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Show BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN PEAK! Bonier, Shasta, Hood and Other TXnt Mountain of tho Far Nortlnvest. About 50 miles south of Tacoma you got a view of the most beautiful mountain moun-tain peak on tho earth's surface, Mount Tacoma, or Ranier, and carry it with you for three or four hours. It rises directly di-rectly from the tide level to a height oi 14,444 feet, unhidden by intervening ranges or foothills, and stands squarely against the sky, the perfection of mag-aificenoe, mag-aificenoe, dignity and power. It is two and ono-half times as high as Mount Washington, and I believe the hight peak in tho world that rises directly from a plain. It is known to ns in tho east as Mount Ranier and was so called in honor of Admiral Ranier of the British Brit-ish navy, but here rhoy call it-Mount Tacoma, the old title given by tho Siwash Indians before tho white mat came. Tho base is covered with a dense forest of over living green. Above tho timber lino tho snow is white and smooth and perpetual, and it looks as if It were a solid block of the purest marble. mar-ble. Mount Tacoma is just two feet higher than Mount Shasta, 297 feet higher than Pike's peak and 400 foot higher than Gardiner's peak. The highest in th United States, Mount Crillon, Alaska, Alas-ka, is over 16,000, but an exact meas-arement meas-arement has never been taken. Mount St Elias, Alaska, is 15,827; Mount Whitney, California, is 15,088, and Mount Williams, California, is 14,400. There are several other very beautiful peaks visible from the railway, including includ-ing St. Helen, 9,750 feet, the patroa Baint of Portland, around whose head bangs a perpetual halo; Mount Hood, which is a shapely cone, 11,225 feet, Which was named in honor of Lord Hood of the British admiralty, and Mount Baker, 10,800 feet, ohrfstoned in houor of Joseph Baker, one of the lieutenants lieu-tenants of Peter Pneofc who itfsnnvzmA the sound. Theodoro Winthrop hat written lovingly about them, and they are the subject of the purest and choicest descriptions that exist in the classio proso of Washington Irving, although I boliove ho was nover nearer them than his nome oa the Hudson river, 8,000 miles away. Chicago Record. , the world's Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great In leav ealng newer &s the goysf, |