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OLDEST LIVING THINGThere stands in Sequoia National Park in California the oldest living thing in the world, the General Sherman tree, more than 5,000 years old.It is the largest of those redwood trees for which California is famous, and is surrounded by many others of almost equal size and ape.The General Sherman tree is 280 feet high and 30 1-2 feet in diameter at it*, base. The William McKinley tree is taller, being 200 feet in height, but only 28 feet in diameter. The Abraham Lincoln tree is 270 feet hiph and 31 feet in diameter.Some of these trees were already forest piants, ten centuries old. before Abraham fared forth to his native I'r of the Chaldees to found the i Hebrew nation. They had withstood the storms of thirty centuries before the birth of Christ. Yet they still stand in sublime majesty, livinp, prowinp thinps. and will live and row for many centuries to come.Survivors from the dawn of civilization. awe-inspiring in their stately prandeur. they seem to hold within their massive trunks the my^erious secrets of antiquity.If one would pain a better realiza- 1 tion of how brief is the span of human j life, let him consider the General Sherman tree, and contemplate that two hundred generations of men have appeared and passed from earth's stage since the soil was broken by its first tiny shoot.
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Fort Stockton Pioneer
Fort Stockton, Texas, US
Fri, Jun 25, 1926
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