THE State of New York has been paying salaries as high as seven hundred and fifty dollars a year to office boys as pages at Albany. Where the New York office boy begins at two or three dollars a week, the state started its pay roll at six dollars a week, and increases were so rapid that twelve-dollar and fifteen-dollar-a-week salaries were not uncommon. Now by order of the State Civil Service Commission these salaries are to be reduced. Nine dollars a week is hereafter to be a boy's maximum pay. The reason given by the Commission is the occasion of our introducing the subject here: 'It is bad for the boys themselves to have so much money to spend.' To start in life with pay several times as large as that which other boys receive has a tendency to develop harmful qualities. One of the dailies observes, 'There are many vices which can not be acquired without money,' and 'a boy's temptations are of a different degree from man's temptations. Every boy desires to be thought manly, and many boys are prone to imitate men's vices because a man's vices are more conspicuous than his virtues.' According to the chief examiner of the Civil Service Commission, several of the Albany 'office boys' have been ruined by having too much money, and to pay these boys more than boys in private employment demoralizes them. Parents would do well to remember this in allowing boys too much pocket money, not only while at home, but when they are sent away to school or college.—The Christian Advocate.