are missing in 

 these days of "photography made easy." 



CLOUDS IN LANDSCAPES. 



No photographer taking a pride in his work 

 should ever be content with a print show- 

 ing an expanse of blank, cloudless sky. 



All landscapes of an open nature 

 are improved when a suitable cloud is 

 printed in the sky. Very many land- 

 scapes of this kind are absolutely unin- 

 teresting and void of feeling without a suit- 

 able cloud effect. It is rarely possible to 

 obtain a printable sky on the same negative 

 as the landscape. By far the most efficacious 

 method is to take separate cloud negatives 

 and print them in; being careful to see that 

 your cloud effect is in keeping with your 

 theme. 



