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Show H The Perfected Wireless WHEN the great engineer who swung the first suspension bridge over Niagara river, H below the falls, began work, he first B caused a kite to fly over the river. To the kite B was attached a fine cord. When that was B caught on the opposite bank, a small rope was Bj attached to it and by the sttring the rope was, H drawn across. To that a heavier rope was atf, H tached and the heavy rope was drawn over; and H so at last a great hempen cable was suspended H over the river, and at last one of the steel cables JJBI of the bridge was drawn over and anchored. H Other cables followed and finally the great H struoture took form and loaded trains were for H many years transported on that tremendous net- H work of steel. H Now when we read of a wireless dispatch be- H ing received, we say to ourselves: "The great H engineer is flying his kite, that string will be m , caught up at last, a heavier one will be drawn by m it; then there wdll come the hempen cable; later H a new structure will (take form and after that, M when the chasm is safely bridged, we shall be M getting messages from those we loved in tibe long B Is there anything unreal or intangible in that B supposition, especially on the eve of Easter? We B believe those friends exist somewhere; they seem wonderfully near us at times; their messages B must use electricity for their agent; wait until B the chasm is bridged and the stations established B at either end of the bridge and then what will B there be to break the connection? B Ought we not to be sending our souls to B school to study the signals that those sublimated B souls may even now be striving to make to us? B Think what it will do for mankind, if that sys- B tern can but be perfected. No more sorrow or B despair over death beds; no more friends lost; 9" they have but taken a little journey; no more B peculation of what is to be; only the perfect B faith thai souls like bodies may cast off their old B clothing when it becomes too much worn, and put B on tihe raiment which, is worn in that sphere of B perpetual day, for "there is no night there." |