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204 graduated from the public schools can pass them. A boy of fourteen may be appointed as a page, an apprentice, or a messenger. When he is eighteen he is eligible for a Government position as railway clerk, lighthouse keeper, cadet in the revenue service, a surfman, or an assistant in the Weather Bureau.

Like most other great helps to our country, this of being one of its employees begins at home. All its needs and the means of success are bound up in the strap that holds your school books. One other big Government position, too, is open to the boy who does his best in the work of every day, that of the presidency. It is quite possible to step from your school door, through everyday usefulness, to the chair of the President of the United States.