THE LAND—AND THE TELEPHONE.
[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTItTOR.")
SIR,—In your issue of April 7th I read with interest Mr. Rider Haggard's suggestion that England should make more use of the telephone in rural districts. We have a "farmer's line" connected with our summer home, a farm in Eastern Massachusetts, for which we pay eighteen dollars yearly. At all hours of the day or night we can talk with fifteen other families without calling up the Exchange Office. Every forenoon at about eleven o'clock all subscribers are called to listen to the weather forecast, and perchance to any news the obliging clerk may wish to communicate. On a recent Sunday morning he attached a gramophone and gave us, free of charge, a so-called sacred concert. Much town business is now transacted by telephone.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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