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The Use Of The Telegraph Conscious of the benefits to be de. rived from the use of ttie teiegrapb, Canadians are more and more each year using this service in sending so- cial messages, greetings, congratuia. tlons and business cummunications, Canadian National Telegraph officials declare. Of particular Interest is the I money i.ransfer service by which | money payments may be made at once by wire In any town or city the money I being collected by the telegraph com- 1 pany at one end and paid out at the other on the receipt of wired advice. In this forward stride in the Held of telegraphy, the Canadian National Telegraphs have taken a leading part. The carrier cu.rent system of teleg- raphy, which has multiplied many times the physical capacity of exist- ing wires, is now generally in use throughout the System. Today, in Canada alone, the Canadian National Telegraphs operate no less than 164,- 795 miles of physical wire and 2,094 offipes. Through Western Union, the Cana- dian National Telegraphs provide a direct exclusive domestic service to any part of the United States or Mexico; by virtue of an agreement with the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, the same service is carried by cable to the farthest ends of the earth. Even ships at sea may be reached by telegraph through a work- ing arrangement with the coastal wireless of the continent. Various types of messages are available to the business community. Rush 'taessages are sent Immediately on receipt and take precedence over all others. "Day letters" for transmis- sion and delivery before 6 p.m.. are handled after all msh messages have been dispatched and are con.siderably cheaper still; these are transmitted during the night and are delivered to their destination on the morning of the first working day after filing. Cheap rates are also available for ; shorter mensapes sent under similar conditions. NEW COMMISSIONER TO CANADA by an artist wifA water colors and white of an egg. He labored two months on It. His fee was 300 guineas. i In compiling menus, Hr. Leven de- termined to have nothing but the very best of what was In season. This has often been very costly. i He has bought grouse for the usual flxed-prlce dinner when they were 15s. each, or Scotch salmon when it was 68 a pound. The dinner price is 7s 6d. Some times it has cost double that. So today the magnifli'ent White Hart of Lincoln is still losing money. And today. Mr. Leven, faithful to his ideal of The Perfect Inn, goes on rebuilding, improving. How Do You Live In a Small Town? Ten Minutes' Notice South African Ladies Become Hostesses 'o Prince Georsje The latest studio portrait of Sir Francis Floud, Secretary of the Ministry of Labor and Fisheries, and chairman of the Board of Cus- toms and E.xcise, who has been appointed High Commissioner in Canada for His Majesty's Government in succession to Sir William Henry Clark. He will come to Canada about the end of the year. It must always be a", important ev- ent to entertain certain members of the royal family â€" and there are few commoners who claim this honor. But what if one bad only tm minutes' no- tice of the visit. Perfec*. indeed must be the house where ♦'he hostess re- mains complacent and unruffled on such an occasion. . During his recently completed South African tour Prince George paid one such visit Imagine the ex- citement in a little township tucked ^ away amongst the his-b and rocck hills, flags flying, decorations gleam- ing in the sunlight. The weather was hot, and the morning garden party In the shady Botanic gardens passed off pleasantly. Amon? the guests (vere two charming .^Id ladies who little thought as they met the pleas- [ »nt smile and hearty handshake of , the Prince, how joon they were to make hiR closer asqua'ntance. ON A SOUTH AFRICAN FARM At the luncheon which followed he Jxpressed a desire to see a real South AfricT.n farm, and arrangements were promptly made. A* ten minutes Minutes' notice these dear old ladies, listers of eighty years of age â€" wel- [ ;omed him with true colonial hospita- Sty to their Old World home. The fa.vmhouse itself is the most fascin- ating place â€" a long, low timbered house with peaked gables like many -»r old English home, but with the â- wide verandahs or stoops, typical it South Africa, giving delicious "coolth." It has belonged to the fa- mily for over a hundred years. The Prince was keenly interested > in everything, even the poultry and the Jersey cows With Ihe true ^ courtesy which puts others at ease, , he made himself quite at home and Joined in the family tea at the round table. To go through with a contin- • nal round of public engagements in .spite of the heat required some fort- itude and the little informal visit with ♦ its friendly relaxation must have come as a pleasant interlude in that *busy day. In that little town iiow both white »nd dusky subjects idealise their «princeiy visitor. All he did and said, *nd even what he wore ia eagerly re- called. 'A light grey flannel suit with -double-breasted jacket, blue shirt and black tie," will no doubt be all the ^ogue there this summer, and the ycung men will endeavor to reproduce ,the style and hi* smile, which so charmed everybody Most Perfect Hotel in England Costs Its Owner $70,000 a Year Has Capacity for Only 50 Guests â€" Lovely Modern Hostelry in Town of Lincoln . Provides an Expensive Hobby ,1 STOPS ITCHINfi In One Minut* For qnlck t«Hef from th« KcUng of ' PBspws, notqulto or other insect tntea, *eam\ni^ and other ikln sruptiooiw S*?*"^?- R **• PfwcriptioD. Forty J«w worid-wfcl* succe**, Penetratet the I f^ â- ootUpt and beaUDg the inflamed SSi5P^4!!*9j*^S~::Srf«« "P almost Imme. K*^?lJi7 ^- ^i D- .Piwcriptlon. Stops ST."!?!!,''"**'** »tcWm Instantly. A sic pm botUs, St any dnif itors^ Is juarao* Hsd to provs Itâ€" or monty b«:k. D. D. D. â-  aiaas by ttas ownsnof Itauan Balm. iMue No. 30â€" '."U London.â€" In a side street of the I quiet old agricultural town of Lincoln I have seen in the making one of the most extraordinary establish. ments in Britain. Here, tar from tile main stream of commerce, a man is building a luxury hotelâ€" an hotel such as only a tew capitals of Europe could par- allel tor elegance. It goes without saying that the ho- tel has never paid. Its owner runs it as a hobby â€" a costly hobby. It can sleep only 45 to 60 people. But the owner has determined that these few guests in this unlikely place shall have perfection. Sinclair Lewis has written a novel of a man who strove all his life to create The Perfect Inn. Mr. H. H. Leven, of Lincoln, is his real-life counterpart. £70,000 In Five Years. Mr. Leven acquired the White Hart of Lincoln in 1919. He had never had anything to do with hotels be- fore. The White Hart was then a com- fortable, old-fashioned typical county town hotel in the shadow of Lincoln Cathedral. Five years ago he determined that he could create in the midd1« of the Fens an hotel which should be the equal of the palatial establish- ments of his fellow-members of the executive of the Hotels and Restaur, ants Association of Great Britain. There was no question of him see- ing his money come back. In those five years he has lavish- ed on this small 50-guest hotel a total of £70.000. He has worked day and nigbt but never once has the hotel shown a BTOflt. Some years the running losses have been as much as £1,000. But still he went on planning, pro- gressing. He completed the new dining room a few days ago. To say that this room cost £7.000 â€" as It did â€" Is only to give a vague Idea of its magniflcence. Mooing Cows. The beautiful gold-and-floral car- pet was designed by Mr. Leven him- self. It cost £400. It was woven to his orders. The windows are hung with rich velvet. Above Is a great recessed cell. Ing panel lined with pure silver leaf, from which concealed lighting pours. The richly tapestried chairs are of woods enamelled In four bright col- ors â€" red, blue, yellow and green. The effect Is breath-taking as you walk In from a quiet back street. At night, with the chromium and green table lamps • lighting up tfae heavy silver. It Is a glittering spec tacle such as you might see In Lon- don, Paris or New York. And amid these metropolitan splen- dors of the Lincoln White Hart you can hear the cows mooing In the market below. When Mr. Leven started he tore the place Inside out to put In can. tral beating, and spent thousands on improving the drains. Hn motored tiundreds of miles Otw England visiting sales at old man- sions to secure pieces of furniture. He spent thousands in this way, put- ting the spoils, not in hia home, but in the sumptuous rooms of his hotel. He determined to have a fitting en. trance. He designed and had spe- cially cast a massive door canopy in solid lead. It is embellished with representa- tions of the cathedral. Over it is a leaden figure of a hart. That canopy cost £500. He remodelled the bedrooms, de. signing every one himself. He made every one different. When he has completed his altera- tions each will have a bathroom â€" and each bathroom will be a different color. A single bathroom attached to a bedroom has cost £30. The bath has cost £80, the pedestal washstand basin with Its bevelled mirror £30. Some existing suites have valuable period furniture, grand pianos, and ancient silk brocade curtains. Recently Mr. Leven replaced all the linen. The cost was about a thous- and pounds. Wine Cellars. It is all finest Irish linen. A rep. resentatives of the firm came from Ireland to discuss the arrangements. Mr. Leven has built a laundry in the hotel so that the linen could be better washed. He even designed a special kind of mustard-pot for the table, and special wrappers of the soap tablets supplied to guests. He laid down in this quiet pro- vincial town one of the finest wine cellars in the country. It is worth about £15,000. The greatest triumph of all is the ladies' dressing room. This Is be- ing fitted now. It is only fourteen feet square â€" the size of a typical room in an ordinary home. On fitting up this room he is spending £700. The walls are silver, the carpet is to be sliver. The dressing-tables will be silver with Jade green toilet accessories. The chairs are to be silk covered. Another amazing department is one of the principal private sitting rooms on the ground floor. The walls are covered with wood veneer panels ar- ranged checquerwise. On this, all round the room. Is painted a marvellous imitation of an Italian garden. This fragile work of art was done The other evening a visitor to Am. hertsburg asked the question, "How do you people live in a small town?" Whether he was looking for Informa- tion or just being a smartie, it was hard to tell, but we suspected the lat- ter motive. He might have been ans. wered by anotier question, "How do people live in a city?" How do they live without neighborliness; how do they live in their cramped apartments where one has to step out into the hall to change his shirt or his mind; where every one is hurrj'ing to get some place and they can't because they have to jostle their way through crowded streets. Where every one wears a harried look as though a bill collector was following on their heels trying to collect the instalment on the folding batiitub or the chiffon- ier-kitchen cabinet. Where you have! to wait minutes before you can make a mad rush across an intersection, i Where pavements get so hot and tem- j pers get hotter. Where wills are so : thin that you can hear your apart- ' ment neighbor and his wife bickering [ over which small town they will visit next Sunday, Where people dash into ' a lunch room at noon, wolf a sand- 1 wich and a cup of coffee, and then hustle back to a two by four oDlcei to swelter for the rest of the after- noon. Where the poor working girls : have to spend their hard-earned shek- 1 els for make-up to make thetn look ' like rosy-cheeked small town girls. ] Is it any wonder we looked ask- ' ance at the city slicker when he asked "How do people live in a small townT" Humph! Why wouldn't we live in a small town? Where the merchants know at a glance wheth- er the cheque is rubber or not. Where the way of the transgressor is hard and the cop calls you "Bill" instead of "Hey, you." Where the editor gets results if he announces that he is out of potatoes. Where the wild life that stays out all night belongs to the cat family. Where everybody isn't three months behind on the in- stalments. Where you can breathe air that isn't tainted with gasoline. Where a strange girl arouses the in- terest of all the eligible males. Where you can ride bicycles on the side- walk. Where no two girls have the same dress. Where one passes the time o' day with everyone they meet. And where the leaders of the city world are groomed for leadership. ! "How do we live in a small town?" j Well, I reckon we get by alright.â€" I Amherstburg Echo. Pithy Anecdotes of the Famous When you smoke plug tobacco, you can cut each pipeful fresh when you want it â€" and you can cut it any way you like, coarse or flaky. Plug tobacco is economical, too, for it lasts longer in your pipe. DIXIE PLUG SMOKING TOBACCO Jumpy Nerves Yield to the soothing actioa of this medicine. You will eu better 3 : : sleep better ; : ; feel bener : j j look better. Life will seem worth living agaioi Don't delay any longer. Begin I taking it today. LYDIA L PINKHArS VECIETABLE COMPOUND THE REVIVED INTEREST in the so-called Indian "magic rope trick" recalls an occa.^ion on which Field Marshall E.irl Haigâ€" better known as Sir Douglas Haigâ€" fell a victim to it during his stay in In- dia. The idea is to make an ordinary piece of rope stand up on its end while a boy climbs up it. Haig was particularly keen on see- ing it performed, so when one day a noted fakir turned up at a station where the famous soldier was visit- ing, a performance was aranged. • • • WHAT HAPPENED is described by Sergeant T. Secrett, Haig's soldier- servant, in his book "i'l Years With Earl Haig." Haig and three brother officers were seated on cushions in a circle round the fakir. Secrett watched from a nenr-bv window. "I saw the old fakir make the round of the circle several times," he says, "then I saw him uncoil his rope. He moved onco more round the circle and then, pointing upward with one hand, shot the rope in the air with the other. Haig and the others sat with their eyes turned up- ward. » • • "THEN THE boy was brought for- ward and the old fakir mumbled something. His audience now turned their eyes on the boy. who stood on the ground. The fakir slowly and gently moved his hand upward and the audience followed his hand with their eyes. He seemed to be giving instructions to the boy and address- ing the spot where his eyes rested â€" ever upward. Then the whole thing dawned on me. He had mesmerized his audience. I went oat at once! " 'The boy is still on the ground, sir,' I called, 'and the rope fell the moment he threw it up!"* The spell was broken (adds Se- crett), but it was a long time.before Haig would really believe that his »ve8 had deceived oim. MIDGETS IT HAS BEEN reliably estimated that there are about 2,000 midgets in existenceâ€" one child '"n every mil- lion bom is destined for midgethood, say the authors (Walter Bodin aad Burnet Hershey) of "It's A Small World: All About Midgets"â€" a per- fect title, isn't it. A midget, by the way, is defined as a man or woman, correctly proportioned, less than 4 feet 6 inches in height. The smallest adult on record was Pauline Musters, a native of Holland, who at the time of her death, at 22, had reached the height of 1 foot 7 inches. • • * MIDGETS have a history of their own and it is an honorable one. To quote Messrs. Bodin and Hershey: Nebuchadnezzar was known as "the dwarf of Babylon." Tradition says Aesop was a midget. Croesus, wise and wealthy King of Lydia in the 5th Century B.C. (traditionally considered the weal- thiest man who ever lived), wrote of himself that he was a midget. I Cicero had a 3-foot rival. This was 1 C Lucininm Calvus a Roman gentle- man who challenged the polished ; Cicero's superiority as an orator. ; Attila the Hun was a dwarf, if not an actual midget. * * • COMING to more modern times, the two most important midgets of the 17th Century were Sir Jeffry Hud- son, a courtier. Captai.i in His Maj- esty's Army, and a Kr.ight of his Lord, the King (Charles I., of Eng- land) ; and his friend Richard Gibson, a famous English painter, some of whose pictures hang today in Hamp- ton Court Palace. Sir Jeffery, "when booted and spurred stood 3 feet 9 inches." and is the only midget i kjiight in history. Gibson was 3 feet 10 inches, "and it was in keeping that ; his specialty should have been paint- ! ing in miniature. He painted most of ! the important men of his day and i has left us several excellent miniatur- es of Cromwell." Rocket Air Mail Makes Trial Trip In Great Britain BIG BEN A FEW YEARS ago when Big Ben â€" London's famous clook â€" was wound up by hand, the job of winding oc- cupied the full working day of two men. says Mrs. M. V. Hughes (in delightful book "London .\t Home.''! Big Ben, by the way, is not the clock but the big bell that does the strik- ing. The name Ben is from Sir Benj- amin Hall, who was Commissioner of Works when the clock was put up. • « • Apropos the Cockney's frequent misplacing of the aspirate, Lewis Melville tells this one: At the London Zoological Gardens the following was overheard : Child: 'That's a heagle, niuvver. Mother: "You hignorant child, that's a howl." Keeper: "Execuse me, Misses, but you're both wrong, it's a nawk" Your Liver's Making You Feel Out of Sorts Wake up your Liver Bile â€" No Calomel Needed When you feel blue, depresaevl, Bour on the world, that's your liver which Isn't rourlng Its dolly two pounda of liquid bile Into your t>owel9. PIge.itlon and elimination are heing •lowed up. food Is accumulating and de- caying In.slde you and making you feel wretched. Mere bowel-movers like salts, oil. mineral water, laxative candy or chew- ing gum. or roughage, don't go tar enough. You need a liver stimulant. Carter'^ Little Liver nils Is the brst one. Safe. Purely vegetable. Sure. Ask for them b.v mime. Refuse substitutes. 25c at nil drucglsta. it SPECIAL STAMPS ISSUED FOR MILE TRIP OF 1,000 LETTERS Rottingdean, England.â€" In the cold of the early morning several excit- ed men met high up on the downs here recently; the leader spoke a few words; a space was cleared; sudden- y there was an explosion â€" Britain's first mail rocket tore into space. Although the attachment of rock- ets as a means ,of propulsion to bi. cycles and airplanes has previously met with only scant success, all the 1,000 letters in the rocket mail reach- ed their addresses safe and sound, al- though probably a little later than If they had been taken round the corner and dropped in the letter box to be sent by railway. For. although special stamps were Issued, a set of which were sent to King George by the inventor of the rocket used, this first mail was only a trial. The letters were shut In the rocket, fired tor about a mile, then taken out of the rocket again and posted in Brighton. All tile same, Herr Gerhard Zucker, the rocket's inventor, has declared that before long he hopes to have a regular rocket mail service in opera- tion across the English Channel, tak- ing about a minute instead of the two hours by boat Before attempt- ing this, however, it is said that Herr Zucker Is preparing to operate a rock- et mall service between the Isle of Wight and the mainland. The way in which letters inclosed in a steel cylinder rocket will hurtle through the air at about 500 miles an hour, and drop gently to earth by means of an automatically released parachute at a rocket-mail sorting sta- tlon, was envisaged by Herr Zucker's exhibit at the Aero Postal ExhibiUott at Horticultural Hall, London, re- cently. Experimental flights In Austria and Germany have already been made for which postage stamps were Issued. These stamps were among the most popular exhibits. NO MERCY FROM VULCAN Eganville Leader: Misfortune pur- sues Purchille St. Louis of Perranlt. Last summer he had bis home des- troyed by fire, and only the other dayâ€" on " Sunday when winds wer« high â€" sparks from a burning stump on his farm reached his outbuild- ings with the result his fine new- barn, a new fourspan stable and oth- er buildings went up in flames. A cookhouse and granary were saved Mr. St. Louis had not rebuilt his dw^ Iling house which was burned last year but has been gathering the ma- terial for one. Fnpplsa For Sals 'V' ewfoundlaud puppies pure bn>a< il from registered stock for MJ^ priced reasonable. Box 26. Campbeu- ford. Ontario. 71 Are You Sluggish? To Throw OflF Energy-Stealing Impurities, eajoy a glass or two each week of Energizing, EflFervesceot ANDREWS LIVER SALT In TINSâ€" >S€ ind Mc NEW, LARGE BOHLE, Tic / _i!!ttU^12a3fi:r,