The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-27
THEY HAVE FOUND HIM.

The announcement that the grave of | Attiia has been found was the one thing lacking in, the series of important events. | It is an era, a milestone and a monu- ment in the worlds progress. It was all | that we wanted to round out our educa- tion We may at times have ionged with an exceeding great longing to know where Cain found hts wife. We may have
 yearned some mighty yearns for a knowl- edge of the fate of old man Methusaleh. We have lay awake O nights puzzling over the location of Eden. but all that was nothing 10 our solicitude about the grave of Attila. "As the hart par1teth for the waterbrook' so have we panted for definite information of the old Huns final location.
 And the manner of the discovery is loaded down with fitness. The scientific fellows the sleuths of investigation, have spent years looking for this grave. They have searched for 1t as the philosophers of old searched for the magic stone, or as the small boy searches for a lost white alley. And now. after all their efforts, their hopes and their disappointments along comes ~an unlettered small-know- ing soul" digging for worms. perhaps. or making post holes. or following the track of. predatory mole. and actually finds what the world has long sought. and mourned because they found 1t not" In all probability he didn't know Attila from Adam, and couldn't for his life tell the difference between the bones of the great heather and those of a prehistoric wood chuck. Fate has some strange happen ings, for a fact.
 For this man Attila was something of l a character in his day. He was almost as strenuous as our President. He moved a very broad swath among the Os- trogoths. the Huns and other wild people. In fact he appears to have rattled around over most of Europe. They called him ''The scourge of God" and sometimes 'The Fear of the World" and both names fitted him, for he created a lively impression, old Attiia did. and when he was in the neighborhood the other people dived under the bed. When he put on his war paint and belted on his snicker- snee there was something doing. and the man who got in his way subsided. He failed to discover the United States though.
 But he died. big IS he was. nearly if teen hundred years ago. when he was but little past middle age, and the manner of his death was a strange contrast to his life. The historian tells us that he married a beautiful Gothic woman and on the night of his marriage he passed in his checks-from tho bursting of blood-vessel, we arc told. It was a strange ending for such life. If he had gone down in battle with a foot of cold steel in his diaphragm 1t would have seemed natural. If he had been cap tured and slain 1t would have been ac- cording to the fitness of things, but to die on his wedding night. just when he was preparing to quit warfaring and go to raising turnips and children was pit iful. He might have toned down into quiet and peaceful citizen. He might have been elected to the Legislature. or even to Congress. He might have done many things pore to hIs credit than butchering peaceful citiyens and soaring women and children to death.
 But he died, in the year 453, if the rec ords are straight. and he's been dead ever since. Its long time for such lively individual to remain dead but he couldn't help 1t, maybe. If he could have gotten out he would have made 1t lively for somebody. But he was buried with great pomp and lamentaton." the books tell us, and he remained buried till the other day. No doubt his folVlEers thought ! they had planted him deep enough to keep even one of his habits quiet, and never had thought that some common grubher of the soil would turn up his~ bones for men to wonder and rejoice over. Now that he Is found we shall have renewed hope that they will dig up Adam-probably in Kansas