Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1916-07-07 | Page 2 | The Oldest of Trees

The Oldest of Trees. As to the ages of trees. It is not th" oak which is, as Dryden, or anotker. has It, the "patriarch." The oldest tress on earth are the trependous conifers con-ifers standing In one of the Cxli-fornian Cxli-fornian valleys. Older than Abraham, they hare rolled around with the-world, the-world, alive, for many more centuries than any mere oak; and not long ago one of them fell. There he lies, and you climb bis side by a ladder. Aid the rest or many of them are Is their last few centuries, as is evident from their dwindling tops. That Is what surprises the tourist that having lived through human history they are now dying. They are now cared for. if things so Strang and so august can be said to owe anything any-thing to man's care; but man for ku-dreds ku-dreds of decades gave them hard usage; their hollows are black witi the Cres lighted within by Indian nations na-tions long vanished. London Chronicles