The children naturally try their best to improve, so that they may get
higher wages, and thus they gradually progress, and learn their trades.

They are paid every Saturday, like regular laborers, and out of the money
they earn, they pay for their board and lodging through the week.

There is a bank in which the thrifty can put their savings, and when they
go back to the city they draw these savings out.

The money used is not regular money, but Freeville money, made of
cardboard, and at the end of the holiday the children are not given United
States money for their savings, but the value of their little hoard in
vegetables, fruit, and clothing.

This summer outing teaches the rough boys of the city what their duties in
life are, and shows them, better than words could do, that the boy or man
who wants to be happy must work honestly and obey the law.

Freeville has its boy policemen, who arrest all evildoers; its jail, where
the offenders are locked up; and its gang of convicts, who are only given
bread and water, and prison fare, and are kept at work the whole day,
instead of from eight-thirty till noon.

The records of the Republic show that boys who have gone into Freeville
rough and bad, and have commenced their citizenship with idling and
thieving, have in a few weeks become law-abiding citizens.

So successful has this summer Republic been, that Mr. George has made up
his mind to keep it going the whole year round.