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true, it simply proves that the publictaste is perverted and public reform isseriously demanded. The perniciousinfluence of this standard of literaturemay not be so readily detectedin the adult population as amongthe youth. In the one case characteris formed and habits are fixed,while in the other character is in processof formation, and habits may be changedor improved. If the family table or libraryis loaded with indecent literatureand sensational trash, the youth of thecountry are not to be blamed if theygrow up to be desperadoes and land inthe penitentiary or on the gallows. Censurebelongs not to the wrong-doers,but to the parents or guardians whoplaced such temptations in their way.There is a prevailing tendency to ignorethe wholesome restraints which characterizedthe culture of children at anearly period in our history, and the increaseof crime in our land is largelyattributable to this neglect in the educationof children. No feature of domesticdiscipline should be more scrupulouslyguarded than that which limitsthe selection of family literature to suchpapers and books as produce a sound,healthy, moral social and political influenceon the youth.--Selected.====================page 8FLORIDA LANDS.Of the Florida Lands donated to theTRACT SOCIETY, described in the NovemberSupplement, the following plotshave been taken: Nos. 4, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 33, 34, 35, 38,39, 40.Those who have written saying thatthey are going soon to see these lands,