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Show The Oldest of Trees. ' As to the ages of trees, it is not the.' oak which is, as Dryden, or another,, has it, the "patriarch." The oldest v trees on earth are the treraendous con- v-ifers v-ifers standing in one of the Cali-fornian Cali-fornian valleys. Older than Abraham,, they have rolled around with the world, alive, for many more centuries than any mere oak; and not long ago-one ago-one of them fell. There he lies, and you climb his side by a ladder. And the rest or many of them are in. their last few centuries, as is evident from their dwindling tops. That i3 what surprises the tourist that having lived through human history they are now dying. They are now cared for, it things so Btrange--and so august can be said to owe anything any-thing to man's care; but man for hundreds hun-dreds of decades gave them hard usage; their hollows are black with. the fires lighted within by Indian nations na-tions long vanished. London Chronicle. |