Show scientists CONFOUND KO hiie discovery in tl e columbian vl ley ore eon of everl sculptured stones representing the acids of anthropoid hag atten 11 e scientists a problem to solve that alire attens to confound tl cm As there are no apes in this country it must b concluded either that they formerly did exist on this continent or that there was a ml aeration of from some region containing monkeys to the valley in chich the sculptures were found there have been two theories to ac count for the habitation of what Is now america by prehistoric people the au which is rather a strict scientific hypothesis and the more generally accepted one of immigration from asia if the finding of the co sculptures have any bearing upon this very interesting and more or less question it would seem to be in supporting the theory of mi gration ahat is likely to be the re ceitel pinion jintil future excavations or explorations determine the facts that the anthropoids anthrop did at one time chatter their tales of love or shriek their mortal from the crotches of our semi tropical trop icil forests thus far thiera have been no finds either in bones fossils or simian characteristics to indicate the fact that the man like apes had one time made free with tie fruit produce of any part of tl is great land that seems adapted to everything but mon keys chere are asiatic peoples who have i respect for monkeys that amounts to reverential devotion and the sculptured stones found in the columbian valley not only evince a par nicular high regard for his but demonstrate i much greater skill in carving than is characteristic of other so called aboriginal sculpture one specimen being particularly fine not far removed from a work of art cut the question arises what lias become of the carvers of these heads there Is neither sign nor tradition of them among the existing tribes so tar as can be ascertained they have disappeared BO tar as ethnological evidence goes as completely and as mystifyingly as the anthropoid apes themselves presuming there ever were such apes on this conal nent it may be the immigrants aban boned their hereditary religion after a generation or two having no living apes to keep it alive and gave over carving out stone in the lik eless of a particular divinity their descendants may h ive been the mound builders or the cave dwellers or they may have been exterminated by more warlike tribes or superior numbers it is easier to suppose however that in the remote past a people from asia drifted to this continent with their aradi ions of which apes heads are mementoes ind were in time exterminated or merged in with er tribes than to that a race of monkeys has been from the continent without leaving a trace behind science must tind us some sign of the anthropoid apes or we will believe that the old theory of asi abic migration has been in a manner confirmed by the oregon sculptures chicas I 1 tier 0 an |