The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-07
SCIENTIST IN
berlin MAKES
DISCOVERIES
PROFESSOR OF PREHISTORIC
SECTION OF ROYAL MUSEUM
or ETHNoLocY FINDS HOMES
OF MEN OF THE STONE AGE
SCIENTISTS ARE EXPLORING
DEPOSITS.
BY Associated PRESS.

Berlin. Jan. 6.--Not all the people
of the Stone Age lived in holes in the
earth or similar rude burrows, in the
opinion of Professor Karl Schurchardt,
director of the prehistoric section Of
the Royal Museum of Ethnology.
Excavations made by him in Liss-
dorf. near Naumburg. have brought to
light houses of the neolithic period in
which the professor believes he has
distinguished between a bedroom and
general living room. He believes also
that. some of the houses had a cellar,
showing that prehistoric man was
perhaps more provident and foresight
ed than had been believed.
Professor Schuchardt thinks that the
burrows found in settlements OF the
new Stone Age were more likely de-
signed for storehouses than for DWELL
ing places. He believes he has dis
covered in these recent excavations
that the floors of the houses were
even covered with rude boards. Hol-
lows in the earth under the bed
ROOM" he thinks, were filed with
leaves. grass or something of the sort.
and skins were laid on this to form
the beds.
Additional details about the saurian
petrffications unearthed in German
East Africa show that the bones Of
several of them are from one-and-a-
half to twice as long as those OF the
diplodocus presented to the Berlin
Museum by Andrew Carnegie, and
which was the largest skeleton hither-
to known.
The ribs of one of the African
saurians are 80 feet long, while the
greatest length of the Carnegie d.
plodocus is 81 feet The shoulder
blade of the African is 81 feet, against
IA feet for the American. The upper
joint Of the foreleg of the African
animal measures SO feet. while the
American saurian's is only 81 feet.
1t appears that the German scien-
lists have hitherto been able to obtain
the parts of five complete skeletons.
but their exploration of the deposit is
still far from completed.
The indignation caused in England
by the fact that the English spy, Max
Schultz, a born German, was sent.
enced by the German supreme court
to a long term in the penitentiary;
whereas Ike two English officers,
French and Brandon, were sentenced
q year ago only to detention In a
fortress for spying, has been received
with some surprise in the German
press.
It is held here that Schultz's offense
was of much graver character be-
cause he bribed German engineers to
commit treason by revealing inforTna-
ton to him which it was highly Inn
portant for the welfare OF, the empire
to keep secret, while the two oficers
named merely Travelled about from,
place to place and noted their own OBJ
servations. Moreover, these latter
the orders of their superior odicers,
whereas Schultz was q hired spy. This
early repetition of espionage In Ger
many by. England has made a bad Inn
preston in political circles, and in
some quarters it is demanded that q
law be passed providing for more
rigorous punishment for spying.
The frequent occurrence Of earth
ouakes in South Germany and
Switzerland for a month or more is
causing much discussion among Ger
man scientists. They hold that these
almost daily shocks have d common
origin, which they assumed to be
structural displacements far beneath
the surface of the earth, similar to
what must have accompanied the up
heaval Of the Alps.
The second election in the little
principality Of Schwarzburg-R Rudolf
stadt. recently held, leave the Social
lists in possession of nine seats in the
Landstag out of a total of sixteen.
Four National Liberals and three Con-
seravtiyes hold the other seven seats.