* UNDERGROUND LONDON ' 2 METROPOLIS HAS HUGE SUBTER. | © RANEAN AREAS, [Existence of Miles and Miles of Well. Paved, Well-Lighted and Well-Ven.- tilated Streets Forming a Labyrinth Underground Is Entirely Unsus. pected By the Average Londoner Kaffirs Were Right. .Eleven years ago, s party of Kaffirs - visited London; sad-elter much coms {sideratior nuounced their conviction {that there was another great city hid. jden away beneath the" Metropolis. {Nothing could shake them in their be. lief. They argued that it was impose lsible for such teeming multitudes of people to find house-room above ground. Moréover, had they not seen with their own eyes great crowds daily disappearing down staircases at the sides of the roads? . | Of course "they were. laughed at; but were they so very wrong after {all? 'Tt is commonly said that the average Londgner knows. very little about the great e¢ity imvwhich he dwells, and certainly not one in a {thousand knows what is daily going {on beneath his feet -as he hurries through the crowded streets. The present article may perhaps serve to jenlighten him, sad very possibly it | will surprise him as well, | It is literally true that London 08- 4 lsesses a subterranean city, Hidde {from view there are miles upon mil {of stone.paved, gas-lit- streets, well 'drained and ventilated, each bearing {its own name; the very existence of which is unsugpected, and which only 'occasionally echo the footfall of a passing pedestrian. Not only are there streets for foot-passengers and rail ways for those in a greater hurry; but there are waterways as well. Has it ever occurred to you, asks a London writer, to wonder what his become of the historic Fleet River, the West Bourne, the Eye Bourne-<better known as Tyburn--the Wall Brook, and all the other pleasant streams that formerly flowed through the Metropolis and went fo 'swell the | stately flood of the Thames? "Thy till exist, but they flow to-day un.' Iderground. Have you ever heard that there is a large waterfall under Ludgate Circus, a Roman building still in good repair beneath Bucklersbury, a fine restaur- ant under St. Paul's Church, a stream -- Tach Brook -- flowing across Sloane Square' 8tation and twenty- eight miles of wine vaults beneath the London, Docks? Yet all these exist, though very few péople have seen them. *As one writer has put it: Zi "You can not only travel by sub. ferranean ways, but you may take your meals beneath the dense traffic in §t. Paul's Chfirchyard; you may buy your 'newspapér at a bookstall un. derneath a historie city church; you may have 'your dinner cooked in a bakery that has never geen the light of day; you may quench your thirst-- but do it moderately in twenty-eight miles of subterranean wine vaults, |you niiy take your plunge in a sub terranean Roman bath fed by a holy well that has long #inee disgppeared from view." Let us first visit 'some of the sub- terranean streets of the great city. There are plenty of them, for all mod- lern thoroughfares of any importance are now built--so to speak--in at least two storeys. We choose one A , the massive Wires. "Overtesa are ne tubes through which writ. ams are blown from the fices to' the General Post Here we should mention that the walls bear not only the names of the streets but the numbers of the houses overhead. Thus, the connections for Water, gas, and electric supply can be made without « bredking up the street. It may interest the household- er to know that each connection has # tap; and this serves a very conven- ient purpose. Bhould he prove recal: eitrant in the matter of pavment, an official will just visit his number be- low ground and turn off. the tap 'without any more fuss! But these subterrancan highways are only one:feature of underground London. Let us pay a visit to the great open space in front of the Royal Exchange. ~ Here, as wi gaze upon buildings that surround us, we might imagine that the ground on which they stand must be solid encugh, But we should be greatly mistuken, The ground beneath 'our feet is simply homeycombed. "TOD WELSH. London Society Criticizes Chancellor Lloyd-George's Home Life. Whether Chancellor David Lloyd- George is too Welsh and too uncon- ventional is the great question among his feminine eritdes in England to- day. They say this bright particular star of the political firmament is not dignified enough and allows his little daughter Megan to skylark about the room when he is debating affairs of state > at his official' rekidence in Downing street. Mrs. Lloyd-George has now given her views on these personal topics. "I cannot expect English people to understand a genuine Welsh home," she said. "My house is Cymric both in spirit and in its management, Most of my servants are Welsh, and there is no difference between 11 Downing street in the matter of homeliness and homestead of the mountains of the Principality." This attitude raises An interesting point. In an-BagWsl 'honve-the dis- tinction Between mistress and Servant is usually sharply defined, but among even the Welsh well-to<do families! & servant often takes her meals at the same table as her mistress. Children, again, are not kept away from visitors in the Welsh home, but are generally the first to run into the | drawing-room to, greet them: And similarly the first to greet a visitor to. 11 Downing street js often the Chancellor's little daughter, with her perennial smile of childish happiness. "And, to be frank," added Mrs. George, "it is pure nonsense to lay stress-on the point that a little child shoyld not be present when import. ant "political questions are being dis cussed. age is far more likely to repeat in an unéxpected quarter statements he has heard than a little girl of the same age. But I daresay that at a later age a boy is more trustworthy, diplo- matic, and tactful than a girl. How. ever, as a matter of fact, little Megan is invariably shown out of the room before the Chancelor turns to busi. ness." By Water To the Sea, The question of connecting up the Black Country and thé Midlands of England, generally with the sea .is being ¢ revived. There are many --prr---- the remotest Welsh | A little boy seven years of | EE ------------ EXPERT TESTIMONY. A Case Where Two Infallibles Held Conflicting Opinions. The fallibility of expert testimony, which under stres® of clever cross ex- amination tends to the too decided statement, is aniusingly revealed in "Science and the Criminal," a book by C. Ainsworth Mitchell, the head of the inspection bureau of Scotland Yard Nethercliffe, who was the chief handwriting expert in the days when the witty Lord Brampton was at the bar, had such faith in bis methods that Gnally be came to believe that tie} could Hot make @ mistake in a case 18 which te was under cross' examination by Lord Brampton, then Mr. Hawkins, Netherclifte had clajmed that bis system gave infallible results and had further stated that his son, fwhom he had trained; made use of the snme system. 2 "Then." said rhe wily advocate, "your son, working on your system, is as good as you nre? 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NetherciMTe tried fo evade the ques. tion, which, he complained, was an | unfair one. but on Lying pressed was, | forced tg aduit that on n certain ve- | easion he nag given evidence on one side and his son upon the other. | Swift cpme the unanswerable retort: "How fomex it, then, that two Ine fallibles appeared on opposite sides?" A FAIRLY BIG TREE. The One McDougall Baid Was Blown Down in Venezuela. Walt Mchongall, was sitting In the Frihrs' club in New York one night discussing everything In particular when the sulfect of big trees eame np, ons of the party claim. ing that be.saw the stump of a red | cedar tn Californian so. Inree that 200 : couple danced on it at the same time "I grant van they frees in Californig"™ said Mehougan "but listen to this one windstormp and found that a huge cot. fonwood on the bank of the river had blown down. the branches of which | were resting on the other side. He alo discovered that 3,000 of his entries were missing and on searching found the missing stock on the other side of | the river. An lovestigation quickly followed, when they found to their surprise -that the tree 'wis hollow, which 'afforded a bridge across the river, through which the cittle siray ed. After the men had succeeded in driving the stock back trunk of the tree it was found that thirty-six of the steers were missing. Another vigorous search was made, and where do you suppose we found them 7" asked Walt, "Heaven knows," said the red cedar man. "Where?" "They bad strolled off in the hollow | branches of the tree." said McDougat | ~New York Telegraph. A PL SOT SI TA LIST YOURTPROPERTIES NOW For Sale or to Rent. * Sales Negotiated" - Fire Inst rance OVER NORTHERN CROWN BANK. "hone 288. Rents Collected : Conveyancing and Real Estate § = : E. Blake Thompson, Phone 141 R, H. TOYE, 32 KING ST. 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On pape: the easiest seems | to be the development of the existing | canals and striking the Severn at | The regular sessions of the Swiss Worcester. congress begins in June and December | To do that would be to make use | and last only about a mouth. {of the largest system -- that which Hinoludes the Holborn ares. Under the - bridge' which spans Farringdon street we find a massive The Swiss Congress. Drink Tea at Home gateway which opens only to the {privileged few. Possessing the neces sary credentials we are admitted, and {8 short walk takes us into a maze of jminigture stfeets | which branch in all directions. It is a city of the dead, for complete silence reigns there, and the roar of the great thor. loughtares overheard only reaches the 'ear a8 a distant murmur The.pavement 12 of Yorkshire stone and the side" walls of white hrick i have tables bearing names identical with those of the streets above, Pres. ently we find outselves in the under. round Holborn Circus, and close at hand are turnings labelled - Charter- thouse street, Shoe lane, eto, At one point we look small grating 'at ouee Hill Station through a t and see Snow beneath us, while our guide tells us that overhead is the Aront of Holborn Viaduct Station. of the Birmingham Canal, which is not one, but many canals, and which altogether total up 160 miles of water- ways in and around Birmingham and Bouth Staffordshire. A wortion of it came into existence over 140 years ago, and is now practically in the hands of the railway company. It was once a good paying concern. In 1816 the company paid $180 per an- num per share, and the high water mark reached was $200. The shares greatly depreciated in value in subse. quent years, and it eventually came about that, whenever the net income was insufficient to produce a divi- dend of $20 per éhare on the capital, the London & Birmingham Railway Co, should guarantee it. The canal company, down to 1874, were able to pay their $20. Then came a slump, and the London & Northwestern Railway Co. have had sessions are very rare. As dne mem ber remarked, the idea is to have ns much real legisintion done among the people as possible. while the duty of the legislative bodies is officially 1g rd. | cord public sentiment as expeditions y | as' popsible. The proceedings of the Swiss legislature are exfremely inter esting to an American. Dixeussions tke place efther In French. Gersiun or grding to the inclinatign of | the legislator addressing the 'nouse. | and a colloquy, may embody ull three | ItaMan, a languages. Formal readings are in French, but discussions ure usually in | J { German.~Natlonnl Magazine. The Call to Individuality. No man thinks his own thought: no man uses his own eyes: no mu stands Extra | Boiling ruins coffee. Such coffee is always bitter and the longer coffee is boiled, the fine aroma and flavor and leaves in and Celfee at the Hotels? HERE IS THE ONLY, SECRET OF. GOOD. COFFEE? that it tastes so good. 4 It is not because a French chef makes the coffee at the big hotels nor only because they use expensive coffee It IS because the chef makes the coffee the right way. weedy, and 1 less flavor it has. boiling drives off the the grounds and weody fibre, which are responsible for so much indigestion among coffee drinkers. Dalton's French Drip Coffee Pot means all the good of coffee and always good coffee and it means that you can make coffee with ¥ less coffee. upon his own feet: no man walks alone, We go in flocks; we lean on others; we ! follow the multitudes blindly; we bend a 1 f delici Q Running along the sides of the undér. RNP earns From prob at regular intervals are gayiets, and here and there are over. A | Je. give is Frenc head gratings leading to the at * our necks to the yoke of public opin. | We Eve tis French above. From time to time purses oF whodd 3 . : fon; we have -no seit" fellance. Tha you will be able to prepare are found lying beneath these grat- |} it? ; : ei Only wirtue we have As conformity. ings--but they are alw ay empty --the "What's happened lo him? The demand of the age is for men | = ickpockets se to that! Other venti. "Why, he's Lad t leave the guards, and women: of character who are self | : Hatin, halts arrie 2 know." n8 ¥halts ate carried up to the |dow't you know poised, seif reliant. independent ana | : ! roofs of the houses above, and ¢ "And what have they done with of the ornamental electrip light aay him#" rast soit Ye sty; follaws ea: ards in the streets are made hollow "Put him. in a ecomiion fich'ing | toms and routine. The redemption of #0 serve. the same purpose. regiment, by Jove!"--London Mail. the race is In the originality of judivid- | vals.~Jacob Gould Sehurman. : 1 3 : : . : : : ' ' as it should be made. And Dalton's Coffee is worth making right. It is entirely different. and 3 wp . * . . fF } better,--a Collee you can drink every day, as much as yon like, 'without fear of the effects of ordinary Coffee. By our 'special processes of selecting the raw Coffee--in cleaning, blending, roasting and grinding it--we take out the bitter skin which lines the Coffee bérry. It is this skin, roasted and i Ab the sides of these subter ane {ways run huge pipes. These brag wa an ura Her Proposal. ~~ CONSTIPATION, BILIGUSNESS, COATED ~~ TONGUE, HEADACHE OR BAD STOMACH i ground up in ordinary Coffee, that produces the ill-effects so common to drinkers of ordinary Coffee, ! : Woman. i When you make a cup of Dalton's French Drip Coffeé. in a Dalton's French Drip Coffee Po I ; p e ty rater and, ge mains. In' agdditidn, ! there gre troy 8 carrying the wires - ' i lof the electric light supply and the aD sore! id. you propose to "No. She made the proposal beford | 1X bad a chance to say anything." i : A Business i #1 . bod ee i "His wife is a busiiess woign, af} : you get the delights of the finest Coffees in the world- with gone of the faults of ordinary Coffee Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, ladigestion, Sallow Skin and Misérable Head. | right : : fd bi : . at . ' : . aches comés drom a torpid liver and clogged bowels, which cause _ your "What makes you say that? il Dalton's Coffee is better, very much better, than ordinary Coffee and stomach to besome filled with undigested food, which sours and ferments "She's installed a time clock in i you can drink it for 'every meal, all the year round. Only--it should be made properly. This is why we make this special offer, "She did? What did she say? like garbage in a swill barrel. That's the first step to = untold misety--in- | hall, and he has to punch ft when i i i SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER "Sbe proposed that 1 should leave' digestion, four gases, bad breath, yellow skin, meatal fears, everything that | goes out nights and when be. Free Press. We feel so sure that you will find either. Dalton's Mild Blend or Strong Blend the 'house immediately, and I accept | #d."~London Telegraph. is horrible and nandeating. A Cascaret to-night will straighten you out hy Dack."~Detroit oming---a 10-cant bes wili keep you fing od for months. lions of men and>women take a Cascaret now and then to eep their stomach, liver TE ek a " "and Towels gto and never know a igtiscrable A Nature! Result. w mouient. Dou't forget the children--their little in- French Drip.Coffee just the Coffee that you have been looking for that we have sides a_ good, gentle, cleansing, to, occa : authorized your Grocer to give you one of these handsome pots (worth $1.30) : ree with the first purchase of a tin each of Mild and Strong Blend. You buy two 50c. tins of our Coffée one of each blend to give it a fair trial and we © you the-means of testing it FREE, satisfied that you will use nothing but Dalton's French Drip Coffee thereafter, sionally. 8 not being elone~Anerbach .DALTONBROS., - + . . TORONTO. = SEREmELS CE Cee ma + i £ and STR Sold in 28¢. and 50¢. tins. My by any chancn, your grocer is unable 13 All . : i ! : . an ER Fy " your ordes. write va and we will see thet you are supped promptly. Little drops of comfort, little grams | hope, Bil the office seeker {all of : election dope. . itd Af the temper of sn auburn haired | woman is missing, it's a sale bet thot} to find goodly sums every year. E----------R. Drip Coffee Pot absolutely. free. in order {hat Because vou are shtisfied with your own opimion it don't follow that it is better than the other felow's, i! Being alone when one's beltef ts frog IF YOUR GROCER WILL NOT SUPPLY YOU, ENCLOSE $100 AND WE WILL : SEND - YOU : TYEE 5 Ae E Ga a + ra i B . 5 A i 2 is