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BERNHARDT & CO. —FOR— PURE DRUCS MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, TOBACCOS AND NINE CIGARS, 4RTISTS MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS Prescriptions Carefully Compounded A liberal Patronage of the public is solicited. WANTED—CHICKENS & EGGS I will pay the highest market price for chickens and egg delivered at my store at Virginia, Mo. | Talso have good feed stable in connection with my store. Netson M. Nestierope. | Missouri Pacific R 2 Dailv ‘Train 2 ;some 90 feet in circumference. | known under the scicntific nar “Sequoia gigantea,” and which stood 'zly Giant stand alone, for their com [MARK TWAIN LIES DEAD. Bat He Had Enjoyed Lite for at) Least 2,500 Years. | Were Born, Tie Great Alexander and Julius (ge | | Won their Fame and Died While tins Forest’ Giant Kept Growing Heayenward. | New York Advertiser. | Mark T He was} cut down in the full prime of bis vigor, at nis no more the age of about 2,500 , and a part of bim isnow being don exhibition at the Ameri can Museum of natural history, for which institution he was killed. In addition to being 2,500 plac PALS Mark Twain was a trifle over 300 feet high, 30 feet in diameter aud The Mark Twain in question was one of the biggest of the stupendous a trees of famous Californi , eot in life, in the King’s river 250 grove o} Sequoia, niles south of San Francisco. Mark Twain's nearest neighbors were the Grizzly Giant and Ben Franklin. Thousauds of travelers each year have stood silent awe struck at the those still living relics of a past age and gazed upwards at the monarchs of the centuries. Now Ben Franklin and the Griz- base of great rade for thousands of years has fal len and measured his mighty length the shty crash and upon side that mountain with a} mi the Science did what the earthquakes the avalanches, the hurricanes and the lightning did not accomplish. | For this monster dismembered, 2 part of him shook roar rth about him. the sake of scienee was brought across the continent into a city built by arace which did not exist when be first began to stretch upward. The wonderful and famous tree, but recently destroyed while s full vigor, and a section of ill in which will soon be on exhibition at the Mu- seum of Natural History, was a little over 300 feet high, and its roots ex-| tended for 200 from | its diameter at the ground, and over 90 feet in circumference at the same point, tapered to 21 feet in diameter at a height of 12 feet fiom the ground, where it began to taper by} very slow de the The trunk was not marred by any injury or malformatior 1, bei pine tree, the monarch grew straight | toward the clouds. ot | marred its symmetry for more than | 200 feet, and in the upper third of| its height it branched into limbs and foliage feet each way srees toward The section now being placed on} exhibition at the Museum of Natural | History was cut from the trunk at| 12 feet from the ground, is 21 fect in diameter and 63 feet ference. in cireum- | The section is about 6 feet | thick and weighs 32 tons, or 64,000] pounds. The bark is from 3 inches to 1 foot thiek. Beginning at the core of the trunk, the radius, or one balf the diameter } of the section, is 10} feet, or 126] inches. This radius contains an av i erage of 20 “rings” or annual growth | to the inch, or 2.520 rings altogether | which indicates very closely the age! of the tree, as the statement of the | botanist shows. \ Assuming that the tree was rs old when cut down, it was | 590} 50 | | It was strong and sturdy | when the aucient Phenicians ruled | the commerce of the known world from their cities of Tyre and Sidon. years old when Alexander the Gr was born. |It was perhaps 100 feet high when | Babylon was in her glory. It kept! top.|s a braneb |; jand visitors will i | | T a] Bain, Fish Bio’s and Harrison Farm Wagons i i R. R. DEACON, ORIGINAL ROUND OAK STOVE ding co) ! ‘SuOdey\ GUIS pue sa long, which went back and forth | through its fiber for three weeks be- fore it trembled, wavered, toppled aud fell, to join the things of the past itself. The Museum of naturel history secured the Mark Twain, from which to obtain its 32 ton through the help of Collis P. Hunt- ington, the railway president, who paid ail the expenses of cutting down the tree and of transporting the section to this city. The tree was, while standing, the specimen, property of Moore & € King’s river lumber ¢ Wio owued the grove in winch tree Sienna Nevada 7,900 feet the mountains of California, was located, in above the sea level. The tree was selected by the ma- seum by S. D. Dill, the botanist of the history made a trip to the natural must, grove of great trees for the purpose of Botanist Dill a's« ed auother vreat tree 250 fec selection. t high aud 15 feet in diameter, which was gut down, from which tiou was cut 1 which is al- mou afler men. ecied was and it s south of Sa: i ist Dii’s bri; 3 ey in respects besides securing the at trees for s He br t back with mens Tand ! eral hitherto unknown A:menican species of trees Among the now species discovered is a Amal: species ¢ pamed th led the nifolia.” and a new ealled the “Quercus MaeDon: whieh was found on Santa Cataland island, off the « 1 ice tree, ¢ ast of southern Cal jifornia. | A large force of rkmen is now engaged in the botanical department of the Natural History Museum, which depar nt is tem pc ily closed, in the work of setting the | sections of the two great trees on edge When this is accomplished the department will be opened again about the ce- gigantic e. markable and specimens, which are the largest of any sert in an American museum. Coucerning the age of the Mark Twain tree Botaaist Dill said: ~In any climate, such as that of Califor bia, where the seasons are regular and marked trees such asthe Sequoia acquire one new ring each year. The jou growing until Julius Cesar was| Mark Twain bas an average uf 20 | born and lived and died, and still |Tigs to the inch, and each indicates | KANSAS CITY OMAHA | COLORALO SHORT LINE | 5 Daily Train, 5 Kansas City to St, Louis, « and THE PUEBLO AND DENVER. PULLMAN BUFFETT SLEEPIM: CARS Nansas City to Denver wit! F H. C. TOWNSEND General Passenger: and Ticket A’gt ST. LOUIS, MO, ithout ¢ ge years old. over 17 feet in kept on. It was over 700 vears o! when Pompeii was buried in the ashes of Vesuvius. It 1,700 vears old when Willi Conguerer fought and won the bat- tle of Hastings, 2.100 diameter, was nearly It was over and probably. 250 feet Columbus 1 That when aided on Sa ghty tree were borr, waxed ed. It has lived wl into and be and forgotten in the ages > wreat great s crumbled dast | of antiquity, only to be finally cut down by two men and a saw 23 feet qit year's growth ¢ am the! The tree was. therefore, when cut down about v0 years old ~ I was troubled with arth for seven )eais previous to commen the use of Ely’s Cream Bain has done for me what other so have failed to do—eured we. effect of the Balai seemed mx ] —Clarence L. Huff, Biddeford, Me After try for any remedies for © past twe plete success. since I stopped , bad no return of catarrh. mend it to all my friends—Milton | T. Palm, Reading, Pa. i leo t. SONS & CO. Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no enecial mention. All whe have used Eleetrie Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does | not exist and itis guaranteed to do all that is claimed. 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Coughs, etc. Save Warranted th mish Cure ever k W Morris, Dr i The sunflower isa prolific plant, but it cannot pcompare with some! Tue suntlower bears seeds, the poppy bacco plant 4.000 | salt water 2 { y extend to every part of the} ¥ J) alarge prope 600 and the to-|* | DYING OF THIRST AT SEA. | Experience ot Tweve Men Who Sailed | i 2,000 Mites In an Open Boat. | Pall Mall B | On August 2 the Campell, which |was laden with lumber, left Port Towrsend, Wash., tor Queenstown. | Three wecks after her departure she |met a northwest gale, in which, after jlaboring he: spranga} ily for two hours, sbe| - The water incrensed so jmuch faster than the pumps could ‘clear it that in a short time the cap | tain. Havener by name, gave orders | | to get out the life-boats and aba don her. The two large hie b were filled with stores aud the first jearried Captain Havener, his wif and child, the first mate, boatsw: carpenter, cook and eight crew. The second mate took charge of the other boat which cor i the jeabin boy and the resi of the crew | When day broke the had dis appeared and the two boats were out of sight of each other. It had been agreed that they should make for was the nearest land. The with its seque}, has just arrived in England and Honolulu On September 20 a native min of Nanawalla, Hawaii, atsea what he supposed to be a tisher- saw out | drifting log, bat on approaching it, | found it to be a ship's life-boat. Ly- ing in the bottom were twelve met | 8) weak as to be unable to speak, with their swollen and black, protruding from their mouths tongues Taeir eyes were sunken and glassy. aud though seemed demented. they al, conscious, } They were un able to move or give auv account of themselves until brought to shore by the natives. The story of their voyage, as told by the mate, is one of horrible sulYering. He said that when they left the scene of the! wreck, he calculated that Hilo was about 2,300 miles away, and that with care could make the Jand and sh ratious they safely. All went well fer a time, the life- boat making, according to his esti mate, about 100 miles for hours. The wate: each 24 out, howev- | er, some days before they were found, and the scene became a terri ble one. He and one sailor alone retained their sens The rest be- eame madinen, and at the last were their hair and clothes, aud raving general fighting, shricking, tearing | | ly. He aud the sailor managed, however. to keep th from either jumping overboard or drinking the until they bec wenk to do so. | Fir ] ally he and the sailoralso gave out id for two days and nights the boats drifted in a calm sea without | avy effort to guide or propel her. A} friendly current carried them inshore or they would have all dicd in the boat. 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