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.
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