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 lend, give away, distribute, show, advertise, or have in his possession with intent to give away, etc., any obscene or indecent book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, engraving, picture or drawing, or any article or instrument of indecent or immoral use; or if any person shall design, copy, draw, photograph, print, utter, publish or otherwise prepare, such book, picture, etc., or advertise the same, he shall be punished in confinement by not less than one nor more than three years in the penitentiary, or by fine not less than five nor more than fifteen hundred dollars.

Kansas has gone a step farther. The legislature of that state has passed an act providing that during the trial of an action or the hearing of any proceeding or examination in which vulgar, obscene or immoral evidence is elicited or produced, the court or police judge trying the case may expel and exclude any or all minors from the court room and place of trial or hearing.

RAILROADS.

Several of the states have passed many important enactments in regard to railroads, both as to taxation and continuous extension beyond the limits of the several states. So too, much stringent legislation has taken place against any and all discrimination on charges on the part of railways for the carriage of freights and passengers, but this has already been referred to under the separate state statutes.

EDUCATION.

Everywhere throughout our land the subject of education is coming prominently to the front and receiving that important consideration from legislative bodies which it so pre-eminently [sic] deserves. No volume of annual sessions laws can be opened, that does not attest elaborate and well-considered plans for state universities, state normal schools, with thorough and complete systems of free, high, and common school education.