The salary of the President of the United States is $75,000 a year. The Vice-president receives $8,000; Cabinet officers, $8,000; Senators, $5,000 and mileage. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court receives $10,500. Ministers to foreign nations receive from $5,000 to $18,000 annually. The amount varies with the importance of the post. The total number of Indians in the United States is about 250,000, Alaska not included. The most numerous tribes are the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians. The Apaches are the most savage. About half of the Indian tribes are now partly civilized and are self-supporting. WISE SAYINGS The first business of a state is the education of its citizens. Every child has a right to the best education. The highest motive of school government is to give the child the power and necessary reason to control himself. We have no right to teach anything that does not go through the intellect and reach the heart. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. LESSON XLIX WHEAT Wheat was unknown in America till it was brought over by Europeans, but it is now grown to an immense extent in the temperate regions of both North and South America. Our country is the greatest wheat granary in the world. The production of this grain in the United States is over five hundred millions of bushels a year. The great "wheat belt" of the United States is in the Northwest,--in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the neighboring states. California also is a splendid country for this cereal, and California's wheat crop is every year worth more than were ever her stores of gold. People who live in cities and towns get their bread for the most part at the baker's; so that in many families the good old art of bread-making is almost forgotten. Then it must be said that it is the exception rather than the rule when one finds really good home-made bread. This is a great pity. Now, let me add one hint for the benefit of the girls. In the English language there is no nobler word than _Lady_. But go back to its origin, and what do we find that it means? We find that it means _She that looks after the loaf_. WISE SAYINGS Shallow men believe in luck; strong men in pluck. If there is honor among thieves, they stole it. Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. You will always find those men the most forward to do good, or to improve the times, who are always busy. Trifles make perfection, yet perfection is no trifle. LESSON L COUNTENANCE AND CHARACTER We know men by their looks; we read men by looking at their faces--not at their features, their eyes, their lips, because God made these; but a certain cast of motion, and shape and expression, which their features have acquired. It is this that we call the countenance.