TONES CAN DICTATE. THE NEVADA SENATOR HOLDS THE BALANCE. 12l» Position a Powerful One In I lie Mat ter of Tariff Change*—Republican* Cannot Carry Out Iheir WUIi«» Without the Westerner*! Support. The Tariff Conference. Vv asiiinotox, July 0.—The tariff conference committee is an unusually large od<\ ami for tho first time is composed of an even number. I’oliti ■ally tho Senate committee is com posed of four Republicans, three Dem jerats and one silver Republican,Jones of Nevada. While Mr. Jones of Nevada will not be able to hold the balance as between the two great parties, the Republicans will not bo able to carry a single mat ter that may be in contention without bis support, so that it may be said that he practically controls not only the Senate conferees, but the entire con ference committee. The conference committee of the two houses is a joint body, but each will net independently of the other, and every question in dispute must re ceive the vote of a majority of each of the two committees,acting separately, and at no time and upon no question is there a rote of the combined commit tee. The first meeting of the conferees began at 2:40 o'clock in the room of the Senate committee on flnanco and was attended by bodi Republicans and the Democrats constituting the committee from each of the Houses. The elerks of the Senate committee on finance and the House committee on ways and means were also present The meeting wus a formal one. Wamiinotox, July N.—When the House met to-day the committee on rules presented a special order send ing ttie tariff bill to conference as soon as it was received from the Sen ate. Tho Democrats tried to secure ail agreement for time to debate the conference report, but none was made. 1 The Ucou hi loans offered a dav and f the Democrats asked for throe or four. The special order was adopted—142 to 107- and Mr. Dingloy's motion to ", ron-concur in tiie Senate's amend . ments and agree to u eoufereuea was I agreed to. The speaker appointed tlie following 1 conferees upon the tariff bill: Ding | ley, Payne, Dulzeil, Hopkins and Urov yenor, itepuhlicans, and Hailey, Me Miilin and Wheeloek, Democrats. IOWA GOLD DEMOCRATS Full Mate Ticket Nominated hy a Con vention of 341 Del eg at on. Dks Moines, Iowa, July 0.—The gold standard Democrats surprised both their friends and enemies hy bringing 341 delegates to the city for their state convention. The meeting was one of hurmoiry along the lines of the gold standard for finances and tariff for revenue, together with de nunciation of statu liquor laws eDacted by the iiepublican party, an issue which the silver Democrats at their recent convention omitted. Grover Cleveland's name was cheered every time it was mentioned. The ex-presi dent. favored the gathering with a let ter of congratulation and encourage ment. A full stato ticket win no mir.ated headed hy Judge John Cliggett, of Mason City. W. I. liabb, who, two years ago was the can didate of tlie united Democratic party for governor, was named for judge of tlie supreme court, adding to the ticket the prestige of his campaign two years ago. The nomination of candidates was made by acclamation, their being no contests for the offices. NO BAIL FOR BARTLEY. Nebraska’* Her.-tnltlng ox-Trrauiror IK, nrrtfil tiy Ills Former Friend*. TjIKCoi.n, Neb., July !).— Several weeks have passed since ex-State Treasurer Joseph Hartley was con victed of looting tiie state treasury of 5500,000. lie lias appealed to the su premo court, hut remains in jail, un able to provide a bond that will give him his liberty pi,tiding a hearing. He Iras u sentence of twenty year! mid it tine of double the amount stolen facing him. to say nothing of tea more in(lii>tiiif*iitv ♦ n *tmsu-*«p ft it <>nnKU cred that the chances of hit returning to serve a life aentenco If the verdict tie aftlrined are very few, aud thia is why hia one-time friends will do noth ing for him. lie haa hinted, from the recesses of hi* cell, at suicide, other wise lie ap(iear* to take hia medicine like a philosopher He has few visit ors and the man w ho was once a prime favorite iu every precinct tu the atate to-day lina no person to apeak a word in hia liehal) Muuaf fee lha Mtlllln WtiHUarm. Julyl* The aecrefary •f war haa iaaued an order slotting to the various statra their proportion of the apprupriatioa of Ifuu.uOu made by the last * oogre** for the equipment of the aaiiuMl guaru. •»! tin* amount the national guard of New York come* In for the largest share aeeuring til, gun M s*.mi gets gif.wm and kaaasr UliMt Hr* I MU (M«af*a Ulita ftatnau* Mo July * Mr* Mary It I ran wko ta here as a lecturer *1 the thaulausyua a^-emhly seat in au talers** today "the silver *aai Mo* «a an laaoe of the yaaal and will 1 never again veraa av the laad-ng *a >a fur the reform elements in pool tea It Mr ItrrM m l*» mah* lha dlwf ghs>» Uaa the doHMhaat auw a Ih.-a-tt, sampan a her* la one a uoaau who * •gainst him s» al'*a .* the hope of j aha awnatry, ».»4 tn the neat eampaiga ! •hp dgbl o .at *h» aih f *r the it I >y Mtal Vtodr »!,(gt *, viz: Alien, But ler, Heitfcld, Kyle and Stewart; Sil ver Republicans, a, viz; Teller aud Pettigrew. Following the passage of the bill a resolution was agreed to asking the House for u conference, and Senators Allison. Aldrich, Platt «f Connecticut, Burrows, Jcnes of Nevada, Vest,Jones of Arkansas and White we re named us conferees on the part of the Senate MANY OPPOSE PARDON Minnesota Dooa Not Take Kindly to Younger Hoys' Keleane. St. Paui., Minn., July U.—At a meet ing of the city council a committee was appointed to appear before the Board of Pardons and protest against the threatened release of the Younger brothers. This action on the part of the council was unanimous. At the State house a large portion of the mail received is on the subject of thu pardon of the Younger boys. Protests from every section *f the state come daily, and petitions in be half of the Northfleld bandits are hardly less numerous uud bulky. The agitation of the proposed pardon has made the enemies of the two convicts even more active than their friends, and at tins time release appears to be ver.v doubtful. PRESIDENTIAL VACATION. McKinley Will Taka Two Months — M»y Oo to lellowatona*. Washington, July o.—The presi dent lias decided to take a two months' vacation, beginning August 1, but he lias not decideti where lie will go for recreutiou. He has concluded to at tend the encampment of the (irand Army of the Republic at HuiTalo and the reunion of his own regiment. Kach of these affairs will take place In Au gust. It is the intention of Mr. Me Km ley to go to Yellowstone park dur ing ilia vacation if he cau arrange it, but this detail has not Ix-en definitely (fettled. SULTAN IS DEFIANT. (UkuiIi Peace *■ HU Uwa Term* u Mat at Alt LwikiI, July It -iiraoco-Turkish af fairs apprar to be re-entering an In teresting stage t o dav the port* die (•etched a circular to Its representa tives abroad containing a skillful de fense uf the Turk'Sh case and declin ing to consider any frontier line In Thessaly norm of th« river tVnios. w huh it regards as its natural bound ary It appears that the sultan has coaelnced hnu.- f that the powers will not resort to cuercoin, and has decided to test the alleged concert uf flu rope tu the uteowk Mtaaesuie t Cruses Here Cstsi ts»e ties* nsyueteU 6» if ts Mmn . July s f ourteen people are known to hate keen billed n *he >'|. and cloudbursts In tbt* section of Minnesota Ittsls) The storm was g* Met at and it la impoasthla to estlmatu the e mount of damngs with ant degree of >-ertn»nli The *% owe, st . »t was created neat t* enwisul was the worst that evet lit* | n* ivlvgrtfili • *|m *H #«•# | s« (ftUtht 4 h 4 Uk#«* iklt-4 u Hi * Iff ’ W * NOVEL USE FOR K ITES WILL BE EMPLOYED IN CLIMB ING PRECIPICES. Mynterle* May Ilf Solved Proposition to Seale » PerpeiHlIrular Cliff Seven Hundred Feet High liulns of a City May He There. F a mountain is too steep to be climbed by ordinary efforts, try a kite. That ap pears to be the lat est development of the recent applica tion of kites to va rious scientific and military purposes. When Lieut. Wise, on Governor's Is land, a short time ago, had himself lifted to a height of more than forty feet from the ground on the tensely stretched rope that held a set of power ful kites careening high above the bay. It might have been foreseen that plenty of work would quickly be found for the new aerial draught horse. Uut It would have required a vivid Imagina tion to picture mountain climbing among the tasks to be set for kites. Yet now It Is soberly proposed to scale a hitherto unconquered mountain with such aid. The mountain In question is an oddity. It Is one of those table topped, steep-sided uplifts, called In the southwest a "mesa.” It rises out of the plain near Albuquerque, N. M., and Its sandstone sides are nearly perpen dicular all around. Its flat top, ele vuted 700 feet above the plain, is Inac cessible by any ordinary means, and no white man has ever put foot upon It. But, though Insurmountable now, there is reason to think that in past times people have lived on Its summit. Frag ments of pottery resembling that made by the strange race called the Cliff Dwellers have been found at the base of the precipices, having, It Is believed, cameras high in the air with the aid of kites. These kites, which are with out tails, attain an astonishing eleva tion. and are able to soar in light winds. Their pulling, and consequent ly their lifting power, is remarkable. The outcome of the experiment in New Mexico will be awaited with eager in terest. not only on account of the possibility which it presents that im portant discoveries concerning the an cient inhabitants of this continent may be made, but also on account of the promise of future development of this unique method of getting over or on top of a difficulty. If the winds were sufli ciently strong It is not altogether im possible that a man might climb to the top of the mesa in a swinging seat, at tached to the rope holding the kite, or assemblage of kites, and moved by a windlass. To do so would only be to tarry further the experiment which Lieut. Wise successfully performed In New York harbor. Hut such an attempt Is not thought of for this occasion, and Prof. Libby will, no doubt, be amply satisfied if the kites carry his cable al>ove and across the cliffs. How the old Cliff Dwellers managed to ascend their ucropolls--If such indeed It is— may never be known, but It is safe to say that they did not employ kites and cables for the purpose. Probably in former times there were places where the rocks were less steep and where a series of steps and ladders could be used but under the action of the elements the faces of the cliffs have crumbled and become gradually more and more Inaccessible. The success of the pres i nt enterprise would Instantly attract general attention to the many prac tical uses to which kites constructed on modern principles are applicable. Lieut. Wise's purpose in his experi ments has been to develop the military possibilities of kites. Even im eleva tion of forty feet above the ground would enable an observer to survey the lines of tne camp of an enemy several miles dlstunt. while greater elevations, which could unquestionably lie at tained with the aid of powerful klteu, TO SCALE A MOUNTAIN. WITH AID OP KITES. fallen from the top. The fascination of mystery attaches to the spot, and one of the spurs urging explorers to devise some means to mount the cliff is the possibility that the ruins of an ancient town may lie up there on the inaccessible height blenching In the arid atmosphere and invisible from be low. Discoveries of the highest in terest may await the man who first steps upon the lofty verge of the mys terious mesa. It is characteristic of the (’HIT Dwellers to place their homes and their treasures in Just such un approachable situations. Their eaves pierce the vertical walls of eauyous like so many swallows' nests, amt the people who dwelt In them would almost seem to have needed the wings of swallows In order to make use of such dwelling places. Hut the mesa In ques tion, If It really eoutalns the ruins of a town or village belonging to this sin gular race, wilt prove to lie the most extraordinary prehistoric record In western A tileries The proposition to attack this sphinx-like mountain and solve Its enigma with the aid of kite* routes (mm l‘rof. William Idbbv, Jr,, of Princeton lie does ti.it iiteau t.» emulate Idem Wise in iMlling hints df up the string of a kite suspended strove the mot but he thinks that s' rot! i ■ ope* or eaide* i »n be earrieu over th" mountain by ituans of kites end dropped on the other sides tlttce kav lug • cable ly tug acroaa the highland tt would be comparatively a simple matter to arrange tackling by which meg could be lifted to the lop of the precipices fWtMMtel) for this tin* dettaking the wean la got of uniform width hot contra* t» near the canter a hare It ta only n few rods mruew the top The intention ta to drop the raid* Otar I hie narrow wash of the tahie mounts'* The httaa to ha smpkrtsd •ad the attempt, tt ta anld. alii be made in July me to Ira furnished by Mr hillun v Kdt* of Heyoaa* wht hr* recently *c« otnptlehed surprising feat• tn th* soap*baton of telegraph and tet*pb »m* a ires and photugraphw would be of Immense value for obser vational purposes. In lofty ascents It would be necessary for the safety of the aeronaut to provide himself with a parachute with which lie could descend unhurt in case any accident occurred to the kites of the apparatus. But just as the kite flying over the inac cessible mesa in New Mexico may bear up a cable and trail it across the sad dle of the mountain, so u kite cun car ry a cable across a river aud might lie used to drop explosives Into u fort. In deed. now that the possibilities of kites are beginning to attruct the attention of men of science it liecomes evident that the principle involved In their ! Illghl presents one of the most promis ing methods of aerial navigation. The flying machine which Prof, Langley has recently perfeeted Is practically a kin.I of kite without a airing, the part played l by the airing In an ordinary kite being ! taken In the flying machine by the pro peller. Kerb presents flat surfaces to the wind. Ihe kite being held against the wind by Its string, and the flying mavhiue being driven against the wind by Ita motor. The result in both cases Is that the wind keeps the apparatus • float tiarrett I* Met tin* I»*As l*t«l IM f#«* I'uImI. Juhtmiv iliiher l»*» railing very regularly at the Mediums man •Um, In llarlem, but falls tu lonte to j ito point as far as proposing i« Mud - is concerned “He is such n learned man' ea •falmetl Hfrdie. rapturooeiy ||t I knows how to explain everything ' “Kscepi hie object In cgltigg g#rv mt ; often to eee you xnid Virs Vlitiianht i ptoneo •! > • It* lItVvrtfttt, Watson l*d I understand that you at* a speaking atgunfnienee of |o j». ituk' VI at son aobudt hna n •pogklng s«M>uiinUnte nuh that fel b»w They are «ll listening e>guntnt • »* »n «* nothian A “BATTLING” STORY. | BONES OF A SEA SERPENT ; FOUND. The Creature was Seventy Feet Tong and I.lved In I’rehletorle Time* Tre •ented to the I ulverilty of Denver, Colorado. HE sea serpent is largely a myth, but a recent And in Colorado goes to prove that In a pre historic period the sea serpent really lived. An almost complete fossil skeleton consisting of ninety-two ver tebrae parts of the bones, with several teeth was found and presented to the University of Denver. The creature in life must have been seventy feet long. Prof. l,oe of the University thus writes of us: "The specimen is a gift to the university from John Keegan of Flagler. The manner in which It was found is interesting. One day a Mexican herdsman rode Into Flagler and reported that his horse stumbled und fell over a long string of bones. The man picked up one of the bones and was surprised to And It as heavy as stone. He tarried a piece to the town, and Mr. Keegan saw that the bones might be of sclentlAc Interest. He drove to th" place and found about twelve feet of the vertebral column lying on the ground, as It had lain through countless thousands of years. There it had been left when the rock decayed from around It. About four feet of the tail was still embedded In the solid rock. This was carefully dug out, and the whole skeleton preserved by Mr. Keegan, who sent It to the uni versity. Mr. Keegan reports that wmie me specimen was In his posses sion It was examined liy several geo logists. From them we learn that the hones are from the uppermost creta ceous formation of that region. The place of preservation Wa.t too near the division between cretaceous and terti ary reck that they could not determine the age. Further si inly, however, shows that the reptile is a cretaceous form. During the cretaceous time, not only the greater part of Colorado, but the greater part of the western half of Die continent, was a shallow sea, dot ted here and there with islands. Those clumsy, overgrown monsters which we are familiar with as in hab itants of the Denver region, had reach ed their culmination, and were ready to pass out of existence forever as soon as the new conditions were Inau gurated at the end of the age. Among these reptiles forms we find the an cestors of Die modern serpents. Dur ing the cretaceous period the seas were inhabited by long, snake-like reptiles, called by Cope Pytbonamorpha or Mesasauria. He gives three genera— clidastes, plat-carpus and mesasuras. It is In one of these genera or sea ser pents that our monster must he placed. It Is difficult to locate it definitely, be cause so many of the characteristic parts arc destroyed. I sent some of the bones to the Department of the National Geological Survey at Wash ington, D. C., and received word that the specimen Is probably clidastes, al though the jaw is more massive and the teeth more compressed than in the only specimens we have. I think that you probably have one of the most complete vertebral columns of this group of marine reptiles in existence. The tall is particularly flue, and gives me a much better impression of the i ««' |ivu uuii iwiiijduooiwii w; tiiin pail til the body. After careful examination of the published descriptions I was led to the opinion that the spicles has not been described heretofore. "If one can Imagine a long, slender reptile, sometimes seventy feet in length, not quite so lender as the mod ern serpent, and having two pairs of short, paddle-like feet, one will have a fairly good Idea of this class of rep tiles. They were great sea serpents and wore covered with bony scales, as t'rof. Marsh has shown. 1 have re ferred to them as the ancestors of snakes; the form of the body was very snake-like and the long jaw shows a imclianlsm similar to that of serpents which makes It possible to swallow the food whole. Their habits seem to have been serpent-llke. and they lived during the age immediately preceding the Introduction of true sunken It U an May step from au animal like did astes to the modern serpent. II* II SI llwil. A Chicago man died the other day after a short Illness. All the arrange ments for the funeral had tieen dls Hissed, when somebody suggested that perhaps he was mu dead after all, aud this suspicion was communicated to the ! bereaved widow. "Well," she said, between her *ot» I think he Is dead, beyond nny quea lion Hut we will »oou hud out " Approaching the corpse she bent over It and called "John ' There was nu ie*pt>n*r "John " she called again do you hear me Anson has won n game There wan n«» sign of life "T hat set• ilea H.” abe Mid and resumed her weeping while ih* preparation* for the funeral went forward Chicago Ttaw Herald a*o».•«* n****** dam lieed I would a i slay Iw dal lestturwat after what d*y don* in me! Mill I h*et*d I* v w us gw ia* >u gig v»‘ to dwHaha a week muah nags* dam Va aa hat dev wanted me in i watt on d-m uhie* taaervad lulwltt' |y hi lad tea WAY TO DIAGNOSE DISEASE The Telephone Will II* limi by ■>•• t*r». The time is coming when the great specialists In heart and lung diseases will make diagnoses upon patteuta hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles away, and with the same unerring ac curacy that, the trained ear insures in the private office, says the New York World. The time when this will bo done is not far off. In fact, It is possible today, though not. commerci ally practicable. The Instrument which will bring about thlB revolution is the Improved telephone. Men ara now at work following up a series of experiments made In 1884 by a tele phone company which promises soon to make the exercise of these extraor dinary telephonic powers commonplace. In the year mentioned a line was strung between this city and Boston with the most perfect Insulation pos sible and provided with the most pow erful transmitters and receivers then available. It was found, to the sur prise and delight of the experimenter, that It was not necessary to place the lips to the Instrument to be distinctly heard at the other end. The transmit ter was placed against the throat ami ion versa! Ion was heard In Boston al most as clearly as when the words were spoken Into It, The operator then placed the transmitter against his chest, and was clearly understood over 300 miles of wire, doing still farther In his Investigation, the transmitter was placed against the abdomen and even then his words were audible In Boston. This, of course, meant that the vibra tions of the larynx, although weaken sd by distance and screens of tissue, were yet strung enough to make a rec urd upon the delicate mechanism of the receiver. But even more marvelous Facts than these were lirmurht mil which suggested the medical possibili ties of the Instrument. With this Im proved transmitter and the perfect cir cuit a man In New York could make enough noise In Boston to be heard and understood by a man In the next room to the one In which the receiv ing Instrument was set up. More re markable mIIII, the tick of a watch and even ordinary breathing could be dis tinctly heard, ns If the ear were close to the person's mouth. If this were n fad twelve years ugo, with the Im provements In the circuit and Instru ments that are constantly being made, hardly anything will bn surprising. The men who are making the experi ments promise to transmit the beating of the heart and the potion of tho lungs from a scthoscope placed to the transmitter as clearly as If it were placed directly to the doctor's ears. Why He Wore the Uniform. Apropos of the i.ogan-McCook con troversy over their wearing apparel at the czar's cor notation, a reader relates tho following: "When - was an attache of the United Spates legation In Paris he was startled on a grand court occasion by seeing his friend, Bill X- of Kentucky, attired In the gorgeous uuiform of a field marshal of the French army, flourishing around among the grandees of the empire. Sidling up to Bill, he inquired by what right he was thus uniformed. 'By the right of this,’ said X-, drawing himself up to the full height of six feet two and handing the official doc ument, which proved to be an appoint ment as deputy marshal to take the census In the - district of Ken« tucky."—Columbus Dispatch. / Keaton for Its Value. Gobang "Contentment is better than wealth, my boy.’* My Boy—“it ought to be. It is a mighty sight hardr er to get.”—Truth. VARIETIES. More than 22,000 patents on veloci pedes and things connected therewith were applied for and granted in Eng land last year. Machine guns have been supplied to the Queen’s Life Guards, and gradually all the British cavalry regiments will be armed with them. "Have Scribbler, the author, and his wife made It up?” "Oh, yes. She now reads what he writes, und he eats what »he cooks."—Tit-Bits. In Mexico City "flrst-class American butter, made by an expert.” Is adver lined at 50 and 5# cents a pound, at wholesale and retail respectively. A complete set of thirteen Jacoieau silver apostle spoona, one of the only three complete sets in existence, was sold in latndon the other day for |3. 250. An Angora cat which by accident was locked lii a trunk under some clothing st Tullahoina. Tenn.. remained there lor seven days and revived when taken out. t'arblde of calcium baa beeu found to I* a remedy against tbe phylloxera, ac cording to a rtwias trade Journal, and to be also an excellent fertiliser for plants »f all kinds At Hrldgetou. Me., a man nlany-ona years of age dog up two young maple trees on hie birthday, carried them 10 tuds. end planted th«m nt the edge of Ms driveway. Il Is said that slava the remarkably old a later of IMS H there are msay pan* of dviuih I'nroitna la whlvh the bluebird, oace so pleatlful. has becume lot ally ssi lari Herman) bad d.w* miles of railroad •leva, on March >1. aa tavtease of *Xh witee over last year The aerataga for he year were Iff Ion per mile, na la* reaee of NT* P*t »»»• A Hermaa paper records the arrest tear khseaau of a vaaeboad whoee arwrh book" coaiaiaed hfi) seven lempMe of four leaved Hover which he tad sweat hie lime la rollerlleg ' for alt," Iasi sad of If; lag lo fat a Jsk