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Show "Hoax" Ames upon the witness stand is cjn--;J'jrei a btudy worthy the i attention of the student of human uiture, and the Wa-hingtoo Star.atter prolonged devotion to the subject, gives the following de.-eri piiun: 1U dues not i-hririL with the air of .jne a-lii'ii'-d. if: D- out his wide jiu-eh .irto its capacity. He is the luo.-i -ed' -p'joe-.-e i man at the table. Ins peir thap'-d heaj, narrow at the t- relied aud td:l at the iowis, fjrms a ti'tin pyramidal cmrdimeut to the wide baed trunk. He Uuifh and j.'k-rf a good ceal, and. what is not i pane pleasant lo see, some of iheoom-iiiiuee iheoom-iiiiuee lau.-it ri'.d j Ae wif ii hnu as if b-j was their peer. Aud when he j laughs, or ruber rius, a long seam opens up through his powerful jaws to his very ears, aod through the peculiar j conformation of fiee ibe laugh or grin is exactiy liiat oi .'icphistopheiei as personated by Mr. Joseph Hermanns The long, hooked no. the outlojk of the uncanny cjts, aud the peculiar up-curve up-curve of the u e brow-. uNo tend to heighten tho Mepln-ropelean eha'aeter of his countcnaDce heo he-Grins he-Grins horribly a ghastly smile. Like Fausr's tempter, too, bis mirth saems to bo in mockery of his victims. He grins his widest when he is able to produce documentary evidence the sigDaturo to the bond to show how deeply ho has inveigled men who stood high in public esteem. No self consciousness con-sciousness of the guilt of tho tempter seems to have penetrated hi- hide, aud when the word "conscience" was used by one of the committee, he was nearly convulsed with laughter. This shows, most conclusively, that "Hoax" ia a "fell of a heller," as effectually, tO', as does the statement that ho is writing to members of the j Massachusetts legislature urging the I election of 11 awes as United States aopator. |