Show AX DEALS BLOW TO OUR CHRIS columbus hard hit by its discovery ethnologists ests have always feliciel lel level iciel that columbus was only about jears behind the erst him min to reich tl e atlantic seaboard that th ugh tt it e pop of the american con started soon after tl V e last ice ae wl cn fillies from the other side of tt e w orld crossed I 1 ering strait and filtered slowly south sout hwai waid d to in habit a continent the first roaming citizens of the atlantic seaboard ar rived from the file vest nest only a short leid ahead of the man wh wit has credit for find ng the new world but discovery of a primitive prim itlie stone ax dug up in albemarle county N lr ginia Is serving to upset tills this theory in the opinion of officials of tho the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution who say that former ideas of when the first in habitants reached the eastern shores of america are unsound tl TI ey now believe tl ti at man trod virgnia soil something like 2000 ears cars ago students of the races read a run ning story in this new ax that Is so old it was no more than out of the albam rie county soil that hid con scaled it so long until it be begin bein e in re citing its tale of age ani an I 1 strange races specialists who understand these things say that the primitive ax was chipped out of bladel disabuse dis abase abage rock by some american 0 20 0 centar es ago and that in time sibly because of disuse it becan becane e dull and was ras sharpened a again ain by new and better informed tl flipping possibly some 1 00 ngu ago then it was lost for god so fir far as tie ti e stone as ax age was concerns concerned con cernel cerne I 1 only to be found by scientists of a new day and age who knew how to interpret the signs of discoloration and wear and other circumstances inces to determine age and the part earlier races had to do with the population of this side of the earth these of signs leave no point for layman arguments argument thuey just move back populate population his tory aej we me agree that that Is that gut but it does lay a burden on colum bus he ile thought or kiy h hive hine ine had he lived I 1 ling enough that he missed virgin als discovery covery by only years and we w e know on the evidence of present diy daiy science that he missed it ten times 91 loul globe democrat |