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Show BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN PEAKX Banier, Shasta, Hood and Other Flo Mountain of the Far Northwest. About 50 miles south of Tacoma you get a view of the most beautiful mountain moun-tain peak on the earth's surface, Mount Tacoma, ca? Ranier, and carry it with you foi three or four hours. It rises directly di-rectly from the tide level to a height of 14,444 feet, unhidden by intervening ranges or foothills, and stands 6quarely against the sky, the perfection of magnificence, mag-nificence, dignity and power. It is two and one-half times as high as Mount Washington, and I believe the highest peak in the world that rises directly from a plain. It is knowu to us in the east as Mount Ranier and was bo called In honor of Admiral Ranier of the British Brit-ish navy, but here they call it Mount Tacoma, the old title given by the Siwash Indians before the white man came. The base is covered with a dense forest of ever living green. Above the timber line the 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 jpeak and 400 feet higher than J Gardiner's peak. The highest in tb United States, Mount CrilJon, Alaska, Alas-ka, is qver 1 6, 000, but an exact measurement meas-urement has never been taken. Mount St Elias, Alaska, is 15,327; 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 patron saint of Portland, around whose head hangs 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, christened in honor of Joseph Baker, one of the lieutenants lieu-tenants of Petor Pnget, who discovered the sound. Theodore Winthrop has written lovingly about them, and they are the subject of the purest and choicest descriptions that exist in the classio prose of Washington Irving, although I believe he was never nearer them than his home on the Hudson river, 3,000 miles away. Chicago Record. Presidents of state suffrage assoch-tions assoch-tions from 35 states, together with many famous lecturers, will take part in the coming suffrage convention at Atlanta. Among those expected are Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Pennsylvania, Lillie Devereux Blalce of New York, Carrie Lane Chapman -Catt of Iowa, Caroline E. Merrick of Louisiana, Alice Stone Blackwell of Massachusetts, Josephine K. Henry of Kentucky, Dora Phelps Buell of Colorado, Elizabeth U. Yateg Maine and Mary C Francis tf Ohio |