SUPPLEMENT. Milverton, Ont., Thursday, December 4, 1902. * The Dominion LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Head Office, Waterloo, Ont. GROWTH IN 1901. From the Director's Reports follawing figures are taken, exhibit. e progress company as aimee with the Bea year. 1901 ici Nout insurance aa Total at risk. Q Soetd 615,690 ° a 839,266 915,690 e exceptionally strong position of | the company, the soundness o surplus if computed on Government standard, are all streng points i favor of this excellent compan: M. Bricke! Thos. Hilliard, District tat Managing Berlin. Ont. Director Short Stories Retold. A wanufacturet a not one hundred wiles from the on himself, extremely disareee ployes. “A man just EON called on bim one day k for work. “Have erotic dation of character ?” he asked’ the stranger. he neplied “bat I fnew iieader the village who. will xive me one.” Putting his bundle on the floor, tt. In course of half an Nour he returned, took up his bundle and was leaving, theo without w word. your character?” asked the manufacturer. The man without halting » moment y “No, mister, chener's scathing sareasin is well illustrated by th meiny, mainly consisting of A « few shells at them Afte nder- jief cn sever rs drop from their saddles.” The thing was becoming tiresome, for Lord Kit-|¢ chener’s rale was that only those aatualty “gathered”? pals be count- A. of a when they fell no a the Lord Kitchener has patience with inefficieney, is pro by “tha, sto pifvate In the A OrepATTOR DAE inporary” bridge. huwelt ‘too weuic to work, and said the a a Ah Ci svinoue looking in | typhot rel ir pa your earliest hanieniies return to England.’ GENERAL NEWS. '. Kilroy, of Stratford, cele- ri Ria ity og Meade i a s | OF his birth on. Tuesday vf last week. © Another gusher has been strack on the vil fields of Raleigh that gives out 45 barrels an hour. Great prevails among oil men. excitement A young Detroit lady who went into a grotto in St. Marys church to pray on Saturday evening was choked into insensibility by some fiend and asse ulted, The farm property in Ontario has reached the otal valuation of $1,001,- 323,296, ee with $974,814,! 931 - the previous. year. county of e Middlesex Teale with $50,367,864. The additions which are about to made to the Stratford G.T.R. Atal shops by which several hundred more will find etn will be of more material ' ben e Classic ity than pr UE ite in- + {dustries. x + Capt. MeAuley, of the ‘government hie, reports to the Fisheries h of Georgian Bay will be a thing ‘ot Re pas: before many. years. Be SRE tt Misconceptions About Drink. (Hamilton Times.) y aleoholism is de- The Doukhobur BLE who have | Pag! are uot being very hy the 73 per'cent, that The pilgrin their escapade. cad at home. A’ Western Senator, who had ch @ joined would be the Ronan Patol ihe have purgatory, motion “for a new was well taken W m. "The point attending Tada that itiey are ‘holding their own, Mr. Hone has the iene of the entire community in his trouble.—Atwood Bee. as affiliation | 3 Hons, of Goll, tas, foor ha with diph Dr, Kidd| q now admit the folly of | beatei re at’s a| men oO! itor e sl sobered, Otherwise he would not have been able to think on Bis) feet. telegram : “I hope they did not hurt theniselves.”