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Show AX DEALS BLOW TO OUR "CUIUS" Colurnlms Hard Hit by Its Discovery. MLIniolojrlHtB have always believed Hint Columbus was only about 2X) yours behind tlio first man to reach the Atlantic (;al)oun. That though tin population of tlio American continent con-tinent started soon after the laHt Ice ae when trlhcs from the other sMe of the work croHwd Iierlng strait ami filtered slowly southwurd to in-tiahlt in-tiahlt a continent the first roaming clti.enH of the Atlantic seaboard arrived ar-rived from the West only a short lead ahead of tlio man who has credit for finding the New world. I'.ut discovery of a primitive stone at, dug up In Albemarle county, Vlr-Klnla, Vlr-Klnla, Id serving to upset this theory, In Uio opinion of officials of the Smltlmonlan Institution, who say that former Ideas of when the first Inhabitant In-habitant reached the eastern shores of America are unsound. They now believe that man trod Virginia soil something like 2,000 years ago. Students of the races read a running run-ning story In this new ax that Is bo old. It was no moro than out of the Albemarlo county soil that had concealed con-cealed It so long until It began re- citing Its talo of age and strange races. Specialists who understand these things say that the primitive itx was chipped out of black dlsabase rock by some savage American 20 eenluries ago and that In time, possibly pos-sibly because of disuse, It became dull and was sharpened again by new and better Informed chipping, possibly some 1,300 years ago. Then it was lost for good so far as the stone nx ago was concerned, only to le found by scientists of a new day and age, who knew how to Interpret the signs of discoloration and wear and other circumstances to determine ago and the part earlier races had to do with the population of this side of the earth. These readers of signs leave no point for layman argument. They just move back population history his-tory and we agree that that Is that. Hut It does lay a burden on Colum-bus. Colum-bus. lie thought, or may have thought had he lived long enough, that ho missed virgin discovery by only 200 years. And we know on the evidence of present-day science that he missed It ten times 200. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Varying Definitions What Is sin? You may have to depend de-pend upon Instinct to know. |