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Show 1 MiscGllany The Wireless Hoax. Any one who has given tho matter any 4 nought must havo realized the facility with which wirolcss telcgTaphy can be utilized by the mischiefmakor or the practical joker. Marconi messages mes-sages may bo flashed iuto tho air from a secret source, to be picked up by chance receivers within u wide radius. There is no easy way of discovering whence the messages" come, and thoy are bound to bo accoptod in good faith. The first practical illustration of the possibilities for mischief in wireless telegraphy was offered last week. Somo unknown operator flashed forth a story of the burning of the passenger steamer Rio Grande, and of the heroic rcscuo of all ou board bv a British ship. Jt was a pnro hoax. The perpetrator could havo had no possible motive but that of the practical joker. Tl was an Habo-1 rale and reprehensible joke. Yet it was accepted and published an the truth. Thoro is alrcudy a. federal law providing pro-viding fine or imprisonment for the perpetrator of such a. jest. The difficulty diffi-culty is to catch him and to prove him guilty. There is no telltale record of his activity. Those who received his message have no possible means of 'knowing from what direction it came. The difficulty of detection seems beyond be-yond tho mental scope of tho cleverest detcctivo of recent fiction. Yet ns wireless becomes moro and moro a part of tho life of the world, there must bo somo means devised to prevent the flashing of canards. It is easy lo fancy what, great distress and positive harm might arise from tho activities of the irrosponbiblu amateur or tho malicious professional. Tho time may come when tho wireless detective will bo an important functionary of the secret service of all civilized nations. Cleveland Plaindealer. Hello! When you meet a friend In woe, Walk right up and say "Hello!' Sav "Hello!" and "How d'yo do!' And "How's tho world .-i'iisIiik you?" Slap the fellow on the back, Hit him with a sounding whack; Walk rlfilit up and don't he slow. Grin and shake, and say "Hello!" Ts ho clothed In raj;sV Oh. shol Walk right up and say "Plello!" Rags are but. u common roll Just for wrapping up a soul; And a soul is worth a true Hall and healty "How d'yo do!" Don't be bashful, don't be slow. Take his hand and soy "Hello'." When the big ships meet, they say, They salute and puss away. So It Is with you and me, Lonesome ships upon, tho sea; Each one sailing his "own log For a port beyond the fojr. So let your speaking trumpet blow, Raise your voice and shout "Hello!" When wc leave this house of clay, A'wanderlng to' that far-away, Whim we Journey to that strange Country t'other side thn range, Thon tho souls we've met will know Who we bo, and say "Hello!" Unknown Tho Indian on the Increase The Indians of Canada, according to a recout report, "arc increasing at the rate of 2000 a year. The ludiau population popula-tion of the dominion at the close of tho year was 10GJ00. The Indians in the United States aro increasing in numbers at about, the samo ratio. At the close of the fiscal Year in 1910 the census showed 304,601 Indians, in 1913 ibshowed 330,(503. Oklahoma Ok-lahoma has a larger Indian population than lho whole of Canada. The Indians are not vanishing. Thoy aro growing year by year more numerous nu-merous and less troublesome, moro industrious in-dustrious and prosperous, and afflicted less by disease and dissipation. Syracuse Syra-cuse Post Standard. |