New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-23

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terminated.
The announcement that couple OF mild cases
! Of yellow fever have arrived at this port need
| cause not the slightest anxiety. 1t would not
be noticed at all, or even made were IL not for
the prevalence OF the fever in a few places In
the South 1t is no uncommon thing for the
fever to reach this port. but 1t does not get past
Quarantine. and 1t will not now. This Is not
yellow fever weather here. and this Is not a
place in which that plague can get foothod.
The coal strike ends at just the right time,
with the advent OF weather in which coal Is
popular necessity.
strange light should henceforward burn In
the Jewels found after the Paris fire in the
Charity Bazaar. which have since remained un-
claimed and have just been sold at auction IL
their beams could reillumine the scene In whch
they cast back the rays Of that destroying hre
they would he fit only for the diadems OF con-
Guerors-thc Attas and TamerlaEes and Ma
poleons of the worlds history. Trey would no
longer he suitable ornaments In the clrc!et ana
coronet of beauty. to sparkle in the paSeants
~ joy and festivity. But they are now foated
back into commerce. with nothing in their lustre
to betray their traglcal association They VIII
part and reassemble and fling forth their beams
on rapture and despair and all human vicssl-
tude while their atoms cling together. but they
are not likely again to shine on scene so hor-
rinle as that which the burning bazaar pre-
scented and from the ashes Of which they were
recovered
The heavy sentence imposed upon the Albany
kldnappers Is to be heartily commenced. IL Is
not n bit too severe. Their crime was one OF
the most detcstable on the whole roll OF human
depravities. and the strongest kind OF warning
should be given to all the land against its
repetition.
Two members of the Kentucky Legislature
have uqt been indicted at Frankfort under the
Gambling act for participating, during the re-
cent extra session in n friendly game Of draw
poker Life In the Blue Grass State has been
shaken to It's foundations rather frequently In
the last three years; but II is hardly likely that
a Jury can be secured unfeeling enough to con-
wet the two indicted lawmakers There are
some traditions and institutions in Kentucky
too venerable TO he overturned even by the in
novating and restless spirit Of latter-day icono-
clasm.
About this time, look out for fires" So the
almanac might well say. People will begin
and dus,-choked pipes viii get in their work.
Careful examination OF heating apparatus be-
fore kindling the fire, and close watchfuness
for a few days thereafter. are earnestly to be
commended
In selling out her old treadmllls England puts
on the market the most surprising line OF goods
In her commercial history She Is going TO do
something else with her prisoners These old
Instruments. standing for the bitterness and
shame OF toll without any OF It's honors or fruits,
are OF no further use to her and anybody can
have them who Will make a bid. But 1t Is really
II question whether anybody will want them. and
they more likely to be broken up into fire
wood than TO be anywhere applied to their old
uses. II any instrument OF civilization is out
worn IL Is the treadmill. and It's abolition In Eng
land Is significant Of tho improvement in her
methods Of prison administration.
A treaty Of peace. friendship and mutual sup
port between Great Britain and the Khalifa Of
Omdurman would he one OF the curiosties Of
diplomacy. II is we'll worthy to he conceived in
merry "Fgaros" fertile brain.
The Rev c. F. Hull. Of Jersey City. has been
preaching about widows Mr. Hull does not re-
cara tnrln Win tne same ulslTust Us ara ShH1
Wecrs father. on the contrary. he speaks a
good word for them: though why he should
deem IT necessary nj this time to take up the
cudgels I'm their behalf Is not stated. can
an explanation be found in the matrimonial
statistics OF Jersey city. Whatever suggested
the theme. II was. at any rate, chivalrous
thing 10 do. but II Is difficult to conceive Mr..
Hulrs reasons for desiring to increase their
number. he appears to do from his assertion
that "A married woman never reveals her true
nature unless she is made widow" That
looks like an incentive to n wholesale increase
In the funerals Of married men, In order that
their widows may develop themselves. But
an Irish philosopher once remarked What's
the world TO a man II his wife's a Widow
Gold-seesers are still rushing toward the
Klondikc. Truly. the supply OF madmen seems
inexhaustibe.
The dove ~ peace at last descends on troubled
Uruguay like one OF Andrees hom!ng pigeons.
and Government insurrectonists have pulled
quilts out of It's gentle plumage to sign treaty
OF peace with. Now the country can go on and
prosper iii the breaking out OF the next revolu-
ton.