Yet, if a thousand dollars was missing from one of the packages in the storage vault, Ellis H.
Roberts, Treasurer of the United States, would have to make it good.
Mr.Roberts has given a bond to the government in the sum of $500,000.
Twenty years hence the sureties on that bond could be held for a shortage in the Treasurer's office, if it could be traced back to Mr.
Roberts' term.
Not one of the employees under Mr.Roberts gives a bond, though they handle millions every day.

But the Treasurer's office is one which every responsible employee has been weighed carefully.

Its clerks have been in service many years and have proved worthy of confidence.
HOWELLS DISCOVERS A NEGRO POET.
Mr.Paul Lawrence Dunbar has been until recently an elevator-boy in Dayton, Ohio.

While engaged in the ups and downs of life in that capacity he has cultivated his poetical talents so successfully that his verse has found frequent admission into leading magazines.

At last a little collection of these verses reached William Dean Howells, and Mr.Dunbar's star at once became ascendant.