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MOST WONDERFUL TREE IN THE WORLD An Anurican hunter has diseovered in the clmreh vard of the village eif Santa Maria del Tule semth eru Mexico a cypress tree which is estimated tet be betweeii 000 and COOO years old oldThis This hoary patriarch 5s as active and flourishing now as it was fifty centuries or more ago It is easily the eddest living thing In the world worldThe The amazing tale this aifcieut tree could tell had it the power eif speech would be more enthralling than any story to be found in the pages of fictiem It would eemtaiii priceless information concerning those early revolutions in Mexico and the rise and fall ef monarchies and civilizations iu tropical America AmericaAVhen AVhen it first commenced to push its nose above the soil abeiut the year liOOO H C King Menes was reigning iu Egypt AVIieu Cheops drove his myriads of slaves with the lash to the labor of building the Croat Pyramid it was a slender stripling of 200 vears And it had attained a youthful age of a lucre liOO years when the Hebrews made their first exodus frcni the valley of the Nile NileAVhen AVhen the tree was last measured it was found that its trunk four feet from the ground had the astounding girth of PJli feet It was first dis ¬ covered by IlimilHildt 100 years ago whit nulled a wooden tablet to the trunk This tablet is n w alnfost covered by a growth of bark which shows that Hit tree has by no means ceased growing
