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january l, loS~ Wv
Last week, 1850
INK DROPS.
In further explanation Of the State
Legislative conm tees post ion not
to report favorably any petition for
divorce on the ground Of insanity,
Senator kenealy, chairman Of the jul
dietary committee, said yesterday at
terno0n after the Greene case had
been thrown out by the committee.
that he thought Il divorce should not
be granted for insanity any more than
for illness which incapacitatcs and
renders invalid. \ man took a wife
for better or worse and if she became
insane it was her misfortune and his
and not to be placed in the category Of
a crime. If there was fraud in the
marriage contract, hereditary insanity
in the man or woman which had been
concealed with intent to deceive, tina
was another matter. In the opinion
of the editor of The BEE, the position
taken by Senator kenealy is praise
worthy and in the line of the highest
public morals. In the last session of
the Legislature we call to mind that
Senator Kenealy, then representative,
made bitter attack against thu Gus
tom Of the Legislature of granting
divorces for insanity.
According to the Danbury News
several of the Danbury friends of SUI
perintendent J. f. Martin, now of the
Hartford division Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford road, have
presented him with handsome gold
chain and charm, as token of their
friendship. THE BEE is gratified to
note this fact as Mr. Martin has the
friendship of everyone who has come
tration Of affairs on the "little She
paug' was very successful and on the
Danbury division he has made a legion
of friends by his gentlemanly treat
ment of everyone who has had bust
ness with him. Should he continue
in the railroad business doubtless
higherhono will come to him.
Noting the fact that many country
bred men in the large cities take the
local paper in their old home, "ThC
Philadelphia Record" says: 1.-The head
of a large Market street wholesale
business house, a man now advanced
in years, has been regular subscriber
to one of the Bucks County papers foI
fifty years. He wouldn't give it up
for anything, said this mans son.
'IIe gets more real enjoyment from it
than from anything he reads. \ daily
edition has been started within the
last ten years, but he doesn't want
that He only gets the weekly edition
which prints gossip of Il personal ma
ture from the various towns through
out the county. lie will pore over
this by the hour, and his comments on
the various items of news are often
amusing. Scarcely name is men
toned that he doesn't say: "Why, I
used to 90 to school with his father,
Or"I once licked his Uncle Jim for ty-
iptr NV t.1nt boS I'm ysbap wa mead to tC
swimming in the NeShaminy." THE
BEE has scores of subscribers, who,
like this Philadelphia business man,
take the paper to keep in touch with
affairs in Newtown. Monroe, Washing
ton, Easton, Kent or other towns
covered by this paper Their contin-
ued and constant support has been a
matter of graf iticatiOn to the proprie-
tors of this paper, as well as of salts
faction, we hope, to themselves.
The Century is to have serial story
by Irving Bachelor, the author of that
popular novel, "Ebea Holden. 1t is
a border tile of 1912. Two, types of
the men who have helped to make
America are set forth in it: one, a