inted, and passing for
currency in the town.

The community allows each man the value of fifty hours' labor a week,
his wife the same amount, and his children twenty hours each.

The husband is required to work the full time for the community; the
wife is allowed four hours of the day to work for her home, and need
only give five hours to the general good. The four hours that she spends
in her housework are, however, credited to her as hours of labor,
because she is benefiting the community by keeping an orderly home.

In the same way the twenty hours' weekly labor for which the children
are paid are the hours they spend in school. By going to school and
learning they, too, are benefiting the community, so that their labor is
also for the general good.

When school is over, children who wish to do so can wait on table in the
community dining-hall, and then they earn more time-checks.

These checks can be exchanged at the general store for goods, the prices
of articles not being reckoned at so many cents but at so many hours of
labor.

The Ruskin people seem to be hopeful that they have solved the problem
of living.

A similar experiment is to be tried under the management of Eugene Debs.
He is the man who led the strikers in Chicago, got into trouble with the
authorities, and was finally sent to prison.

Debs proposes to start a co-operative town in the West, taking one
hundred thousand men and women along with him to settle it.

He is going to build factories and start all kinds of industries, which
are to belong to all the people in common, the profits and the losses to
be shared by all the citizens alike.

Peace and prosperity are promised to all who will enter this ideal town.
It will be interesting to watch the experiment and see just what results
can be achieved.

* * * * *

Foreign governments are beginning to be heard from on the subject of the
annexation of Hawaii.

A member of the English House of Commons has asked the Government
whether it intends to allow this very important coaling-station to pass
out of its reach without protest.

The Secretary of the Foreign Office replied that no decision had as yet
been reached by the United States, and therefore the Government did not
see that any action was necessary at present.

The Secretary went on to state that the English ministers would be
careful that none of the rights of British subjects were interfered
with.