That paltry tattered volume, when it confronts me from its safe nook in a bureau drawer, makes my heart beat faster and sets me dreaming!

The salaries of other bureau chiefs range from $2500 per annum to $7500.

<pb id='164.png' /> SURFACE, THOMAS J. Credit bureau management.

The lips of the dying man worked inarticulately for some moments; and then with a mighty effort, as it seemed, he said, whilst his trembling hand pointed feebly to a bureau chest of drawers that stood in the room, "Therethere, for Lucy; there, the secret place is"Some inaudible words followed, and then after a still mightier struggle than before, he gasped out, "No wordno wordtoto Sowerbyfor herLucy.

" He went on up, entered the neat, still front room, lit the gas beside the bureau mirror, and began to pace up and down.

4,500 Second Assistant Sec'y......... 3,500 Third Assistant Sec'y.......... 3,500 Chief Clerk.................... 2,750 Chief of Diplomatic Bureau..... 2,100 Chiel of Consular Bureau....... 2,100 Chief of Indexes & Archives.... 2,100 Four other bureau officers..... 2,100 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Correspondence with bureau officials and friends at home furnished her with additional occupation.

BAROMETERSThe Goldsmith form of direct-reading aneroid is the most accurate portable instrument and, of course, should be compared with a standard mercurial at the last weather-bureau station.

"Open that bureau thing behind you!

I gave orders that each set of bureau bookshelves be provided with cards and a box into which to drop them, and each time a book was used a card was made out for it and placed in the box.

"Only yesterday," he remarked, "I said to little BerthaI have known her so long that I call her always Berthathat this bureau work was bad for Baring.

She's out on the street!flick, flick!in the employment bureau flick, flick!out of itflickdarn the thing!

When everybody else was in bed and the house still, Sharley locked her door, furtively stole to the bureau-glass, shyly tied on that hat, and more shyly peeped in.

Bee stuck her "blaue cravatte," as we now called the necktie, under the bureau mat to put on when we came up, and then we snatched a hasty luncheon.