It is worth what you can get for it, Mr. Beath. Perhaps the better way would be to forward it to me and I will do the best I can with it. There being but eight feathers in the eagle's tail would be no drawback. Send it to me at once and I will work it off for you, Mr. Beath. "Tutor," Tucson, Ariz., asks "What do you regard as the best method of teaching the alphabet to children?" Very likely my method would hardly receive your indorsement, but with my own children I succeed by using an alphabet with the names attached, which I give below. I find that by connecting the alphabet with certain easy and interesting subjects the child rapidly acquires knowledge of the letter, and it becomes firmly fixed in the mind. I use the following list of alphabetical names in the order given below: A is for Antediluvian, Anarchistic and Agamemnon. B is for Bucephalus, Burgundy and Bull-head. C is for Cantharides, Confucius and Casabianca. D is for Deuteronomy, Delphi and Dishabille. E is for Euripedes, European and Effervescent. F is for Fumigate, Farinaceous and Fundamental. G is for Garrulous, Gastric and Gangrene. H is for Hamestrap, Honeysuckle and Hoyle. I is for Idiosyncrasy, Idiomatic and Iodine. J is for Jaundice, Jamaica and Jeu-d'esprit. K is for Kandilphi, Kindergarten and KuKlux. L is for Lop-sided, Lazarus and Llano Estacado. M is for Menengitis, Mardi Gras and Mesopotamia. N is for Narragansett, Neapolitan and Nix-comarous. Q is for Oleander, Oleaginous and Oleomargarine. P is for Phlebotomy, Phthisic and Parabola. Q is for Query, Quasi and Quits. R is for Rejuvenate, Regina and Requiescat. S is for Simultaneous, Sigauche and Saleratus. T is for Tubercular, Themistocles and Thereabouts. U is for Ultramarine, Uninitiated and Utopian. V is for Voluminous, Voltaire and Vivisection. W is for Witherspoon, Woodcraft and Washerwoman. X is for Xenophon, Xerxes and Xmas. Y is for Ysdle, Yahoo and Yellowjacket. Z is for Zoological, Zanzibar and Zacatecas. In this way the eye of the child is first appealed to. He becomes familiar with the words which begin with a certain letter, and before he knows it the letter itself has impressed itself upon his memory. Sometimes, however, where my children were slow to remember a word and hence its corresponding letter, I have drawn the object on a blackboard or on the side of the barn. For instance, we will suppose that D is hard to fix in the mind of the pupil and the words to which it belongs as an initial do not readily cling to memory. I have only to draw upon the board a Deuteronomy, a Delphi, or a Dishabille, and he will never forget it. No matter how he may struggle to do so, it will still continue to haunt his brain forever. The same with Z, which is a very difficult letter to remember. I assist the memory by stimulating the eye, drawing rapidly, and crudely perhaps, a Zoological, a Zanzibar or a Zacatecas.